Technical Program Manager

Ford Product Development Team

At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow's transportation.

Do you have what it takes to make smart vehicles for a smart world? Join the Ford Product Development team. Utilizing Design Thinking & User Experience methods, you'll work to deliver breakthrough products and services that delight our customers. We're seeking forward-thinking, laser-focused professionals with a passion for bringing innovative, exciting, and sustainable ideas to life. We have opportunities around the world for you to contribute to such advancements as autonomy, electrification, smart mobility technologies, and more!

Responsibilities

What you'll be able to do:

Technical Program Manager - positions offered by Ford Motor Company (Palo Alto, California). Note, this is a hybrid position whereby the employee will work both from home and from the aforementioned worksite. Hence, the employee must live within a reasonable commuting distance from the worksite. Lead and manage multiple validation and verification activities, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to project plans. Develop and maintain detailed program plans, schedules, and budgets. Ensure alignment between testing activities and project timelines, milestones, and resource allocation. Manage dependencies for the engineering team including procurement of test platforms and equipment in support of test execution. Provide guidance to the V&V team, fostering a culture of quality and continuous improvement. Lead internal bug triage meetings where next steps of all open issues are identified and assigned. Coordinate with other teams, including development, product management, and operations, to align V&V activities with overall project goals. Communicate program status, progress, and issues to stakeholders, including senior management. Manage go/no-go meetings where technical merits of all open issues will be reviewed to make a release decision. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and analyze requirements for testing. Drive closure to key issues by working with development teams and other TPMs. Analyze defect trends and patterns and recommend process improvements. Drive continuous improvement of V&V processes and methodologies, leveraging industry best practices and emerging technologies to optimize efficiency and effectiveness. Domestic Travel Required up to 5%.

Qualifications

You'll have...

Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Automotive Engineering or a related field and 3 years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation. 3 years of experience with each of the following skills is required: 1. Using Project Management software to define and track timelines of deliverables from cross-functional teams. 2. Managing integration for automotive projects involving dependencies between multiple teams. 3. Defect management, triaging issues across large scale cross-functional teams. 4. Hands-on experience in automotive embedded systems and software development process. 2 years of experience with each of the following skills is required: 1. Using Jama as centralized tool for tracking program requirements. 2. Using Tableau to visualize raw data for status and metrics reporting. 3. Using Jira, IBM Rational Team Concert, or similar tools to breakdown specific components for delivery, including experience collaborating and assigning tasks. 4. Leading software readiness reviews for automotive software releases.

We are offering a salary of $213,512.00 - $279,225.00/yr.

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 the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage

• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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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Job Info

• Job Identification 68509
• Job Category PD Operations and Quality
• Posting Date 08/11/2026, 05:54 PM
• Job Schedule Full time
• Locations 3251 Hillview Ave, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, US (Hybrid)