Technical Program Manager

• Partner with key stakeholders to define, scope, prioritize, and deliver major strategic initiatives spanning multiple teams and organizations across Ford
• Understand stakeholder needs and use influence to achieve alignment on prioritized initiatives
• Define and track success criteria and performance metrics, including OKRs and KPIs
• Implement and execute roadmaps, schedules, project plans, and resourcing plans
• Lead team members on modern software development practices, including CI/CD and principled technical-plan execution
• Manage milestone progress, dependency tracking, issue triage, backlog management, and daily scrum using tools such as Jira
• Identify, manage, and mitigate risks across multiple engineering teams
• Own relationships with other Ford divisions, ensuring dependencies are met and deliverable quality is high
• Represent the customer and guide data-driven decision-making
• Ensure inclusive stakeholder input and exhaustive requirements and scope definition
• Set priorities based on aligned principles and establish direction quickly and decisively
• Lead by example with accountability

Staff Technical Program Manager

• Own TPM execution support for Cabin Climate and Heated Seats features within the FNV3.x Platform
• Track delivery plans, dependencies, risks, and milestone readiness
• Create and maintain feature-level roadmaps and execution plans reflecting OKRs, quality priorities, capacity constraints, and program timing commitments
• Identify, assess, and communicate feature-delivery risks using structured problem-solving, data, and mitigation paths
• Use Jira and related reporting tools to track work, dependencies, milestones, readiness, delivery health, and cross-team risks
• Support planning cycles connecting feature strategy, capacity, execution plans, milestones, and measurable outcomes
• Coordinate governance forums, decision cadences, escalation paths, and change-control practices
• Escalate execution gaps, timing risks, dependency concerns, and decision needs
• Build alignment across engineering, product, platform, release, validation, safety, regulatory, and quality functions
• Communicate technical and program information to engineering and cross-functional audiences
• Define, track, and improve feature-level success metrics
• Perform impact assessments and support scope-change management
• Contribute to technical discussions involving feature behavior, system integrations, hardware, embedded software dependencies, and platform-level delivery
• Support scope-cost-time-quality tradeoff discussions with data, execution status, and risk visibility
• Surface risks early, address blockers, and pursue sustainable solutions
• Support teams through platform transitions using Ford Management System principles

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Staff Technical Program Manager

Portfolio Technical Program Manager – FNV3.x Cabin Climate Control, Heated Seats