Ford Motor Company

Director, Product Platform Integration

Ford Motor Company • $150K — $180K *
Dearborn, MI 48126In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
11 - 15 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a related technical field.
  • 12+ years of experience in product development, program management, or systems engineering, with management of senior leaders.
  • 5 years of experience with Ford's Global Product Development System (GPDS) or similar.
  • 2-3 years of financial tracking experience for complex budgets and cost-reduction initiatives.
  • Ability to influence executive leadership in complex, matrixed environments.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the unified Program and Platform Interface organization with four senior managers.
  • Ensure timely delivery of experiences and PRDs with TPP team through effective coordination.
  • Standardize IS Hardware compliance across programs while meeting financial milestones.
  • Act as the point of contact for delivering IS goals across various programs and regions.
  • Bridge communication between IS, Product, Platform, and Program teams.

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage.
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave.
  • Subsidized back-up childcare and family building benefits.
  • Employee vehicle discount program and management leases.
  • Tuition assistance and paid time off for community service.
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...

In this role, you are the single-threaded leader responsible for the seamless transition of digital experiences and product innovations into vehicle platforms and programs. This role manages an organization that combines Platform and IS Program Interface teams to ensure a consistent, efficient, and high-quality product delivery pipeline.

You will oversee four senior managers, driving the standardization of IS Hardware, ensuring financial targets are met at every GPDS milestone, and guaranteeing that products and their requirements are successfully integrated into the platform and program bill of features.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...
• Serve as the single-threaded leader for the unified Program and Platform Interface organization, managing four LL5 senior leaders to drive seamless integration between product development, platform architecture, and vehicle program execution.
• Orchestrate the end-to-end interface with the TPP team to ensure experiences and PRDs are delivered on schedule and successfully landed within the platform and program Bill of Features.
• Direct the standardization of IS Hardware across all programs, ensuring rigorous compliance and the delivery of key financial milestones while tracking and achieving cost-reduction targets and securing sign-off at key GPDS milestones.
• Act as a single point of contact to support the delivery of IS goals across programs and regions.
• Act as the primary bridge between IS, Product, Platform, and Program teams.

Qualifications

You'll have...
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a related technical field.
• Minimum of 12 years of experience in product development, program management, or systems engineering, with a proven track record of managing senior-level managers (LL5 or equivalent).
• 5 years' experience working with Ford's Global Product Development System (GPDS) or a comparable construct
• 2-3 years' experience working closely with finance to track complex budgets and cost-reduction initiatives.
• Proven ability to influence executive leadership and navigate complex, matrixed organizations to drive alignment.

Even better, you may have...
• Master's degree in engineering or an MBA
• CPE or CPE Experience
• Experience working within a platform construct to deliver and scale products and services

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 childcare 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 leadership level 4.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/LL4Benefits

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week.

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About Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company manufactures or distributes automobiles in addition to offering financial services. The company sells to dealerships for retail sales, and for sale to fleet customers, including commercial fleet customers, daily rental car companies, and governments. Ford’s vehicle portfolio includes automobiles, buses, tractors, and trucks. Retail financing includes retail installment sale contracts for new and used vehicles, and direct financing leases for new vehicles to retail customers, government entities, daily rental car companies, and fleet customers. Finance receivables in the non-consumer portfolio include products offered to automotive dealers. Ford’s environmental initiatives include compressed natural gas, flexible fuel vehicles, electric drive vehicles, Hydrogen, PC power management, and so on. Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford in 1903 and is headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan.

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Learn more about Ford Motor Company
Size
183,000 employees
Market Cap
$44.8 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
-$1.2 billion
Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
-2.1%
Revenue
$127.1 billion
NASDAQ
F
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