Hybrid Technical Program Manager – ADAS SW Platform

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About the role

  • Technical Program Manager in Ford's ADAS team delivering major software initiatives across teams. Managing project planning and stakeholder communication for advanced driver assistance systems.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with key stakeholders to define, scope, prioritize, and deliver major ADAS software initiatives that span multiple teams and multiple organizations across Ford.
  • Understand the needs of stakeholders across the product development organization and influence as appropriate to achieve alignment on the prioritized initiatives.
  • Apply technical project planning, management, and leadership for the development and delivery of ADAS Software (hand coded or MBD-based).
  • Apply technical project planning, management, and leadership for the development and delivery of software tooling and/or support software to advance ADAS product development.
  • Implement and execute roadmaps, schedules, project plans, and resourcing plans to enable ADAS to meet commitments across all customer constituencies.
  • Lead team members on modern, world-class, software development practices, and precise execution of a technical plan (including management of milestone progress, dependency tracking, risk management, and risk mitigation).
  • Interface with and lead cross functional teams – Systems, Software, Feature, Suppliers, V&V, Quality to define and drive development plans, ensuring on time SW delivery with highest quality.
  • Partner with technical development leaders to create symbiotic relationships that showcase high value in technical leader/TPM matched-pairing through delivery velocity.
  • Utilize technical knowledge and capabilities to assist technical leaders and engineers in resolving dependencies and issues with stakeholders.
  • Help to resolve or facilitate resolution of technical issues.
  • Elevate the visibility of the team – provide regular “push” updates through wiki, Jira, Teams, email, and other communication mediums.
  • Communicate and present project status to a broad stakeholder and leadership community.
  • Proactively identify and manage project risks, developing mitigations and/or recovery plans in event of project slips.
  • Efficiently utilize work management tools – Wiki, JIRA, Project Management Tools – to make plans and status visible to leadership and to provide strategic planning options/contingencies.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or Controls Engineering
  • 5+ years’ experience in SW Program Management in an embedded technical software discipline
  • 5+ years’ experience in the usage of industry standard project management tools for product development and delivery (MS Project or equivalent)
  • 2+ years’ experience in the usage of the JIRA work management tool or equivalent for product development and delivery
  • Ability to understand complex technical issues and to present adjusted levels of detail based on target audience
  • Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, or Controls Engineering (even better)
  • 7+ years’ experience in SW Program Management in an embedded technical software discipline within the automotive domain (even better)
  • Strong background in embedded software development, understanding of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (even better)
  • Experience leading cross-functional teams across multiple disciplines (engineering, product, design, testing, quality, etc.) throughout the entire product lifecycle (even better)
  • Expert knowledge of Agile development methods and application (even better)
  • Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle methodology (even better)
  • Mastery of technical plan development (task identification, task breakdown, timing) for consumption at multiple leadership levels of the organization (even better)
  • Extensive experience using Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence, etc), and GitHub source code management tool (even better)
  • Extensive experience using Confluence to develop/maintain rich content wiki pages (even better)
  • Proven ability to communicate program information to stakeholders at various levels of the organization (written and verbal) (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 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.

Job title

Technical Program Manager – ADAS SW Platform

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Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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