Product Designer, Customer Journey

UI/UX Designer

At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow's transportation.

Our organization, Digital Product Design, is re-founding Ford's digital experience, evolving to experience-based product development that embraces vehicle exterior/interior, software, and service design and implementation.

In this position…

We are looking for an exceptionally gifted UI/UX professional who is obsessed with exploring and advancing the latest interactive design trends, hardware capabilities and technologies. On the electrification team, we strive to create the "first EV that anyone can understand," crafting simple designs across mobile and in-vehicle experiences.

In this role, you must be able to envision the big picture while also rolling up your sleeves to perfect the smallest project details. You will create compelling and thoughtful in-vehicle and mobile user experiences with a focus on clean and artful design and where it seamlessly integrates with in-vehicle hardware technology.

What you'll do:

• Leading the design of features and improvements of our products ensuring they align with business objectives and user needs.
• Using Figma and UX tools to develop vehicle features and compelling user experiences.
• Taking ownership of independent tracks of design work and managing timelines and deliverables.
• Developing and iterating user flows, mock-ups and prototypes to effectively communicate design ideas.
• Applying data driven insights to inform design decisions and measure the impact of design changes.
• Expressing our brand vision through user interface design for in-vehicle experiences.
• Executing designs with a keen sensibility to layout, color, typography and interactive behavior.
• Exhibiting a passion for emerging hardware and software technologies, new interaction models, product design, and excellence in visual design.
• Collaborating close with Product Management, Engineering and Feature Teams to ensure a seamless transition from concept to implementation.
• Employing a systematic approach to solving large, complex design challenges.

You'll have:

• Bachelor's degree or a combination of education and equivalent experience
• 3+ years experience working across a triad of designers, engineers and product
• 1+ years experience collaborating with Product Requirement Documents (PRD's)
• Demonstrated experience with end-to-end design work required
• High performing prototyping abilities (e.g. Figma, ProtoPie or similar)
• Proof-points/experience owning work from ideation to delivery. This includes experience working directly with Engineering & Product Management teams to deliver design files, design assets, and documentation required to produce a launch-able product.
• Proven experience collaborating with Engineering teams to solve development issues through design, monitoring customer feedback and product analytics, and refining design in response to incoming feedback and data.
• Experience working in Jira, owning tasks that map to delivery stage for engineering
• Experience with iteratively designing a product in production based on usage and customer feedback

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 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.

This position is a salary grade 8.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSRSP4 Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status.

Onsite work of up to four days per week may be required for candidates within commuting distance of a Ford hub location.