Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.
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?

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
• 5+ years of experience with software strategy and product management
• 5+ years’ experience in driving software product roadmaps with end-end considerations i.e. cloud to app to car.
• 3+ years of experience in a software related engineering role

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Master’s degree in computer science or computer Engineering
• Proven experience in software lifecycle management, when building a software factory / Devops mentality
• Working experience in automotive industry, focusing on platform software innovations, including open standard and open-source solutions
• Proven experience with product management of commercial and open-source software integration
• Proven software strategy experience within the high-performance in-vehicle compute, with familiarity of the embedded operating environment including but not limited to Linux, AUTOSAR adaptive, Both open and proprietary Real Time Operating Systems, in-vehicle/cloud virtualization, Matter, etc.

KEY CAPABILITIES

• Proven experience with software strategy and product management
• Proven experience in developing in-vehicle software platform solutions which are highly portable, modular, and extendable.
• Proven experience product managing data journey and analysis from conception to launch, with the product delivering end-user experiences.
• Proven experience in agile techniques to interface across an enterprise, akin to product backlogs
• Proven experience in software lifecycle management, when building a software factory / Devops mentality
• Proven experience with product management of commercial and open-source software integration
• Drive to solve to maximize rapid value creation for the organization, whilst mitigating the pain of software complexity
• Has managed and led a team.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities concurrently and deliver high quality events.
• Experience coordinating multiple functions within an organization.
• Experience leading development through complex product gateways
• Familiarity with Human Centered Design and demonstrated passion for the customer
• Strategic Thinker
• Fast Learner; adapts easily.
• Good working relationship with other skill teams
• Demonstrated excellence in oral & written communication.
• Good Communicator
• Strong desire to deliver results in a fast-paced environment, work with all employee levels from technical personnel to Ford Senior Management.
  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 child care 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 2.
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This position is a range of salary grades LL6.
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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The Platform Software Strategy Manager will work with cross functional teams to analyze the business potential for evolving the in-vehicle software platform targeting greater efficiency, decreased complexity, and increased reuse and portability of the core platform components. The positions will be required to interface with Research, Product Development, IT, Finance and Vehicle Programs regularly to ensure all technical architecture plans are aligned, appropriate, and achievable. The role will ultimately be responsible to translate work items into strategy papers and technical unit papers with developed business cases. These papers will be recommended for approval at VP or EVP level and adjust the Technology Cycle Plan.

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