Staff Technical Program Manager

Ford Motor Company

Staff Technical Program Manager at Ford driving product and engineering excellence through cross-team initiatives. Engaging with complex engineering programs while ensuring successful delivery and alignment.

Posted 5/2/2026full-timeDearborn • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $132,800 - $250,800 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Partner with key stakeholders to define, scope, prioritize and deliver major strategic initiatives that span multiple teams and multiple organizations across Ford.
Understand the needs of stakeholders across the company and use your influence as appropriate to achieve alignment on the prioritized initiatives.
Lead the defining and tracking of success criteria and performance metrics, including Objectives and Key Results [OKRs] / Key Performance Indicators.
Implement and execute roadmaps, schedules, project plans, and resourcing plans to enable Ford to meet customer commitments across all customer constituencies.
Lead team members on modern, world-class, software development practices including CICD and principled execution of a technical plan (including management of milestone progress, dependency tracking, issue triage, backlog management and daily scrum leveraging tools like Jira).
Proactively identify, manage, and mitigate risks across multiple engineering teams.
Personally own the relationships with other divisions at Ford, ensuring dependencies are met and quality of deliverables is high.
Embody the voice of the customer, guiding your team to be data-driven in its decision-making.
Stakeholders will be heard inclusively and requirements / scope definition will be exhaustive
Priorities will be set based upon aligned principles
Direction will be set quickly and decisively
You will lead by example with accountability**

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or similar related technical field.
10+ years working experience in product, technical program management, or feature development on hardware, software, and/or services .
Familiarity with modern software tracking tools (ie: JIRA, etc.).
Familiarity with modern software development practices & tools (continuous integration / continuous deployment).
Demonstrated success leading complex, large-scale, cross-functional software programs.
Experience influencing and driving alignment across engineering, product, and business stakeholders from concept through launch and post launch iteration
Even better, you may have...
Experience coaching other TPMs, improving processes, and creating reusable frameworks that scale beyond any single program.
Expertise in Agile methodology.
Experience defining success metrics, analyzing program data, and using dashboards or experimentation results to drive prioritization and decision making.
Experience working with customers, connecting technical delivery to customer outcomes.
Experience communicating program health, trade offs, and strategic recommendations to senior and executive leadership.

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

product managementtechnical program managementfeature developmentAgile methodologycontinuous integrationcontinuous deploymentsuccess metricsprogram data analysisdashboardsrisk management

Soft Skills

influencealignmentleadershipaccountabilitycommunicationstakeholder managementdecision-makingcoachingproblem-solvingdata-driven