Technical Program Manager – AI Orchestration & Intelligent Automation
Ford Motor Company · Long Beach, CA · 1 wk ago
On-siteInformation TechnologyFull-time
About the role
You will be a key driver in orchestrating the delivery of software products for the next-gen EV Platform. You will work closely with senior-level management, Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and development teams to translate strategic roadmaps into tangible product features.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with senior-level management, Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and development teams to translate strategic roadmaps into tangible product features.
- Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to shape and operationalize the portfolio roadmap into AI-augmented delivery outcomes.
- Build and iterate on prototypes to validate roadmap objectives and translate them into structured execution plans: milestones, release slices, sequencing, and readiness gates.
- Drive iteration and release planning sessions through a product lens, ensuring scope, dependencies, and capacity are aligned and explicit.
- Facilitate targeted ceremonies and working sessions to drive decisions, unblock delivery, and maintain operational efficiency.
- Contribute to technical discussions as an execution integrator, connecting product, engineering, operations, security/compliance, procurement, and vendor stakeholders.
- Define and drive key execution metrics and dashboards (delivery health, readiness, quality, operational adoption), enabling proactive issue detection and resolution.
- Treat recurring program operations as engineering problems: prototype and build AI agents to automate reporting, status visibility, dependency tracking, and routine documentation.
- Lead and support the development of internal AI automation to accelerate the creation of PRDs, runbooks, executive summaries, and decision logs from raw inputs—improving consistency and reducing manual effort.
- Cook up and coordinate operational execution for vendor and licensing workflows as needed (renewals, seat tracking, approvals, procurement checkpoints).
- Ensure vendor-related dependencies (security, access, onboarding requirements) are planned early and do not become release blockers.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in Technical Program Management, Product Operations, or Software Engineering.
- AI-Native Skillset: Proficiency in prompt engineering and a track record of building agentic automation and chatbots to accelerate execution.
- The "Builder" Experience: Demonstrated experience building prototypes, contributing to codebases, or developing internal tools to solve complex problems.
- Product & Engineering Lens: Proven ability to bridge the gap between customer-centric product strategy and technical engineering execution.
- Demonstrated proficiency with Jira and Confluence (or equivalent tools) to run execution systems at scale.
Preferred Qualifications
- Technical Contribution: Experience using VS Code Copilot, Claude Code, or other AI-assisted tooling to write automation scripts, lightweight fixes, or build POCs instead of writing PRDs.
- Experience with GCP, Mongo, and SQL to build dashboards, metrics, and operational reporting systems that drive proactive execution.
- Agile/Scrum leadership experience in automotive or highly integrated platform environments.