Product Designer

Responsibilities

• Translate early concepts into thorough, thoughtful, testable design solutions and prototypes.
• Define customer experiences and interactions across both physical and digital touchpoints, plus processes that connect new features into cohesive solutions.
• Partner with engineers, technologists and studio design to explore the best possible solutions, assess feasibility, iterate rapidly, test ideas, and refine concepts.
• Collaborate across design, engineering, and product teams to ensure experiences align with customer needs, technical realities, and business objectives.
• Distill complex information into clear strategies, frameworks and narratives that drive alignment and sustain execution through delivery.
• Proactively identify opportunities to integrate new technologies into meaningful, customer-driven experiences.
• Craft, coordinate and present to leadership and executives through ongoing review cycles in partnership with product, engineering and research partners.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience in Digital Product Design or related fields.
• Demonstrated experience designing products where the digital experience is directly shaped by or integrated with a physical product/device (e.g., automotive, wearables, consumer electronics, smart home, robotics) not purely app- or web-only design.
• 3+ years designing customer-facing digital products in an in-house product organization with direct ownership of shipped features used by real customers at scale.
• 3+ years of experience in relevant product design commercial organizations.
• 2+ years working across a triad of designers, engineers, and product managers.
• Strength in systems thinking and mapping end-to-end customer journeys.
• Strong communication and storytelling abilities, with a knack for making complex ideas clear and compelling.
• High proficiency in Figma and prototyping tools to create compelling customer flows and presentations to bring design ideas to life.
• Proven ability to deliver impactful design solutions integrating UX, visual design, content, research, and technical constraints into cohesive, user-focused experiences.
• Ability to work within current frameworks, design systems, and product requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently while also building strong collaborative relationships across partnering functions.
• Passionate for Ford's products and its customers.
• Strong portfolio showcasing thoughtfully crafted design projects, demonstrating a deep understanding of user experience principles and design processes.

Technologies

• Figma

Benefits

• 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

Overview

• Job Type: Full time
• Work Type: Hybrid

Even better, you may have

• Exceptional visual design skills and proficiency in human-centered design approaches.
• Proven experience in UX, interaction and experience design within complex ecosystems.
• Comfort working in ambiguous spaces where outcomes aren’t defined yet.
• Ability to pivot efforts as demands evolve and new directions emerge.
• Experience leveraging Design Systems and existing patterns while also thinking blue-sky.
• Self-starter who is organized, able to prioritize and manage tasks.
• Strong collaboration across multiple teams, bridging design, engineering and strategy.
• Willingness and ability to travel to various office locations to experience prototypes and hardware in person.