Hybrid Principal TPM – Electrification

at Ford Motor Company

• Job title: Principal TPM – Electrification
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $138,240 - $261,720 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, Cyber Security
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Dearborn, United States

About the role

• TPM Leader driving the execution of Electrified products and services across multiple vehicle platforms. Leading complex, cross-functional programs ensuring alignment with product timelines and strategic goals.

Responsibilities

• Drive the Electrification platform and product roadmaps, with a deep understanding of EV market trends, charging interoperability standards, hardware planning and development, embedded software systems, and cloud applications and services.
• Guide engineering project managers and delivery teams in adopting reliable and scalable charging solutions, ensuring alignment with platform strategies and vehicle milestones.
• Partner with systems engineering and safety teams to ensure robust functional safety (ISO 26262) and cybersecurity compliance and regulatory compliance.
• Develop and maintain integrated schedules, dependency maps, and risk mitigation plans across Electrification feature sets.
• Ensure timely delivery of Electrified capabilities aligned with vehicle launch timelines, regulatory requirements, and digital product commitments.
• Build strong relationships with engineering, product, digital design, engineering project managers, manufacturing, and supplier teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery.
• Influence senior leadership and stakeholders to align on priorities, trade-offs, and strategic direction.
• Facilitate cross-organizational collaboration to resolve technical and programmatic challenges.
• Work with Product Development team by following Ford Global Product Development Schedule (GPDS)
• Communicate program status, scorecards risks, and decisions clearly and effectively to executive leadership and technical teams.
• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance program execution, quality, and velocity.

Requirements

• Bachelors or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• Proven experience as a senior leader in Technical Program Management, preferably with electric vehicle product development or automotive embedded systems experience.
• Strong technical background in systems engineering, software development, and hardware integration.
• Experience managing large-scale, cross-functional programs across multiple vehicle platforms.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Executive presence and the ability to influence and guide senior leadership.

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.