Senior Technical Program Manager, Digital Transformation

Ford Motor Company

Senior Technical Program Manager at Ford managing digital transformation initiatives and leading cross-functional teams. Responsible for delivering critical transformation efforts for electric vehicles in a hybrid workspace.

Posted 4/30/2026full-timeLong Beach • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Act as the coordination lead for assigned workstream portfolio, ensuring alignment across internal ADVEV Digital Transformation (ADT) team and dependencies with the broader organization
Define quarterly roadmap, milestones, and dependencies
Run operating cadences and drive timely decisions with clear escalations
Maintain workstream risk register and use it to lead mitigation
Define KPIs and build dashboards tracking ADT team delivery
Configure project planning tools and ensure data hygiene within the ADT team
Align expectations and resolve conflicts with our stakeholders alongside the Business Architect and Organizational Change Management team
Define and maintain prioritization frameworks tied to vehicle milestones and business requirements, using this structure to set and justify execution priorities
Keep lead TPM informed of progress, key updates, and emerging risks across your portfolio
Be a team player—identify gaps and either jump in yourself or champion for the right resources to fill them
Support the team's overall success, not just your individual work streams

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
Proven experience in digital transformation or business transformation projects
Proven experience as a Technical Program Manager
Strong technical program management and planning skills, overseeing multiple projects at the same time
Strong collaboration skills to integrate cross-functional teams
Strong communication and leadership skills
Experience with Jira as a team planning tool
Accountability, consistency, & follow-through
Attention to detail
Critical thinking capacity
Continuous improvement mindset

Benefits

Comp & perks

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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

digital transformationbusiness transformationtechnical program managementproject planningKPI definitiondashboard creationrisk managementprioritization frameworksdata hygiene

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationleadershipaccountabilityattention to detailcritical thinkingcontinuous improvementconflict resolutionteam player

Certifications

Bachelor's Degree