Senior Technical Program Manager, Digital Transformation

Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you will play a critical role in advancing Ford’s electric vehicle future by connecting strategy to execution.

You will lead the delivery of high-impact transformation initiatives across Ford’s EV digital ecosystem, driving roadmap development, prioritization, dependency management, and execution discipline.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the coordination lead for an assigned workstream portfolio, ensuring alignment across the internal ADVEV Digital Transformation team and with broader organizational dependencies.
• Define and manage quarterly roadmaps, milestones, deliverables, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Establish and run operating cadences that drive accountability, timely decision-making, and clear escalation paths.
• Maintain the workstream risk register and proactively lead mitigation planning.
• Define KPIs and build dashboards to track ADT team delivery, execution health, and business outcomes.
• Configure and maintain project planning tools, ensuring strong data quality, consistency, and reporting discipline across the ADT team.
• Partner with the Business Architect and Organizational Change Management team to align stakeholder expectations, resolve conflicts, and support adoption.
• Define and maintain prioritization frameworks tied to vehicle milestones, business requirements, and transformation goals.
• Use prioritization frameworks to set, communicate, and justify execution priorities across the portfolio.
• Keep the lead TPM informed of portfolio progress, key updates, blockers, decisions, and emerging risks.
• Identify gaps across people, process, tools, and execution; step in where needed or advocate for the right resources to close them.
• Contribute to the broader success of the team by supporting shared goals, improving ways of working, and helping others succeed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• Proven experience leading digital transformation, business transformation, or enterprise modernization initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience as a Technical Program Manager or in a similar delivery leadership role.
• Strong program management skills, including roadmap planning, dependency management, risk management, and executive-level reporting.
• Ability to manage multiple complex initiatives simultaneously while maintaining focus on outcomes and execution quality.
• Strong collaboration skills with experience integrating cross-functional teams across business, product, technology, and operations.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and leadership skills.
• Experience using Jira or similar tools for planning, tracking, and team execution.

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.