Product Design Manager 1
Qualia
Technical Program Manager
Ford Motor Company
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Lead complex, high-impact programs, driving holistic planning, execution, and on-time, high-quality, within-budget launches
- Strategically coordinate critical stakeholders, including senior leadership, for program success
- Deeply understand business problems and translate them into technical solutions
- Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate technical and business risks, driving root cause analysis, evaluating trade-offs, and proposing strategic solutions
- Possess an architectural understanding of project ecosystems and their integration points
- Champion advanced Jira configuration, automation, and reporting to support complex product operations
- Establish and enforce standards for Jira usage, backlog grooming, and dependency management to ensure data integrity, predictability, and transparency across programs
- Design and implement robust processes, frameworks, and governance models for program management
- Continuously identify and drive opportunities to optimize team flow, capacity utilization, and overall program efficiency
- Build and nurture strong, trusted relationships with product, engineering, and business leaders
- Lead and facilitate complex, cross-functional discussions to align technical approaches with business scope and strategic objectives
- Author comprehensive project documentation, ensuring robust change control, audit trails, and clear communication of complex program concepts, risks, and progress to diverse audiences
Requirements
- B.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Business Information, Business Analytics, Management Information Systems or a related technical field
- 3+ years of experience as a Technical Program Manager leading complex, high-impact programs
- Expert in advanced Jira configuration, automation, and reporting to support complex product line operations
- Capable of discussing highly complex, ambiguous problems from beginning to end with senior architects, engineers, or other stakeholders or external dependencies
- Experienced with Jira, backlog grooming, and dependency management, with the ability to produce robust change control documentation, audit trails, and historical context for long-running programs
- Ability to work collaboratively and drive results in a fast-paced environment
- Proven ability to deep-dive into complex technical issues to understand root causes, evaluate trade-offs, and propose strategic solutions
- Architectural understanding of project ecosystems, integration points, and future scalability needs
- Demonstrated ability to identify and manage technical dependencies and solution misalignments across multiple products
- Strong leadership and communication skills, capable of explaining complex technical topics to senior leaders and representing projects in both technical solutioning and business outcome discussions
- Commitment to continuous learning and staying current with industry trends in project management and the evolving technical landscape
