UX Strategist, Global User Experience Group - 21056BR
DESCRIPTION/RESPONSIBILITIES:
Job Description
The Ford Global UX Team is a growing team committed to envisioning and creating simple, thoughtful, enjoyable, and compelling product experiences that continually inspire our teams and customers to go further.
Our diverse Global UX Team - situated in greater Detroit, Palo Alto, London, Shanghai - is comprised of experience strategists, researchers, interaction designers, visual designers, industrial designers, motion and audio designers, content creators, prototypers, and project managers. Together our team works to understand our changing world, identify new opportunities, and take action to design and innovate for the future of mobility - Ford’s vehicles and surrounding experiences.
We are looking for a strategic thinker, researcher and doer to help envision and design future mobility experiences. You will partner with UX researchers to frame the right questions and design research programs that lead us to new insights. You will conduct trend and cultural research to understand possible future scenarios. As part of a multi-disciplinary team, you will use key insights to frame new opportunity spaces and guide the experience vision for our future global customers. You will advocate a human centric perspective through all stages of the design process.
Responsibilities:
* Contribute to UX vision and concepting exercises/workshops (digital and physical, connectivity, intelligent systems, mobility and deep dives into particular consumer segments, emerging cultural trends, advanced technologies and more.)
* Collaborate with UX research team to design research programs that will inform key project tracks.
* Contribute to user research and secondary research activities.
* Develop scenarios and sketches / communicate vision through tangible artifacts (storyboards, movies, prototypes) from early to late stage concept development.
* Prioritize, frame, and communicate UX opportunities
* Identify strategic UX metrics at the project level, and track and document progress for a variety of stakeholders
* Contribute to tools, processes, best practices and templates/frameworks for the UX team.
* Share trends, strategic perspectives, concepts with the Global UX team and key work partners to further develop consumer-centered strategies that align with Ford’s vision, goals, vehicles, services and markets.
* Contribute to UX vision and concepting exercises/workshops (digital and physical, connectivity, intelligent systems, mobility and deep dives into particular consumer segments, emerging cultural trends, advanced technologies and more.)
The distance between imagination and …. Creation. It can be measured in years of innovation, or in moments of brilliance. And, it can be a road you start traveling right now. When you join Ford Motor Company, your journey begins. You become part of a team that is already leading the way, with ingenious solutions and attainable products - and it is always ready to go further.
At Ford Motor Company, the distance between you and an amazing career has never been shorter. Join the Ford team today, and discover the benefits, rewards and development opportunities you’d expect from a diverse global leader.
Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
Ford Motor Company is an equal opportunity employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. Ford Motor Company also is committed to take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment such persons.
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