# Color & Material Designer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $74,300 - $166,200
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

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

## Skills

### Required
- Industrial Design
- Color and Material Design
- 3D visualization
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Adobe Suite
- Microsoft Suite
- Generative AI
- Color Theory
- Materials Innovation
- Trend-based Research

### Nice to have
- Master's degree in Industrial Design or related discipline
- Automotive CMF Design experience
- Expertise in 3D prototyping
- Working level knowledge of fabrics and trims

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