Join us in shaping the future of Ford Motor Company, as part of a global organization with exceptional colleagues in world-class facilities. As part of Ford Design, you’ll be at the cutting edge of Ford’s most strategically critical work, designing people and society’s needs into the heart of our next generation of products, services, and experiences.
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, and prescription drug coverage
- Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare 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
For a detailed look at our benefits, click here
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 committed to a culturally diverse workforce. 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.
Office location: Dearborn, MI, United States (Hybrid)
Open Positions:
- Color & Material Designer
- Senior Exterior Lighting Designer
- Senior Interior/Components Designer
Color & Material Designer
Join our Color and Material Design team to set the vision for the development and direction of interior, exterior, color and material designs for Ford and Lincoln Programs. We are seeking designers that thrive in a fast-paced environment to deliver impactful designs, designers that create innovative designs that impact human centric thinking, have a strong design leadership, and positive critical thinking skills.
Apply for this role here. Learn more about other opportunities from Ford Design here.
What you’ll do:
- Develop and guide color and materials designs through digital presentations and renderings for concept and production vehicles.
- Collaborate with cross functional teams to drive successful global relationships with both internal, external partners and suppliers.
- Work with other color & material designers to strategize in the development of textiles, forecast trends, and research.
- Create and validate color, texture, gloss, and finish, as necessary.
- Support all program timing, ensuring program and project deliverables are met within the program targets.
- Create color palettes that align the Ford and Lincoln brands and target market audiences.
- Participate in design reviews, meetings, and effectively present color and material designs to key stakeholders.
- Conduct research on current trends, sustainable materials, colors and finishes and present findings to internal and cross functional teams.
- Work with mastering and engineering functional teams to assess materials and ensure colors and materials meet performace expectaions.
What you’ll have:
- Bachelor’s degree in industrial design, fine arts, fashion textiles, or related field.
- 2+ years of experience in automotive/industrial/mobility color and material design or development including work in product design or textile design (internship and/or co-op experience allowed)
- A portfolio submission in addition to a resume in required. Portfolio needs to exhibit color and material designs to be considered.
Even better if:
- Expertise and knowledge of 3D prototyping, property builds, etc.
- Working level knowledge of fabrics and trims associated with the development process.
- Ability to effectively communicate designs and strategy direction with cross functional teams.
- Must be self-motivated, adaptable, flexible, and able to multi-task.
- Strong, demostrated understanding or color theory (hue, value, chroma, etc).
- Proficiency in Adobe Suite tools (i.e., Photoshop, Illustrator, VRED) and Microsoft Suite tools (i.e, PowerPoint, Excel).
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 the Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!
APPLY: Color & Material Designer
Senior Exterior Lightings Designer
Join us in shaping the future of Ford Motor Company, as part of a global organization with exceptional colleagues in world-class facilities. As part of Ford Design, you’ll be at the cutting edge of Ford’s most strategically critical work, designing people and society’s needs into the heart of our next generation of products, services, and experiences.
Apply for this role here. Learn more about other opportunities from Ford Design here.
What you’ll do:
- Create compelling and innovative lighting design experiences and visions for design projects.
- Create human centered design experience with emphasis in exterior design holistic experience.
- Coordinate the work of other design personnel to achieve holistic deisgn visions.
- Create futured lighting design visions, focused on the building our brand.
- Span digital and physical (software and hardware) thinking.
- Solve problems around topics or connectivity, mobility, and consumer segments.
What you’ll have:
- A portfolio demonstrating experience in exterior and/or interior lighting design.
- Bachelor’s degree in industrial design, transportation design, or similar.
- 4+ years’ automotive or transportation design experience; including experience specific to lighting conceptual design and final product execution.
- Ability to think creatively, strategically, and analytically.
- Ability to work independently and provide strong technical aesthetic judgment to lead team members.
- Awareness of global automotive lighting technology and trends to ensure Ford competes with the ability to lead.
- Demonstrating creative exterior/interior/component design perceptions and capability.
- Collaborate with engineering, suppliers and other partners to progress the design development.
- Exceptional design intuition, strong problem-solving skills, and a superior ability to visually communicate through sketches, and rendering.
- 4+ years of experience translating 2D to 3D and think three-dimensionally with a strong emphasis on proportions and a refined sense of form also required.
- 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.
Even better, you may have:
- Global exterior design experience.
- Proficiency in 3D CAD (Alias or simliar) and visualization tools (VRED, Unreal)
- Good understanding of exterior/interior manufacturing process and materials.
- Passion 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 the Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!
APPLY: Senior Exterior lightings Designer
Senior Interior/Components Designer
Ford Motor Company is looking for a highly creative/strategic Senior Interior Designer for our design studios in Dearborn. Working on Advanced & Production Interior projects, the successful candidate will have to develop both conceptual and production based on Interior solutions in the form of sketch, rendering and 3D digital models.
Apply for this role here. Learn more about other opportunities from Ford Design here.
What you’ll do:
- Create compelling and innovative interior design experiences and visions for Design Projects.
- Explore Human Centered Design experience with emphasis in Interior Design holistic experience.
- 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.
- Solve problems around topics of connectivity, mobility, and consumer segments.
You’ll have:
- Bachelor’s degree in industrial design, transportation design, or similar field of study or a combination of education and equivalent experience.
- 5+ years automotive or transportation design experience; including experience with final design product execution.
- 5+ years of experience translating 2D to 3D and think three-dimensionally with a strong emphasis on proportions and a refined sense of form also required.
- A design portfolio (pdf) must be provided upon application.
Even better, you may have:
- Ability to think creatively, strategically, and analytically.
- Global interior design experience.
- Good understanding of exterior/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 managing multiple stakeholders across complex projects.
- Experience of presenting to executive audiences.
- 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 exterior/interior design perceptions and capability. A design portfolio (pdf) must be provided upon application.
- Collaborate with engineering, suppliers, and other partners to progress the design development.
- Exceptional design intuition, strong problem-solving skills and a superior ability to visually communicate through sketches, and renderings.
- Familiarizes self and maintains interest with design trends within and acorss design professions and global cultures (automotive, fashion, architectural, etc.)
- Outstanding teamwork, leadership, visual written, and verbal communication skills.
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!
APPLY: Senior Interior/Components Designer
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