Digital Product Designer - Core Apps

Ford • Palo Alto, CA

3d • $68,300 - $185,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Digital Product Designer will help deliver Ford’s experience strategy through UI/UX solutions for current and future vehicles. As part of the Core Experience team, the role focuses on designing customer-facing vehicle apps and experiences that bring together hardware, software, and customer needs. The designer will work closely with design, engineering, product, and research partners to develop intuitive interactions aligned with customer expectations, technical realities, and business objectives.

The role involves turning early concepts into thorough, testable design solutions and prototypes, developing and adapting design systems and components, and supporting implementation with development and engineering partners. The designer will also help shape the Core UX team’s processes and ways of working, and craft and present design strategy to leadership through ongoing review cycles.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience in Digital Product Design or a related field.
• At least 3 years of experience in relevant product design roles.
• At least 2 years of experience working on product teams comprising designers, engineers, and product managers.
• Strength in systems thinking and mapping end-to-end customer journeys.
• Strong communication and storytelling skills, including the ability to explain complex ideas clearly and compellingly.
• High proficiency in Figma and prototyping tools for creating customer flows and rapid prototypes.
• Ability to deliver impactful design solutions that integrate UX, visual design, content, research, and technical constraints into cohesive, user-focused experiences.
• Ability to work within current frameworks, design systems, and product requirements.
• Ability to work independently and build collaborative relationships across partner functions.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating thoughtfully crafted design projects, user experience principles, and design processes.

Nice To Haves

• Exceptional visual design skills and proficiency in human-centered design approaches.
• Experience in UX, interaction, and experience design within complex ecosystems.
• Comfort working in ambiguous spaces where outcomes are not yet defined.
• Ability to adapt to evolving demands and pivot efforts toward new directions and goals.
• Self-starter who is organized and can prioritize and manage tasks.
• Skill collaborating across multiple teams and building connections between design, engineering, and strategy.
• Ability to travel to various office locations to experience and test hardware in person.

Responsibilities

• Help shape digital experiences for Ford and Lincoln vehicles.
• Work with a cross-disciplinary team to create interfaces that meet customer expectations and provide simple, intuitive vehicle interactions.
• Translate early concepts into thoughtful, thorough, testable design solutions and prototypes.
• Collaborate across design, engineering, and product teams to align experiences with customer needs, technical realities, and business objectives.
• Iterate on digital products and apps and support their implementation with development and engineering partners.
• Design, manage, and adapt design systems, components, and prototypes.
• Craft, coordinate, and present design strategy to leadership and executives through ongoing review cycles with product, engineering, and research partners.
• Help shape ways of working and processes to increase efficiency for the Digital Product Design team.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized back-up child care.
• Family-building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement and fertility treatments.
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases.
• Tuition assistance.
• Employee resource groups.
• Paid time off for individual and team community service.
• Paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day.
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level