Creative Designer

Carparts.Com; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

CarParts.com is seeking an experienced Digital Designer to join our creative team in Long Beach, CA. This hands-on role delivers pixel-perfect PDP modules, banners, and campaigns across our e-commerce site, blog, social, and paid media.

You will ship work weekly, collaborate with Marketing, Product, Merchandising, and Engineering, and thrive in high-volume production, using Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and AI tools to accelerate craft.

Qualifications

• 4–6+ years of professional digital design experience in e-commerce, retail, or high-volume marketing environments.
• Portfolio showing strong brand sensibility, typographic control, and production-quality output.
• Experience designing for web, print, and paid media across multiple formats and surfaces.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a scalable design system: templates, components, and brand guidelines in Figma.
• Concept, produce, and iterate on ad creative based on test results – emphasis on video assets.
• Design promotional and seasonal campaigns, landing pages, and on-site merchandising with ecommerce conversion in mind.
• Use AI-assisted tools for image generation, product imagery cleanup, resizing, and versioning to raise throughput without lowering quality.
• Manage the creative request queue, set priorities with marketing leadership, and hit deadlines on a fast retail calendar.
• Contribute to brand evolution, including loyalty program, partnership, and investor-facing materials as needed.
• Support high-volume asset production for campaigns, producing multiple sizes and formats across platforms.
• Uphold CarParts.com brand standards across all deliverables from concept through deployment

Skills

Attention to detail

Time management

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Figma

AI design tools

Adobe Firefly

Midjourney

Canva

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

CapCut

Adobe Premiere Pro

After Effects

Final Cut Pro

Bloomreach CMS

WordPress

HTML/CSS

Job description

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Creative Designer

Contractor Long Beach, CA, US

3 days ago Requisition ID: 2592

Salary Range: $90,000.00 To $110,000.00 Annually

What We Do

CarParts.com is the go-to eCommerce platform for auto care and maintenance. We provide drivers with quality parts at competitive prices and enable them to schedule appointments with trusted mechanics directly through our website. Using world-class design principles and the latest technologies, we deliver a fast, intuitive digital experience backed by our company-owned national distribution network.
With over 1,000 employees worldwide, we are scaling rapidly, fueled by our most recent strategic partnership and $35 million investment. This positions us for the next phase of growth as we continue to empower drivers along their journey.

Our Culture

At CarParts.com, our culture goes beyond our core values of Safety First, Customer Focused, and Commitment to Excellence. We are a performance-driven, data-focused, and fast-paced team where results matter and winning is expected.
- Hungry & Hardworking: We set ambitious goals, measure progress with clear metrics, and hold ourselves accountable to deliver results.
- Promote from Within: We reward top performers with opportunities for growth and advancement.
- Collaborative & In-Person: We believe the best ideas and fastest execution happen face-to-face.
- High Standards: We move quickly, pay attention to details, and dig deep - whether it’s analyzing contracts, aggregating complex scenarios, or building clear, data-driven presentations.
- No Passengers: We value grit, ownership, and the relentless pursuit of results

ABOUT THE ROLE

CarParts.com is looking for an experienced Digital Designer to join our creative team. This is a hands-on production role for a designer who moves fast, thinks in systems, and takes pride in craft - from a pixel-perfect PDP module to a campaign banner that converts. You will work across our entire owned and earned retail and house-brand ecosystem - e-commerce site, blog, social media and paid media channels, partnering closely with Marketing, Product, Merchandising and Engineering to bring the CarParts.com portfolio of brands to life at scale. This is a highly executional role for a designer who moves fast, pays meticulous attention to detail, and takes pride in his/her craft. You will ship work every week. The right candidates are comfortable in high-volume production environments, fluent in Figma, and excited about using AI tools to work smarter and faster. This is a hands-on individual contributor role. You will design every day, set the standard for quality and speed, and build the systems that let a lean team produce at the output of a much larger one. You report to the Chief Marketing Officer.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Campaigns & Brand

