Digital Product Designer

At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow’s transportation.

Product Development uses design thinking & user experience methods to deliver breakthrough products and services that delight our customers. We bring innovative, exciting, and sustainable ideas to life. We have opportunities around the world for you to contribute to advancements in autonomy, electrification, smart mobility technologies, and more!

Do you have what it takes to make smart vehicles for a smart world? Join the Ford Product Development team. Utilizing Design Thinking & User Experience methods, you’ll work to deliver breakthrough products and services that delight our customers. We’re seeking forward-thinking, laser-focused professionals with a passion for bringing innovative, exciting, and sustainable ideas to life. We have opportunities around the world for you to contribute to such advancements as autonomy, electrification, smart mobility technologies, and more! 

What you’ll be able to do: 

Digital Product Designer positions offered by Ford Motor Company (Irvine CA). Represent the human perspective to develop a human-machine interface (HMI) by problem framing, ideation, iterative design, development, and delivery. Work as a collaborative team member with business partners, product owners, product managers, industrial designers, software and hardware engineers and fellow designers. Guide product decisions through a deep understanding of automotive consumers; conduct exploratory research and analysis to connect with the audience. Facilitate and participate in design workshops and collaboration sessions with technical and non-technical partners to expand thinking and build space for innovation. Generate ideas and rapidly build design prototypes to bring ideas to life, and quickly evaluate and iterate. Design, implement, and adapt digital design systems, data visualizations, on-brand visual design, illustrations, prototypes to produce what is vital for successful vehicle implementation, prioritizing design demos over documents.

You'll have…

•  Bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in Product Design, Visual Design, Digital Design, User Experience design or a related field
• 1 year of experience in the position offered or 1 year of experience designing product experiences and digital interfaces, wireframes, flows and concepts
• 1 year of experience using Figma to iterate design concepts and deliver experiences to production development
• 1 year of experience developing prototypes
• 1 year of experience designing Human-Machine Interfaces (HMI)
• Position reports to Irvine, CA office.  Telecommuting permitted in accordance with company policy, but must live within commuting distance of stated office.

We are offering a salary of $112,200 to $187,920 per year.

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 the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

        • 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.

For a detailed look at our benefits, click here:

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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.