Senior Product Designer

Company Description

Are you ready to be a big part of something big?

At carsales, we’re all about making buying and selling a great experience. Since 1997, we’ve been evolving with the new economy to help people choose how they move - today and tomorrow.

When it comes to your career, we want to offer meaningful opportunities that empower you to make a lasting impact. But for that to happen, we strive to feel small - small enough to stay agile, learn across teams, and connect authentically with each other.

With a vision to be the global leader in online vehicle marketplaces, we’re transforming how people buy and sell across the world. We discover new ideas and bring them to life. We continue to grow, and we continue to evolve and we’re not afraid to take bold steps to get there.

A career in Design at carsales will see you working on products that are used every single day by millions of customers all over the world.  As a Product Designer, you’ll research, design, build and refine user-centric experiences and interfaces for our users.

We embrace hybrid working - combining the flexibility of remote work with the energy and connection of in-person collaboration. We champion flexibility and offer a range of policies and leave options to support your wellbeing.

What’s on offer: 

• A place where you can move your career forward, where you’ll be continuously backed to make new ideas happen, and the chance to do work that makes real, significant impact in the world. 
• We’re proud to be recognised as one of Australia’s Best Workplaces™ by Great Place to Work®, a Family Friendly Workplace and a WORK180 endorsed employer for women.
• The support of a highly engaged, high-performing team including a leadership team that you’ll actually have face time with. 
• 24 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks paid secondary caregivers leave and paid family & fertility planning leave.

Job Description

What you’ll be doing

Our people are creative and they get a kick out of working with the latest technology to collaboratively solve commercial problems and anticipate the future needs of our customers. They’re constantly looking ahead for the next trend and championing innovation to improve our customer experience.

• Share expertise to present design concepts to various partners and teams across the business.
• Develop and support solutions that deliver seamless product experiences based on the user-centred design methods and best practices to make complicated problems look and feel simple but elegant.
• Collaborate and connect with product development and other teams to set expectations for project scope, delivery timeframes whilst maintaining quality standards
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and product strategists, technical leads, and developers, where you’ll make recommendations for the best possible outcome

Qualifications

What we’re looking for

• Demonstrated inclusive and interpersonal attributes that connect you to our behaviours (Customer-obsessed, Curious and Connected)
• Expertise to define and lead in the development of new concepts and solutions to improve carsales product offerings at every step of the buyer/sellers' experience journey.
• Demonstrate understanding and expertise in understanding user problems and uncover product pain points to design considered interfaces that meet business requirements and the needs of the end user.
• Collaborate across a diverse team, you will have a great opportunity to solve complex tasks and transform them into intuitive, accessible, and easy-to-use inspired design.

We know not everyone will meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If you’re excited about the role and believe you can make a difference, we’d love to hear from you.

Additional Information

A few other things we want you to know...

• As an equal opportunity employer, carsales welcomes applications from individuals of all backgrounds, identities, abilities, and life experiences. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported.
• If you have a disability or require adjustments to participate fully in the recruitment process, please let us know - we’re here to support you.
• We understand the importance of work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements, including part-time options. If you’d like to explore this, just ask during the process.
• We’re also a proud Circle Back Initiative employer, which means we commit to responding to every applicant.
• Successful candidates joining the carsales team will need to complete a National Police Record check and must have full-time Australian working rights.

So come and join our team - because every role is a big role in our plans to go big.