Technical Program Manager

• Lead program execution - managing key partner or customer programs ensuring that all internal and external resources execute against the agreed plan
• Lead the program process/framework, as well as lead the Data Analysis/ Reporting dashboard team member
• Support Ford charging programs by identifying, structuring, communicating, and working cross functionally to execute program efficiencies
• Use operational experience and data to close feedback loops between Ford teams(HW/SW/System/App/external vendor/Customer Support/Business verticals to manage milestones on network strategy, site deployment, product introductions and ongoing operations.
• Support necessary cadences with third-party vendors necessary for releasing public charging software
• Support the team's operating rhythm by hosting standing meetings across working teams and leadership levels while managing accountability for follow-up actions.
• Growth mindset to expand program and team to deliver at scale.
• Ability to consider voice of the customer(s) in program development and execution

• Support quality and reliability efforts for CardioVascular Surgery products, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards such as FDA CFR, MDR, and ISO 13485.
• Serve as the Quality Core Team Member; coordinate quality team members and ensure accountability for completing functional work within program deadlines from design concept to design transfer to early commercialization.
• Develop Quality functional strategies, plans, and schedules to meet project goals and manage risks.
• Represent Voice of Quality across all global Quality disciplines.
• Ensure quality requests are defined, implemented, and met (requests flow down) across the project.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including R&D, regulatory affairs, and clinical teams, to ensure alignment on quality and compliance requirements.
• Maintain alignment and manage execution across global Quality disciplines.
• Communicate key program information to ensure Core Team and Quality leadership engagement and alignment.
• Plan and manage program resource allocation and budget.
• Identify quality program risks and implement risk burn down strategies.
• Ensure an effective transfer to global Post-Market Quality functions.
• Review and approve Design History File and other related documentation, including plans, requirements, design, development, test protocols, test reports, verification, and validation.
• Ensure all documentation meets reliability standards and follows QMS processes.
• Develop and review documentation for traceability, testability, and compliance according to standard operating procedures.
• Develop expertise in assigned products and projects, including hands-on time in the engineering lab and participation in product training as assigned.
• Collaborates with R&D, systems engineering, and cross-functional teams to develop, qualify, and implement robust, repeatable, and compliant test method validations that ensure traceability and reliability of results.
• Proactively drive and champion strategic quality, reliability, and safety improvements through execution of the risk management process and DRM initiatives.
• Facilitate the development of the product risk management file.
• Ensure process is compliant to risk management procedures.
• Support hardware and software quality and reliability efforts for CardioVascular Surgery products, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards such as FDA CFR, MDR, IEC 62304, and ISO 13485.

Senior Engineering Program Manager – Quality Core Team Member

• Partner with key stakeholders to define, scope, prioritize, and deliver major ADAS software initiatives that span multiple teams and multiple organizations across Ford.
• Understand the needs of stakeholders across the product development organization and influence as appropriate to achieve alignment on the prioritized initiatives
• Apply technical project planning, management, and leadership for the development and delivery of ADAS Software (hand coded or MBD-based)
• Apply technical project planning, management, and leadership for the development and delivery of software tooling and/or support software to advance ADAS product development
• Implement and execute roadmaps, schedules, project plans, and resourcing plans to enable ADAS to meet commitments across all customer constituencies
• Lead team members on modern, world-class, software development practices, and precise execution of a technical plan (including management of milestone progress, dependency tracking, risk management, and risk mitigation)
• Interface with and lead cross functional teams – Systems, Software, Feature, Suppliers, V&V, Quality to define and drive development plans, ensuring on time SW delivery with highest quality
• Partner with technical development leaders to create symbiotic relationships that showcase high value in technical leader/TPM matched-pairing through delivery velocity
• Utilize technical knowledge and capabilities to assist technical leaders and engineers in resolving dependencies and issues with stakeholders
• Help to resolve or facilitate resolution of technical issues
• Elevate the visibility of the team – provide regular “push” updates through wiki, Jira, Teams, email, and other communication mediums
• Communicate and present project status to a broad stakeholder and leadership community
• Proactively identify and manage project risks, developing mitigations and/or recovery plans in event of project slips
• Efficiently utilize work management tools – Wiki, JIRA, Project Management Tools – to make plans and status visible to leadership and to provide strategic planning options/contingencies.

Technical Program Manager – ADAS Software Platform

• Drive the Cloud & Mobile technology roadmap, with a deep understanding of mobile apps, cloud applications / infrastructure, and connected vehicle experiences. Guide delivery teams in adopting scalable and modular Cloud & Mobile architectures, ensuring alignment with program objectives.
• Develop and maintain integrated schedules, dependency maps, and risk mitigation plans across Cloud & Mobile portfolio. Ensure timely delivery of Cloud & Mobile capabilities aligned with vehicle launch timelines, digital product objectives and regulatory requirements.
• Build strong relationships with engineering, product, engineering project managers, and partner teams. Influence senior leadership and stakeholders to align on priorities, trade-offs, and strategic direction. Facilitate cross-organizational collaboration to resolve technical and programmatic challenges.
• Communicate program status, scorecards, risks, and decisions clearly and effectively to executive leadership and technical teams.
• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance program execution, quality, and velocity.

