product designer for online car selling

Motorway is the UK's largest online car-selling platform, connecting private sellers directly with more than 8,000 dealers nationwide. Its technology-led platform helps sellers achieve strong prices for their cars while giving dealers fast and reliable access to dealership stock.

• Own complex and ambiguous product challenges from discovery to deployment;
• Define how the design team integrates AI into workflows while preserving human judgment and craft;
• Collaborate with engineering through code, complex prototypes, or custom tools;
• Advocate for users through research, continuous usability testing, and data insights;
• Run high-impact workshops and improve weekly team rituals;
• Produce user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mock-ups for mobile and web applications;
• Ensure design solutions meet accessibility standards and promote inclusive design;
• Partner with product managers, engineers, and data analysts throughout the product development lifecycle;
• Connect user insights to product opportunities and broader business goals;
• Articulate the business case for design decisions;
• Build relationships across product, engineering, and the wider organisation;
• Communicate design decisions clearly and lead online and offline validation sessions;
• Represent product design with confidence and authority;
• Mentor junior and senior designers and support their growth;
• Contribute to weekly team rituals, run workshops, plan design-focused events, and encourage diverse participation;
• Encourage continuous learning and develop core design principles;
• Keep the team informed about emerging tools, patterns, and practices.

• Proven track record as a Senior or Lead Product Designer shipping impactful digital products across web and mobile ecosystems;
• Experience shipping code, building personal products, or creating functional high-fidelity tools and prototypes;
• Strong understanding of consumer journeys across B2C and B2B product landscapes;
• Strategic understanding of AI in design and the ability to guide a team through its adoption;
• Ability to connect design execution to business outcomes and shape broader product strategy;
• High proficiency with design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Claude, and Kiro;
• Strong user-centered design methodology, accessibility knowledge, and research synthesis skills;
• Nice to have: experience optimizing user journeys or conversion funnels through experimentation, experience in a fast-paced two-sided marketplace.

• Competitive salary;
• Equity scheme;
• 25 Days holiday;
• Flexible working with 2 days a week in the London office;
• Private medical insurance via BUPA;
• Life assurance;
• Pension scheme with a 5% employer contribution;
• Enhanced family leave, including 26 weeks of full pay for maternity or adoption;
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme;
• EV leasing scheme;
• Cycle to work scheme;
• Nursery salary sacrifice scheme;
• 1 Paid volunteering day a year.