Director, Product Design
Abridge
Product Designer, Customer Journey
Ford Motor Company
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Palo Alto • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Leading the design of features and improvements of our products ensuring they align with business objectives and user needs.
- Using Figma and UX tools to develop vehicle features and compelling user experiences.
- Taking ownership of independent tracks of design work and managing timelines and deliverables.
- Developing and iterating user flows, mock-ups and prototypes to effectively communicate design ideas.
- Applying data driven insights to inform design decisions and measure the impact of design changes.
- Expressing our brand vision through user interface design for in-vehicle experiences.
- Executing designs with a keen sensibility to layout, color, typography and interactive behavior.
- Exhibiting a passion for emerging hardware and software technologies, new interaction models, product design, and excellence in visual design.
- Collaborating close with Product Management, Engineering and Feature Teams to ensure a seamless transition from concept to implementation.
- Employing a systematic approach to solving large, complex design challenges.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or a combination of education and equivalent experience
- 3+ years experience working across a triad of designers, engineers and product
- 1+ years experience collaborating with Product Requirement Documents (PRD's)
- Demonstrated experience with end-to-end design work required
- High performing prototyping abilities (e.g. Figma, ProtoPie or similar)
- Proof-points/experience owning work from ideation to delivery. This includes experience working directly with Engineering & Product Management teams to deliver design files, design assets, and documentation required to produce a launch-able product.
- Proven experience collaborating with Engineering teams to solve development issues through design, monitoring customer feedback and product analytics, and refining design in response to incoming feedback and data.
- Experience working in Jira, owning tasks that map to delivery stage for engineering
- Experience with iteratively designing a product in production based on usage and customer feedback
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
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Hard skills
user interface designprototypinguser flowsmock-upsdata driven designvisual designinteraction designdesign documentationend-to-end designdesign iteration
Soft skills
leadershipcollaborationownershipproblem solvingcommunicationtime managementattention to detailcreativityadaptabilitypassion for design
Certifications
Bachelor's degree
