Staff TPM - Cross-Functional Delivery Lead

Ford Motor Company; Dearborn (MI); Hybrid; USD 133,000 - 251,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Family care days

Vehicle discount

Tuition assistance

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

Ford Motor Company in Dearborn is seeking a Staff Technical Program Manager to lead cross-team initiatives that span multiple organizations across Ford. You will own roadmaps, define success criteria, and drive complex software and services programs from concept through launch.

You will guide teams in modern development practices, manage risks, and align stakeholders while delivering high-quality, data-driven results that meet customer commitments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or similar related technical field.
• 10+ years working experience in product, technical program management, or feature development on hardware, software, and/or services.
• Familiarity with modern software tracking tools (ie: JIRA, etc.).
• Familiarity with modern software development practices & tools (continuous integration / continuous deployment).
• Demonstrated success leading complex, large-scale, cross-functional software programs.
• Experience influencing and driving alignment across engineering, product, and business stakeholders from concept through launch and post launch iteration

Responsibilities

• Partner with key stakeholders to define, scope, prioritize and deliver major strategic initiatives that span multiple teams and multiple organizations across Ford.
• Understand the needs of stakeholders across the company and use your influence as appropriate to achieve alignment on the prioritized initiatives.
• Lead the defining and tracking of success criteria and performance metrics, including Objectives and Key Results [OKRs] / Key Performance Indicators.
• Implement and execute roadmaps, schedules, project plans, and resourcing plans to enable Ford to meet customer commitments across all customer constituencies.
• Lead team members on modern, world-class, software development practices including CICD and principled execution of a technical plan (including management of milestone progress, dependency tracking, issue triage, backlog management and daily scrum leveraging tools like Jira).
• Proactively identify, manage, and mitigate risks across multiple engineering teams.
• Personally own the relationships with other divisions at Ford, ensuring dependencies are met and quality of deliverables is high.
• Embody the voice of the customer, guiding your team to be data-driven in its decision-making.
• Stakeholders will be heard inclusively and requirements / scope definition will be exhaustive
• Priorities will be set based upon aligned principles
• Direction will be set quickly and decisively
• You will lead by example with accountability

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Data-driven decision making

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE/CE or related field

Tools

JIRA

CI/CD

Job description

Ford Motor Company in Dearborn is seeking a Staff Technical Program Manager to lead cross-team initiatives that span multiple organizations across Ford. You will own roadmaps, define success criteria, and drive complex software and services programs from concept through launch.

You will guide teams in modern development practices, manage risks, and align stakeholders while delivering high-quality, data-driven results that meet customer commitments.