TPP - Technical Program Manager

Ford Motor Company is transforming the future of mobility through innovative technology and engineering. The Technical Program Manager will play a crucial role in driving the delivery of features and programs across vehicle platforms, while ensuring alignment and communication among cross-functional teams.

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

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