Ford Motor Company

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In this position… Success as a Technical Program Manager in our Connected Vehicle Software division requires someone who is centered around product and engineering excellence with a bias for action. You thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, successfully partnering with a wide group of disciplines across the company. You will own cross-team initiatives, identify best practices, and bring your industry experience to bear on a company-wide scale. You will engage with complex engineering programs, demonstrating leadership and a strong command of the tools and processes required to achieve team goals. You will lead software programs in a principled way, and by example when opportunities arise. You will have consummate communication skills, keeping up- and down-stream dependencies well aligned, and all stakeholders well-informed. You’re as comfortable writing clear and concise content for leadership as you are leading a system design meeting. Ideal candidates will have experienced multiple product cycles involving software and services, including up- and down-stream dependencies. • What You’ll Do… • Partner with key stakeholders to define, scope, prioritize, and deliver major strategic initiatives that span multiple teams and organizations across Ford. • Understand the needs of stakeholders across the company and influence as appropriate to achieve alignment on prioritized initiatives. • Lead the defining and tracking of success criteria and performance metrics, including Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). • Crucially, you will be responsible for building and tracking roadmap delivery for all modules of our vehicle platform, from both a hardware and embedded software perspective, ensuring seamless integration and timely progression. • You will meticulously track hardware deliverables for each vehicle module, proactively managing dependencies, risks, and timelines to ensure successful integration into the overall platform. • Track software deliverables and code drops on a pre-defined release cadence, ensuring alignment with overall platform release schedules. • Actively raise and monitor risks related to module delivery to the platform, developing mitigation strategies and communicating status to relevant stakeholders. • Build and maintain comprehensive dashboards and timelines using Jira for the effective monitoring and tracking of module hardware and software development progress. • 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 CI/CD and immaculate execution of a technical plan (including management of milestone progress, dependency tracking, issue triage, backlog management, and daily scrum) • 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. • Own delivery of a software product with multi-year scope across the entire Product lifecycle. • Define goals and roadmaps; stage technologies and optimize resources against priorities. • Establish and monitor Technical Success Metrics (KPIs); define reaction plans as needed. • Translate customer requirements into actionable specifications across teams; identify and address product gaps. • Analyze trends across data sets; collaborate cross-division to resolve issues. • Anticipate and eliminate interdependency challenges across multiple systems; guide teams on technical design implications. • Lead product-wide retrospectives; define and drive efficient governance processes across software systems. • Apply expert knowledge in technology, software development, and release engineering to identify risks and make broad technical decisions.