Senior UX/UI Designer - Design Systems

📋 Description

• Join Ford to drive the vision, strategy, and implementation of the Ford.com Web Design System.

• Utilize design expertise to balance web design standards alongside business goals, branding aesthetics, and marketing needs.

• Work with teams of designers and developers to ensure consistency across different tech stacks.

• Conduct workshops/design audits to drive the design system forward and engage with teams for adoption.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in fine arts, design, or computer science, or equivalent work experience.

• Minimum of 5+ years of professional experience in a user experience design or digital web design role, either in-house or at an established agency supporting global brands.

• Design portfolio that highlights design systems you have contributed to; or a strong portfolio of work that demonstrates designing for end-to-end experiences, and contributing to multiple stages of product development lifecycles. (Please include portfolio password on résumé)

• Strong working knowledge of Figma components, variants, variables, collections, and modes.

• Excellent collaborative and problem-solving skills, and willingness to adapt and learn new technologies.

• Great skill or mastery of Figma components, variants, variables, collections, and modes.

• Understanding of modern front-end technologies and frameworks.

• Basic knowledge of markdown, html and css, and familiarity with basic git operations.

• Experience with conforming to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

• Experience designing for consumer auto experiences, dealer experiences, storefronts, e-commerce, or financing workflows.

• Ability to create interactive experiences with prototyping software that can support user testing or proof of concepts.

• Experience working and collaborating with diverse teams in a dynamic, rapid-growth environment.

• Desire to thrive in a fast-moving environment.

🏖️ 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 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.