Hybrid AI Strategy & Portfolio Manager

Ford Motor Company; Dearborn (MI); Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 218,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Immediate medical, dental, vision and药

Flexible family care days

Family building benefits

Vehicle discount program

Tuition assistance

Employee resource groups

Paid time off for community service

Paid holidays and extra vacation

Job summary

Ford Motor Company seeks an AI Portfolio Manager in Dearborn, MI to run intake and inventory for AI opportunities across Sandbox, Functional Program, and Enterprise Bet stages. You’ll ensure a clean, decision-ready pipeline and partner with cross-functional teams to build sponsor-backed business cases.

This leadership role requires a Bachelor's degree, 3+ years in program or portfolio management, and strong Excel/PowerPoint skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 3+ years of experience in program management, portfolio management, business operations, or strategy roles involving intake and prioritization of competing initiatives.
• Strong organizational skills and comfort owning a live inventory or pipeline that changes constantly and needs to stay accurate.
• Ability to extract a clear business case — problem, value, sponsor, funding, readiness — from a stakeholder who hasn't fully articulated it yet.
• Experience preparing tradeoff analysis or prioritization materials used in leadership decision-making processes.

Responsibilities

• Manage intake of new opportunities across Sandbox, Functional Program, and Enterprise Bet stages, ensuring consistent evaluation.
• Maintain the portfolio pipeline and opportunity inventory as the single source of truth for in-flight items and changes.
• Prepare prioritization inputs, tradeoff views, and start/stop/scale/sunset recommendations for leadership forums.
• Partner with business functions to clarify the business problem, sponsorship, value hypothesis, funding need, and readiness.
• Flag opportunities that are stalled, underfunded, or lacking a sponsor to avoid stalled pipelines.
• Support leadership with accurate, up-to-date pipeline data and analysis.

Skills

Program management

Portfolio management

Cross-functional coordination

Excel/PowerPoint

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Ford Motor Company seeks an AI Portfolio Manager in Dearborn, MI to run intake and inventory for AI opportunities across Sandbox, Functional Program, and Enterprise Bet stages. You’ll ensure a clean, decision-ready pipeline and partner with cross-functional teams to build sponsor-backed business cases.

This leadership role requires a Bachelor's degree, 3+ years in program or portfolio management, and strong Excel/PowerPoint skills.