Senior Technical Program Manager

Ford Motor Company; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Ford's Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design team to lead the way in electric transportation. This role requires strong project management skills and a background in engineering. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions and drive positive change in the automotive industry.

Benefits

Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage

Flexible family care and parental leave

Vehicle discount program for employees

Tuition assistance

Paid time off for community service

Generous schedule of paid holidays

Qualifications

• Experience with project management tools and agile methodologies.
• Ability to operate autonomously in ambiguous situations.
• Experience with automotive is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage HW delivery as per program timeline, coordinating product development.
• Drive engineering teams to resolve issues from design reviews.
• Present information effectively to technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

Agile

Project Management

Analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering

Master’s degree in electrical engineering

Tools

Jira

Confluence

JAMA

3DX

SAP

Smartsheet

MS Project

Job description

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.

Qualifications

1. Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or related.
2. Preferred: Master’s degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering or related.
3. Expertise with Jira for project management and confluence.
4. Expertise with JAMA for requirement documentation.
5. Experience with project management tools such as Smartsheet or MS Project.
6. Agile and scrum master experience, certification preferred.
7. Experience with automotive is a plus.
8. Proven ability to operate effectively and autonomously in time sensitive situations of extreme ambiguity, with only high-level direction.
9. Experience with 3DX, SAP is a plus.
10. Ability to craft clear, compelling recommendations supported by strong analysis and business logic, and articulate them to the organization to gain support for recommendations.
11. This candidate must be able to work effectively with globally staffed cross functional teams, manage multiple work tasks simultaneously, and deliver complex object-oriented engineering solutions across a highly integrated landscape.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare 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

This position is a range of salary grades 7-8.

https://corporate.ford.com/content/dam/corporate/us/en-us/documents/careers/2025-benefits-and-comp-gsr-sal-plan-4.pdf

Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

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Responsibilities

1. Manage and deliver HW as per program timeline by coordinating the in-house product development from concept phase to industrialization, working closely with the engineering, supply chain, testing, and vehicle teams.
2. Drive engineering teams towards containment and resolution of issues raised from design reviews, virtual builds, and build events to protect the program’s schedule to prototype build dates, start of production, and ongoing production.
3. Manage open issues list for internal and external projects, driving team to close items on time and at a high level of quality.
4. Facilitate and assist the team in creating and maintaining work products including but not limited to design analysis, component derating, functional safety, HW-SW integration.
5. Facilitate data-based decision making on time and with sufficient engineering background.
6. Effectively present information to technical or non-technical audiences ranging from team level meetings through to Executive briefs and updates.
7. Demonstrate functionality of completed products to internal team members and other stakeholders.
8. Develop metrics to assess the success of products and features and determine necessary enhancements.
9. Well-versed in defining roadmaps and delivering with teams that employ agile software development methodologies.

⦁Anticipate and manage program(s) risks. Perform trade-offs and identify contingency plan(s) or alternate approaches to mitigate risks and provide strong leadership to team in circumstances where there may be uncertainty or ambiguity.

⦁Partner with teams at various levels of the organization and from different parts of the business to help define and drive a multi-year business capability roadmap & strategic vision