XD Producer

At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow’s transportation.

We're in the midst of the biggest change the automotive industry has ever seen. Just as cars changed the world over the last century, new technologies such as self-driving cars, electric powertrains, and connected vehicles will radically reshape how we live, work, and play in the next hundred years.

As a member of the Experience Design (XD) Team, you'll be at the heart of creating that future.
Every day, Ford's vehicles, and services support millions of people around the world. You'll craft every touchpoint our customers encounter, designing people and society's needs into the heart of our next generation of out-of-vehicle products, services, and experiences.
What you’ll be able to do: Our PMO team looks at processes and logistics as a design challenge. We are constantly thinking of improving ways of working, all to keep the design community focused, creative, and in sync with its values. As the Producer you amplify high-quality design, methods, processes and culture. You develop and implement the systems and processes around our design teams with the goal of making our creative teams successful.

• Work directly with a multidisciplinary team of designers, researchers, and developers.
• Manage weekly project operational review process: schedule, organize and facilitate weekly portfolio evaluations, moving teams through the start of a project and helping leadership evaluate capacity planning implications.
• Build great relationships with project leads and senior leadership, communicating about project status, risks, and resourcing.
• Work across teams, understanding the necessary workflow to ensure excellent outcome delivery.
• Participate in scoping new project work opportunities, determining required design talent and budget to accomplish project objectives and evaluating strategic fit.
• Help define timelines, facilitate progress, manage adaptable budgets, and assure all projects meet their deadlines with success.
• Owner of portfolio management and capacity forecasting operations and associated tools.
• Steward organizational data quality to inform data-driven decision-making.
• Develop, share, and provide operational methodologies, digital tools, and data management best practices across the labs.
• Business owner of project-specific and project-management digital tools and platforms.
• Assist teams with production-specific needs such as sourcing vendor partners and contractors, managing printing, assisting photoshoot planning, and other production projects.
• Solve process problems proactively and creatively, using data-driven insights and operational metrics.
• Act as the point of contact when human-centered design input is needed for other departments or corporate activities i.e. workshops and tours.
• Provide regular portfolio and capacity metrics to executive leadership.

The minimum requirements we seek:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 1 years’ experience in an operation, office management, or project producer/program management role.
• 1 years of experience supporting large scale client meetings.
• 1 years of experience with vendor management.

Our preferred requirements:

• Deep understanding of human-centered design methods and mindsets.
• Excellent project management skills: efficient, organized and collaborative; able to keep track of multiple streams of work and accomplish work through others.
• Design acumen: ability to understand how creative professionals work, their needs and mindset, and also to think creatively with high foresight.
• Experience of event management.
• Strong interpersonal skills as well as cross-functional team leadership and strategic planning.

What you’ll receive in return: As part of the Ford family, you’ll enjoy excellent compensation and a comprehensive benefits package that includes generous PTO, retirement, savings and stock investment plans, incentive compensation and much more. You’ll also experience exciting opportunities for professional and personal growth and recognition.

If you have what it takes to help us redefine the future of mobility, we’d love to have you join us.

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.

We are 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.

At Ford, the health and safety of our employees is our top priority. Vaccination has been proven to play a critical role in combatting COVID-19. As a result, Ford has made the decision to require U.S. salaried employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, unless employees require an accommodation for religious or medical reasons. Being fully vaccinated means that an individual is at least two weeks past their final dose of an authorized COVID-19 vaccine regimen. As a condition of employment, newly hired employees will be required to provide proof of their COVID-19 vaccination or an approved medical or religious exemption.
For information on Ford's salary and benefits, please visit: https://corporate.ford.com/content/dam/corporate/us/en-us/documents/careers/2022-benefits-and-comp-GSR-sal-plan-1.pdf