Product Designer, Distracted Driving

Job Description

In this position…

Digital Product Design (DPD) at Ford is committed to envisioning and creating simple, thoughtful, enjoyable, and compelling product experiences that our customers need and love. We work in close partnership with product and engineering to deliver best-in-class interactions experiences that meet the needs of people today, and in the future. Our team is comprised of a dynamic group of product designers, researchers, visual designers, industrial designers, modelers, and project managers.

You will contribute to the design and definition of next generation Advanced Driver Assistant Systems, emerging advanced technology and AI based experiences.

You are keen to explore how customer experience software defined vehicles of the future.

Responsibilities

What you'll do…

• Design features and improvements to our products while ensuring they align with brand and business objectives, research and user needs.
• Partner with other teams and designers to dive deep on complex technology and define corresponding flows, components, content and expressions of next generation Ford vehicles.
• Design compelling interfaces, interaction flows and prototypes for new multimodal applications using Figma, VoiceFlow and other UX tools.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and TPM to ensure and seamless transition from concept diagrams to implementation specifications.
• Work with partners to asses gaps in research, inform test plans and experiments.
• Independently manage your deliverables in alignment within the timelines outlined in sprint planning.

Qualifications

You'll have...

• Bachelors degree or a combination of education and equivalent experience
• Proficient in design with 3+ years of UX/UI experience
• High performing prototyping ability (e.g. Figma, VoiceFlow or similar)
• Experience working collaboratively on iterative product design cycles
• Prior work in data driven design
• Ability to demonstrate work done for products that have shipped
• Excellent written, oral and visual presentation skills

Even better, you may have…

• Familiarity with AI design and agentive systems
• Proficient in human centered design methods and techniques
• Automotive UI/HMI design is a plus
• Ability to manage towards deadlines

_You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

_As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder …or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• 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.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSRnon-HTHD

This position is a range of salary grades 6-7

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

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