Engineering Program Manager

Ford Motor • Dearborn, MI

6h • Hybrid

About The Position

Success as an Engineering Program Manager (EPM) 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in software/services delivery environments (product/platform/feature delivery).
• Demonstrated experience coordinating cross-functional work across multiple disciplines (engineering, program, product, design, QA/test, systems, operations, etc.).
• Proficiency with delivery tooling (e.g., Atlassian Suite, Miro) and disciplined delivery hygiene (plans, dashboards, dependency tracking).
• Experience operating in scaled delivery models (PI planning, multi-team roadmapping, portfolio governance).

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrated ability to define and implement standards/templates that improve consistency across teams.
• Ability to synthesize complex information for diverse audiences, ranging from high-level executive briefings that drive decision-making to granular technical documentation for engineering execution.

Responsibilities

• Own the domain “system of delivery” and ensure the domain’s work is focused on the most important outcomes, aligned to VC&M strategy, and planned/governed consistently.
• Establish the structures and mechanisms that enable predictable delivery (backlog structure, planning artifacts, governance cadence, reporting hygiene).
• Challenge and de-prioritize work that does not support the strategy or agreed priorities (in partnership with Technical Program Manager (TPM), Product, and VC&M leadership).
• Own the domain backlog structure, PI planning, and the domain delivery plan (scope, milestones, dependencies), within the strategic frame set by TPMs and 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 Atlassian artifacts and dashboards up to date so domain and program status is trustworthy and comparable across VC&M.
• Provide clear, timely communications to stakeholders on progress, risks, and changes.
• Ensure work has a clear acceptance criteria and a defined value/outcome. At completion, validate with Engineering and TPMs whether acceptance criteria were met and whether the intended value was delivered.
• Participate and provide key inputs to the cross-functional work intake discovery process; cascade with context to all impacted functions within your domain.
• Apply and help evolve common VC&M standards for discovery, planning, and delivery.
• Ensure the domain “plugs into” the broader VC&M operating model using shared templates and cadences.
• Build strong partnerships across engineering, program, product, design, systems, testing, operations, safety/regulatory, release, and quality.
• 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.

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
• Education Level: Associate degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees