Product designer in marketplace

Carwow; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Share options

Private Healthcare (Bupa)

Life Assurance

Mental wellbeing support

Learning & development budget

Generous holiday allowance

Company social events

Job summary

Carwow is seeking a Lead/Staff Product Designer to shape core marketplace experiences. You will own complex problem spaces end to end, mentor others, and partner with product and engineering leadership to set high design standards.

You will prototype with AI, collaborate with engineers using AI-assisted workflows, and ground decisions in evidence from user research and data. Hybrid work and strong compensation are offered.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product design experience leading complex work in consumer or marketplace products.
• Native app experience and high AI fluency with Claude in design/prototyping workflows.
• Strong end-to-end craft from fuzzy problem to production-ready design.
• Excellent communication and ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Experience mentoring designers and raising team standards.
• Familiarity with experimentation-driven product development is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design for major marketplace problem spaces (buying, selling, dealer-facing).
• Prototype rapidly with AI to build testable experiences for users and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with engineers using AI-assisted workflows and contribute code when helpful.
• Set direction, build cases with evidence, align product and engineering partners.
• Raise craft bar through critique and by modeling strong work.
• Champion AI-native ways of working and share reusable prompts/workflows.
• Ground decisions in user research, data, and rapid experimentation.

Skills

Product design

AI fluency

Mentoring

Stakeholder influence

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Claude Design

Claude Code

Job description

Описание: We're looking for a Lead/Staff Product Designer to shape some of the most important experiences in our marketplace. You'll own complex, high-impact problem spaces end to end — from ambiguous discovery through to shipped, measured outcomes — and raise the bar for design craft and pace across the whole team. This is a senior individual-contributor role with real influence. You'll partner directly with product and engineering leadership, mentor other designers, and set the standard for how design work gets done at Carwow.

Задачи:

• Own end-to-end design for a major problem space in our marketplace — buying, selling, or dealer-facing products — from discovery and framing through to launch and iteration
• Prototype at pace using AI, getting real, testable experiences in front of users and stakeholders early and often
• Work shoulder-to-shoulder with engineers, using AI-assisted workflows to close the gap between design intent and shipped product — ideally getting hands-on in code where it speeds things up
• Set direction, not just execute: identify opportunities, make the case with evidence, and bring product and engineering partners with you
• Raise the craft bar across the team through critique, mentorship, and by making your own work an example worth following
• Champion AI-native ways of working — sharing techniques, building reusable prompts and workflows, and helping the wider team level up
• Ground decisions in evidence, combining user research, data, and rapid experimentation

Требования:

• 7+ years of product design experience, with a track record of leading complex, high-impact work in consumer or marketplace products Native app experience A high degree of AI fluency. Hands-on, demonstrable experience using Claude Design (or an equivalent AI design/prototyping tool) as a core part of your workflow — this is critical to the role, and we'll want to see it in your portfolio and hear about it in interviews Strong end-to-end craft: you can go from a fuzzy problem statement to polished, production-ready design, and everything you ship is considered Comfort with ambiguity and pace — you make good decisions with incomplete information and iterate quickly Excellent communication and influence: you can align senior stakeholders, tell a compelling story with your work, and hold your ground constructively Experience mentoring designers and lifting the standard of a team Будет плюсом: Experience with Claude Code (or an equivalent AI coding agent) — enough to prototype in real code, collaborate more deeply with engineers, or ship small changes yourself; Marketplace, e-commerce, or two-sided platform experience; Familiarity with experimentation-driven product development (A/B testing, funnel analysis)

Условия:

• Hybrid working
• Competitive salary to fund that dream holiday to Bali
• Matched pension contributions for a peaceful retirement
• Share options - when we thrive, so do you!
• Bupa Private Healthcare, for peace of mind, plus eyecare vouchers
• Life Assurance for (even more) peace of mind
• Monthly coaching sessions with Spill - our mental wellbeing partner
• Enhanced holiday package, plus Bank Holidays 28 days annual leave 1 day for your wedding 1 day off when you move house - because moving is hard enough without work!
• For your third year anniversary, get 30 days of annual leave per year
• For your tenth year anniversary, get 35 days of annual leave per year
• Option to buy 3 extra days of holiday per year
• Work from abroad for a month
• Inclusive parental, partner and shared parental leave, fertility treatment and pregnancy loss policies
• Bubble childcare support and discounted nanny fees for little ones
• The latest tech (Macbook or Surface) to power your gif-sending talents
• Up to £500/€550 home office allowance for that massage chair you’ve been talking about
• Generous learning and development budget to help you master your craft
• Regular social events: tech lunches, coffee with the exec sessions, lunch 8 learns, book clubs, social events/anything else you pester us for
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