UI Designer

Ford Motor Company; Dearborn (MI); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Immediate medical and dental coverage

Tuition assistance

Vehicle discount program

Flexible family care

Paid time off for community service

Job summary

A global automotive company seeks a UI Designer in Dearborn, Michigan. The role involves creating polished, accessible interfaces and requires 5+ years of experience plus a strong portfolio. Join a team focused on leveraging technology to enhance user experiences. This hybrid position mandates a four-day onsite presence and offers various benefits, ensuring a work-life balance for employees. If you are passionate about design and technology, consider applying!

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• 5+ years of professional experience in UI design, product design, or visual design.
• A portfolio demonstrating exceptional UI craft and end-to-end product thinking.

Responsibilities

• Own UI design execution for Global Digital product experiences.
• Create development-ready design deliverables: responsive layouts, detailed mockups.
• Design for accessibility and inclusivity by default.
• Build interactive prototypes to validate interaction patterns.
• Use data and feedback to iterate designs and improve outcomes.
• Collaborate with product, content, and engineering to shape flows and hierarchy.
• Use analytics and user feedback to iterate designs and improve outcomes.
• Present work with rationale and tradeoffs to stakeholders.
• Support implementation through close engineering collaboration and QA.

Skills

UI craft

Interactive design

Design thinking

Accessibility

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Master's degree

Tools

Figma

Job description

Overview

Job Description

We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world -- together. At Ford, we’re all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?

Enterprise Technology plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If you’re looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance customer experience and improve people’s lives, this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are.

The Global Digital team plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If you’re looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance customer experience and improve people’s lives, this is the opportunity for you.

In this position...

As a UI Designer, you have the desire to tackle exciting, meaty customer problems and translate them into clear, polished interfaces. Whether you’re using design thinking techniques to drive ideation and alignment or building a quick prototype to test with users, you can identify the right steps to move from ambiguity to a shippable experience.

You will have a strong background in UI craft and interactive design, and you understand how great visual hierarchy, typography, layout, and motion create intuitive, confident experiences. You excel at designing high-fidelity, development-ready user interfaces that scale across responsive breakpoints and maintain consistency through components, patterns, and interaction states (hover, focus, active, disabled, error, empty, loading). You bring a detail-oriented mindset to accessibility, ensuring interfaces are usable and inclusive by default.

You enjoy working closely with users and cross-functional partners to ensure the products you design are effective, efficient, and easy to use. While you may not primarily identify as a strategist, you have a solid understanding of standard research practices, and the vital role research plays in informing design decisions. You are adept at using evaluative approaches to iterate and continuously improve experiences over time. Your ability to balance user needs with business goals, and your commitment to UI quality from concept through implementation, make you a valuable asset in delivering exceptional digital experiences.

Based in Dearborn, MI, this is a hybrid position with a required four-day onsite presence each week.

Responsibilities

• Own UI design execution for Global Digital product experiences, delivering polished, accessible, high-fidelity interfaces from concept through launch.
• Create development-ready design deliverables: responsive layouts, detailed mockups, component variants, interaction states (default/hover/active/focus/disabled), and annotated specs.
• Apply and evolve design system patterns to maintain consistency, speed delivery, and improve quality across teams.
• Design for accessibility and inclusivity by default (contrast, typography, focus states, keyboard patterns, readable layouts across devices).
• Build interactive prototypes to validate interaction patterns, page behavior, and complex states, and to align quickly with partners.
• Partner with product, content, and engineering to shape user flows, information hierarchy, and page-level experiences that balance customer needs with business goals.
• Use data and feedback (site analytics, experiments, usability findings, customer input) to iterate designs and improve outcomes.
• Present work and rationale to stakeholders with clear storytelling, options, tradeoffs, and recommendations.
• Support implementation through close engineering collaboration, UI QA, and refinement to ensure what ships matches the intended experience.
• Contribute to near- and long-term experience vision across devices and locales, focusing on scalable UI patterns.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• 5+ years of professional experience in UI design, product design, visual design, or UI roles with significant high-fidelity UI ownership.
• A portfolio demonstrating exceptional UI craft (layout, typography, hierarchy, interaction states) plus end-to-end product thinking, with case studies.

Even better. you may have...

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering or related field
• Experience designing consumer-facing web or mobile product experiences at scale.
• Expert Figma skills (auto layout, components, variants, libraries), and comfort working within a design system.
• Strong visual design acumen demonstrated through owning product UI end-to-end and raising polish and consistency.
• Experience collaborating tightly with engineers and understanding front-end constraints and patterns (responsive behavior, performance considerations, frameworks).
• Experience running or partnering on discovery and validation (interviews, usability testing) and translating insights into shipped improvements.
• Familiarity with Agile/Lean delivery and iterative release cycles.
• Experience designing for global markets, localization, and content variability.
• Desire to thrive in a fast-moving environment.

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 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 childcare 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.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here:

https://fordcareers.co/GSRSP2

This position is a salary grade 7.

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 (onsite four days per week) in our Wagner Place West location.

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