Technical Program Manager in Ford's Connected Vehicle Software division focusing on product and engineering excellence. Lead cross - functional initiatives and manage complex engineering programs.
About the role
- Staff Technical Program Manager focusing on digital transformation in a leading automotive company. Collaborating across teams to architect and deliver digital solutions for electric vehicles.
Responsibilities
- As the Staff Digital Transformation Technical Program Manager, you will be a key part of the team rebuilding of our end-to-end process and digital tools, across all skill teams for a new agile and autonomous organization within Ford.
- Work with program management, marketing, engineering, supply chain, finance, manufacturing, materials handling, service, etc. to develop the key functions needed; digital transformation business leads to architect solutions; and IT leads to deliver digital solutions.
- Build multiyear strategic roadmap to move each capability to target maturity by vehicle development milestone
- Partner with the ADVEV lead to further define the vehicle development process.
- Define the end-to-end capabilities required to plan, engineer, validate, launch, and service vehicles.
- Define maturity levels and exit criteria per vehicle development milestone (e.g., concept, design, validation, launch). Tie levels to measurable outcomes (quality, timing, cost, risk).
- Establish KPIs, leading/lagging indicators
- Lead the program management team interfacing with the Business Architecture activities
Requirements
- Bachelor's or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
- Proven experience in digital transformation or business transformation projects
- Proven experience as a Technical Program Manager (5+ years).
- Strong understanding of Business Capabilities development, and how to develop capability maturation roadmap.
- Strong collaboration skills to integrate cross-functional teams
- Strong communication and leadership skills
- Familiar with the vehicle development process
- Familiar with hardware and software product development process
- Even better, you may have...• Experience with people management
- Familiar with Jira as a planning tool
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.
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