Technical Program Manager leading ADAS software initiatives at Ford Motor Company. Collaborating across teams, defining projects, and ensuring quality delivery.
About the role
- Technical Program Manager leading cross-functional initiatives to enhance operational efficiency in product development. Supporting agile teams and improving planning, delivery, and stakeholder alignment.
Responsibilities
- Lead cross-functional initiatives that improve planning, coordination, and delivery consistency.
- Support release planning and coordination across multiple teams.
- Identify, track, and help mitigate dependencies, risks, and impediments.
- Facilitate alignment and decision-making through clear communication and thoughtful influence.
- Support teams in applying effective planning and delivery practices, providing guidance on Agile frameworks and best practices.
- Facilitate retrospectives, team health checks, and continuous improvement conversations.
- Act as a trusted advisor on how teams plan, execute, and collaborate as they grow.
- Partner with product and engineering leaders to review progress, priorities, and upcoming initiatives.
- Help align delivery expectations across teams and ensure shared understanding of priorities.
- Work closely with delivery teams to support sprint planning, execution, and readiness.
- Assist with cross-team coordination to reduce delivery risk and improve outcomes.
- Support the definition and ongoing use of delivery and engineering metrics (e.g., cycle time, DORA) to support data-informed decisions.
- Build and maintain dashboards and reporting for stakeholders.
- Configure, administer, and optimize productivity tools such as Jira and Confluence.
- Support additional tools used for product planning and engineering insights.
- Provide guidance on tooling usage, access, and data quality.
Requirements
- 3–6 years of experience in agile technical program management, engineering operations, or related roles
- Experience working with cross-functional software delivery teams
- Experience with release coordination across multiple teams
- Proficiency with agile frameworks such as Scrum or Kanban
- Experience using Jira, Jira Product Discovery, and Confluence or similar tools used for product planning or engineering analytics
- Ability to manage multiple initiatives and interdependencies
- Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder partnership skills
- Experience using metrics to support planning and continuous improvement.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Professional development opportunities
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