Product Designer
Design clear vehicle research journeys, report explanations and interactions for people buying used cars.
Car Check helps people understand a used car’s history. We bring vehicle records together with clear explanations, keeping the source, timing and limits of the information close to each finding.
We care about the whole experience, from the reliability of a lookup to the words that help someone decide what to ask next.
The opportunity
We are looking for a Product Designer to help make vehicle information feel understandable at the moment someone needs it. A report can contain a great deal of detail without answering the buyer’s immediate question. Your work will help people find the important information, understand its context and decide what to investigate next.
You will work across the journey from a first search to a detailed report and the guidance around it. That means exploring structure and interaction as well as typography, content and visual hierarchy. You will work closely with engineering and research, carrying ideas through to the implemented experience.
We value designers who can explain why a decision helps. You should enjoy working with incomplete information, making alternatives tangible and testing your assumptions. The finished screen matters, and so does the reasoning that makes it useful.
What you’ll work on
- Understand the decision behind the screen. Work with research and customer feedback to identify what buyers are trying to learn and where the current experience leaves them uncertain.
- Shape complete flows. Explore the steps between search, report and follow up, including unsuccessful searches, missing information and the moments when someone needs more explanation.
- Make complex information readable. Design hierarchy, grouping and progressive detail so a person can scan a report without losing the context that gives a finding its meaning.
- Prototype to answer questions. Choose an appropriate level of fidelity, compare alternatives and use what you learn to improve the design before committing to unnecessary detail.
- Work within and improve the design system. Reuse established components and patterns, and propose changes that solve a repeated need across the product.
- Follow the work through implementation. Partner with engineers on responsive behaviour, accessibility and edge cases, then review whether the shipped experience delivers the intended result.
What you’ll bring
- You have designed digital products beyond their first concept and can show how research, constraints and feedback influenced the finished work.
- Your portfolio makes your contribution clear. We want to understand the problem, the alternatives you considered and what changed because of your decisions.
- You have a strong command of interaction, visual hierarchy and responsive design, with practical attention to accessibility and real content.
- You can collaborate closely with engineers, discuss implementation tradeoffs and adapt a design without losing the reason behind it.
- You are comfortable making progress when the brief is incomplete, while identifying the assumptions that need evidence before the team goes further.
Useful, but not required
- Experience with reports, financial information, consumer research or other products that ask people to interpret unfamiliar data.
- A strong interest in content design and examples of using language to improve an interaction.
- Experience building or maintaining a design system that is used in a working product.
Your first few months
- Understand the buyer journey and identify a specific moment where the information hierarchy or interaction creates uncertainty.
- Explore and validate a focused improvement with research and engineering, explaining the decisions and remaining questions.
- Help ship the work and use the result to improve an existing pattern or inform the next design decision.
How we work
Start with the buyer, follow the evidence and make the complex clear. We value thoughtful questions, shared learning and care in the details of what we build.
We work in focused pieces, make important decisions easy to follow and bring questions into the open while there is still time to act on them. You will have room to shape the work, with the responsibility to explain your choices, ask for help and follow through on the result.
Apply for this role
Share one or two projects that show how you think. Tell us which decisions were yours, how the work changed during the process and what you learned from the final experience.