Visual Product Design Lead

Ford is seeking a Visual Product Design Lead to design products that drive the revolution in the automotive industry, inspiring peers and pushing the industry forward.

Responsibilities

• Work cross-functionally with leadership and fellow designers within Digital Product Design to establish and codify the "Look and feel" of the Ford and Lincoln digital experiences
• Define, create, and guide standards for visual and motion design
• Problem-solve alongside UX designers to deliver high-quality, on-brand experiences to the digital space
• Lead the development of "exemplar" work product in visual design
• Work with design teams to up-level presentation and prototyping through visual and motion execution
• Work with engineering teams to guide them towards visual design execution at the highest standard, with consistency
• Participate in design reviews, supplying guidance and constructive feedback
• Manage communication with internal colleagues and stakeholders
• Utilize consumer research, benchmarking and knowledge of the automotive space to drive considered responses to evolving the visual design language

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in graphic design, UI/UX design, digital product design or related field, or a combination of education and equivalent experience
• Strong visual design skills and experience building/extending complex digital design languages
• Strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual design skills for digital products
• 6+ years of dedicated experience in Visual UI/UX design for complex digital products and consumer-facing brands
• 6+ years’ experience within highly collaborative creative teams

Key Skills

• Strong visual design skills
• Experience building/extending complex digital design languages
• Proficiency with modern UI design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Protopie, Adobe CS, AE, 3D animation tools, Rive)
• Passionate about brand and digital product design
• Extensive experience designing digital design experiences for key touch points across the customer journey
• Experience developing brand guidelines and/or standards for user interfaces

Benefits

• 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