Product Designer

Ford - Dearborn, MI

Full-time - Mid Level

Dearborn, MI

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

About the position

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. Digital Product Design at Ford is committed to envisioning and creating simple, thoughtful, enjoyable, and compelling product experiences that our customers need and love. We work in close partnership with product and engineering to deliver best-in-class interactions experiences that meet the needs of people today, and in the future. Our team is comprised of a dynamic group of product designers, researchers, visual designers, industrial designers, modelers, and project managers. 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. 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/or mobile user experiences with a focus on clean and artful design and where it seamlessly integrates with in-vehicle hardware technology. You will lead the design of features and improvements of our products ensuring they align with business objectives and user needs. Using Figma and UX tools, you will develop vehicle features and compelling user experiences. You will take ownership of independent tracks of design work and manage timelines and deliverables. Your responsibilities will include developing and iterating user flows, mock-ups, and prototypes to effectively communicate design ideas, applying data-driven insights to inform design decisions, and expressing our brand vision through user interface design for in-vehicle experiences. You will collaborate closely 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, and presenting creative work early and often to key stakeholders in design reviews.

Responsibilities

• 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 closely 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.
• Presenting creative work early and often to key stakeholders in design reviews.

Requirements

• 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, including 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.

Nice-to-haves

• Exceptional visual design skills.
• Sensitivity to intelligent system interactions.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies.
• Proficiency in human-centered design approaches, techniques, and philosophy.
• Automotive UI/HMI experience is preferred.
• Background in digital product design solutions.
• Excellent concepting, written, oral, and visual communication abilities.
• In-depth knowledge of the latest UI trends, techniques, and technologies.
• Background working through iterative product design cycles.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Employee discount
• Prescription drug insurance