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Senior UX Designer

Ford Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)

Remote $115,000 - $192,900 Full-time Senior

Lead and execute the user experience strategy for website and web-based software across multiple product teams. Mentor other designers and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver high-quality, human-centered digital experiences.

Responsibilities

  • Guide the user experience across website strategy inclusive of web-based software
  • Work with several product teams across Ford and take a leadership role working with multiple designers
  • Evangelize UX practices across a portfolio of projects and be a strong voice for Human-Centered design
  • Provide design guidance and support to designers deployed to cross-functional groups responsible for multi-team, digital products
  • Mentor designers to support their growth as UX practitioners
  • Contribute to the inclusive culture of the larger Digital team
  • Advocate user-centered design perspectives for areas of focus that are informed by business needs and technical feasibility
  • Provide consistency in approach and integrity in usability and accessibility across design efforts with multiple products units
  • Drive the delivery of design work, raising the bar for team-wide, human-centered approaches
  • Work cross-functionally with leaders and colleagues to define and execute against strategy and projects
  • Engage in project planning and scoping to support business needs and design opportunities, setting teams up for success
  • Balance user needs, business objectives, and technical feasibility to solve problems effectively, with a focus on delivering high-quality experiences
  • Concept, design, test, launch, and refine new products and services through systems thinking that solve known and emergent user needs
  • Support design efforts for a data-driven, test & learn program, while incorporating analytics
  • Work with stakeholders to proactively identify problems & solutions
  • Support design leadership team on communication and presentation needs

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree AND/OR 4+ years of experience in digital and software design
  • 1+ year of experience with leading and coaching UX designers
  • Preferred: Bachelor's and/or Master's in User Experience Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Service Design, Graphic Design, or a design-related degree

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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

User Experience Design Interaction Design Service Design Design Excellence Information Architecture Figma Human-Centered design Digital product design Web-based software design Leadership Mentorship Collaboration Communication Strategic thinking Problem-solving User research User testing Usability and accessibility Systems thinking Data analysis Analytics Project planning Scope definition Stakeholder management

About Ford

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