Mobile Product Designer

Ford; Dearborn (MI); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Paid time off

Vehicle discount program

Job summary

Ford's Digital Product Design (DPD) team in Dearborn, MI seeks a Senior Mobile Product Designer to lead end-to-end design for mobile app features. This hands-on IC role includes cross-functional leadership across product, engineering, and research to deliver high-quality, production-ready interfaces.

The successful candidate will bring strong UX and visual design skills, experience with complex technical product challenges, and a portfolio demonstrating depth and impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent education and experience.
• 5+ years of UX/UI or digital product design experience, including designing and shipping consumer mobile products.
• Advanced Figma skills and a strong portfolio of mobile product design work.
• A portfolio that shows both visual excellence and depth on complex, technical product challenges.
• Experience using research, data, and analytics to guide and validate design decisions.
• Strong communication skills and ability to manage a defined project or feature area.
• A record of leading projects or workstreams across disciplines and influencing partners without formal authority.
• Experience supporting peers through design critique or mentorship.

Responsibilities

• Lead design end to end for mobile app features, from concepts to production interfaces.
• Drive design direction with Product, Engineering, and Research.
• Tackle technically complex problems for real-time video, commands, energy, and home integration.
• Identify gaps across customer experience, tech, and business objectives; propose practical solutions.
• Use research and product data to justify decisions and measure impact.
• Facilitate design reviews and raise questions, dependencies, and risks early.
• Contribute to Ford's design system and brand standards for cohesion.
• Provide thoughtful critique and mentor teammates.

Skills

UX/UI design

Figma

Portfolio

Research analytics

Communication

Project leadership

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Figma

Job description

We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters. Digital Product Design (DPD) 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...

The Ford mobile app is an essential companion for our customers. It connects with their daily lives, journeys, and adventures by putting important vehicle status, command, and control features at their fingertips. The app should build confidence at every step and help Ford customers explore, accomplish tasks, and enjoy their ownership experience.

We’re seeking a Senior Mobile Product Designer to lead design for mobile app features from concept through delivery. This hands‑on individual‑contributor role also includes project‑level leadership: aligning cross‑functional partners, guiding design decisions, and supporting peers through feedback and knowledge sharing. It does not include formal people management.

A successful candidate will bring strong UX and visual design skills, sound judgment, and the ability to move work forward across disciplines and see it through to delivery. You will lead defined areas of design, help teams align around customer needs and product goals, and contribute to a consistent, high-quality experience across the app.

This role is located in Dearborn, MI on a Hybrid work model reporting to the office 4 days per week.

What you'll do...

• Lead design end to end.Own feature areas and workstreams from research-informed concepts, flows, and prototypes through polished, production-ready interfaces.
• Drive next-generation experiences.Work with Product Management, Engineering, and Research to set design direction, priorities, and delivery plans centered on customer needs.
• Take on technically complex problems.Design experiences for real-time video, vehicle commands, energy and charging management, and home power integration.
• Apply systems thinking.Find gaps and dependencies across the customer experience, technical implementation, and business objectives, and put forward practical solutions.
• Design with evidence.Use customer insights, research, analytics, and product data to shape decisions, explain your rationale, and measure results.
• Lead the design conversation.Facilitate reviews and discussions, and raise open questions, dependencies, and risks early.
• Strengthen the whole.Apply and contribute to Ford's design system and brand standards so the app stays cohesive and high quality as it grows.
• Raise the bar for the team.Give thoughtful critique, mentor peers, and share knowledge.

You'll have...

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent education and experience.
• 5+ years of UX/UI or digital product design experience, including designing and shipping consumer mobile products.
• Advanced Figma skills and a strong portfolio of mobile product design work.
• A portfolio that shows both visual excellence and depth on complex, technical product challenges.
• Experience using research, data, and analytics to guide and validate design decisions.
• Strong communication skills and ability to manage a defined project or feature area.
• A record of leading projects or workstreams across disciplines and influencing partners without formal authority.
• Experience supporting peers through design critique or mentorship.

Even better, you may have...

• Experience with connected devices, IoT, smart home, energy, or EV products.
• Automotive UI/HMI experience.
• Familiarity with Agile methods, design systems, and human-centered design.
• Experience with AI-enabled workflows, motion design, prototyping, or coding a plus.

Why Ford and DPD?

• Work that matters.Design software-driven experiences that reach real customers every day and redefine what owning a vehicle means.
• Real scope.Drive key features in the mobile experience that connects security, energy, mobility, and the home.
• An exceptional team.Work alongside product designers, researchers, visual and industrial designers, engineers, and design operations specialists who care deeply about craft.
• Room to grow.Expand your influence and sharpen your craft on problems that span design, technology, and business.

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 childcare 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 6-8 and ranges from $85,400-$192,900. Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

Internal applicants: moving into this role may result in an adjustment to your current compensation based on the posted pay range for this role, taking into consideration your qualifications and other relevant factors.

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. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid #DesignTeam #LI-LS1