Manager, Design
Ford Motor Company
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Dearborn • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Champion and direct design initiatives across licensees, suppliers and agencies, ensuring excellence and brand consistency.
- Lead the development and deployment of style guides to establish design guidelines that define, elevate, and evolve the aesthetic of our consumer products.
- Contribute creative expertise to support high-impact marketing activations; key brand moments; strategic partners meetings; retail marketing materials; and industry events and tradeshows.
- Stay ahead of the curve by deeply understanding consumer insights and market trends that shape design trends and drive customer demand for branded merchandise.
Requirements
- Bachelors degree required
- 5+ year design experience in consumer goods
- Ability to manage multiple programs simultaneously and deliver against timelines
- Ability to travel to key partner meetings, activations, and tradeshows as needed (up to 25%)
- Prior fashion apparel, Retail, and/or eCommerce experience
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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
design initiativesstyle guidesdesign guidelinesconsumer insightsmarket trendsmarketing activationsbrand consistencyretail marketing materialstradeshowsconsumer products
Soft skills
leadershipcreativityproject managementtime managementcommunicationcollaborationstrategic thinkingadaptabilityproblem-solvingmultitasking
Certifications
Bachelor's degree