Title: Product Designer Location: Dearborn, MI ( Hybrid Model 2- 3 days per week) Duration: Full Time

HYBRID: "This role is hybrid, which means the candidate must be located within a drivable distance to Dearborn, MI. Also, the candidate if selected might be asked to come into the office up to 2 or 3 days per week.

Job Details
Our Lead Product Designers oversee a portfolio of product teams, identifying patterns and use cases across the portfolio to better serve their end users. They apply a design thinking mindset, user research skills, and business strategy to align teams around a human-centric roadmap. They collaborate closely with product owners, product managers, and fellow designers across their portfolio.

Skills Required:

Position Responsibilities • Facilitate and lead design thinking sessions/workshops with various technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Provide mentoring to fellow designers and team members on design best practices. • Evangelize UX across your portfolio of products, be a strong voice for Human Centered design. • Balance user needs, business objectives and technical feasibility to solve problem effectively. • Conduct generative user research such as contextual inquiry, ethnography, field research, user interviews, and usability testing. • Transform user research into assets such as affinity walls, journey maps, empathy maps, story boards, personas, etc. • Justify your research strategy and insights to stakeholders (un)familiar with the UX discipline • Work collaboratively with strategy, product owners, product managers, and fellow designers • Contribute to the design ecosystem at Ford by collaborating on our Design Playbook and Ford Design System (InvisionApp DSM)

Experience Required:

• 5 years of experience in UX, Interaction and Visual Design • 2 years of experience in application of various user research methodologies • 2 years of experience in facilitating design thinking and ideation workshops

Education Required:

Bachelors or Master’s degree in human-computer interaction, digital media design or equivalent • Passion for growing your skills, tackling challenging problems, and sharing your learnings with others • Ability to build credibility and trust with team members and senior leaders • Flexibility to work on initiatives with unclear and changing requirements • Product management experience • Leadership experience • Prior member of a lean/agile product team • Experience with automotive or other highly technical industries

Education Preferred:

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