Lead Technical Program Manager

Ford Motor Company · Dearborn, MI · $115,500-$218,100 · hybrid We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters. Enterprise Technology plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If you're looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance the customer experience and improve people's lives, this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are. Lead technical program management for large strategic transformations at Product creation & Industrialization organization at Ford, aligning business process transformation with the enterprise systems and connected data needed to execute it. Working across Product Development, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and IT, you will translate program objectives into an integrated roadmap, establish clear accountability, and drive cross-functional decisions that keep delivery moving. This is a leadership role that combines technical depth, systems thinking, operating framework development and disciplined execution. You will guide technical program managers and integration analysts, bring clarity to complex dependencies, and ensure teams understand how their work affects the broader Industrial System. You will partner with engineering and architecture leaders to resolve integration challenges, communicate trade-offs, and deliver coordinated outcomes rather than isolated system changes. What success looks like An integrated roadmap with clear milestone ownership and visible cross-team dependencies. Timely resolution of integration issues and decisions, with risks and mitigation actions understood by stakeholders. Coordinated delivery that protects end-to-end data flows and supports business process readiness. A team operating with clear priorities, consistent governance, and shared accountability for outcomes. Responsibilities Own the integrated delivery roadmap : Translate Transformation business objectives into milestones, workstreams, sequencing, and delivery commitments across Product Development, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and IT. Align scope and capacity with program priorities. Lead technical integration and systems thinking: Partner with architecture and engineering leads to assess system interfaces, technical hand-offs, and end-to-end data flows. Ensure changes account for downstream impacts and preserve a connected data framework. Drive dependency and readiness management: Establish ownership for cross-team dependencies, track integration readiness, and resolve gaps before they disrupt program milestones. Coordinate validation and release planning with delivery teams. Lead Agile planning and execution: Guide sprint and Program Increment (PI) planning across teams, ensuring feature-level dependencies, backlog priorities, and capacity assumptions align with the integration roadmap. Resolve issues and retire risks: Lead structured reviews of cross-functional technical roadblocks, root causes, and mitigation options. Assign accountable owners, drive containment and resolution, and escalate decisions with clear impacts and recommendations. Enable timely cross-functional decisions: Set decision-focused meeting agendas and bring engineering, business, architecture, finance, and strategy partners together to evaluate scope, schedule, cost, and technical trade-offs. Document decisions and follow through on commitments. Develop operating model to provide transparent program governance: Establish a consistent operating cadence and communicate delivery status, risks, dependencies, and decisions to program leadership. Use Jira and dashboards to make progress and blockers visible. Lead and develop the team: Set clear expect