Senior Industrial Designer - Components

Ford Motor Company • Dearborn, MI

3d • $99,100 - $166,200 • Hybrid

About The Position

Ford Motor Company is seeking a creative and strategic designer for its Dearborn design studios, working on advanced and production interior projects and products. The designer will develop conceptual and production interior solutions through sketches, renderings, and 3D digital models. Ford’s Physical Interaction design team delivers design across Ford Blue, Ford Pro, and Model-e, with a focus on customer experience and the future of transportation. This role involves creating human-centered, brand-focused experiences that address connectivity, mobility, and customer needs, spanning both digital and physical design.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in industrial design, transportation design, or a similar field, or a combination of education and equivalent experience.
• At least 4 years of design experience, including experience with final design product execution.
• At least 4 years of experience translating 2D designs into 3D and thinking three-dimensionally, with a strong emphasis on proportions and a refined sense of form.
• Provide a design portfolio in PDF format with the application.

Nice To Haves

• Product design or interior design experience.
• Understanding of exterior and interior manufacturing processes and materials.
• Passion for the automotive and mobility industry, global trends, innovation, and customer needs.
• Experience working in or with creative cultures.
• Experience working in large corporate environments.
• Ability to interpret customer needs and global trends into compelling design.
• Ability to work independently with a strong work ethic.
• Awareness of global automotive and consumer electronics industries.
• Demonstrated creative product or interior design perception and capability.
• Ability to collaborate with internal and external partners.
• Exceptional design intuition, strong problem-solving skills, and superior visual communication through sketches and renderings.
• Interest in design trends across professions and global cultures, including automotive, fashion, product, and architecture.
• Outstanding teamwork, leadership, visual, written, and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Create compelling and innovative interior design experiences and visions for design projects.
• Explore human-centered design experiences with an emphasis on holistic interior design.
• Coordinate the work of other design personnel to achieve holistic design visions.
• Create future brand-focused design visions.
• Bring together digital and physical design thinking, including software and hardware.
• Solve design problems related to connectivity, mobility, and consumer segments.
• Develop conceptual and production interior solutions using sketches, renderings, and 3D digital models.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized backup 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: Senior