Senior UX/UI Designer - Remote

Car & Classic

  • London
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 19 days ago
About you
You’re passionate about human-centred design. You’ve utilised research, feedback and testing to create designs across high-traffic websites and mobile applications. You like to continually push the boundaries to advocate for user-needs.About the roleYou’ll be crafting intuitive digital experiences that blend user needs with business goals. Designing interfaces in line with best practices and brand guidelines that delight and empower users while driving tangible results.Working closely with our Product Managers and Software Developers you’ll be working on multiple exciting product roadmap initiatives.About us Car & Classic is one of the largest automotive marketplaces in the world. We’re lucky to have thousands of user-generated listings submitted monthly with content gems from James Bond’s Aston DB5 to Elvis Presley’s Cadillac. The site is old, launched in 2005 but under new, VC-backed ownership since 2018 and on an exciting triple-digit growth journey to bring classic vehicle transactions online.Our culture is incredibly important to us. We’re lucky enough to have built the team from scratch with a focus on enjoying the day-to-day, diversity, inclusion and high performance. Despite being an entirely distributed business we build strong connections as colleagues and have created a fun and high-performing culture.We’re looking for a Senior UX/UI Designer who has good, relevant experience and wants to make their mark in a rapid growth business where they can make a real difference, whilst enjoying the environment and culture.Finally you don’t have to love cars to work here (and lots of our team don’t) but for those who do this is an incredible opportunity to combine your passion and professional lives – we look forward to hearing from you.Role and responsibilities:UX DesignEnsure our digital products deliver market-leading, human-centred intuitive experiences to our engaged audience.Work in an iterative, data-led, collaborative way to constantly improve features and functionality for our users and meet evolving business needs.User Research & Usability Testing:
  • Lead user-research initiatives to gather valuable data and customer feedback, then use these insights to inform and refine human-centred design solutions.
  • Conduct usability testing to uncover insights and understand user behaviours, needs, and pain points.
UI Design:Craft engaging and effective interfaces which facilitate excellent user experience and align with brand aesthetics.Develop designs in a consistent, modular manner, ensuring scalability and ease of implementation.Design System:Expand and maintain our atomic design system, ensuring it remains in-sync with code libraries and serves as a reliable foundation for our product design and development efforts.Staying current:Keep up-to-date with experience design industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies.Sprints:Work closely with our Product Managers and Software Developers to ensure designs are always ready ahead of each sprint.Ensure seamless integration of design and development processes.The skills, attributes and experience you must have:🌐 High-Scale Design: Expertise in designing for high-scale websites and apps.👥 Human-Centred Design: Utilises research, user data and customer feedback to inform design decisions, continuously refining and optimising designs for maximum impact and user advocacy.🎨 UX Visionary: Passionate about crafting seamless, intuitive user experiences, with a keen eye for detail and a user-first approach in all design aspects.📚 Design Systems: Proven experience and understanding of developing and maintaining a comprehensive, robust design systems.✏️ Figma Aficionado: Fluent in Figma, utilising its advanced features to create complete, well documented design files which can be handed over for development with minimal explanation🤝 Collaborative Team Player: Thrives in collaborative environments, effectively working with cross-functional teams to bring design concepts to life, ensuring alignment with project goals and user needs.💡 Innovative Problem Solver: Brings a unique blend of creativity and analytical skills to tackle complex design challenges, consistently delivering innovative and effective solutions.👑 Sense of Ownership: Driven to complete projects according to plan.🔄 Feedback Enthusiast: Comfortable giving and receiving feedback for continuous improvement.What do you get (remuneration & benefits)?💰Competitive base salary📈Stock options💻All the equipment you need to get the job done🌍Flexible working - work where and when you want in order to get the job done🤗Access to free counselling, therapy and mental health support via📚Professional development allowance🏡Life cover🩺Smart Health👶Generous parental leave🏝33 days holiday (including bank holidays)🚀Ability to make your mark on a fast-growing start-upOur application process
Once you decide to apply you’ll be presented with a series of questions. The answers to the questions are the difference between your application being progressed or not. Please do give them your time and effort when answering.Our interview process:Meet with our Talent Acquisition team who will find out more about you whilst giving you more insight into Car & Classic.After this you'll meet with our Head of Design and CTPO who will conduct a more in-depth interview regarding your experience and expertise.Time to showcase your skills. We’ll give you a task to complete and present back to our Head of Design and one of our Product Managers.Good luck with your application and thank you in advance for your interest in joining us at Car & Classic.Car & Classic Limited is an equal opportunity employer
Equality, diversity and inclusion are integral parts of our culture. We recognise and celebrate the value and impact diversity brings to our company and are committed to ensuring this is a consistent focus, for which we hold ourselves responsible. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply for this role.Car & Classic is one of the largest automotive marketplaces in the world.Car & Classic will be the de-facto place to sell a classic vehicle - we’re building the safest, fastest way to buy and sell with the greatest choice in the world.

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