At Cars.com, we help shoppers meet their perfect car match, and people find their perfect career match. As one of the top places to work in Chicago, according to The Chicago Tribune, Built-In Chicago and others, we pride ourselves on a culture of growth and innovation.
Cars.com has revolutionized the automotive industry for both shoppers and sellers through technology and solutions for buyers and sellers alike. We never shy away from a challenge, move fast, collaborate across functions to approach problems from every angle. We’ve built a culture that’s second-to-none and share core values that keep everyone working full-speed at the same goals with the same open, outcome-driven and bold attitudes.
Cars.com is a CARS brand. CARS includes the following brands: Cars.com, Dealer Inspire, DealerRater, FUEL, CreditIQ & Accu-Trade. Learn more here!
Scope:
As a Product Designer at CARS, 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.
Essential Functions:
- Experience designing for mobile, tablet, and responsive web products.
- Experience delivering wireframes, prototypes, and dev-ready high-fidelity designs.
- Execute on design experiences across the entire product lifecycle and product launches.
- Contribute to optimal product designs and user experiences for new products through expanding style guides and pattern libraries for CARS products.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization on alignment efforts to ensure design solutions are consistent and familiar.
- Engage in user-based research throughout the design process.
- Execute on and incorporate feedback from stakeholders and senior members of the team with a flexible and open approach to work, while maintaining a level of accountability and ownership for deliverables.
- Other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in visual design, human-computer interaction, industrial design or related field, or equivalent work experience.
- 3 years’ experience in product design or related field.
- Hands-on experience creating visual designs for digital products.
- Experience with Figma, Sketch, Invision, Principle, Zeplin, or comparable tools.
- Experience in an agile development environment.
- Effective time-management skills and the ability to prioritize tasks.
Nice To Have Qualifications:
- 5 years’ experience in visual design, human-computer interaction, industrial design, or related field.
- Translate complex user and business needs into simple, viable product design solutions.
Our Comprehensive Benefits Package includes:
- Medical, Dental & Vision Healthcare Plans
- 401(k) with Company Match + Immediate Vesting
- New Hire Stipend for Home Office Set-Up
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- 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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