Technical Program Manager - HMI Development

At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow's transportation.

Ford has led the automotive industry for over a century, and Ford Model e is poised to lead the electric vehicle market through innovative vehicles and digital features that power them. We are building a world-class software and cloud service engineering team and are excited to grow our Technical Program Management capability.

As a Technical Program Manager of HMI and Infotainment Development within Ford, you will have the responsibility of leading complex engineering projects leveraging your software development expertise. In this role, you will lead a cross functional team in the development of our next generation Infotainment or Driver Information features and user interfaces from conception to system release. Our domain controller systems must be equipped to handle the use cases of today and those of tomorrow. Our ambitions reach well beyond existing solutions, and we are in search of innovative individuals to join this team.

As a member of this team, you will be working with interaction/digital designers, technical architects, software developers, and testers to manage and specify product requirements, development schedules, change requests / evaluations, overall risks, and effectively communicating to stakeholders at various levels within the company.

At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career and help us define tomorrow's transportation.

Responsibilities

• Work with Product Managers and Interaction & Digital Designers in development of Product and HMI specifications

• Work with Software Architects and provide technical feasibility / solutions on System and HMI specifications

• Breakdown development tasks and unblock software developers to deliver quality code

• Create stories, manage, and prioritize the development backlog

• Ensure teams are aware of key project milestones and deliveries

• Quantify feature release quality by evaluating projected software defect rate, number of open defects, etc.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Engineering

• 3+ years of experience in software development of Features / HMIs / User Interfaces

• 2+ years of experience in designing and releasing of software products

• 1+ years of experience in project management with working knowledge of Agile Software Development processes (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

• Software development experience in Android, or Unreal Engine

• Working knowledge of C/C++ or Python

• Working knowledge of JIRA, Github

• Working knowledge of Photoshop, InVision, Sketch

• Experience with Digital Design Screens and Digital Assets

• Demonstrated success delivering cross functional work streams and driving results across multiple teams.

• Excellent ability to communicate, influence, and resolve conflict effectively at multiple levels, including leadership.

• Demonstrated success building partnerships across a diverse set of functions and stakeholders.

• Comfortable working in a fast paced environment and with cross functional global teams

• Familiarity with the technical implementation details of Radio, Cluster, Bluetooth, USB, Wi-Fi, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, Voice, CAN, and /or Navigation features within a vehicle

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, 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.

For a detailed look at our benefits, click here:

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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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Requisition ID : 21910