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About the role
- ADAS Strategy Director responsible for defining Ford's global ADAS technology and investment strategy. Collaborating with engineering and executive leadership to drive innovation and competitive intelligence.
Responsibilities
- Own Ford’s global ADAS strategy
- Work closely with subject-matter experts and executive leadership to synthesize industry trends, portfolio needs, and corporate objectives into a forward-looking ADAS strategy that keeps Ford at the leading edge.
- Define future ADAS experiences and enabling technology
- Partner with engineering, product, and digital teams to define and refine key future ADAS customer experiences.
- Define the required compute platforms, sensing configurations, and software enablers to deliver those experiences.
- Manage ADAS complexity across the portfolio
- Establish and maintain a “menu” of ADAS system configurations with engineering.
- Collaborate with technology platform and vehicle program teams to develop offering strategies for each vehicle program and region.
- Evaluate complexity-driving requests through a cost–benefit lens and drive decisions to closure.
- Manage the ADAS investment portfolio within the technology cycle plan
- Ensure sufficient funding to achieve ADAS objectives, supported by accurate and traceable modeling of resource requirements.
- Raise new cycle-plan funding requests and identify opportunities for spending reduction when needed.
- Lead competitive intelligence, benchmarking, and external scanning for ADAS
- Maintain a constantly refreshed, data-driven view of the ADAS industry, including competitive trends and threats, emerging technologies, and cost-reduction opportunities.
- Leverage supplier engagements, industry consortiums, competitive tear-downs, public announcements, analyst research, and major tech/industry events to inform Ford’s ADAS strategy and roadmaps.
- Translate external insights into clear recommendations on ADAS platforms, features, and investments.
- Co-lead Technology Strategy organization initiatives
- Co-lead technology unit papers and High Priority Studies alongside matched-pair partners in the Technology Strategy organization.
- Ensure ADAS initiatives meet deliverable requirements and business case targets for uMR, uPS, and uPSC milestones.
- Maintain ADAS technology and business health databases
- Own and curate databases tracking ADAS technology proliferation, feature take-rates, and platform usage across the Ford portfolio.
- Provide a clear source of truth on ADAS business health and deployment status.
- Support the Unified Backlog process
- Review ADAS-related new demand requests for business value and technical feasibility.
- Work cross-functionally with product, engineering, and TPM to secure commitments for high-value initiatives.
- Collaborate across the global enterprise
- Partner with stakeholders across product development, digital product, technology platforms, integrated services, marketing, finance, vehicle programs, and regional teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or a related field
- 10+ years of leadership experience in the automotive technology space, delivering multiple complex initiatives in cross-functional environments
- Experience translating technical initiatives into business and profitability analyses to ensure efficient capital allocation
- Strong oral and written communication skills, with demonstrated ability to influence and collaborate in diverse, cross-functional environments
- Proven team-leadership experience, including working directly with senior and executive leadership
- Master’s degree in Engineering or an MBA (even better)
- Direct experience with ADAS technologies, including sensing (radars, cameras, ultrasonics), ADAS-specialized compute, and motion-control interfaces (even better)
- Direct experience leading strategic initiatives and technology unit and/or vehicle program milestones (even better)
- Highly technical background and demonstrated experience in the domains of the ADAS features being developed (even better)
- Experience with embedded vehicle architectures—ideally Ford’s FNVx architecture—including roadmaps, constraints, and integration for highly complex and distributed systems/features on- and off-board (even better)
- Experience developing diagrams and visual frameworks to communicate complex concepts (even better)
- Experience in product or technical program management for complex systems, or leading engineering feature delivery (even better)
- Hyper-collaborative, team-centric leadership style that encourages and partners with teams and leaders at all levels to advance the integration of digital experiences (even better)
- Strong executive presence and leadership skills—the ability to drive discussions, provide clear direction, and update senior leaders succinctly (even better)
- Tenacity and comfort working in evolving states of ambiguity (even better).
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare 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.
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