# Senior Technical Program Manager, Drive Unit

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Palo Alto, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $138,800-$232,700
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners.

The Senior Technical Program Manager – Drive Unit will be responsible for leading the development and execution of the Drive Unit design. This includes managing the technical aspects of the project, ensuring that the drive unit meets all safety and performance requirements, and coordinating with cross-functional teams to ensure successful integration with other vehicle systems.

## Responsibilities

- Lead the development and execution of the Drive Unit program in Product Development, ensuring design meets all safety and performance requirements.

- Manage the technical aspects of the project including design, build, test, and validation.

- Manage change control and own cross-functional execution.

- Using technical knowledge and engineering experience, identify risks and ensure problems are transparent. Help develop risk mitigation plans and execution of such.

- Facilitate sourcing activities and cost reduction opportunities with part design optimizations.

- Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful integration with other vehicle systems such as powertrain, chassis, electronics, and software.

- Drive collaboration across cross-functional groups such as manufacturing, purchasing, finance, and supply base.

- Develop and maintain project timelines, volumes, and budgets, and provide regular progress updates to senior management.

- Designate and manage key metrics for team to be successful.

- Work closely with suppliers and partners to ensure manufacturing feasibility with design requirements, and ensure timely delivery of components and systems based on program milestones.

- Support key decisions working cross-functionally across engineering, finance, and strategy to reach the right conclusions.

- Drive continuous improvement of the drive unit program and processes.

## Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering (mechanical, electrical, or related) or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.

- 3+ years of experience in program management

- Experience in launching high-volume products, preferably cradle-to-grave experience.

- Strong technical background in drive units, including knowledge of sub-systems, their components, and functionality: inverter, motor, gearbox.

- Experience using Confluence, Jira, Jama, or other project management tools.

- Experience managing cross-functional teams and working with suppliers and partners.

- Excellent communication and leadership skills. Leadership through service mentality

- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities.

- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

## Benefits

- Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage

- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care, and more

- Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more

- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases

- Tuition assistance

- Established and active employee resource groups

- Paid time off for individual and team community service

- A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day

- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

## Skills

### Required
- program management
- drive units
- inverter
- motor
- gearbox
- Confluence
- Jira
- Jama

### Nice to have
- 5+ years program management experience
- hands-on experience building and launching automotive products
- strong written and verbal communication skills

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