Sr Technical Program Manager

Ford • Palo Alto, CA

2d

About The Position

Drive Execution: Partner with stakeholders to define, scope, and deliver technical initiatives that span multiple teams within the Connected Vehicle organization. Stakeholder Alignment: Actively engage with stakeholders to understand requirements and help achieve alignment on prioritized features, product adoption and fixes. Metrics & Success: Assist in defining and tracking success criteria and performance metrics, including Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), to ensure program health. Roadmap Management: Execute on roadmaps, project plans, and schedules to ensure we meet customer commitments and product milestones. Agile Leadership: Support and drive modern software development practices, including scrums, backlog grooming, and dependency tracking using tools like Jira. Dependency Management: Coordinate with other divisions at Ford to ensure technical dependencies are identified early and quality standards are maintained. Customer Advocacy: Act as a voice for the customer within the engineering team, using data to help guide decision-making and prioritization. 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 salary grade 8 and ranges from $113,580-190,500. For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field. Alternately; equivalent of 5 years' experience in a similar program / project management role.
• 5-7 years of total working experience in program management, product or feature development involving hardware, software, or services.
• 3+ years of experience working in a technical capacity (e.g., as an engineer, developer, or systems analyst) or working very closely with an engineering team on complex software builds.
• Solid understanding of modern software development practices, with emphasis on Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) and Agile methodologies.
• Proven experience coordinating cross-functional teams (Engineering, Product, Design, QA) through at least one full product lifecycle.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
• Proficiency with modern DevOps and project management tools (e.g., JIRA, Jama, Confluence).

Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders to define, scope, and deliver technical initiatives that span multiple teams
• Actively engage with stakeholders to understand requirements and help achieve alignment on prioritized features, product adoption and fixes
• Assist in defining and tracking success criteria and performance metrics, including Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), to ensure program health
• Execute on roadmaps, project plans, and schedules to ensure we meet customer commitments and product milestones
• Support and drive modern software development practices, including scrums, backlog grooming, and dependency tracking using tools like Jira
• Coordinate with other divisions at Ford to ensure technical dependencies are identified early and quality standards are maintained
• Act as a voice for the customer within the engineering team, using data to help guide decision-making and prioritization

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level