Product Designer

About the role

We are searching for an innovative and visionary Product Designer to deliver Ford’s experience strategy through breakthrough UI/UX solutions for vehicles now and in the future. This high-impact role calls for a proven designer with a passion for tackling complex challenges, thriving in ambiguity, and delivering designs that seamlessly integrate hardware, software, and customer needs.

Responsibilities

• Translate early concepts into thorough, thoughtful, scalable design solutions and prototypes.
• Define customer experiences and interactions across both physical and digital experiences, and processes that connect new features into cohesive solutions.
• Partner with engineers, technologists and studio design to explore best possible solutions, explore feasibility, rapidly iterate and refine concepts.
• Collaborate across design, engineering, and product teams to ensure experiences align with customer needs and technical realities, and business objectives.
• Distill complex information into clear strategies, frameworks and narratives that drive alignment and promote ongoing execution to delivery.
• Proactively identify opportunities to integrate new technologies into meaningful, customer-driven experiences.
• Craft, coordinate and present to leadership and executives through ongoing review cycles in partnership with product, engineering and research partners.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience in Digital Product Design or related fields.
• 3+ years of experience in relevant product design commercial organizations.
• 2+ years of experience working across a triad of designers, engineers, and product managers.
• Strength in systems thinking and mapping end-to-end customer journeys.
• Strong communication and storytelling abilities, with a knack for making complex ideas clear and compelling.
• High proficiency in Figma and prototyping tools to create compelling customer flows and presentations to bring design ideas to life.
• Proven ability to deliver impactful design solutions integrating UX, visual design, content, research, and technical constraints into cohesive, user-focused experiences.
• Able to work within current frameworks, design systems, and product requirements.
• Passionate for Ford's products and its customers.
• Strong profile showcasing thoughtfully crafted design projects, demonstrating a deep understanding of user experience principles and design processes.

Qualifications

• Exceptional visual design skills and proficiency in human-centered design approaches.
• Proven experience in UX, interaction and experience design, within complex ecosystems.
• Comfortable working in ambiguous spaces where outcomes aren't defined yet.
• Comfortable working on evolving demands with the ability to pivot efforts toward new directions and goals.
• Experience leveraging Design Systems and existing patterns while also thinking blue-sky.
• Self-starter that is organized and can prioritize and manage tasks.
• Skilled at collaborating across multiple teams, building bridges between design, engineering and strategy.
• Able to travel to various office locations to experience prototypes and hardware in person.

Skills

• Systems thinking and mapping end-to-end customer journeys.
• Strong communication and storytelling abilities.
• High proficiency in Figma and prototyping tools.
• Proven ability to deliver impactful design solutions.
• Exceptional visual design skills and proficiency in human-centered design approaches.
• Proven experience in UX, interaction and experience design.
• Comfortable working in ambiguous spaces.
• Experience leveraging Design Systems and existing patterns.
• Ability to work independently while building strong collaborative relationships.
• Self-starter with organizational skills.
• Collaboration across multiple teams.
• Ability to travel to various office locations.

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 7-8 and ranges from $99,600-$232,700. Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's location, skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

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.