Agile Readiness Manager

Ford - Dearborn, MI

Full-time - Senior

Dearborn, MI

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

About the position

The Agile Readiness Manager at Ford Motor Company plays a pivotal role in facilitating the adoption of agile methodologies within the Connected Vehicle Software (CVS) organization. This position is responsible for change management, training, enablement, and community management, ensuring that engineering teams can effectively implement agile practices as Ford transitions to software-defined vehicles. The role requires strong leadership and communication skills to drive transformation and foster collaboration across diverse teams.

Responsibilities

• Own, define, document, and lead the readiness management portfolio of training, enablement, and communications that support adoption of agile and modern ways of working by the Connected Vehicle Software organization.
• Author and maintain a tiered training plan that makes the agile framework accessible, easy to learn, and practical to apply by engineering teams.
• Develop and implement a community management strategy that fosters vibrant horizontal and vertical communities of practitioners across CVS to drive ideation, adoption, best practice sharing, and two-way dialogue between the CoE and greater CVS organization.
• Partner with peer teams such as Technical Program Management and Tech Strategy to ensure the CoE change plan accurately represents how the CoE works together with these teams.
• Manage the CoE stakeholder matrix to ensure proper and beneficial levels of engagement by CoE members with the rest of CVS.
• Create a strategy and framework for communicating frequently and impactfully to the diverse, complex CVS organization.
• Provide technical writing and review services to ensure that CoE produced content is clear, concise, consistent, accurate, and easy to consume.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• 5+ years of experience as a readiness manager or similar roles in complex enterprise environments
• Up-to-date change professional certifications (e.g., CCMP, Prosci, Agile Change Agent, or related)

Nice-to-haves

• Experience as an influential change agent (e.g., chief of staff or strategy leader)
• Exceptional communication (oral & written) and collaboration skills in cross-functional, diverse environments
• Demonstrated history of leading change and transformation in an industrial or combined hardware and software environment
• Deep knowledge in agile ways of working including agile frameworks, roles and responsibilities, org structures and their unique readiness management requirements
• Persuasive storytelling abilities enabling you to promote your ideas at the highest levels, gain alignment, generate excitement, and instigate momentum in complex matrixed environments
• A hyper collaborative mindset and ability to partner with teams and leaders regardless of level
• Tenacity, grit, and a persistent sense of urgency with a bias for action (even in ambiguous and fluid situations)

Benefits

• Paid parental leave
• Paid holidays
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance
• Employee discount
• Prescription drug insurance