Senior Product Designer

Ford Motor Company; United States; On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Immediate medical and dental coverage

Flexible family care options

Vehicle discount program

Tuition assistance

Paid time off for community service

Paid holidays and vacation time

Job summary

A leading automotive firm in the United States is seeking a Senior Product Designer who will enhance digital experiences for various stakeholders. This role emphasizes collaboration, user experience, and technology in design processes. You will mentor other designers and engage with multiple product teams, ensuring that the designs meet business needs while enhancing user satisfaction. We offer a competitive salary, benefits, and a culture that supports growth and inclusivity.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in digital and software design.
• 1+ year leading and coaching UX designers.

Responsibilities

• Lead design efforts to enhance user experience across digital products.
• Mentor designers and support their growth in UX practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and execute project strategies.

Skills

Interaction Design

Service Design

Figma

Human-Centered Design

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Master’s in User Experience or related field

Job description

Overview

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.

What you’ll be able to do:

The Ford Customer Service Division Tech team is looking for a high-impact and versatile Senior Product Designer. The candidate must be collaborative by nature—willing to lead, execute, optimize and adjust both work product and processes—based on feedback and input from a number of stakeholders. You’ll have to be passionate about user experience and want to take advantage of working with highly collaborative and talented team members. You’ll have the opportunity to create and transform digital experiences for both internal and external audiences being offered the leading edge in automotive technology and supporting solutions. Balancing the business needs while always keeping our users and their goals in mind will be paramount. You will be responsible for guiding the user experience across website strategy inclusive of web-based software. You’ll work with several product teams across Ford and will be expected to take a leadership role working with multiple designers.

Responsibilities

• Strong knowledge of Interaction Design, Service Design, Design Excellence, Information Architecture, and/or Pro in Figma.
• Evangelize UX practices across a portfolio of projects, and be a strong voice for Human Centered design, supported by a growing team of talented designers and leaders.
• Provide design guidance and support to designers deployed to cross-functional groups responsible for multi-team, digital products. Mentor designers to support their growth as UX practitioners. Contribute to the inclusive culture of the larger Digital team.
• Advocate user-centered design perspectives for your areas of focus that are informed by business needs and technical feasibility.
• Provide consistency in approach, and integrity in usability and accessibility, across design efforts with multiple products units.
• Drive the delivery of design work, raising the bar for team-wide, human-centered approaches. Work cross functionally with leaders and colleagues to define, and execute against, strategy and projects.
• Engage in project planning and scoping to support business needs and design opportunities, setting teams up for success.
• Balance user needs, business objectives, and technical feasibility to solve problems effectively, with a focus on delivering high quality experiences.
• Concept, design, test, launch and refine new products and services through systems thinking that solve known and emergent user needs.
• Support design efforts for a data-driven, test & learn program, while incorporating analytics. Work with stakeholders to proactively identify problems & solutions.
• Support design leadership team on communication and presentation needs.

Qualifications

The minimum requirements we seek:

• Bachelor’s degree AND/OR 4+ years of experience in the digital and software design.
• 1+ year of experience with leading and coaching UX designers (directly or indirectly) by demonstrating standard methodologies in design communication and approaches, mentorship, and sharing your work and knowledge with others.

Our preferred requirements:

• Bachelor's and/or Master’s in User Experience Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Service Design, Graphic Design, or a design related-degree (i.e. Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, Human Factors, etc.).
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion in a remote and dynamic working environment.
• Demonstrable expertise in UX design in all phases across a variety of projects.
• Experience delivering projects from definition thru execution and refinement.
• Proven ability to build consensus, influence, and work effectively within a cross-functional team of designers, product managers, and engineers. Experience with building relationships, credibility, and proactive communication with team members and leaders.
• Ability to communicate the value of product features and identify trade-offs to deliver useful digital products.

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, 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.

Other

For a detailed look at our benefits, click here: Benefit Summary

This position is a salary grade 8. This position is a range of salary grades 8.

Visa Sponsorship is not provided for this role.

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