NewProduct Designer, Design Systems (Governance Specialist)
Apply on Ford Motor CompanyFord is hiring a Product Designer specializing in design system governance to help ensure the design system remains scalable, consistent, and trusted across Ford’s vehicle software and mobile apps. The role sits on the Design Systems team and involves partnering with designers, product teams, engineering, and accessibility to improve governance, production workflows, and adoption. A portfolio submission, in addition to a resume, is required for consideration.
What you'll do
- Review feature designs and proposed components or patterns for consistency, accessibility, and alignment with system standards.
- Maintain governance practices, including contribution guidelines, review processes, versioning, deprecation, and component lifecycle documentation.
- Support intake and prioritization of system requests; prepare review sessions and track decisions, actions, and dependencies.
- Audit the system for gaps, drift, redundant patterns, outdated components, and accessibility issues; help drive improvements.
- Keep documentation and migration guidance clear, discoverable, and up to date.
- Track adoption and system health, surfacing trends and opportunities for improvement.
- Socialize governance practices and partner with teams to align roadmaps, resolve questions, and ensure changes land predictably in product work.
- Identify governance gaps, develop proposals and workstreams, and help improve operating models and production workflows.
What they're looking for
- A portfolio submission, in addition to a resume, is required for consideration.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
- 3+ years of product design experience, including meaningful experience with a design system at scale.
- Understand Atomic Design principles, component architecture, and design tokens.
- Familiarity with how design systems map to front-end code and tools such as Figma or Storybook.
- Experience reviewing designs or systems for consistency, accessibility (WCAG), and quality.
- Strong communication, documentation, and facilitation skills, including the ability to build consensus without direct authority.
- A systems-thinking mindset and ability to balance shared standards with product-team flexibility.
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