Sr. Product Designer I

Be essential at Cars Commerce

At Cars Commerce, we’re fanatical about simplifying everything about car buying and selling. We do right by our customers and consumers to better connect the industry with simplified and tierless technology to enhance, measure and drive local automotive retail. Whether through our No.1 most recognized marketplace, Cars.com, our industry-leading digital experience, Dealer Inspire, our trade and appraisal technology, AccuTrade, our reputation-based digital wholesale auction marketplace, Dealerclub, or our new Cars Commerce Media Network, Cars Commerce is essential for success in the automotive industry.

No one ever travels alone here: at its core, Cars Commerce is collaboration. In fact, it’s built into the very fabric of our shared values. We like to say we Rise Together – putting people at the center of what we do, from consumer to customer to community. Life at Cars Commerce makes it easy when we share the ethos to be Open to All, encouraging open-minded communication because we know diverse thinking yields better outcomes. But critical to our success is Caring to Challengeand Taking Ownership, fueling a competitive spirit in a respectful environment where we think about tomorrow but act today. At our foundation, we have integrity, Doing the Right Thing, even when it’s hard. It’s our shared commitment to these values that makes Cars Commerce a place where growth becomes not only possible, but downright unavoidable.

But don’t take our word for it. As a U.S. News & World Report Best Company to Work For in 2024, we're obsessive about the employee experience. We are among the top 20% being declared “Best” of our industry based on six critical factors that are important to employee wellbeing, like quality of pay, benefits, work life balance and more.

As a Senior Product Designer at Cars Commerce, you will help solve challenges unique to our dual-sided marketplace by creating and delivering thoughtful product design solutions to car shoppers and dealer customers through design, research, empathy, and vigor. We embed design and design thinking into our products — helping us build a future where the magic of creativity thrives.

You will lead the creation and delivery of optimal product designs and user experiences for new products, as well as expand style guides, pattern libraries, and design systems for CARS products. You act as the lead designer on high-visibility, high-impact products.

Essential Functions:

• Experience designing mobile, tablet, and desktop experiences for responsive web.

• Experience designing mobile apps experiences for iOS and Android.

• Experience delivering wireframes, prototypes, user flows, and dev-ready high-fidelity designs.

• Lead design projects across the entire product lifecycle and multiple product launches.

• Drive design alignment efforts across the organization and with stakeholders to create a fit with strategic vision and coordinate through execution. 

• Proactively address and resolve dependencies across teams and products.

• Rapidly produce multiple concepts and prototypes, anticipating and prioritizing the needs of stakeholders.  Proactively brainstorm initial design concepts with cross-functional teams to bring product requirements to fruition. 

• Engage in user-based research throughout the design process.  Measure how your designs perform and come up with hypotheses for ways to improve performance. Represent the design team as a subject matter expert across cross-functional teams. 

• Solicit and incorporate constructive feedback from stakeholders with a flexible and open approach to work, while maintaining a level of accountability and ownership for deliverables. 

• Guide and mentor junior members of the team. 

• Translate complex user and business needs into simple, viable product design solutions.

• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in visual design, human-computer interaction, industrial design, or related field, or equivalent work experience.  

• 6+ years’ experience in product design or related field.

• Experience with Figma, Sketch, Invision, Principle, Zeplin, or comparable tools. 

• Experience in an agile development environment. 

Nice To Have Qualifications:

• 8+ years experience in visual design, human-computer interaction, industrial design, or related field.

• A presence in the broader Product Design community. 

Our Comprehensive Benefits Package includes:

• Medical, Dental & Vision Healthcare Plans

• New Hire Stipend for Home Office Set-Up

• Generous PTO

• Refuel - a service based recognition program where employees receive additional paid time away to learn grow and reset

• Paid Holidays, Floating Holiday, Volunteer Day, Recharge Day

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For US-based Positions: Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States. Please note that we are unable to sponsor employment visas at this time.
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