Industrial Design Lead at Ford Motor

DescriptionJoin us in shaping the future of Ford Motor Company as part of a global organization with exceptional colleagues in world-class facilities. As part of Ford Design youll be at the cutting edge of Fords most strategically critical work designing people and societys needs into the heart of our next generation of products services and experiences.This position requires demonstrable expertise in physical product solutions with strong visual design work design sensibility and articulate storytelling. As a Lead youll be responsible for leading a design team through the design development process as well as building relationships with external industrialization partners. You will lead your team through concepting and sketching designing low to high fidelity design prototypes leading workshops and managing asset production through the life cycle of assigned projects pilots and research initiatives.ResponsibilitiesAs an Industrial Design Lead you will:Lead Design Innovation: Design novel and unique experience and physical interaction design solutions to meaningful problems for customers identifying design opportunities and actionable concepts that align with user and business needs design principles and technical capabilities.Subject Matter Expertise (SME) in Prototyping & Design Visualization: Serve as the expert on the team for all aspects of prototyping and design visualization methods. You will be an expert in initial rough prototyping (build to learn) with a primary emphasis on physical enablers and in iterating design solutions based upon customer user and system feedback to meet user expectations and deliver successful outcomes.Insight-Driven Design Solutions: Be the expert in creating design solutions that are deeply rooted in customer and user insights expertly translating these insights into highly desirable and feasible physical product solutions.Leadership & Vision: Demonstrate leadership throughout the entire design process from inspiration and research to building prototypes and communicating a clear vision. You will lead a team of designers be accountable for their goals and objectives leading them to bring to life integrated digital-physical experiences through brand products and services and inspire project teams to conceive design develop test and launch impactful new products and services.Systems Thinking: Apply systems thinking to physical experience design that seamlessly engages people through touchpoints along a service journey for consumer and business applications.Stakeholder Collaboration & Communication: Bring clarity and focus through effective communication of functional needs and aesthetic sensibilities. You will represent our team in an advanced product development environment building strong relationships with engineering planning and research stakeholders.Experience Content Strategy & Feasibility: Partner to support the initial design and development of experience concepts. You will design and iterate key program applications of the domain-based Experience Content Strategies confirming key experiences are feasible within program constraints.QualificationsYoull have...Bachelors degree in industrial design Transportation Design or a related field.5 years of Industrial Design or Transportation Design studio work experience.Senior Designer level experience in a consumer product industry transportation sector or supplier design consultancy or similar field.Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite design tools.Proficiency with at least one 3D modeling software application (e.g. Alias AutoStudio Rhino or Blender).Proficiency in relevant presentation applications (e.g. PowerPoint Keynote or similar).Even better you may have...Exceptional creativity and demonstrated inventiveness towards features and functional solutions.Exceptional ability to translate customer and research inputs into relevant highly desirable and feasible product solutions.Exceptional communication skills through presentation and storytelling.Exceptional product design aesthetic sensibilities.Exceptional sketching visualization modelling and presentation skills.Exceptional 2D application skills (e.g. Photoshop Illustrator etc.).Exceptional 3D application skills (e.g. Alias AutoStudio VRED Rhino Maya or Blender).Demonstrated ability to lead projects and a team of people through the design process in a multidisciplinary team environment.Demonstrated ability to build low fidelity prototypes (e.g. hands-on with cardboard foam core wood laser cutting 3D printing) and understanding of production methods and prototyping processes.Demonstrated ability to translate design vision in animated story-form through creative use of digital presentation applications (including AI visualization tools).Demonstrated ability to develop design proposals from concept to production.You may not check every box or your experience may look a little different from what weve 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 builderor 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 Years Day Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.This position is a leadership level 6.For more information on salary and benefits click here: 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 the United States if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability please call 1-.This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid#FDCJOB #LI-SC3 Key Skills Administrative Skills,Facilities Management,Biotechnology,Creative Production,Design And Estimation,Architecture Employment Type : Full-Time Experience: years Vacancy: 1