Technical Program Manager

What You'll Do

• Partner with stakeholders to define, scope, and deliver technical initiatives that span multiple teams and multiple organizations across Ford.
• Actively engage with stakeholders to understand requirements and help achieve alignment on prioritized initiatives.
• Affiliate in defining and tracking success criteria and performance metrics, including Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), to ensure program health.
• Implement and execute roadmaps, schedules, project plans to enable Ford to meet customer commitments across all customer constituencies.
• Support and drive modern software development practices, including scrums, backlog grooming, and dependency tracking using tools like Jira.
• Proactively identify, manage, and mitigate risks across multiple engineering teams.
• Cookordinate with other divisions at Ford to ensure technical dependencies are identified early and quality standards are maintained.
• As a voice for the customer within the engineering team, using data to help guide decision-making and prioritization.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• 5–7 years of total working experience in program management, product or feature development involving hardware, software, or services.
• 3+ years of experience working in a technical capacity (e.g., as an engineer, developer, or systems analyst) or working very closely with an engineering team on complex software builds.
• 3+ years Familiarity with modern software tracking tools (ie: JIRA, etc.).
• 3+ years Familiarity with modern software development practices & tools (continuous integration / continuous deployment).
• 3+ years Demonstrated success leading complex, large-scale, cross-functional software programs.
• 3+ years Experience influencing and driving alignment across engineering, product, and business stakeholders from concept through launch and post launch iteration.
• 3+ years Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience influencing and driving alignment across engineering, product, and business stakeholders from concept through launch and post launch iteration.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits

This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $115,000-$192,900. Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status.

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This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week.