Technical Program Manager - ADAS Software Platform

About the role

The Advance Driver Assistance Technology (ADAS) team develops state-of-the-art software and algorithms to deliver best-in-class features like adaptive cruise control, automatic emergency braking, blind spot monitoring, and 360 camera systems. The team is responsible for the full end-to-end delivery of these features into production on all Ford vehicle lines.

Responsibilities

• Partner with key stakeholders to define, scope, prioritize, and deliver major ADAS software initiatives that span multiple teams and multiple organizations across Ford.
• Understand the needs of stakeholders across the product development organization and influence as appropriate to achieve alignment on the prioritized initiatives.
• Apply technical project planning, management, and leadership for the development and delivery of ADAS Software (hand coded or MBD-based).
• Apply technical project planning, management, and leadership for the development and delivery of software tooling and/or support software to advance ADAS product development.
• Implement and execute roadmaps, schedules, project plans, and resourcing plans to enable ADAS to meet commitments across all customer constituencies.
• Lead team members on modern, world-class, software development practices, and precise execution of a technical plan (including management of milestone progress, dependency tracking, risk management, and risk mitigation).
• Interface with and lead cross functional teams – Systems, Software, Feature, Suppliers, V&V, Quality to define and drive development plans, ensuring on time SW delivery with highest quality.
• Partners with technical development leaders to create symbiotic relationships that showcase high value in technical leader/TPM matched-pairing through delivery velocity.
• Elevate the visibility of the team – provide regular “push” updates through wiki, Jira, Teams, email, and other communication mediums.
• Communicate and present project status to a broad stakeholder and leadership community.
• Proactively identify and manage project risks, developing mitigations and/or recovery plans in event of project slips.
• Efficiently utilize work management tools – Wiki, JIRA, Project Management Tools – to make plans and status visible to leadership and to provide strategic planning options/contingencies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or Controls Engineering.
• 5+ years’ experience in one or combination of SW program management, engineering management, engineering supervisory role or a technical team leadership role in an embedded technical software discipline.
• 5+ years’ experience in the usage of industry standard project management tools for product development and delivery (MS Project or equivalent).
• 2+ years’ experience in the usage of the JIRA work management tool or equivalent for product development and delivery.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams across multiple disciplines (engineering, product, design, testing, quality, etc.) throughout the entire product lifecycle.
• Ability to understand complex technical issues and to present adjusted levels of detail based on target audience.
• Very strong business English communication skills (verbal and written).
• Strong presentation skills with ability to tailor material and presentation style to varied audiences (Executive to working level, strategy to technical).

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, or Controls Engineering.
• 7+ years’ experience in SW Program Management in an embedded technical software discipline within the automotive domain.
• Expert knowledge of Agile development methods and application.
• Mastery of technical plan development (task identification, task breakdown, timing) for consumption at multiple leadership levels of the organization.
• Extensive experience using Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence, etc), and GitHub source code management tool.
• Extensive experience using Confluence to develop/maintain rich content wiki pages.

Skills

• Strong technical knowledge and capabilities to assist technical leaders and engineers in resolving dependencies and issues with stakeholders.

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.

Pay

This position is a salary grade 7 and ranges from $99,600-$156,600.
This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $115,000-$165,900.

Schedule

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above?