# Visual Design Lead

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $150,000-$250,000
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

As a leader on Ford’s Digital Product Design Team, you'll be at the heart of designing products that drive this revolution - inspiring your peers and pushing the industry.

The Visual Design Lead within our Design DNA team plays a vital role in this future state by helping our Digital Product Design team reimagine how people interface with Ford vehicles , through the visual design of the in-vehicle experience, connected devices and mobile applications.

## Responsibilities

What you'll do...

- Work cross-functionally with leadership and fellow designers within Digital Product Design to establish and codify the "Look and feel" of the Ford and Lincoln digital experiences in-vehicle and beyond

- Work to define, create, and guide standards for visual and motion design - including developing the visual design guidelines/standards for Digital Product Design

- Problem-solve alongside UX designers to deliver high-quality, on-brand experiences to the digital space

- Lead the development of "exemplar" work product in visual design

- Work with design teams to up-level presentation and prototyping through visual and motion execution

- Work with engineering teams to guide them towards visual design execution at the highest standard, with consistency

- Participate in design reviews, supplying guidance and constructive feedback in service of delivering world-class products and experiences

- Manage communication with internal colleagues and stakeholders

- Utilize consumer research, benchmarking and knowledge of the automotive space to drive considered responses to evolving the visual design language

## Qualifications

You'll have...

- Bachelor's degree in graphic design, UI/UX design, digital product design or related field, or a combination of education and equivalent experience

- Strong visual design skills and experience building/extending complex digital design languages is a must

- Strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual design skills for digital products, including a strong understanding of layout, hierarchy, typography, color theory, and iconography within interactive contexts

- 6+ years of dedicated experience in Visual UI/UX design for complex digital products and consumer-facing brands

- 6+ years’ experience within (product side or consultancy) highly collaborative creative teams

- A good attitude that inspires those around you while providing pertinent, actionable feedback

Even better, you may have...

- Experience of working closely with multi-disciplinary product teams comprised of researchers, designers, product managers and engineers

- Proficiency with modern UI design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Protopie, Adobe CS, AE, 3D animation tools, Rive)

- Passionate about brand and digital product design

- Extensive experience designing digital design experiences for key touch points across the customer journey

- Extensive experience developing brand guidelines and/or standards for user interfaces; including color, typography, iconography, imagery, and all GUI (Graphical User Interfaces) elements

- Experience of developing digital services and bringing products or services to market

- Experience mentoring and/or managing others in the visual design field

- Passionate about automotive and transportation industry

- Strong verbal, written and visual presentation skills

## Benefits

We offer:

- 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.

## Skills

### Required
- visual design
- UI/UX design
- digital product design
- graphic design

### Nice to have
- Figma
- Protopie
- Adobe CS
- AE
- 3D animation tools
- Rive
- brand design

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