Exterior Lighting Designer

Ford Motor • Dearborn, MI

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Ford Motor Company is looking for a highly creative/strategic Senior Lighting Designer for our design studios in Dearborn. Working on Advanced & Production lighting projects, the successful candidate will have to develop both conceptual and production lighting design solutions in the form of sketch, rendering, and 3D digital models. 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.

Requirements

• 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 interpret customer needs and global trends into compelling lighting design visions.
• Ability to work independently and provide strong technical aesthetic judgment to lead team members.
• Awareness of global automotive lighting technology, regulations and trends to ensure Ford competes with the ability to lead.
• Demonstrated creative exterior/interior/component design perceptions and capability.
• A design portfolio (pdf) must be provided upon application.
• Must have 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.
• Outstanding teamwork, leadership, visual, written, and verbal communication skills

Nice To Haves

• Global exterior design experience.
• Proficiency in 3D CAD (Alias or Similar) visualization, and Animation tools (VRED, Unreal, After Effects)
• 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 working in large, corporate environments
• Experience of managing multiple stakeholders across complex projects
• Experience of presenting to executive audiences

Responsibilities

• 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 design visions.
• Create futured lighting design visions, focused on the building our brand.
• Span digital and physical (software and hardware) thinking.
• Problems solve around topics of connectivity, mobility, and consumer segments.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Suppliers and other partners to progress the design development.
• Familiarizes self and maintains interest with design trends within and across design professions and global cultures (automotive, fashion, architectural, etc.)

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

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