
Staff TPM – Cloud/Mobile Operations
Ford Motor Company
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Dearborn • Missouri • United States
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Salary
💰 $112,680 - $212,760 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex, multi-year programs spanning mobile apps, cloud applications / infrastructure, and connected vehicle experiences.
- Contribute to strategic planning and resource orchestration across the portfolio; proactively identify structural constraints and optimize capacity against priorities.
- Leverage a deep understanding of cloud/mobile/vehicle interdependencies to shape technical direction, assess engineering trade-offs, and guide teams through complex design decisions.
- Build consensus across diverse global teams and senior leadership. Establish rigorous scope-control processes and manage the impact of changes on the program baseline.
- Establish proactive risk-mitigation systems and governance frameworks. Actively manage identified risks, driving impediments to closure. Define and track Technical Success Metrics (KPIs/QoS) to drive data-based improvements and engineering excellence.
- Influence without direct authority across software systems and divisions. Drive a culture of continuous improvement, blameless risk escalation, and team-level mentoring.
- Detect trends across data sets to frame high-impact decisions and resolve interdependency challenges that span multiple software domains.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent work experience.
- 8+ years of experience in technical program management within highly complex systems, including multiple successful release cycles of consumer-facing software at scale.
- 6+ years of experience leading cross-functional projects across Cloud, Mobile, or Embedded systems.
- Deep experience with Agile methodologies and enterprise-level project management tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence).
- Proven ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both engineering teams and non-technical executive stakeholders.
- Domain Depth: Expertise in cloud-native architectures, API management, and consumer-facing mobile apps.
- Strategic Acumen: Ability to thrive in unstructured environments and independently manipulate scope-cost-time-quality levers to achieve goals.
- Data-Driven: Strong analytical skills with experience leveraging large volumes of data to identify opportunities in planning or delivery.
- Leadership: Experience implementing organizational processes (PDCA, Retros) and mentoring other TPMs or engineers.
- Customer Obsession: Demonstrated pattern of developing empathy for the end-user to inform delivery plans.
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
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Hard Skills & Tools
technical program managementAgile methodologiescloud-native architecturesAPI managementconsumer-facing mobile appsdata analysisrisk managementKPI trackingproject managementrelease cycles
Soft Skills
communicationleadershipstrategic planningproblem-solvinginfluence without authoritymentoringcontinuous improvementempathy for end-usersconsensus buildinganalytical thinking