Ui/Ux Product Designer (Remote)

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.

We're in the midst of the biggest change the automotive industry has ever seen. Just as cars changed the world over the last century, new technologies such as self-driving cars, electric powertrains, and connected vehicles will radically reshape how we live, work, and play in the next hundred years.

We want to create digital products that gets better each day at scale. We want to do this while contributing to the sustainability of our planet. We are re-founding Ford from Ford 1.0 to Ford 2.0 where we evolve from appearance-based product development to experience based product development that embraces vehicle exterior/interior, software and service.

At Ford Model e, you’ll be at the cutting edge of Ford’s most strategic products, designing societal needs into the heart of our next generation of products, services and experiences. At Ford, we’re not just inventing the future, we’re operationalizing it to help all those people move through their lives, better.

We are looking for an exceptionally gifted UI/UX professional who is obsessed with exploring and advancing the latest interactive design trends, hardware capabilities and technologies. In this role, you must be able to envision the big picture while also rolling up your sleeves to perfect the smallest project details. You will create compelling and thoughtful in-vehicle user experiences with a focus on clean and artful design and where it seamlessly integrates with in-vehicle hardware technology.

What you’ll do:

• Execute designs with a keen sensibility to layout, color, typography and interactive behavior.
• Exhibit a passion for emerging hardware and software technologies, new interaction models, product design, and excellence in visual design.
• Use Figma and UX tools to develop vehicle features and compelling user experiences.
• Employ a systematic approach to solving large, complex design challenges.
• Synthesize project details, product requirements, user journeys and technical constraints into a cohesive whole.
• Present creative work early and often to key stakeholders in design reviews.
• Express our brand vision through user interface design for in-vehicle experiences.
• Advance our UX vision through motion and prototypes.
• Connect, collaborate, and contribute to a Design System and design best practices.
• Work with Developers and Specification Owners within a Feature Team.
• Take ownership of independent tracks of design work and manage timelines and deliverables.

You’ll have…

• 3+ years of experience in UX/UI product design
• Bachelor’s degree or a combination of education and equivalent experience

Even better, you may have…

• In-depth knowledge of the latest UI trends, techniques, and technologies
• Exceptional visual design skills
• Proficiency in human-centered design approaches, techniques and philosophy
• Background working through iterative product design cycles
• Background in digital product design solutions
• Master's degree
• Understanding of Atomic Design principles
• Excellent concepting, written, oral and visual communication abilities
• Experience creating and managing design systems at scale
• Sensitivity to intelligent system interactions
• Automotive UI/HMI experience
• Prototyping abilities (e.g. Figma, ProtoPie or similar)
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies

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:

• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Tuition assistance
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases

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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. 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.

At Ford, the health and safety of our employees is our top priority. Vaccination has been proven to play a critical role in combating COVID-19. As a result, Ford has made the decision to require U.S. salaried employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, unless employees require an accommodation for religious or medical reasons. Being fully vaccinated means that an individual is at least two weeks past their final dose of an authorized COVID-19 vaccine regimen. As a condition of employment, newly hired employees will be required to provide proof of their COVID-19 vaccination or an approved medical or religious exemption.