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Come build what matters.\r\nWhat you'll do...\r\nPartner with key stakeholders to define, scope, prioritize and deliver major strategic initiatives that span multiple teams and multiple organizations across Ford.\r\nUnderstand the needs of stakeholders across the company and use your influence as appropriate to achieve alignment on the prioritized initiatives.\r\nLead the defining and tracking of success criteria and performance metrics, including Objectives and Key Results [OKRs] / Key Performance Indicators.\r\nImplement and execute roadmaps, schedules, project plans, and resourcing plans to enable Ford to meet customer commitments across all customer constituencies.\r\nLead team members on modern, world-class, software development practices including CICD and principled execution of a technical plan (including management of milestone progress, dependency tracking, issue triage, backlog management and daily scrum leveraging tools like Jira).\r\nProactively identify, manage, and mitigate risks across multiple engineering teams.\r\nPersonally own the relationships with other divisions at Ford, ensuring dependencies are met and quality of deliverables is high.\r\nEmbody the voice of the customer, guiding your team to be data-driven in its decision-making.\r\nStakeholders will be heard inclusively and requirements / scope definition will be exhaustive\r\nPriorities will be set based upon aligned principles\r\nDirection will be set quickly and decisively\r\nYou will lead by example with accountability\r\nYou'll have...\r\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or similar related technical field.\r\n10+ years working experience in product, technical program management, or feature development on hardware, software, and/or services .\r\nFamiliarity with modern software tracking tools (ie: JIRA, etc.).\r\nFamiliarity with modern software development practices & tools (continuous integration / continuous deployment).\r\nDemonstrated success leading complex, large-scale, cross-functional software programs.\r\nExperience influencing and driving alignment across engineering, product, and business stakeholders from concept through launch and post launch iteration\r\nEven better, you may have...\r\nExperience coaching other TPMs, improving processes, and creating reusable frameworks that scale beyond any single program.\r\nExpertise in Agile methodology.\r\nExperience defining success metrics, analyzing program data, and using dashboards or experimentation results to drive prioritization and decision making.\r\nExperience working with customers, connecting technical delivery to customer outcomes.\r\nExperience communicating program health, trade offs, and strategic recommendations to senior and executive leadership.\r\nAs 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:\r\nImmediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage\r\nFlexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more\r\nFamily building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more\r\nVehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases\r\nTuition assistance\r\nEstablished and active employee resource groups\r\nPaid time off for individual and team community service\r\nA generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day\r\nPaid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.\r\nThis position is leadership level 6 and ranges from $132,800-$250,800.\r\nFinal determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.\r\nVisa sponsorship is not available for this position.\r\nCandidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.\r\nWe are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.\r\nThis position is hybrid. 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No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:\r\nImmediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage\r\nFlexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more\r\nFamily building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more\r\nVehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases\r\nTuition assistance\r\nEstablished and active employee resource groups\r\nPaid time off for individual and team community service\r\nA generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day\r\nPaid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.\r\nThis position is leadership level 6 and ranges from $132,800-$250,800.\r\nFinal determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.\r\nVisa sponsorship is not available for this position.\r\nCandidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. 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