Senior Design Director
Ford Motor Company
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Plan and manage the delivery schedule across two phases to deliver nine high-value modules
- Coordinate cross-functional teams: engagement manager, engineering lead, 2–3 senior developers, QA, and UX/UI
- Manage scope, risks, and dependencies across multiple concurrent workstreams
- Maintain client communication and reporting, ensuring transparency on progress, blockers, and budget
- Facilitate sprint planning, retrospectives, and stakeholder demos, driving accountability and alignment
- Ensure quality and integration confidence through collaboration with QA and technical leadership
- Act as hub for communication, risk management, and delivery assurance across engineering, QA, UX, and client stakeholders
- Contract role: 7-month duration, 30–40 hrs/week, with possibility of extension
Requirements
- Experience managing large, multi-workstream software projects
- Ability to run projects with overlapping timelines and competing priorities
- Proven track record of delivering complex software projects on time and within budget
- Strong background in Agile delivery (Scrum or Kanban), with ability to run multiple parallel streams
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including executive-level updates
- Strong written/verbal communication, reporting, and presentation skills
- Proactive identification and mitigation of risks in fast-moving delivery environments
- Confidence in escalating appropriately and managing trade-offs
- Experience working with cross-functional technical teams (developers, QA, UX/UI, architects)
- Ability to balance day-to-day delivery with longer-term planning
- Strong skills in project planning tools (Jira, Trello, or similar) and reporting dashboards
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, able to prioritize under pressure
- Strong facilitation skills (sprint planning, retrospectives, demos)
- Strong ability to self-manage and contribute effectively in dynamic environments
