Digital Product Design at Ford is committed to envisioning and creating simple, thoughtful, enjoyable, and compelling product experiences that our customers need and love. Our team is comprised of a dynamic group of product designers, researchers, visual designers, industrial designers, modelers, and program managers. We work in close partnership with product and engineering to deliver best-in-class interactive experiences that meet the needs of people today, and in the future.
We are looking for a program manager to support our final production ready design team. They will play a crucial role in enabling our design teams to rapidly validate, update, and iterate on production designs, ensuring quality handoffs to engineering.
The ideal candidate will work under experienced Program Management team leadership to drive process improvements, manage timelines across multiple concurrent features, and utilize tools like Jira and Figma to maintain Ford’s high standards for digital excellence. They will leverage data and automation tools to monitor progress, identify trends and identify opportunities for designers across the organization. The position requires a blend of design sensibility and program management rigor to deliver with quality and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
Specific tasks and responsibilities
Maintain and improve the system for tracking and managing reviews of production designs for new features and changes to existing features
Owns and facilitates recurring and ad hoc meetings, ensuring correct participants, agenda and follow through
Identify and implement improvements to the review process flow, leveraging automations and tools
Manages delivery execution across multiple concurrent features and program
Enforce protocols for Digital Product Design Figma files and Jira tickets, including hands-on editing as needed
Develop, maintain and share documentation for processes and tools
Monitor progress against milestones and identify risks and slippage, escalating and coordinating re‑planning activities as needed
Integrates trends and data, including cycle time and dependencies into plans, deliverables and recommendations.
Support analysis of cycle time and dependencies to inform planning
Share knowledge and best practices with the design team
Contribute to a culture of experimentation, innovation, and growth mindset
Minimum Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in industrial design, human centered design, product management, engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
3+ years experience working to develop and deliver design work alongside technical and design teams
Proficiency in English (written and verbal)
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience supporting the design‑to‑production handoff and ensuring design files are ready for engineering
Experience with automotive digital design or other complex, industrial, or safety‑critical digital systems (e.g., aviation, energy)
Experience with quality reviews
Skills:
Proficiency with Jira
Knowledge of Figma
Knowledge of Airtable a plus
Strong problem‑solving mindset with a bias toward action
Clear, concise, written and verbal communicator
Comfortable operating in complex, matrixed environments
Excellent organizational and time-management skills
Passion for helping others and willingness to learn new things
At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career and help us define tomorrow’s transportation.
We don't just make history -- we make the future. Ford put the world on wheels over a century ago, and our teams are re-inventing icons and creating groundbreaking connected and electric vehicles for the next century. We believe in serving our customers, our communities, and the world. If you do, too, come move the world and make the future with us.
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