The Senior Industrial Designer will work under the direction of the Global Brand Design Manager to bring the corporate brand identity to life on Ford and Lincoln vehicles through innovative and visually compelling badging and branding elements. This role involves translating the brand vision into tangible designs that enhance the vehicle's appeal and ensure brand consistency. You will help lead and shape the visual identity of the company across the vehicle portfolio and drive brand excellence through innovative and brand-aligned vehicle designs.
The Brand Expression team is a highly effective, highly collaborative, and produces high impact projects. We are Small and Mighty. The individual for this role will take initiative, problem solve together, receive feedback – apply quickly, fail fast and collaborate with multiple SMEs and support to deliver Class-A surface.
Responsibilities
What you'll do...
- Brand Translation: Develop and refine compelling design concepts for vehicle badging and branding elements, ensuring alignment with the overarching corporate brand identity that provide visual interest to our customers.
- Collaboration: Work closely with our engineering, shops (for prototyping) and studio design teams to ensure a unified visual language across all vehicle designs.
- Prototyping: Create detailed sketches, 3D models and prototypes of badging and branding elements that effectively communicate design intent and functionality.
- Trend Integration: Stay updated on industry trends and integrate relevant trends into design concepts to keep the brand innovative and forward-thinking.
- Technical Feasibility: Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure designs are feasible and can be effectively manufactured. Supporting engineering to create class A- surface
- Feedback Incorporation: ability to receive feedback and iterate and evolve designs based on stakeholder input.
- Presentation: Be able to present your work to the Director of GBX. Collaborate and support - gbx team in preparing and delivering compelling presentations to communicate design concepts and progress to internal teams and external partners.
- Brand Consistency: Act as a protector of the brand identity, ensuring all designs maintain brand consistency and adhere to established guidelines.
- Documentation: Maintain and follow the detailed documentation of design files, design processes, decisions, and project milestones.
- Mentorship: Provide guidance and support to our team and partners, fostering a culture of creativity and excellence.
Qualifications
You'll have...
- Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design, Automotive Design, or a related field.
- Experience: 5+ years of experience in Industrial Design, preferably within the automotive industry.
- Proficiency in 3D design software such as Alias, VRED, and Adobe Creative Suite.
- Strong understanding of automotive design principles and manufacturing processes.
- Excellent visual, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to create high-quality, sketches, 3D models and renderings.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think creatively.
- Detail-oriented with a keen eye for consistency and quality.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience with design thinking methodologies and user-centered design.
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:
• 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 Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $96,720-166,200.
Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.
For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR
Visa 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 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.
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
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Automotive Design, or related field
- 5+ years of experience in Industrial Design
- Experience in the automotive industry (preferred but not strictly required)
- Proficiency in 3D design software such as Alias, VRED, and Adobe Creative Suite
- Strong understanding of automotive design principles and manufacturing processes
- Ability to create high-quality sketches, 3D models, and renderings
- Experience creating Class-A surfaces and supporting engineering for manufacturability
- Excellent visual, written, and verbal communication skills
- Experience with design thinking methodologies and user-centered design
- Detail-oriented with strong problem-solving skills and ability to iterate based on feedback
- Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment and present to leadership
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States (visa sponsorship not available)
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