Senior Experience Designer

Ford Motor Company

Senior Experience Designer at Ford focusing on human-centered design for vehicles and user interactions. Crafting compelling physical-led experiences through research insights and design principles.

Posted 5/16/2026full-timeDearborn • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $86,600 - $144,900 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Contribute to defining experience opportunities by understanding user needs and business goals, specifically focusing on the intersection of the vehicle and the user.
Participate actively in design research activities, applying various methodologies to gather insights from physical interactions.
Translate customer and user insights into tangible design concepts. Use high-fidelity graphic design and narrative techniques to create compelling design briefs and experience visions.
Create quick, iterative prototypes—ranging from low-fidelity physical mock-ups and digital wireframes to test and validate design concepts in a physical context.
Assist in defining comprehensive experience requirements, documenting key enablers, user needs, and system requirements for both physical and digital touchpoints.
Support the application of brand-based experience content strategies through product concepting and design ideation, ensuring the "feel" of the physical product aligns with the brand.
Collaborate with program teams to ensure the consistent application of brand-based experiences and help ensure they are delivered within the constraints of the program.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Degree in Design Methods, User Experience Design, Interaction Design, Industrial Design, Anthropology, or a related technical field.
3+ years of experience in experience design, with focus on the conception, user validation, and delivery of physical products as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
Experience contributing to the strategy, design, development, or launch of B2B or B2C facing products or services.
Excellent verbal, written, and visual presentation skills.
Even better, you may have...
Master’s degree in Design Methods, User Experience Design, Interaction Design, Industrial Design, Anthropology, or a related technical field.
5+ years of experience in experience/service design, with focus on the conception, user validation, and product development.
Experience with design research (user), concepting, ideation, and iterative prototyping.
Familiarity in human-centered design methods and processes including opportunity identification from insights, research evaluation techniques, framing challenges, iterative workflows; and proficiency with journey mapping and service blueprinting. (Proficiency with relevant design and prototyping tools like Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Sketch, etc.)
Experience facilitating in or assisting with workshops to develop design solutions (feasibility / viability).
Awareness of relevant technologies, trends, and techniques in design.
Understanding of automotive industry, design practices and general product development processes.

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

experience designuser validationdesign researchconceptingideationiterative prototypingjourney mappingservice blueprintingdesign methodsproduct development

Soft Skills

verbal presentation skillswritten presentation skillsvisual presentation skillscollaborationcommunication

Certifications

Master’s degree in Design MethodsMaster’s degree in User Experience DesignMaster’s degree in Interaction DesignMaster’s degree in Industrial DesignMaster’s degree in Anthropology