Color & Material Designer

Join Ford Motor Company's Color & Material team as a designer to shape the future of their products, services, and experiences. As a Color & Material Designer, you will create, curate, and deliver Color, Material, and Finish (CMF) solutions that influence and enhance the current automotive landscape.

Responsibilities:

• Create, curate, and deliver CMF solutions and specify all CMF applications on the exterior and interior of vehicles.
• Ideate and create overall CMF design using concepts that embody a creative narrative, advanced functionality, and innovative user experience.
• Ensure integration of complex CMF into the overall vehicle design and alignment with cross-functional teams.
• Collaborate with external vendors and internal teams to translate new designs into visual samples.
• Partner with teammates in analysis of future consumer trends to identify brand-relevant CMF narratives.
• Develop digital and physical CMF presentations that embody the creative narrative and accurately depict design intent.
• Support all program timing, ensuring program and project deliverables are met within program targets.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design, Color and Material Design, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 2 years of related work experience with a Master's degree or 5 years with a Bachelor's degree.
• Automotive CMF Design experience preferred.
• 3D visualization skills.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Highly collaborative and proactive.
• Ability to effectively communicate in various formats.
• Knowledge of the Colors and Materials design process.
• Self-motivated, adaptable, flexible, and able to multi-task.
• Demonstrated understanding of color theory.
• Proficient in Adobe Suite tools (Photoshop, Illustrator, VRED) and Microsoft Suite tools (PowerPoint, Excel).
• Experience leveraging generative AI tools.
• Demonstrated capability in strategy creation and stewardship.
• Knowledge of materials innovation and emerging technologies.
• Proven experience in color development.
• Strong capability in trend-based research and forecasting.

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.
• Tuition assistance.
• Established and active employee resource groups.
• Paid time off for individual and team community service.
• A generous schedule of paid holidays.
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

Salary: $74,300 - $166,200