Portfolio Technical Program Manager - FNV3.x Cabin Climate Control and Heated Seats

• Lead with feature-level clarity: connect customer intent, roadmap, dependencies, risks, and execution into a consistent operating rhythm.
• Use data, Jira insights, and structured governance to make progress, risks, and decisions visible.
• Build trust across functions by communicating early, clearly, and consistently.
• Drive urgency with judgment, ensuring teams understand priorities, impacts, owners, and required decisions.

You'll have...

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in technical program management, product delivery, systems engineering, software development, embedded systems, vehicle systems, or related technical delivery roles.
• Demonstrated experience supporting cross-functional feature delivery with hardware, embedded software, vehicle systems, platform milestones, validation, release, and quality dependencies.
• Proficiency using Jira or equivalent tools to manage work, dependencies, dashboards, readiness tracking, reports, and execution transparency.
• Experience creating and maintaining feature roadmaps or execution plans aligned to objectives, milestones, capacity, quality priorities, and changing business needs.
• Ability to identify risks early, communicate them clearly, support mitigation plans, and escalate when timing, quality, or delivery outcomes are at stake.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with experience building alignment and communicating effectively across engineering and cross-functional audiences.
• Experience supporting scope management, change control, impact assessments, and tradeoffs across scope, cost, time, and quality.
• Ability to define measurable success metrics and use data-driven insights to improve execution, risk management, and feature delivery performance.
• Working knowledge of vehicle systems integration, technical interdependencies, and hardware/software delivery implications.
• Ability to work through ambiguity, prioritize effectively, and reinforce accountability, operating cadence, and customer-focused execution.
• Preferred: direct experience with Cabin Climate, Heated Seats, HVAC controls, thermal comfort features, body electronics, connected vehicle features, vehicle electrical architecture, or Ford platform delivery processes.

Even better, you may have...

• Has successfully supported feature-level TPM work across vehicle systems or embedded software programs, not only single-task project coordination.
• Can translate technical complexity into clear risks, decisions, tradeoffs, and mitigation plans.
• Demonstrates strong Jira discipline, including dependency tracking, dashboards, reporting, risk visibility, and structured feature reviews.
• Shows good judgment in when to escalate, when to align stakeholders, and when to inject urgency to protect delivery outcomes.
• Balances customer experience, engineering reality, program timing, and quality priorities without losing clarity on commitments.
• Familiar with Seat Assembly product development and release.
• Able to read electrical schematics, perform DT comparison and working knowledge of Electrical Systems Integration.
• Experience with the technical implementation details of Electrical and Software vehicle program GPDS deliverables.
• Has credibility with technical teams and can contribute meaningfully to discussions involving system integration, embedded software, hardware readiness, validation, and release dependencies.

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 of the above?

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

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare 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.

This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $99,100-$166,200.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

Internal applicants: moving into this role may result in an adjustment to your current compensation based on the posted pay range for this role, taking into consideration your qualifications and other relevant factors.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status.

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This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid