Senior UX Designer, Consumer Shopping Experience Job at CarGurus in Cambridge

Senior UX Designer, Consumer Shopping Experience

Who we are: At CarGurus (NASDAQ: CARG), our mission is to give people the power to reach their destination. We are the largest and fastest-growing automotive marketplace, and we've been profitable for over 15 years. Our people-first culture fosters kindness, collaboration, and innovation.

About the Role: Interested in helping people make one of the biggest financial decisions of their lives? We are looking for a Senior User Experience Designer to build usable, attractive, and high-performing user experiences for CarGurus consumer marketplace! The ideal candidate will be comfortable solving complex customer problems with agile teams that include engineers, product managers, analysts, and copywriters. An online portfolio or access to samples of past work is required for applicants to this position.

What You'll Do:

1. Collaborate with engineering and product leads to research, conceive, design, prototype, and ultimately test new features within the CarGurus consumer-facing experiences.
2. Create user flows, sketches, use cases, personas, and other product design and communication artifacts as needed, based on business requirements and constraints.
3. Practice an evidence-based design approach, and apply user insights and customer feedback (including A/B testing) to rapidly iterate on your designs.
4. Understand business strategy and how designs align with strategy.
5. Apply measurements of the efficiency of designs to your work.
6. Work with teams and partners across CarGurus.

Who You Are:

1. 5+ years of UX design/product design experience.
2. Proficient in commonly used design tools such as Figma.
3. Proficient in user-centered design principles and testing methodologies.
4. Experienced in user research, usability testing and other methods of design validation.
5. Can clearly and effectively present and communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions to teams and customers.
6. Familiar with HTML/CSS as a medium, and with Agile Scrum methodology as a practice.
7. Understand accessibility concerns.
8. Able to demonstrate your understanding of design process.
9. Able to partner with product managers and engineering to balance technical, business, and customer requirements while applying a user-centric design approach.

Nice to have: experience with iOS/mobile design, e-commerce or digital marketplaces.

Working at CarGurus: We reward our Gurus' curiosity and passion with best-in-class benefits and compensation, including equity for all employees. We foster an inclusive environment that values people for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives.

Additional information: US employees must provide proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 unless they have an approved medical or religious accommodation.

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