Senior Technical Program Manager
Ford Motor Company
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Dearborn • Missouri • United States
Visit company websiteExplore more
Salary
💰 $113,580 - $190,500 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Drive Execution: Partner with stakeholders to define, scope, and deliver technical initiatives that span multiple teams within the Connected Vehicle organization.
- Stakeholder Alignment: Actively engage with stakeholders to understand requirements and help achieve alignment on prioritized features, product adoption and fixes.
- Metrics & Success: Assist in defining and tracking success criteria and performance metrics, including Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), to ensure program health.
- Roadmap Management: Execute on roadmaps, project plans, and schedules to ensure we meet customer commitments and product milestones.
- Agile Leadership: Support and drive modern software development practices, including scrums, backlog grooming, and dependency tracking using tools like Jira.
- Dependency Management: Coordinate with other divisions at Ford to ensure technical dependencies are identified early and quality standards are maintained.
- Customer Advocacy: Act 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 a related technical field. Alternately; equivalent of 5 years’ experience in a similar program / project management role.
- 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.
- Solid understanding of modern software development practices, with emphasis on Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) and Agile methodologies.
- Proven experience coordinating cross-functional teams (Engineering, Product, Design, QA) through at least one full product lifecycle.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
- Even better, you may have...
- Proficiency with modern DevOps and project management tools (e.g., JIRA, Jama, Confluence).
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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
program managementproduct developmentfeature developmentsoftware developmentContinuous IntegrationContinuous DeploymentAgile methodologiesmetrics trackingsuccess criteriatechnical dependencies
Soft Skills
stakeholder engagementcustomer advocacycommunication skillsalignment on featuresdecision-makingprioritizationcross-functional coordinationleadershiporganizational skillsproblem-solving
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Electrical EngineeringBachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering