Exterior Lighting Designer

About the role

Ford Motor Company is seeking a Senior Lighting Designer for its design studios in Dearborn. This position involves working on advanced and production lighting projects, developing both conceptual and production lighting design solutions, and creating compelling and innovative lighting design experiences.

Responsibilities

• Create compelling and innovative lighting design experiences and visions for Design Projects.
• Create Human Centered Design experience with emphasis in Exterior Design holistic experience.
• Cookordination the work of other design personnel to achieve holistic design visions.
• Create futured lighting design visions, focused on the building our brand.
• Span digital and physical (software and hardware) thinking.
• Problems solve around topics of connectivity, mobility, and consumer segments.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design, Transportation Design, or similar.
• 4+ years’ Automotive or Transportation Design experience; including experience specific to lighting conceptual design and final product execution.
• Ability to interpret customer needs and global trends into compelling lighting design visions.
• Ability to work independently and provide strong technical aesthetic judgment to lead team members.
• Awareness of global automotive lighting technology, regulations and trends to ensure Ford competes with the ability to lead.

Qualifications

• Must have exceptional design intuition, strong problem-solving skills and a superior ability to visually communicate through sketches, and rendering.
• 4+ years of experience translating 2D to 3D and think three-dimensionally with a strong emphasis on proportions and a refined sense of form.
• Familiarizes self and maintains interest with design trends within and across design professions and global cultures (automotive, fashion, architectural, etc.).

Skills

• Collaborate with Engineering, Suppliers and other partners to progress the design development.
• Outstanding teamwork, leadership, visual, written, and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

• 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.

Pay

This position is a salary grade range of 7 - 8 and ranges from $86,600 - $166,200.

Schedule

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.