Product Designer, Design Systems (Governance Specialist)

Ford Model e U.S.; Dearborn (MI); Hybride; USD 85 000 - 193 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Medical benefits

Hybrid work

Tuition assistance

Paid time off

Employee discounts

Retirement plan

Résumé du poste

Ford Motor Company is seeking a thoughtful Product Designer specializing in design system governance within its Digital Product Design group. You will help ensure the design system remains scalable and trusted across Ford’s vehicle software and mobile apps, partnering with designers, product teams, engineering, and accessibility to align priorities.

A portfolio submission with resume is required. The role supports a hybrid work model and offers a comprehensive benefits package in the United

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• 3+ years of product design experience, including design system at scale.
• Understand Atomic Design principles, component architecture, and design tokens.
• Familiarity with design systems mapping to front-end code and tools like Figma or Storybook.
• Experience reviewing designs/systems for consistency, accessibility (WCAG), and quality.
• Strong communication, documentation, and facilitation skills, including building consensus without direct authority.
• Systems-thinking mindset balancing shared standards with product-team flexibility.
• Bonus: governance or analytics tools (token management platforms, component usage tracking, linting tools).

Responsabilités

• Govern design system governance to ensure scalability and consistency.
• Collaborate with designers, product teams, and engineering to align system standards.
• Improve governance and production workflows; ensure system changes are discoverable and adopted.

Connaissances

Design system

Systems thinking

Communication

Documentation

Cross-functional collaboration

Formation

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Outils

Figma

Storybook

Description du poste

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...

We’re looking for a thoughtful, detail-oriented Product Designer specializing in design system governance. You’ll help ensure our design system remains scalable, consistent, and trusted across Ford’s vehicle software and mobile apps.

The Design Systems team creates shared components, tokens, patterns, and guidelines that support high-quality digital experiences. In this role, you’ll help teams understand and apply system standards, improve governance and production workflows, and ensure system changes are discoverable and adopted in product work. You’ll partner with designers, product teams, engineering, and accessibility to align priorities and resolve issues across platforms.

A portfolio submission, in addition to a resume, is required for consideration.

You’ll have...

A portfolio submission, in addition to a resume, is required for consideration.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• 3+ years of product design experience, including meaningful experience with a design system at scale.
• Understand Atomic Design principles, component architecture, and design tokens.
• Familiarity with how design systems map to front-end code and tools such as Figma or Storybook.
• Experience reviewing designs or systems for consistency, accessibility (WCAG), and quality.
• Strong communication, documentation, and facilitation skills, including the ability to build consensus without direct authority.
• A systems-thinking mindset and ability to balance shared standards with product-team flexibility.
• Bonus: Experience with governance or analytics tools, such as token management platforms, component usage tracking, or linting tools.

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 open to salary grades 6-8. Salary grade 6 ranges from $85,400-$143,200, salary grade 7 ranges from $99,600-$166,600, and salary grade 8 ranges from $115,000-$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.