Ford Motor Company

V&V Engineering Program Manager

Ford Motor Company

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Dearborn • Missouri • United States

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Salary

💰 $84,480 - $162,120 per year

About the role

  • Lead and coordinate internal Verification & Validation (V&V) initiatives, including end‑to‑end vehicle software testing, OTA testing and compliance, and validation strategy execution.
  • Partner with cross‑functional stakeholders to align validation plans, test evidence, and readiness status with vehicle deliverables and milestone requirements.
  • Collaborate with Quality teams to drive continuous improvement initiatives, including Prevent actions, defect escape reduction, and OTA process enhancements.
  • Define, implement, and evolve V&V test strategies to improve coverage, effectiveness, and early risk identification.
  • Support strong cross‑functional alignment across engineering, quality, and program teams to enable efficient validation execution.
  • Apply technical project planning, management, and leadership to ensure successful development and delivery of V&V initiatives.
  • Provide regular status reporting to management, including progress, risks, issues, and mitigation plans.
  • Help resolve or facilitate resolution of technical and execution issues impacting validation delivery.
  • Increase visibility of V&V activities by providing proactive updates through tools such as Wiki, Jira, Teams, email, and other communication channels.
  • Communicate and present V&V project status, risks, and outcomes to a broad stakeholder and leadership audience.
  • Proactively identify, assess, and manage validation and delivery risks, developing mitigation and recovery plans when needed.
  • Effectively utilize work management and project tracking tools (e.g., Wiki, Jira, project management tools) to maintain transparent plans, status, and contingency options for leadership.
  • Apply agile principles to the planning, execution, and delivery of V&V activities to improve flow, predictability, and outcomes.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or Engineering
  • 3+ years of experience in automotive system validation, or vehicle‑level testing
  • 3+ years of project management
  • 2+ years of experience in agile methodology
  • Experience working in cross‑functional environments with engineering, quality, and program teams
  • Understanding of end‑to‑end testing concepts, OTA validation, and test strategy fundamentals
  • Experience in creating project status in Jira dashboards
  • Experience working in Jira, FEDE, Jama, and TestRail
  • Strong communication, organization, and stakeholder management skills
  • Master’s degree or MBA
  • 7+ years of experience in program management
  • Strong understanding of the software development lifecycles
  • Background as an Agile trainer, scrum master, or agile coach
  • Experience supporting quality improvement initiatives such as Prevent, defect escape analysis, OTA process improvement, and FMEA
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
automotive system validationvehicle-level testingproject managementagile methodologyend-to-end testingOTA validationtest strategydefect escape analysisFMEAcontinuous improvement
Soft Skills
communicationorganizationstakeholder managementleadershipcross-functional collaborationrisk managementstatus reportingproblem resolutionproactive updatestechnical project planning
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Electrical EngineeringBachelor's degree in Computer EngineeringBachelor's degree in Computer ScienceMaster’s degreeMBAAgile trainer certificationscrum master certificationagile coach certification