Senior Technical Program Manager

Ford Motor Company

Senior Technical Program Manager leading the delivery of transformation initiatives for Ford's electric vehicle future. Collaborating across teams to build scalable digital capabilities for next-gen mobility.

Posted 6/9/2026full-timeLong Beach • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $109,100 - $182,800 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as the coordination lead for an assigned workstream portfolio, ensuring alignment across the internal ADVEV Digital Transformation team and with broader organizational dependencies.
Define and manage quarterly roadmaps, milestones, deliverables, and cross-functional dependencies.
Establish and run operating cadences that drive accountability, timely decision-making, and clear escalation paths.
Maintain the workstream risk register and proactively lead mitigation planning.
Define KPIs and build dashboards to track ADT team delivery, execution health, and business outcomes.
Configure and maintain project planning tools, ensuring strong data quality, consistency, and reporting discipline across the ADT team.
Partner with the Business Architect and Organizational Change Management team to align stakeholder expectations, resolve conflicts, and support adoption.
Define and maintain prioritization frameworks tied to vehicle milestones, business requirements, and transformation goals.
Use prioritization frameworks to set, communicate, and justify execution priorities across the portfolio.
Keep the lead TPM informed of portfolio progress, key updates, blockers, decisions, and emerging risks.
Identify gaps across people, process, tools, and execution; step in where needed or advocate for the right resources to close them.
Contribute to the broader success of the team by supporting shared goals, improving ways of working, and helping others succeed.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
Proven experience leading digital transformation, business transformation, or enterprise modernization initiatives.
Demonstrated experience as a Technical Program Manager or in a similar delivery leadership role.
Strong program management skills, including roadmap planning, dependency management, risk management, and executive-level reporting.
Ability to manage multiple complex initiatives simultaneously while maintaining focus on outcomes and execution quality.
Strong collaboration skills with experience integrating cross-functional teams across business, product, technology, and operations.
Excellent communication, facilitation, and leadership skills.
Experience using Jira or similar tools for planning, tracking, and team execution.
Experience supporting automotive, electric vehicle, connected vehicle, or large-scale digital product organizations.
Experience working across both modern digital platforms and legacy enterprise systems.
Strong accountability, consistency, and follow-through.
High attention to detail and strong organizational discipline.
Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
A continuous improvement mindset with a bias toward simplifying processes and improving team effectiveness.
Comfort operating in ambiguity and bringing structure to complex, fast-moving environments.

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 transformationenterprise modernizationprogram managementroadmap planningdependency managementrisk managementexecutive-level reportingKPI definitiondashboard creation

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationfacilitationleadershipcritical thinkingproblem-solvingorganizational disciplineattention to detailaccountabilitycontinuous improvement

Certifications

Bachelor's degree