Staff Technical Program Manager, Advanced EV Digital Transformation
Apply NowCompany: Ford Motor Company
Location: Irvine, CA 92620
Description:
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.
In this position...
As a Technical Program Manager, you will continually grow and adapt your Program Management subject-matter knowledge and technical expertise to provide solutions and guidance that will enable us to have a holistic view of the progress, risks, and dependencies across our Advanced EV (ADVEV) Digital Transformation (ADT) team's goals and program milestones. You will be working on a small, high-performing team with a mission to unlock product and engineering innovation with streamlined, automated, and collaborative solutions. This requires a high interaction and collaboration quotient to deliver fully integrated EV vehicle systems that achieve aspirational targets associated with cost, weight, and efficiency, and exceed operational tolerances required to deliver the ambitious project scope.
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.
Responsibilities
What you'll do...
Viewed as functional expert within the enterprise responsible for developing the processes, tools, and automations to efficiently monitor issue resolution, and identify opportunities for greater integration, velocity, and collaboration across functional teams.
Manage administration, training, security groups, and data integration for ADT tools such as Jira, Confluence, and various third-party add-ons.
Mature our org's strategy, increasing adoption and consistency of the processes and tools to enable the planning, tracking, and reporting of the ADT team's efforts and Vehicle Build milestones.
Provide guidance, support and technical expertise to support the ADT team's efforts to capture, prioritize, and track our work to then build a strategic plan that will help everyone move towards a clearer, more effective, and lightweight approach to enable us to work more effectively with the use of improved Portfolio and Program Management applications (e.g., Jira, Confluence).
Develop solutions that may serve as precedent for future decisions for unusually complex problems which require a high degree of innovation, ingenuity, and creativity.
Contributes to the development of new principles, concepts, techniques, and standards.
Act as advisor to senior management and customers on advanced research studies and applications.
Accomplish goals through consultation and agreement with others rather than by formal review of superior, collaborating with our IT partner teams to effectively track our dependencies.
Qualifications
You'll have...
Bachelor's or Master's degree
10+ years of technical program management in an engineering setting or equivalent experience.
Proven results in collaboration, and enterprise software, including In-depth knowledge of the Atlassian suite, specifically Jira, Confluence, and third-party apps.
Demonstrated repeatable success defining and tracking key business and success metrics to enable the product vision and strategy for enterprise customers.
Self-initiated, learning mindset and curiosity.
A strong instinct and methodology of prioritizing among opportunities, balancing the needs of our customers with those of our business, and clearly communicating the rationale behind your decisions.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to convey complex technical information to non-technical audiences.
An effective relationship builder and able to influence without authority.
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.
Even better, you may have...
Data visualization and analytics (eg, Microsoft Power Bi, Tableau)
Access Management (Microsoft Azure/Entra, Role-Based Access Control)
Sourcing, Contracts, Purchase Orders (POs) (eg, LightSource or other tools)
Cost tracking, reporting
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 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 leadership level 6.
For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/LL6SP4
Visa sponsorship is available for this position.
Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.
Onsite work of up to three days per week may be required for candidates within commuting distance of a Ford hub location. #LI-Hybrid #LI-JD2
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.
In this position...
As a Technical Program Manager, you will continually grow and adapt your Program Management subject-matter knowledge and technical expertise to provide solutions and guidance that will enable us to have a holistic view of the progress, risks, and dependencies across our Advanced EV (ADVEV) Digital Transformation (ADT) team's goals and program milestones. You will be working on a small, high-performing team with a mission to unlock product and engineering innovation with streamlined, automated, and collaborative solutions. This requires a high interaction and collaboration quotient to deliver fully integrated EV vehicle systems that achieve aspirational targets associated with cost, weight, and efficiency, and exceed operational tolerances required to deliver the ambitious project scope.
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.
Responsibilities
What you'll do...
Viewed as functional expert within the enterprise responsible for developing the processes, tools, and automations to efficiently monitor issue resolution, and identify opportunities for greater integration, velocity, and collaboration across functional teams.
Manage administration, training, security groups, and data integration for ADT tools such as Jira, Confluence, and various third-party add-ons.
Mature our org's strategy, increasing adoption and consistency of the processes and tools to enable the planning, tracking, and reporting of the ADT team's efforts and Vehicle Build milestones.
Provide guidance, support and technical expertise to support the ADT team's efforts to capture, prioritize, and track our work to then build a strategic plan that will help everyone move towards a clearer, more effective, and lightweight approach to enable us to work more effectively with the use of improved Portfolio and Program Management applications (e.g., Jira, Confluence).
Develop solutions that may serve as precedent for future decisions for unusually complex problems which require a high degree of innovation, ingenuity, and creativity.
Contributes to the development of new principles, concepts, techniques, and standards.
Act as advisor to senior management and customers on advanced research studies and applications.
Accomplish goals through consultation and agreement with others rather than by formal review of superior, collaborating with our IT partner teams to effectively track our dependencies.
Qualifications
You'll have...
Bachelor's or Master's degree
10+ years of technical program management in an engineering setting or equivalent experience.
Proven results in collaboration, and enterprise software, including In-depth knowledge of the Atlassian suite, specifically Jira, Confluence, and third-party apps.
Demonstrated repeatable success defining and tracking key business and success metrics to enable the product vision and strategy for enterprise customers.
Self-initiated, learning mindset and curiosity.
A strong instinct and methodology of prioritizing among opportunities, balancing the needs of our customers with those of our business, and clearly communicating the rationale behind your decisions.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to convey complex technical information to non-technical audiences.
An effective relationship builder and able to influence without authority.
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.
Even better, you may have...
Data visualization and analytics (eg, Microsoft Power Bi, Tableau)
Access Management (Microsoft Azure/Entra, Role-Based Access Control)
Sourcing, Contracts, Purchase Orders (POs) (eg, LightSource or other tools)
Cost tracking, reporting
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 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 leadership level 6.
For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/LL6SP4
Visa sponsorship is available for this position.
Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.
Onsite work of up to three days per week may be required for candidates within commuting distance of a Ford hub location. #LI-Hybrid #LI-JD2