Product Designer

Ford is looking for a Lead Designer to combine strategy, design, and prototyping to bring new in-vehicle experiences to life.

Responsibilities

• Translate early concepts into practical, testable prototypes
• Define customer journeys, flows, and processes that connect new features into cohesive experiences
• Partner with engineers and technologists to explore feasibility, rapidly test ideas, and refine concepts
• Collaborate across design, engineering, and product teams to ensure experiences align with customer needs and technical realities
• Distill complex information into clear strategies, frameworks, and narratives that drive alignment
• Proactively identify opportunities to integrate new technologies into meaningful, customer-driven experiences

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
• Proven experience in UX, interaction, and experience design, within complex ecosystems
• Strength in systems thinking and mapping end-to-end journeys
• Comfortable working in ambiguous spaces where outcomes aren’t defined yet
• Skilled at collaborating across disciplines, building bridges between design, engineering, and strategy
• Strong communication and storytelling abilities, with a knack for making complex ideas clear and compelling

Key Skills

• UX
• Interaction design
• Experience design
• Systems thinking
• Communication and storytelling abilities

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