Senior TPM, EV Digital Transformation

Socket.dev; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 109,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Paid time off and holidays

Vehicle discount program for employees

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead high-impact transformation initiatives across the EV digital ecosystem. You will drive roadmap development, prioritization, dependency management, and execution discipline in a hybrid environment.

You will bridge EVDD innovation with legacy systems, coordinating across business, product, technology, and operations to deliver scalable digital capabilities for Ford’s next generation of mobility.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• Proven experience leading digital transformation, business transformation, or enterprise modernization initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience as a Technical Program Manager or in a similar delivery leadership role.
• Strong program management skills, including roadmap planning, dependency management, risk management, and executive-level reporting.
• Ability to manage multiple complex initiatives simultaneously while maintaining focus on outcomes and execution quality.
• Strong collaboration skills with experience integrating cross-functional teams across business, product, technology, and operations.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and leadership skills.
• Experience using Jira or similar tools for planning, tracking, and team execution.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the coordination lead for an assigned workstream portfolio, ensuring alignment across the internal ADVEV Digital Transformation team and with broader organizational dependencies.
• Define and manage quarterly roadmaps, milestones, deliverables, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Establish and run operating cadences that drive accountability, timely decision-making, and clear escalation paths.
• Maintain the workstream risk register and proactively lead mitigation planning.
• Define KPIs and build dashboards to track ADT team delivery, execution health, and business outcomes.
• Configure and maintain project planning tools, ensuring strong data quality, consistency, and reporting discipline across the ADT team.
• Partner with the Business Architect and Organizational Change Management team to align stakeholder expectations, resolve conflicts, and support adoption.
• Define and maintain prioritization frameworks tied to vehicle milestones, business requirements, and transformation goals.
• Use prioritization frameworks to set, communicate, and justify execution priorities across the portfolio.
• Keep the lead TPM informed of portfolio progress, key updates, blockers, decisions, and emerging risks.
• Identify gaps across people, process, tools, and execution; step in where needed or advocate for the right resources to close them.
• Contribute to the broader success of the team by supporting shared goals, improving ways of working, and helping others succeed.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Executive reporting

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent

Tools

Jira

Job description

Ford Motor Company is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead high-impact transformation initiatives across the EV digital ecosystem. You will drive roadmap development, prioritization, dependency management, and execution discipline in a hybrid environment.

You will bridge EVDD innovation with legacy systems, coordinating across business, product, technology, and operations to deliver scalable digital capabilities for Ford’s next generation of mobility.