Staff Technical Program Manager, Advanced EV Digital Transformation

We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world -- together. At Ford, we’re all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?

Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

In this position...
As a Technical Program Manager, you will continually grow and adapt your Program Management subject-matter knowledge and technical expertise to provide solutions and guidance that will enable us to have a holistic view of the progress, risks, and dependencies across our Advanced EV (ADVEV) Digital Transformation (ADT) team’s goals and program milestones. You will be working on a small, high-performing team with a mission to unlock product and engineering innovation with streamlined, automated, and collaborative solutions. This requires a high interaction and collaboration quotient to deliver fully integrated EV vehicle systems that achieve aspirational targets associated with cost, weight, and efficiency, and exceed operational tolerances required to deliver the ambitious project scope.  

This environment is not for everyone but will enrich the best talent with the opportunity to perform some of the best work of their careers.

What you'll do...
Viewed as functional expert within the enterprise responsible for developing the processes, tools, and automations to efficiently monitor issue resolution, and identify opportunities for greater integration, velocity, and collaboration across functional teams.  

Manage administration, training, security groups, and data integration for ADT tools such as Jira, Confluence, and various third-party add-ons.

Mature our org’s strategy, increasing adoption and consistency of the processes and tools to enable the planning, tracking, and reporting of the ADT team’s efforts and Vehicle Build milestones.  

Provide guidance, support and technical expertise to support the ADT team’s efforts to capture, prioritize, and track our work to then build a strategic plan that will help everyone move towards a clearer, more effective, and lightweight approach to enable us to work more effectively with the use of improved Portfolio and Program Management applications (e.g., Jira, Confluence).  

Develop solutions that may serve as precedent for future decisions for unusually complex problems which require a high degree of innovation, ingenuity, and creativity.  

Contributes to the development of new principles, concepts, techniques, and standards.

Act as advisor to senior management and customers on advanced research studies and applications.

Accomplish goals through consultation and agreement with others rather than by formal review of superior, collaborating with our IT partner teams to effectively track our dependencies.  

You'll have...
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree

10+ years of technical program management in an engineering setting or equivalent experience.

Proven results in collaboration, and enterprise software, including In-depth knowledge of the Atlassian suite, specifically Jira, Confluence, and third-party apps.  

Demonstrated repeatable success defining and tracking key business and success metrics to enable the product vision and strategy for enterprise customers.

Self-initiated, learning mindset and curiosity.  

A strong instinct and methodology of prioritizing among opportunities, balancing the needs of our customers with those of our business, and clearly communicating the rationale behind your decisions.  

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to convey complex technical information to non-technical audiences.  

An effective relationship builder and able to influence without authority.  

An eagerness to work cross-functionally in a dynamic environment where you are part of a high performing team.  

A system approach with the desire and curiosity to strive for exceptional delivery execution and continuous improvement.  
Even better, you may have...
Data visualization and analytics (eg, Microsoft Power Bi, Tableau)  

Access Management (Microsoft Azure/Entra, Role-Based Access Control)

Sourcing, Contracts, Purchase Orders (POs) (eg, LightSource or other tools)

Cost tracking, reporting

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