Product Designer

Motorway

About Motorway

Motorway is the UK s fastest-growing used car marketplace – our online-only platform connects private car sellers with thousands of verified dealers nationwide, ensuring everyone gets the best deal.

Founded in 2017, our award winning, technology-led approach has redefined the experience of selling a car, generating thousands of monthly car sales and helping us to grow to a team of over 250 across 4 locations.

Motorway is now valued at over $1 billion and is backed by some of the world s leading technology investors, having raised £143 million in Series C funding.

Our product-driven approach and leadership has resulted in an environment where design and UX is highly valued. This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing scale-up at a crucial phase of growth, build amazing products and help change an industry for the better.

About the role

Motorway is growing quickly and we are now seeking a talented Product Designer to bolster our design team.

Working closely with Senior Designers and Product Managers you ll be responsible for designing features across our full product range, including our product for car sellers (motorway.co.uk), car buyers (pro.motorway.co.uk) and important internal tools for our Customer Service Agents. In addition to designing web apps you may also be involved in developing native mobile apps for our services.

We are a design-focused organisation; extending to the founding team; with a very strong focus on creating amazing user experiences and high quality products. We seek to build a creative and fun working environment where the best ideas win and great work is created.

The role involves:

• Research and planning: participating in user research and product planning to understand problems our users have and define solutions. Conducting competitor research and desk work to discover design solutions to business problems.
• UX and UI design: creating designs for products and features, from lo-fidelity sketches and wireframes through to polished interactive prototypes and demos. You ll use tools like Figma, Principle, Adobe CC and any others you d like to introduce the team to.
• Developing our design system: developing and iterating UI components in our design system, including icons, controls, fonts and colours. You ll take into account different platforms (web, native, desktop, mobile) and modes (dark, light) while tackling accessibility and technical constraints.
• Collaboration and reviewing: you ll collaborate closely with stakeholders, users, Product Managers and Developers to present your work and gain feedback. You ll also actively participate in reviewing other Designer s work giving you the opportunity to develop feedback and coaching experience.
• Developing a design culture: you ll share inspiration, techniques and design thinking to help the team stay fresh and knowledgeable in all aspects of design. You ll also champion design throughout the business, helping non-Designers understand and value good design.

Requirements

• Commercial experience in a product design, service design or UX design role, demonstrated by a strong portfolio which should include case studies of successfully launched products.
• Strong understanding of designing for native mobile platforms, understanding which design patterns to deploy for the best user outcome.
• An ability to solve real problems through design, demonstrated by examples of projects or features that have had a measurable impact on the business or organisation.
• ️ You’re used to working alongside Visual Designers on typography, colour, illustration, photography, icons and branding.
• An exceptional eye for detail and a precise, accurate approach to creating design work.
• Experience with design tools such as Sketch, Figma or Adobe CC, and collaboration tools like Slack and Miro; plus strong Mac skills.
• Knowledge or experience of user research techniques such as evaluative research or focus groups.
• Comfortable collaborating with different areas of the business, such as commercial, marketing and development teams.
• Strong verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
• Willingness to take bold decisions when necessary.
• A great team player with a strong sense of humility.

Benefits

• A competitive salary.
• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave.
• BUPA health insurance.
• £350 annual learning budget with access to General Assembly courses, an Audible subscription and hundreds of books and online lessons.
• Pension scheme.
• Motorway Car Leasing Scheme
• Hybrid working (approximately 2-3 days in the office a week) with the option to work from home for a month per year.
• Regular social events.
• Discounted Calm membership.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• The chance to join a rapidly growing company that cares first and foremost about its people.
• The chance to work with an experienced and passionate team with a big vision.
• The opportunity to build products that have real impact and will change an industry.

Equal Opportunities Statement:

Motorway is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximise their full potential. We believe our workforce should reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.

We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Given the continued spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus), all interviews will be conducted by phone or virtual connection to protect our candidates and employees.

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• A competitive salary
• Significant stock options – we succeed and fail together as a team – we want you to be included in our success
• £500 annual learning budget with access to General Assembly courses, an Audible subscription and hundreds of books and online lessons
• BUPA health insurance
• Pension scheme
• Motorway car leasing scheme – lease a zero-emissions electric vehicle at a significant discount
• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
• Flexible working (approximately 2-3 days in the office a week) with the option to work fully remote for a month per year
• Top spec M1 MacBook Pro and accessories
• Regular social events
• Cycle to work scheme
• The chance to join a rapidly growing, revenue-generating startup and build products that will change an industry
• The chance to work with the latest and greatest technologies, free from legacy systems and red tape
• If you re into cars, opportunities to work with vehicle data and learn about the automotive industry. We also have some fun, car-related activities (as well as non-car fun too!)

1. Phone call
2. Video call with a Designer
3. Task which is presented to a team
4. Final interview

UI/UX, Figma, Mobile DesignUI/UX