AI-Driven TPM: Prototyping, Orchestration & Automation

Ford-Motor-Company; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Ford Motor Company in Long Beach is seeking an experienced Technical Program Manager to orchestrate software delivery for the ADVEV platform, blending product thinking with engineering execution.

This Builder-TPM role embraces AI-native approaches, prototypes, and automation, partnering with Product and Engineering leadership to turn roadmaps into concrete releases.

You will drive metrics, runbooks, and decision logs, while coordinating vendor workflows and ensuring alignment across teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, CS, IT or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in Technical Program Management, Product Operations, or Software Engineering.
• AI-native skillset with proficiency in prompt engineering and agentic automation.
• Builder experience: prototyping or building internal tools.
• Bridges product strategy with technical execution and engineering delivery.
• Proficient with Jira and Confluence to run execution systems at scale.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to shape the AI-augmented roadmap into delivery outcomes.
• Build and iterate on prototypes to translate roadmaps into structured execution plans.
• Drive release planning sessions with a product lens, aligning scope, dependencies and capacity.
• Facilitate ceremonies and working sessions to drive decisions and unblock delivery.
• Contribute to technical discussions as an execution integrator across stakeholders.
• Define and drive execution metrics and dashboards for delivery health and readiness.
• Prototype and build AI agents to automate reporting, status visibility, and documentation.
• Lead internal AI automation for PRDs, runbooks, executive summaries, and decision logs.
• Coordinate vendor and licensing workflows and ensure blockers are pre-empted.

Skills

Technical Program Management

AI-Native Skillset

Prototype development

Product & Engineering alignment

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Ford Motor Company in Long Beach is seeking an experienced Technical Program Manager to orchestrate software delivery for the ADVEV platform, blending product thinking with engineering execution.

This Builder-TPM role embraces AI-native approaches, prototypes, and automation, partnering with Product and Engineering leadership to turn roadmaps into concrete releases.

You will drive metrics, runbooks, and decision logs, while coordinating vendor workflows and ensuring alignment across teams.