Key Responsibilities:

• Own Ford's global ADAS strategy, working closely with subject-matter experts and executive leadership to synthesize industry trends, portfolio needs, and corporate objectives into a forward-looking ADAS strategy.
• Define future ADAS experiences and enabling technology, partnering with engineering, product, and digital teams to define and refine key future ADAS customer experiences.
• Manage ADAS complexity across the portfolio, establishing and maintaining a 'menu' of ADAS system configurations with engineering, collaborating with technology platform and vehicle program teams to develop offering strategies for each vehicle program and region.
• Manage the ADAS investment portfolio within the technology cycle plan, ensuring sufficient funding to achieve ADAS objectives, supported by accurate and traceable modeling of resource requirements.
• Lead competitive intelligence, benchmarking, and external scanning for ADAS, maintaining a constantly refreshed, data-driven view of the ADAS industry, including competitive trends and threats, emerging technologies, and cost-reduction opportunities.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, or a related field
• 10+ years of leadership experience in the automotive technology space, delivering multiple complex initiatives in cross-functional environments
• Experience translating technical initiatives into business and profitability analyses to ensure efficient capital allocation
• Strong oral and written communication skills, with demonstrated ability to influence and collaborate in diverse, cross-functional environments
• Proven team-leadership experience, including working directly with senior and executive leadership

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Engineering or an MBA
• Direct experience with ADAS technologies, including sensing (radars, cameras, ultrasonics), ADAS-specialized compute, and motion-control interfaces
• Direct experience leading strategic initiatives and technology unit and/or vehicle program milestones
• Highly technical background and demonstrated experience in the domains of the ADAS features being developed
• Experience with embedded vehicle architectures,ideally Ford's FNVx architecture,including roadmaps, constraints, and integration for highly complex and distributed systems/features on- and off-board

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