Senior Technical Program Manager - Interiors

Ford; Long Beach, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 139,000 - 233,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Parental leave

Fertility benefits

Vehicle discount

Tuition assistance

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Employee resource groups

Job summary

Ford’s EVDD team seeks a Technical Program Manager to drive complex hardware projects from ideation through design and validation. You will scope work, plan requirements, manage budgets, and communicate progress within a small, high-performing team delivering integrated interior systems.

The role emphasizes cross-functional leadership, risk management, and collaboration across engineering, finance, and strategy, with travel up to 15%. Hybrid onsite four days a week; salary grade 8.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience leading complex hardware-focused programs.

Responsibilities

• Drive engineering teams toward containment and resolution of design issues to protect SOP and production.
• Maintain supplier relationships with Supply Chain to ensure timely build event deliveries.
• Monitor outputs for system and vehicle integration opportunities and risks.
• Ensure transparency of problems and proactive risk mitigation actions.
• Set meeting agendas to drive decisions and remove bottlenecks.
• Collaborate cross-functionally across engineering, finance, and strategy to reach conclusions.

Skills

Communication skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Microsoft Office

Confluence

Jira

Job description

We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.

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.

In this position...As a Technical Program Manager, you’ll use your technical expertise to wholistically drive complex problems to completion. You’ll work amongst the team to scope work, plan requirements, identify risks, estimate budgets, and clearly communicate ongoing progress. You will be working on a small high performing team that will have a high interaction and collaboration quotient to deliver fully integrated EV vehicle interior systems that achieve aspirational targets associated with cost, weight, efficiency, and exceed operational tolerances required to deliver the ambitious project scope. Engineering trade-offs are minimized by the development of solutions and innovations to minimize settling for an inferior product or solution. This team will be highly technical in nature and will come from engineering and data centric team environments that have had to deliver the holistic end to end engineering life cycle from ideation through design, engineering, test and ensuring efficient industrialization. This environment is not for everyone but will enrich the best talent with the opportunity to perform some of the best work of their careers.

What you'll do...

• 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 start of production (SOP) and ongoing production
• Maintain supplier relationships in collaboration with Supply Chain team to ensure timely deliveries for build events
• Monitor work outputs and deliverables for potential systems and vehicle incompatibilities and opportunities for greater integration, velocity, and collaboration.
• Ensure problems are transparent and risks are identified and proactively ensure that risk mitigating actions are ongoing within relevant engineering teams
• Set agenda for key decisions to be made at each meeting to eliminate bottlenecks and retire risks
• Support key decisions working cross-functionally across engineering, finance, and strategy to reach the right conclusions
• Travel up to 15% of the time.

You’ll have...

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of technical program management, in an engineering setting involving hardware development.
• Detailed knowledge of product development process from design, development, validation and integration
• Knowledge of the materials, processes & technologies used to deliverInteriorengineering content
• Proven experience driving progress on multiple projects across multiple locations and timelines

Even better, you may have...

• Experience with Microsoft Office, Confluence, and Jira applications
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• An eagerness to work cross-functionally in a dynamic environment where you are part of a high performing team
• A system approach with the desire and curiosity to strive for exceptional delivery execution and continuous improvement

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 of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• 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.

This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $138,800-$232,700.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

For more information on salary and benefits.

Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

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This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week.