Ford Motor Company is shaping the next era of transportation and is seeking a Technical Program Manager for their Technology Platform Programs team. This role involves driving end-to-end program delivery, managing cross-functional teams, and fostering innovation in vehicle electrical architecture and software platforms.
Responsibilities
- Drive end‑to‑end feature and program delivery across multi‑year roadmaps, managing schedules, dependencies, and backlogs
- Plan and execute programs across vehicle platforms and digital ecosystems, balancing resources, risks, and priorities
- Translate customer and business requirements into actionable requirements across cross‑functional engineering teams
- Apply technical fundamentals and release engineering practices to support architecture and solution design
- Identify required data sets; analyze data to inform decisions, uncover gaps, and recommend improvements
- Anticipate technical risks, drive mitigations, lead escalations, and manage change requests
- Establish and track Technical Success Metrics, including KPIs, to measure delivery health and feature performance
- Lead PDCA’s and drive continuous improvement through 5D workplans and other process optimization practices
- Identify and implement process enhancements that increase quality, velocity, and execution predictability
- Communicate program status, risks, and key decisions clearly to leadership, engineering teams, and cross‑functional partners
- Align teams on goals, delivery plans, dependencies, and technology staging across complex feature areas
- Provide technical guidance, mentor team members, and influence decisions that impact project‑level outcomes
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree
- 1+ years of experience proven experience as a Technical Program Management
- Strong technical background in systems engineering, software development, and hardware/software integration
- Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
- Ability to influence and guide leadership
- Passion for innovation, user experience, and delivering impactful technology
Benefits
- 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.
Company Overview
- We don't just make history -- we make the future. It was founded in 1903, and is headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.ford.com.