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Ford Motor Company · 14 hours ago

UI Designer

Dearborn, MI

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Ford Motor Company is a global automotive leader focused on shaping the future of mobility. The UI Designer will tackle customer problems by creating polished interfaces, ensuring accessibility, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance user experiences.

AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesManufacturingTransportation

No H1B

Responsibilities

Own UI design execution for Global Digital product experiences, delivering polished, accessible, high-fidelity interfaces from concept through launch

Create development-ready design deliverables: responsive layouts, detailed mockups, component variants, interaction states (default/hover/active/focus/disabled), and annotated specs

Apply and evolve design system patterns to maintain consistency, speed delivery, and improve quality across teams

Design for accessibility and inclusivity by default (contrast, typography, focus states, keyboard patterns, readable layouts across devices)

Build interactive prototypes to validate interaction patterns, page behavior, and complex states, and to align quickly with partners

Partner with product, content, and engineering to shape user flows, information hierarchy, and page-level experiences that balance customer needs with business goals

Use data and feedback (site analytics, experiments, usability findings, customer input) to iterate designs and improve outcomes

Present work and rationale to stakeholders with clear storytelling, options, tradeoffs, and recommendations

Support implementation through close engineering collaboration, UI QA, and refinement to ensure what ships matches the intended experience

Contribute to near- and long-term experience vision across devices and locales, focusing on scalable UI patterns

Qualification

UI designHigh-fidelity interfacesFigmaVisual designResponsive designAccessibility designDesign thinkingUser researchAgile methodologyCollaboration

Required

Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience

5+ years of professional experience in UI design, product design, visual design, or UI roles with significant high-fidelity UI ownership

A portfolio demonstrating exceptional UI craft (layout, typography, hierarchy, interaction states) plus end-to-end product thinking, with case studies

Preferred

Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering or related field

Experience designing consumer-facing web or mobile product experiences at scale

Expert Figma skills (auto layout, components, variants, libraries), and comfort working within a design system

Strong visual design acumen demonstrated through owning product UI end-to-end and raising polish and consistency

Experience collaborating tightly with engineers and understanding front-end constraints and patterns (responsive behavior, performance considerations, frameworks)

Experience running or partnering on discovery and validation (interviews, usability testing) and translating insights into shipped improvements

Familiarity with Agile/Lean delivery and iterative release cycles

Experience designing for global markets, localization, and content variability

Desire to thrive in a fast-moving environment