Description
At Ford Motor Company, we're transforming the future of transportation. As a Senior Lighting Designer, you'll play a critical role in shaping the company's next-generation products and experiences.
Job Description
Join us in shaping the future of Ford Motor Company, as part of a global organization with exceptional colleagues in world-class facilities. As part of Ford Design, you'll be at the cutting edge of Ford's most strategically critical work, designing people and society's needs into the heart of our next generation of products, services, and experiences.
Responsibilities
As a Senior Lighting Designer, you'll develop conceptual and production lighting design solutions for advanced and production lighting projects. Your responsibilities will include:
- Creating compelling and innovative lighting design experiences and visions for design projects
- Developing human-centered design experiences with an emphasis on exterior design holistic experience
- Coordinating the work of other design personnel to achieve holistic design visions
- Creating future lighting design visions focused on building our brand
- Spanning digital and physical thinking, including software and hardware
- Problem-solving around topics of connectivity, mobility, and consumer segments
Qualifications
To be successful in this role, you'll need:
- A bachelor's degree in Industrial Design, Transportation Design, or a similar field
- 4+ years of experience in automotive or transportation design, including experience specific to lighting conceptual design and final product execution
- The ability to interpret customer needs and global trends into compelling lighting design visions
- Strong technical aesthetic judgment to lead team members
- Awareness of global automotive lighting technology, regulations, and trends
- Demonstrated creative exterior/interior/component design perceptions and capability
- Exceptional design intuition, strong problem-solving skills, and a superior ability to visually communicate through sketches and renderings
- 4+ years of experience translating 2D to 3D and thinking three-dimensionally with a strong emphasis on proportions and a refined sense of form
- Familiarity with design trends within and across design professions and global cultures
- Outstanding teamwork, leadership, visual, written, and verbal communication skills
Benefits
We offer a range of benefits, including:
- 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
Salary
The salary grade range for this position is 7-8, with a range of $86,600 - $166,200.