Technical Program Manager - Cloud/Mobile

What You'll Do

• Own feature delivery over mid- to multi-year horizons; manage schedules and backlogs
• Define project goals and delivery roadmaps; align resources with priorities and technology staging
• Establish and track technical success metrics including key performance indicators
• Translate customer requirements into actionable specifications across multiple teams; identify gaps and opportunities
• Define required data sets; analyze and inform impactful decisions for the feature area
• Resolve technical issues; anticipate risk, develop mitigations, lead communications with responsible and stakeholder teams
• Lead retrospectives and continuous improvement through kaizen practices

How you'll do it

• Stakeholders will be heard inclusively
• Priorities will be set based upon aligned principles
• Direction will be set quickly and decisively

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or similar related technical field
• 3+ years working experience in product or feature development on hardware, software, and/or services
• 3+ years working in a technical capacity or working closely with an engineering team
• Familiarity with modern DevOps tools (ie: JIRA, ADO, etc.)
• Familiarity with modern software development practices (continuous integration / continuous deployment)
• Experience leading cross-functional teams across multiple disciplines (engineering, product, design, QA, etc.) on high complexity projects throughout the entire product lifecycle

Qualifications

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with agile methodologies
• Experience with cloud-based platforms and services
• Experience with data analytics and machine learning

Skills

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Leadership and problem-solving skills
• Technical expertise in software development and engineering

Benefits

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?

No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• 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

Pay

This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $99,100-$166,200. 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.

Schedule

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.