Senior Technical Program Manager

Ford • Long Beach, CA

16d • $109,100 - $182,800 • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you will play a critical role in advancing Ford’s electric vehicle future by connecting strategy to execution. You will lead the delivery of high-impact transformation initiatives across Ford’s EV digital ecosystem, driving roadmap development, prioritization, dependency management, and execution discipline.
This role sits at the intersection of innovation, operations, and enterprise-scale delivery. You will help bridge the gap between EVDD innovation and the stability of legacy systems, working across cross-functional teams to build the scalable digital capabilities required for Ford’s next generation of mobility.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• Proven experience leading digital transformation, business transformation, or enterprise modernization initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience as a Technical Program Manager or in a similar delivery leadership role.
• Strong program management skills, including roadmap planning, dependency management, risk management, and executive-level reporting.
• Ability to manage multiple complex initiatives simultaneously while maintaining focus on outcomes and execution quality.
• Strong collaboration skills with experience integrating cross-functional teams across business, product, technology, and operations.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and leadership skills.
• Experience using Jira or similar tools for planning, tracking, and team execution.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting automotive, electric vehicle, connected vehicle, or large-scale digital product organizations.
• Experience working across both modern digital platforms and legacy enterprise systems.
• Strong accountability, consistency, and follow-through.
• High attention to detail and strong organizational discipline.
• Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• A continuous improvement mindset with a bias toward simplifying processes and improving team effectiveness.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and bringing structure to complex, fast-moving environments.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the coordination lead for an assigned workstream portfolio, ensuring alignment across the internal ADVEV Digital Transformation team and with broader organizational dependencies.
• Define and manage quarterly roadmaps, milestones, deliverables, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Establish and run operating cadences that drive accountability, timely decision-making, and clear escalation paths.
• Maintain the workstream risk register and proactively lead mitigation planning.
• Define KPIs and build dashboards to track ADT team delivery, execution health, and business outcomes.
• Configure and maintain project planning tools, ensuring strong data quality, consistency, and reporting discipline across the ADT team.
• Partner with the Business Architect and Organizational Change Management team to align stakeholder expectations, resolve conflicts, and support adoption.
• Define and maintain prioritization frameworks tied to vehicle milestones, business requirements, and transformation goals.
• Use prioritization frameworks to set, communicate, and justify execution priorities across the portfolio.
• Keep the lead TPM informed of portfolio progress, key updates, blockers, decisions, and emerging risks.
• Identify gaps across people, process, tools, and execution; step in where needed or advocate for the right resources to close them.
• Contribute to the broader success of the team by supporting shared goals, improving ways of working, and helping others succeed.

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: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree