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

Your Vision. Ford's Future. Technology Platform Programs (TPP). Seeking an innovative challenge? Ford's new Technology Platform Programs (TPP) team is reimagining vehicle electrical architecture and software platforms, pivoting to a streamlined, scalable, platform-first strategy, and we need your talent to drive this vision. At TPP, you'll be instrumental in simplifying software by driving Ford's minimum complexity vision, boosting quality and speed by enabling faster, higher-quality software delivery, optimizing programs to make vehicle execution significantly more efficient, and scaling solutions by leading cross-functional strategies for broad impact across our vehicle lineup.

TPP is where bold ideas transform into real-world breakthroughs that define the future of Ford. Join us and drive innovation!

Success in this role requires a TPM who operates with execution discipline, technical curiosity, and strong cross-functional coordination. You will support feature-level planning and governance, connect feature deliverables to vehicle and platform milestones, and use data-driven practices to identify risks early, track progress, and drive accountability. You will communicate technical and program information clearly to help teams make decisions, remove blockers, and maintain alignment.

The ideal candidate has experience supporting product delivery involving hardware, embedded software, vehicle systems, validation, and release readiness, and is comfortable working across Jira-based execution tracking, technical reviews, and program milestone discussions

• Own TPM execution support for Cabin Climate and Heated Seats features within the FNV
  3.x Platform, ensuring delivery plans, dependencies, risks, and milestone readiness are clearly tracked.
• Create and maintain feature-level roadmaps and execution plans that reflect OKRs, quality priorities, capacity constraints, and program timing commitments.
• Proactively identify, assess, and communicate risks across feature delivery using structured problem-solving, data, and clear mitigation paths.
• Use Jira and related reporting tools to track work, dependencies, milestones, readiness, delivery health, and cross-team risks with consistent reporting.
• Support planning cycles that connect feature strategy, capacity, execution plans, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
• Coordinate governance forums, decision cadences, escalation paths, and change-control practices that support execution clarity and program integrity.
• Escalate execution gaps, timing risks, dependency concerns, and decision needs when outcomes, quality, or customer commitments are at risk.
• Engage stakeholders proactively and build alignment across engineering, product, platform, release, validation, safety, regulatory, and quality functions.
• Communicate technical and program information clearly for engineering and cross-functional audiences to enable timely decision-making.
• Define, track, and improve feature-level success metrics, using insights to support continuous improvement and corrective actions.
• Perform impact assessments and support scope-change management to ensure timing, quality, and customer implications are understood and communicated.
• Contribute to technical discussions by understanding Cabin Climate and Heated Seats feature behavior, system integrations, hardware and embedded software dependencies, and platform-level delivery implications.
• Support scope-cost-time-quality tradeoff discussions by providing clear data, execution status, and risk visibility.
• Help create a blame-free operating environment where risks are surfaced early, blockers are addressed directly, and sustainable solutions are pursued.
• Support teams through platform transitions using Ford Management System principles to reinforce alignment, accountability, operating cadence, and execution discipline.

• 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.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in…