Digital Product Designer

Skills :     Digital Marketing Manager Digital Painter Digital Producer

Job Description:

We're in the midst of the biggest change the automotive industry has ever seen. Just as cars changed the world over the last century, new technologies such as self-driving cars, electric powertrains, and connected vehicles will radically reshape how we live, work, and play in the next hundred years. As a leader on the Digital Product Design Team, you'll be at the heart of creating that future. Every day, Ford's vehicles and services support millions of people around the world. You'll lead our teams in deeply understanding our users’ needs throughout all steps of the design process, from initial human-centered insight, through concept generation and evaluation, identifying ways we can continuously iterate and improve our designs through customer feedback and analytics.

As a Digital Product Designer, you are a hands-on practitioner who is passionate about your craft, compelled to build leading-edge future concepts for Ford vehicles. Together with your team, you will drive innovation and create delightful, transformative, connected vehicle experiences. This is a California-based role that will require work on-site at Ford’s Design Studios in Irvine, CA, and Palo Alto, CA.

What will it be like to work on the Model e team?

We are passionate about solving hard problems. We are swift and decisive, trusting the experts, believing the data, and seeking out and listening to bold intuition – regardless of the source. We are insurgents. Never satisfied, averse to complexity, suspicious of habits, and open to risk. We focus on the mission and deliver with urgency and speed. We are an agile team leveraging rapidly evolving technology to innovate, fail fast and pivot. Most importantly we raise the talent bar with every hire.

 
What you’ll be able to do:

• Represent the human perspective throughout the product lifecycle - from problem framing, ideation, iterative design, development and delivery
• Work as a collaborative team member with business partners, product owners, product managers, software engineers and fellow designers
• Guide product decisions through a deep understanding of actual consumers who use our products and services; conduct exploratory research and analysis to connect with the audience
• Facilitate and participate in design workshops and collaboration sessions with technical and non-technical partners to expand thinking and build space for innovation
• Generate ideas and rapidly build design prototypes to bring ideas to life, and quickly evaluate and iterate
• Design, implement, and adapt digital design systems, data visualizations, on-brand visual design, illustrations, etc.
  Produce what is vital for successful implementation, prioritizing demos over documents

 
The minimum requirements we seek:

• Bachelor’s degree in visual design, visual communications, or relevant design-driven discipline 
• 5+ years digital UX/UI design experience
• 2+ years of proficiency with modern design tools (Figma, Miro, Framer)

Our preferred Requirements:

• Experience working independently with internal stakeholders and/or clients.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Passion for growing your skills, tackling interesting work and challenging problems; be committed to lifelong design learning.
• Technical and problem-solving mindset.
• Previous experience leading people and teams.
• Passionate about automotive and/or experience designing for integrated hardware/software systems.
• Portfolio of design work that demonstrates the depth of craft experience and strategic, human-centered approach to design (portfolio link or PDF).
• 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!

What you’ll receive in return:
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, and prescription drug coverage

• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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.