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Ford Motor Company · 2 hours ago

Industrial Design Lead

Dearborn, MI

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

5+ years exp

Ford Motor Company is a global organization seeking an Industrial Design Lead to shape the future of their products and services. In this role, you will lead a design team, drive innovation, and collaborate with stakeholders to create impactful physical product solutions based on user insights.

AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesManufacturingTransportation

No H1B

Responsibilities

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

Qualification

Industrial DesignPrototypingDesign VisualizationAdobe Creative Suite3D Modeling SoftwarePresentation ApplicationsSketchingVisualization SkillsLeadershipCommunication SkillsCreativity

Required

Bachelor's 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)

Preferred

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