• Build and maintain a scalable design system: templates, component libraries, and brand guidelines in Figma that let us ship more with fewer people.
• Partner with performance marketing and our agency partners to concept, produce, and iterate on ad creative based on test results – particular emphasis on video assets.
• Design promotional and seasonal campaigns, landing pages, and on-site merchandising with ecommerce conversion in mind.
• Use AI-assisted tools for image generation, product imagery cleanup, resizing, and versioning to raise throughput without lowering quality.
• Manage the creative request queue, set priorities with marketing leadership, and hit deadlines on a fast retail calendar.
• Contribute to brand evolution, including loyalty program, partnership, and investor-facing materials as needed.
• Support high-volume asset production for campaigns, producing multiple sizes, formats, including video and platform variations efficiently and accurately
• Uphold CarParts.com brand standards across all deliverables, ensuring visual consistency from concept through deployment

E-Commerce & Product

• Create and update on-site PDP modules and Amazon A+ content to improve product storytelling, conversion, and brand consistency
• Design and resize promotional and banner assets for CMS-driven merchandising campaigns
• Support layout updates and UX improvements across multiple digital surfaces including PDPs, landing pages, and category pages
• Fix and enhance blog mobile layouts, widget structure, and accessibility to improve readability and engagement
• Design and develop visual layouts for blog articles, including headers, inline graphics, and editorial imagery
• Deploy campaign ad creatives on the blog, ensuring proper sizing, placement, and brand alignment

WHAT YOU BRING

Experience

• 4-6+ years of professional digital design experience, preferably in e-commerce, retail, or a high-production marketing environment
• Demonstrated experience designing for both web, print, and paid media across multiple formats and surfaces
• Portfolio showing strong brand sensibility, typographic control, and production-quality output

Skills & Tools

• Expert-level proficiency in Figma - you live here; components, auto layout, and design systems are second nature
• Strong working knowledge of AI design tools (Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, or similar), Canva, and the judgment to use them effectively
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite - Photoshop and Illustrator at minimum
• Strong proficiency in video editing and motion content creation for both social media and performance marketing channels, with hands-on experience in CapCut, Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and/or Final Cut Pro
• Experience adapting video creative across platform-specific formats including TikTok, Instagram Reels, Meta, YouTube, paid social ads, and other digital advertising placements
• Familiarity with CMS platforms like Bloomreach and basic understanding of how design translates to development handoff
• Proficient at WordPress
• Working knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG) for web and mobile layouts
• Basic HTML/CSS knowledge

Who You Are

• You produce clean, on-brand work quickly and without a lot of hand-hanging
• You manage your own workload, flag blockers early, and consistently hit deadlines
• You have a strong eye for detail and high standards for your own output
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment where priorities shift and volume is high
• You communicate clearly with cross-functional partners in marketing, merchandising, and engineering
• You are proactive about learning new tools - especially AI - and integrating them into your workflow

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience with Amazon A+ content modules and brand store design
• Familiarity with automotive, aftermarket parts, or e-commerce retail categories
• Experience working across both U.S. and LATAM teams

WHY CARPARTS.COM

• Fast-moving, high-impact environment - your work ships and is seen by millions of customers
• Opportunity to shape brand creative as we evolve from a transactional parts store to a trusted automotive destination
• Collaborative team that values craft, speed, and results equally

A reasonable salary estimate for this role based on experience, education, and geographic location is: $90,000-$110,000

Equal Opportunity Employer

CarParts.com is an equal-opportunity employer. We enthusiastically accept our responsibility to make employment decisions without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and ordinances. Our management is dedicated to ensuring that we fulfill this policy with respect to hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, recruitment advertising, pay, and other forms of compensation, training, and general treatment during employment.

The above-noted job description is not intended to describe, in detail, the multitude of tasks that may be assigned but rather to give the incumbent a general sense of the responsibilities and expectations of his/her position. As the nature of business demands change so, too, may the essential functions of this position.