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Ford ADAS Embedded Software Technical Program Manager 
United States, Michigan, Dearborn 
31042632

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What you'll do…

  • Partner with key stakeholders to define, scope, prioritize, and deliver major ADAS software initiatives that span multiple teams and multiple organizations across Ford.
  • Apply technical project planning, management, and leadership for the development and delivery of ADAS Embedded 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 teams 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)
  • Lead and interface with cross-functional teams – Systems, Software, Feature, Suppliers, Manufacturing, V&V, and Quality – to define and drive development plans, ensuring on time SW delivery with highest quality
  • Apply technical knowledge and capabilities to partner with technical leaders and to drive resolution on technical issues and cross-functional dependencies
  • Facilitate effective communication to drive alignment within the team as well as 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

You'll have…

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, or similar related technical field
  • 4+ years working experience in product or feature development on hardware, software, and/or services
  • Experience with managing Agile projects using modern work management tools (ex. JIRA)
  • Experience with modern Product Development software development practices
  • Strong background in software development and/or managing software projects

Ideally you'll have…

  • Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, or similar related technical field
  • 7+ years working experience in product or feature development on hardware, software, and/or services
  • Experience leading cross-functional teams across multiple disciplines (engineering, product, design, testing, quality, etc.) throughout the entire product lifecycle
  • Expertise in embedded software development
  • Mastery of technical plan development (task identification, task breakdown, timing) for communication to multiple leadership levels of the organization
  • Proven ability to clearly communicate program information to stakeholders at various levels of the organization (written and verbal)

• 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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Visa sponsorship is available for this position.