Ford Motor Company

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Role summary / purpose Success as an Engineering Program Manager requires someone who brings structure to ambiguity and drives delivery clarity across teams. You thrive in a fast-paced environment, build strong partnerships with engineering and program leaders, and ensure work is prioritized and executed with discipline. You are comfortable operating at both the strategic and tactical levels: shaping what should be worked on, aligning cross-functional stakeholders, and ensuring delivery plans, risks, and dependencies are visible and actively managed. You communicate crisply, writing clear leadership updates and facilitating alignment when tradeoffs are required. Key responsibilities • Help drive the system of delivery and ensure domain work is focused on the most important outcomes aligned to strategy and planned/governed consistently. • Establish the structures and mechanisms that enable predictable delivery: backlog structure, planning artifacts, governance cadence, and reporting hygiene. • Challenge and de-prioritize work that does not support the strategy or agreed priorities in partnership with Technical Program Manager, Product, and leadership. • Co-own the domain backlog structure, planning, and delivery plan including scope, milestones, and dependencies within the strategic frame set by leadership. • Prioritize within the domain with Engineering Manager input to ensure capacity is focused on the highest-value work. • Drive clarity for cross-team sequencing and integration planning so commitments are realistic and well-understood. • Maintain accurate internal risk and dependency registers; actively drive resolution, mitigation plans, and escalation paths. • Keep project artifacts and dashboards up to date so domain and program status is trustworthy and comparable. • Provide clear, timely communications to stakeholders on progress, risks, and changes. • Ensure work has clear acceptance criteria and a defined value/outcome. • At completion, validate with Engineering and leadership whether acceptance criteria were met and whether the intended value was delivered. • Participate and provide key inputs to the cross-functional work intake and discovery process with context to all impacted functions within your domain. • Apply and help evolve common standards for discovery, planning, and delivery. • Ensure the domain integrates into the broader operating model using shared templates and cadences. Requirements – education & experience • 4 years in IT • 1 year in Program Management • Expert-level Project Management experience • Senior Associate level Required skills • Build strong partnerships across engineering, program, product, design, systems, testing, operations, and quality functions. • Drive alignment through clear tradeoffs, documented decisions, and transparent plans. • Use data and delivery signals—risks, dependencies, throughput/health indicators—to inform priorities and leadership actions.