Head of Technical Programme Management

We made history and now we work to transform the future for our customers our communities and our families. Youll see your work on the road every day helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford you can build more than vehicles. Do you believe data tells the real story We do! Redefining mobility requires quality data metrics and analytics as well as insightful interpreters and analysts. Thats where Global Data Insight & Analytics makes an impact. We advise leadership on business conditions customer needs and the competitive landscape. Join us and use your data expertise and analytical skills to drive evidence-based timely decision making.
The Design Cost & Complexity (DCC) team in Fords Global Data Insight & Analytics (GDI&A) organization builds data and AI products that help Ford design better vehicles at lower cost and with less complexity. Our products serve engineers program teams purchasing and business leaders across product development from vehicle configuration and parts complexity to design cost reductive design and AI-enabled engineering tools.
We are a global team of product managers engineers data scientists and designers. We work closely with our business partners to take products to real adoption and we increasingly build with AI at the core.

Working closely with the Product Manager you will turn vision and strategy into an executable plan clear the path for the team manage dependencies across engineering IT and business partners and make sure we prove value with users not just in demos.

Plan pilots and releases with business partners: choose users set baselines and track adoption time saved and quality.
Manage cross-functional dependencies. Coordinate with leadership subject-matter experts program teams IT security and data teams. Plan the move from legacy tools and processes to new ways of working including risks cutover and change management.
Make sure products and components fit together as one system rather than separate projects.
Keep work structured in Jira so visibility comes from the work itself.
Manage risk honestly. Surface risks prototype-versus-production gaps and schedule realities early and transparently.
Partner with users and domain experts on onboarding feedback loops and change management.
Understand the products architecture integration points and future scalability needs well enough to spot risks early.
Move between products as priorities shift. Run delivery AI-first
Use AI to build and maintain plans work breakdowns and dependency maps and to adjust timelines as conditions change.
Use project data and AI to spot risks bottlenecks and schedule slips before they affect delivery.
Automate administrative work (meeting notes action items Jira updates and progress summaries) so your time goes to stakeholders decisions and outcomes.
Use AI to run what-if scenarios on scope resources and trade-offs.
Apply judgment to everything AI produces and make sure AI use is transparent secure and ethical.

A bachelors degree in engineering computer science or a related technical field or equivalent experience

• 3 years in technical program management delivery management or a similar role delivering software products or platforms.
• Strong command of agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban and portfolio-level planning) and Jira.
• Experience managing complex integrations and dependencies across multiple teams and legacy systems.
• Enough technical depth to engage credibly with engineers on architecture data flows APIs cloud platforms and AI/ML trade-offs and the ability to quickly learn any technology well enough to evaluate proposed solutions and raise risks.
• Hands-on use of AI tools in your own program management work.
• Strong knowledge of change management principles.
• Experience delivering AI/ML-enabled products or engineering tools for technical users

Automotive product development experience: vehicle configuration bills of materials and parts data cost engineering or complexity reduction
Experience with resource planning or capacity modeling
User adoption experience
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
Paid time off for individual and team community service
A generous schedule of paid holidays including the week between Christmas and New Years Day
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