Solutions Delivery Lead

We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world together. At Ford, we're all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?

Product Development uses design thinking & user experience methods to deliver breakthrough products and services that delight our customers. We bring innovative, exciting, and sustainable ideas to life. We have opportunities around the world for you to contribute to advancements in autonomy, electrification, smart mobility technologies, and more!

You'll have...

• Bachelor's degree
• 2+ years of proven experience as a TPM and/or Solution Delivery Leader
• 2+ years of large/technically complex management experience

Even better, you may have...

• Customer-focused and data-driven
• Thrives on working on a cross-functional team and on convincing different stake holders about new SW solution
• Strong technical leadership skills with the ability to remain focused and calm under pressure
• Strong communication skills with engineers and non-technical stakeholders both written and verbal

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 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:

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. 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. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

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What you'll do...

• Lead software delivery workstreams abiding by the Agile methodologies
• Ensuring compliance of design, development, and test of applications in accordance with established standards
• Developing, designing, and maintaining technologies that improve the way our internal and external customers demand
• Demonstrate work products at program level ceremonies (e.g. PI Planning, Sprint retrospectives, backlog refinement)
• Understand and execute Change and Incident management
• Constantly aid Solutions Delivery leads to perform impact analysis on key initiatives
• Liaise with all areas of SW Release/Cloud & Business in order to assist Project leader with the dissemination of information to external customers when/where necessary
• Navigate from roadmap to plan, influencing sequencing, resolving dependencies, identifying, and mitigating risk
• Drive estimation of work towards goals/milestone using agile techniques and mindset to create a plan and manage the plan using enterprise tools.
• Creates, prioritizes, measure and accept user stories; incorporate them into release planning
• Seeks to empathize with and understand the end-user deeply and, use that knowledge to determine the fastest path to deliver value while balancing, Stakeholder & Company's gains
• Translates business goals and end-user needs into product strategy; communicates direction and product priorities to the development team, and other matrixed teams
• Convey timelines, deliverables, risks, delays, and impacts to project team members. Proactively lead teams to assess/measure risks and assure PIs and its Epics stay on-track.