Product Designer Senior

Data Insights & Analytics – Tech department crafts innovative services to prepare smart vehicles for a smart world. And here in the data science division, we apply user experience principles to ensure our methods serve our end users.

• Our Product Designers oversee a portfolio of product teams, identifying patterns and use cases across the portfolio to better serve their end users.
• They apply a design thinking mindset, user research skills, and business strategy to align teams around a human-centric roadmap.
• They collaborate closely with product owners, product managers, and fellow designers across their portfolio.
• Research chops, strong leadership skills, and diversity of experience are all a plus!

Skills Required:

• Facilitate and lead design thinking sessions/workshops with various technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Provide mentoring to fellow designers and team members on design best practices. • Evangelize UX across your portfolio of products, be a strong voice for Human Centered design.
• Balance user needs, business objectives and technical feasibility to solve problem effectively.
• Conduct generative user research such as contextual inquiry, ethnography, field research, user interviews, and usability testing.
• Transform user research into assets such as affinity walls, journey maps, empathy maps, story boards, personas, etc.
• Justify your research strategy and insights to stakeholders (un)familiar with the UX discipline.
• Work collaboratively with product owners, product managers, and fellow designers • Contribute to the design ecosystem by collaborating on our Design Playbook and Ford Design System (InvisionApp + DSM)
• Review quality of solution throughout the product development process.
• Measure and analyze product/idea growth and success through metrics setting and iterative review.

Skills Preferred:

• Empathy: curious about how other people work, live, and think, you will enjoy meeting the users of our products and stakeholders.
• Thinking: having ability to see things holistically to suggest/design the best suitable solution and bring clarity out of an ambiguous environment.

Experience Required:

• 5+ years of experience in the UX, Interaction and Visual Design.
• 2+ years of experience in user research.
• 2+ years of experience in facilitating design thinking and ideation workshops.

Experience Preferred:

• Passion for growing your skills, tackling challenging problems, and sharing your learnings with others.
• Ability to build credibility and trust with team members and senior leaders.
• Flexibility to work on initiatives with unclear and changing requirements.
• Product management experience
• Leadership experience
• Prior member of a lean/agile product team
• Experience with automotive or other highly technical industries.

Education Required: Bachelor’s degree.