Senior Interaction Designer

Ford Motor Company

Senior Interaction Designer at Ford creating prototypes for Universal Electric Vehicle experiences. Collaborating with design and engineering teams to drive innovation and usability.

Posted 4/15/2026full-timePalo Alto • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $115,000 - $232,700 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Rapidly prototype next-generation UEV experiences across digital and physical touchpoints.
Translate early concepts into interactive and functional prototypes that clarify journeys, flows, and interaction models.
Support design reviews, leadership demos, and milestone presentations with compelling prototypes.
Build prototypes to enable usability testing, customer clinics, and real-world validation.
Iterate quickly based on feedback from research, engineering, and product partners.
Develop reusable prototyping patterns and workflows that scale across the UEV platform.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelors or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
5+ years of experience creating prototypes across multiple levels of fidelity
Comfort working across design and engineering disciplines
Solid understanding of interaction design, UI architecture, and systems thinking
Ability to communicate ideas clearly through prototypes and storytelling
Experience working in fast-paced, iterative, cross-functional environments.
Experience with automotive HMI, IVI, or embedded systems (even better)
Familiarity with electrification, energy, charging, or power-management experiences (even better)
Experience supporting research studies or customer clinics (even better)
Ability to prototype both digital and physical interactions (even better).

Benefits

Comp & perks

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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

prototypinginteraction designUI architecturesystems thinkingusability testingcustomer clinicsdigital interactionsphysical interactionsautomotive HMIembedded systems

Soft Skills

communicationstorytellingiterationcollaborationadaptabilityproblem-solvingcreativityfeedback incorporationcross-functional teamworkpresentation skills

Certifications

Bachelor's degree