Principal Technical Program Manager

• Play the role of “Agile Release Train Engineer” OR Program Manager managing cross skilled teams in assigned Agile Release Train (ART)
• Be first line of defense to shield delivery teams from planned and unplanned needs for various purposes.
• Collaborate with Transformation leadership team to develop Objective and Key Results (OKR’s) for L4 and below.
• Manage intake process for the program and coordinate intakes through the phases of assessment, estimation & planning.
• Manage scope change management practices and drive governance to ensure strong scope change control.
• Manage Administration and Control of JIRA and Confluence
• Drive and oversee coordination of cross-functional teams involved in the transformation to support all aspects of the program.
• Manage the weekly forums of health measurement, dashboard generation, status reporting, risk monitoring, issue escalations, process audit & reporting.
• Maintain the data sanity in tools like Jira, Confluence, Planview & SharePoint.
• Organizers of cross ART collaborative sessions & cadences e.g. Retrospectives.
• Drive alignment among delivery governance with organizational governance.
• Establish quality standards to be followed across the teams.
• Be the first line of integration with external teams for data measurement & data sharing e.g. L1 & L2 executive teams, Office of CTO, Office of CPO.
• Be first line of integration with teams external to the program for cross dependency tracking e.g. with Insurance, Integration Services.
• Monitor process adherence & activate remediation protocols where needed.
• Provide support to other transformational services e.g. Organization Change Management, User Training, Knowledge Retention etc. using the data available in various tools.

• Drive planning, coordination, and execution of initiatives across teams and departments.
• Track, support, and enable teams to deliver meaningful impact; establish clear metrics and/or milestones to measure success.
• Facilitate and improve - at a program level - the team practices, workflows, and processes.
• Lead capacity planning exercises, identify gaps and make recommendations for resource allocation or escalation as needed.
• Partner with Product and Technology leadership and program stakeholders to align priorities with strategic objectives and operational realities.
• Proactively identify risks, issues, and cross-functional dependencies, and develop management, mitigation or escalation plans.
• Resolve conflicts and ensure smooth collaboration across teams.
• Partner with engineering to evaluate technical tradeoffs, identify architectural risks, and guide decisions that balance speed, scalability, and quality.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with diverse internal and external stakeholders.
• Act as a strategic thought partner by asking the right questions, sensing partnership needs, and fostering productive dialogues.

Lead Technical Program Manager

• 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**

Staff Technical Program Manager

• Drive Investment OKR (Objective & Key Results): Play a critical role in our organization by directly contributing to the achievement of key Investment OKRs, which are essential for reaching Ford's overall Enterprise Technology goals.
• Lead Technical Problem Resolution: Act as a vital escalation point within our organization, working closely with partners and stakeholders to proactively identify and resolve technical roadblocks. Your expertise will be crucial in ensuring the timely achievement of KR milestones.
• Champion Partner Success: Demonstrate empathy and a deep understanding of partner operating models. Effectively communicate how our deliverables directly drive Ford's Enterprise Technology objectives, ensuring alignment and maximizing impact.
• Manage Executive Communication: Take ownership of executive communication, crafting and delivering clear and concise updates, proposing innovative features, and sharing valuable perspectives with diverse leadership teams across Ford

• Own the domain “system of delivery” and ensure the domain’s work is focused on the most important outcomes, aligned to VC&M strategy, and planned/governed consistently.
• Establish the structures and mechanisms that enable predictable delivery (backlog structure, planning artifacts, governance cadence, reporting hygiene).
• Challenge and de-prioritize work that does not support the strategy or agreed priorities (in partnership with Technical Program Manager (TPM), Product, and VC&M leadership).
• Own the domain backlog structure, PI planning, and the domain delivery plan (scope, milestones, dependencies), within the strategic frame set by TPMs and leadership.
• Prioritize within the domain, with Engineering Manager input, to ensure capacity is focused on the highest-value work.
• Drive clarity for cross-team sequencing and integration planning so commitments are realistic and well-understood.
• Maintain accurate internal risk and dependency registers; actively drive resolution, mitigation plans, and escalation paths.
• Keep Atlassian artifacts and dashboards up to date so domain and program status is trustworthy and comparable across VC&M.
• Provide clear, timely communications to stakeholders on progress, risks, and changes.
• Ensure work has a clear acceptance criteria and a defined value/outcome.
• At completion, validate with Engineering and TPMs whether acceptance criteria were met and whether the intended value was delivered.
• Participate and provide key inputs to the cross-functional work intake discovery process; cascade with context to all impacted functions within your domain.
• Apply and help evolve common VC&M standards for discovery, planning, and delivery.
• Ensure the domain “plugs into” the broader VC&M operating model using shared templates and cadences.
• Build strong partnerships across engineering, program, product, design, systems, testing, operations, safety/regulatory, release, and quality.
• Drive alignment through clear tradeoffs, documented decisions, and transparent plans.
• Use data and delivery signals (risks, dependencies, throughput/health indicators) to inform priorities and leadership actions.

Engineering Program Manager

• Responsible for ensuring the overall success of a program
• Interface with internal/external disciplines
• Coordinate and direct programs, making detailed plans
• Direct, review, and approve product design and changes
• Coordinate preparations of proposals, plans, specifications, and contracts

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