Senior Technical Program Manager Job at Ford Motor Company (Long Beach)

Job Description

As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you will play a critical role in advancing Ford's electric vehicle future by connecting strategy to execution. You will lead the delivery of high-impact transformation initiatives across Ford's EV digital ecosystem, driving roadmap development, prioritization, dependency management, and execution discipline. This role sits at the intersection of innovation, operations, and enterprise-scale delivery. You will help bridge the gap between EVDD innovation and the stability of legacy systems, working across cross-functional teams to build the scalable digital capabilities required for Ford's next generation of mobility

Job Responsibility

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

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

Nice to have

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

What we offer

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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