Designer - Lighting

We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.

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.

In this position...

Ford Motor Company is looking for a highly creative/strategic Senior Lighting Designer for our design studios in Dearborn. Working on Advanced & Production lighting projects, the successful candidate will have to develop both conceptual and production lighting design solutions in the form of sketch, rendering, and 3D digital models.

What you'll do...

• Having the ability to think creatively, strategically, and analytically.
• Create compelling and innovative lighting design experiences and visions for Design Projects.
• Create Human Centered Design experience with emphasis in Exterior Design holistic experience.
• Coordinate the work of other design personnel to achieve holistic design visions.
• Create futured lighting design visions, focused on the building our brand.
• Span digital and physical (software and hardware) thinking.
• Problems solve around topics of connectivity, mobility, and consumer segments.

You’ll have...

Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design, Transportation Design, or similar

4+ years’ Automotive or Transportation Design experience; including experience specific to lighting conceptual design and final product execution.

Ability to interpret customer needs and global trends into compelling lighting design visions.

Ability to work independently and provide strong technical aesthetic judgment to lead team members.

Awareness of global automotive lighting technology, regulations and trends to ensure Ford competes with the ability to lead.

Demonstrated creative exterior/interior/component design perceptions and capability. A design portfolio (pdf) must be provided upon application.

Collaborate with Engineering, Suppliers and other partners to progress the design development.

Must have exceptional design intuition, strong problem-solving skills and a superior ability to visually communicate through sketches, and rendering,

4+ years of experience translating 2D to 3D and think three-dimensionally with a strong emphasis on proportions and a refined sense of form also required.

Familiarizes self and maintains interest with design trends within and across design professions and global cultures (automotive, fashion, architectural, etc.)

Outstanding teamwork, leadership, visual, written, and verbal communication skills

Even better, you may have...

Proficiency in 3D CAD (Alias or Similar) visualization, and Animation tools (VRED, Unreal, After Effects)

Good understanding of exterior/interior manufacturing process and materials.

Passionate about automotive and mobility industry, global trends, innovation and customer needs

Experience of working in or with creative cultures

Experience of working in large, corporate environments

Experience of managing multiple stakeholders across complex projects

Experience of presenting to executive audiences

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a change maker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above?

No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, 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…