Lead Product Designer
Ford Motor Company 🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
As a Lead Designer, you will combine strategy, design, and prototyping to bring new in-vehicle experiences to life, transforming loosely defined concepts into clear, testable journeys that can be built and scaled. Responsibilities include defining customer journeys, partnering with engineers to explore feasibility, and distilling complex information into clear strategies and narratives.
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
- Bachelor's 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
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
Key Skills
About Ford Motor Company
We don't just make history -- we make the future. Ford put the world on wheels over a century ago, and our teams are re-inventing icons and creating groundbreaking connected and electric vehicles for the next century. We believe in serving our customers, our communities, and the world. If you do, too, come move the world and make the future with us. Ford is a global company with shared ideals and a deep sense of family. From our earliest days as a pioneer of modern transportation, we have sought to make the world a better place – one that benefits lives, communities and the planet. We are here to provide the means for every person to move and pursue their dreams, serving as a bridge between personal freedom and the future of mobility. In that pursuit, our 186,000 employees around the world help to set the pace of innovation every day. Privacy Policy: https://www.ford.com/help/privacy/
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