The Human-Centered Design (HCD) Team is responsible for the end-to-end experience, including digital and physical design of new businesses, new products, and new services. We are looking for creative individuals to join us and help further the vision and mission of the HCD Ford’s team.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to Design Innovation: Design novel and unique experience design solutions to meaningful problems for customers, identifying design opportunities and actionable concepts that align with user and business needs, design principles, and technical capabilities.
• Develop Prototyping & Design Visualization Skills: Assist in initial rough prototyping and design visualization methods. You will be skilled in initial rough prototyping ("build to learn") with a primary emphasis on physical enablers, and in iterating design solutions based upon customer, user, and system feedback to meet user expectations and deliver successful outcomes.
• Support Insight-Driven Design Solutions: Assist in creating design solutions that are deeply rooted in customer and user insights, expertly translating these insights into highly desirable and feasible physical product solutions.
• Design Leadership & Vision: Actively contribute throughout the entire design process from inspiration and research to building prototypes and communicating a clear vision. You will help bring to life integrated digital-physical experiences through brand, products, and services, and collaborate with project teams to conceive, design, develop, test, and launch impactful new products and services.
• Systems Thinking: Apply systems thinking to physical experience design that seamlessly engages people through touchpoints along a service journey for consumer and business applications.
• Stakeholder Collaboration & Communication: Bring clarity and focus through effective communication of functional needs and aesthetic sensibilities. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams in an advanced product development environment, building strong relationships with engineering, planning, and research stakeholders.
• Experience Content Strategy & Feasibility: Partner to support the initial design and development of experience concepts. You will design and iterate key program applications of the domain-based Experience Content Strategies, confirming key experiences are feasible within program constraints.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design, Transportation Design or a related field
• A portfolio or work examples showcasing industrial design projects
• Designer level experience in a consumer product industry, transportation sector or supplier, design consultancy, or similar field.
• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite design tools.
• Proficiency with at least one 3D modeling software application (e.g., Alias AutoStudio, Rhino, or Blender).
• Proficiency in relevant presentation applications (e.g., PowerPoint, Keynote, or similar).

Even better, you may have

• Master’s degree in industrial design, Transportation Design or a related field
• 5+ years of Industrial Design or Transportation Design studio work experience.
• Strong creativity and demonstrated inventiveness towards features and functional solutions.
• Strong ability to translate customer and research inputs into relevant, highly desirable, and feasible product solutions.
• Strong communication skills through presentation and storytelling.
• Strong product design aesthetic sensibilities.
• Strong sketching, visualization, modelling, and presentation skills.
• Strong 2D application skills (e.g., Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.).
• Strong 3D application skills (e.g., Alias AutoStudio, VRED, Rhino, Maya or Blender).
• Demonstrated ability to actively contribute to projects in a multidisciplinary team environment.
• Demonstrated ability to build low fidelity prototypes (e.g., hands-on with cardboard, foam core, wood, laser cutting, 3D printing) and understanding of production methods and prototyping processes.
• Demonstrated ability to translate design vision in animated story-form through creative use of digital presentation applications (including AI visualization tools).
• Ability to support the development of design proposals from concept to production.

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We are hoping to add your expertise in product design and manufacturing, ergonomics, usability, aesthetics, and surfacing to our team.

Valve is an entertainment and technology company driven to design and deliver extraordinary entertainment experiences to customers.

We hire people with broad skill sets who also exhibit deep expertise.

Every designer at Valve contributes in a wide variety of ways:

• We define and articulate goals,
• we create and implement user studies,
• we participate from project inception to detailed completion in the design, development, and manufacturing of products,
• and much more.

We also recruit designers like you.

Valve is traditionally a software company.

Open platforms like the PC are important to us, as they enable Valve and our partners to have a robust and direct relationship with customers.

We're frustrated by the lack of innovation in the computer hardware space, so we've jumped in.

Even basic input, the keyboard and mouse, haven't really changed in any meaningful way over the years.

There's a real void in the marketplace, and opportunities to create compelling user experiences are being overlooked.

At Valve, our design process really gets going once products are in customers' hands.

Our best work is the result of an ongoing dialog with customers.

Through years of shipping software as a service through Steam, our digital distribution platform, this has become fundamental to the way we design and build great products.

With an engaged community of millions of users, what will you ship?

What will you try, and what will you learn through doing so?

Do you prefer to collaborate with peers to define the work that you pursue, rather than simply following a vision that's been set for you?

If you're seeking an opportunity to steer product definition, functional exploration and design decision-making, consider joining Valve.

We can't wait to see where you'll take us.

Submit your resume along with an online portfolio of work which conveys your capabilities.

What We Offer

• An organization where 100% of time is dedicated as groups see fit

• The opportunity to collaborate with experts across a range of disciplines

• A work environment and flexible schedule in support of families and domestic partnerships

• A culture eager to become stronger through diversity of all forms

• Exceptional health insurance coverage

• Unrivaled employer match for our 401(k) retirement plan

• Generous vacation and family leave

• On-site amenities in support of health and efficiency

• Fertility and adoption assistance

• Reimbursement for child care during interviews

Valve strives to improve the diversity of our teams to better serve our diverse global audience.

We welcome and encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.

Candidates will be considered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, family status, veteran status or disability status.

Valve is committed to creating an inclusive work environment and does not tolerate discrimination or harassment in the workplace.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Please contact us to request accommodation.

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