Senior Technical Program Manager
- Job ID
- 65186
- Location
- Long Beach, California
- Category
- PD Operations and Quality
Overview
At Ford, you’ll work on ideas that matter, alongside passionate people who want to make a global impact. Together, we’re shaping the next era of transportation—grounded in purpose, driven by progress. Make your move.
- Job Type: Full time
- Work Type: Hybrid
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
What you'll do...
- 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.
You'll have...
- 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.
Even better, you may have….
- 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.
You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!
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 $109,100-$182,800
Final 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.
For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR
Visa sponsorship is available for this position.
Candidates 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.
We 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.
This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid
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Support designed to go the distance.
From day one, Ford invests in you with medical benefits built to help you plan for what’s next. You’ll also get support for you and your family that meets you at every step, so you can move forward with confidence.
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Health and Wellness
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, mental health, and unique wellness perks keep you and your family supported every step of the way.
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Financial and Retirement Programs
Build a strong financial future with robust retirement contributions, savings programs, and free personalized financial planning tools.
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Flexible Vacation and Holidays
Enjoy your time away from work with generous vacation, holidays, and flexible family leave designed to help you balance life and work with ease.
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Vehicle Discount Program
The best thing about building great products is driving them! The second-best thing: sharing your discount with family and friends so they can drive them, too.
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Family Growth and Support
Grow your family confidently with fertility, surrogacy, and adoption assistance, paid parental leave, and a supportive new-parent ramp-up program.
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Additional Programs
Enjoy unexpected extras like pet insurance, legal services, identity protection, and access to convenient health and wellness services.
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