Ford Motor Company

Exterior or Interior Designer

Ford Motor Company$86K — $150K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design, Transportation Design, or equivalent
  • 3-5 years of experience with production or advanced concepts
  • Experience working within the automotive industry
  • Automotive or Transportation Design experience with final product execution
  • Strong ability to translate 2D to 3D and think three-dimensionally with a focus on proportions and form

Responsibilities

  • Think creatively, strategically, and analytically
  • Create innovative interior design experiences and visions for projects
  • Coordinate the work of design personnel to achieve holistic design visions
  • Develop future brand-focused design concepts
  • Integrate digital and physical design thinking across platforms
  • Problem-solve around connectivity, mobility, and consumer segments

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave
  • Family building benefits including adoption reimbursement and fertility treatments
  • Vehicle discount program for employees and family members
  • Tuition assistance
  • Established employee resource groups
  • Paid time off for community service
  • Generous paid holidays, including time off between Christmas and New Year's
  • Paid time off with options to purchase additional vacation
Full Job Description
Job Description

The successful candidate will have to develop both conceptual and production based on Exterior solutions in the form of sketch, rendering and 3D digital models.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • Having the ability to think creatively, strategically, and analytically.
  • Create compelling and innovative interior design experiences and visions for Design Projects.
  • Coordinate the work of other design personnel to achieve holistic design visions.
  • Create future brand focused design visions.
  • Span digital and physical (software and hardware) thinking.
  • Problems solve around topics of connectivity, mobility and consumer segments.


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design, Transportation Design, or equivalent
  • 3-5 years of experience with production or advanced concepts.
  • Experience working within automotive industry
  • Automotive or Transportation Design experience; including experience with final design product execution,
  • Ability to translate 2D to 3D and think three-dimensionally with a strong emphasis on proportions and a refined sense of form also required.

Even better, you may have...
  • Ability to interpret customer needs and global trends into compelling design.
  • Ability to work independently and provide strong technical aesthetic judgment to lead team members.
  • Awareness of global automotive and consumer electronics to ensure Ford competes with the ability to lead.
  • Demonstrated creative interior design perceptions and capability. A design portfolio must be provided upon application.
  • Collaborate with Engineering, Suppliers and other partners to progress the design development.
  • Must have exceptional design intuition, strong problem-solving skills and a superior ability to visually communicate through sketches, and renderings.Global interior design experience.
  • Familiarizes self and maintains interest with design trends within and across design professions and global cultures (automotive, fashion, architectural, etc.)
  • Outstanding teamwork, leadership, visual, written, and verbal communication skills
  • Good understanding of interior manufacturing process and materials.
  • Passionate about automotive and mobility industry, global trends, innovation and customer needs
  • Experience of working in or with creative cultures
  • Experience of working in large, corporate environments
  • Experience of managing multiple stakeholders across complex projects
  • Experience of presenting to executive audiences


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 5-8 and ranges from $86,000 - $150,000.

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.

This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week.

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About Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company manufactures or distributes automobiles in addition to offering financial services. The company sells to dealerships for retail sales, and for sale to fleet customers, including commercial fleet customers, daily rental car companies, and governments. Ford’s vehicle portfolio includes automobiles, buses, tractors, and trucks. Retail financing includes retail installment sale contracts for new and used vehicles, and direct financing leases for new vehicles to retail customers, government entities, daily rental car companies, and fleet customers. Finance receivables in the non-consumer portfolio include products offered to automotive dealers. Ford’s environmental initiatives include compressed natural gas, flexible fuel vehicles, electric drive vehicles, Hydrogen, PC power management, and so on. Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford in 1903 and is headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan.

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Size
183,000 employees
Market Cap
$44.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$1.2 billion
Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
-2.1%
Revenue
$127.1 billion
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