AddressCompany Description
Are you ready to be a big part of something big?
At carsales, we're all about making buying and selling a great experience. For 25 years we've been evolving with the new economy to help people choose how they move today and tomorrow.
When it comes to your career, we want to provide big opportunities to help you make a big impact. But for this to be possible, we strive to feel small. Small enough to quickly change tack, small enough to learn from different departments and small enough to connect authentically with leadership.
Not something you'd expect from one of the country's biggest tech companies, is it?
And one of the best parts? We give you the autonomy to choose the working location that best suits your lifestyle - Office, Hybrid or Anywhere.
A career in Design will see you working on products that are used every single day by millions of customers all over the world. As a Product Designer, you'll research, design, build and refine user-centric experiences and interfaces for our carsales users. Our people are creative, and they get a kick out of working with the latest technology to collaboratively solve commercial problems and anticipate the future needs of our customers. They're constantly looking ahead for the next trend and championing innovation to improve our customer experience.
What's on offer:
- A place where you can move your career forward, where you'll be continuously backed to make new ideas happen, and the chance to do work that makes real, significant impact in the world.
- We're proud to be recognised as one of Australia's Best Workplaces by Great Place to Work, an AFR BOSS Best Place to Work, a Family Friendly Workplace, and WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality.
- The support of a highly engaged, high-performing team including a leadership team that you'll actually have face time with.
- ASX 100 Listed Tech company growing globally with Australian based exec team.
What you will do
As the Product Desinger (Fixed Term Contract), this is your opportunity to consolidate our existing separate mobile and desktop experiences into one responsive user experience. You will increase development efficiency by aligning to a shared solution and design framework, rising to consumer expectations of ease and consistency in using carsales.
Your design will be a fully responsive site (and Native apps) optimised for SEO with a distinctly more simplified look and feel and be a big part of something big.
- Define and lead in the development of new concepts and solutions to improve the carsales products at every step of the user's experience journey.
- Understand user problems and uncover product pain points to design considered interfaces that meet business requirements and the needs of the end user.
- Conduct research and user testing studies to represent key insights that will help influence decisions and directions.
- Iteratively create interaction flows, wireframes, high-fidelity prototypes and finely crafted visual design mock-ups.
- Confidently present design concepts to various stakeholders and teams across the business.
- Collaborate with product development and other teams to set realistic expectations for project scope, delivery timeframes whilst maintaining quality standards.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and product strategists, technical leads and developers, where you'll make recommendations for the best possible outcome.
- Working with the carsales design system to consistently improve design patterns and create new ones where required, knowledge of native mobile design patterns across iOS and Android is a must have skill for this role.
Qualifications
What we are looking for
- Demonstrated inclusive and interpersonal attributes that connect you to our behaviours (we change the game, we own it, we step in, we are curious, we don't take ourselves too seriously)
- Expertise to define and lead in the development of new concepts and solutions to build new businesses.
- Demonstrate understanding and expertise in understanding user problems and uncover product pain points to design considered interfaces that meet business requirements and the needs of the end user.
- Collaborate across a diverse team, you will have a great opportunity to solve complex tasks and transform them into intuitive, accessible, and easy-to-use inspired design.
- Expertise in mentoring and coaching more junior designers across the wider design team, as and when required or appropriate.
- Worked with cross-functional teams to help market the benefits of the solutions you are creating.
Additional Information
A few other things we want to let you know about...
- carsales is an equal opportunity employer who prides themselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage everyone of all ages, genders, and backgrounds to apply. If you're a candidate with a disability or you need some adjustments to be at your best, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.
- We know how important keeping that balance between work/life is and have a range of flexible working options on offer, including part time. We are open to this conversation during our recruitment process if you want to know more just ask!
- We are a proud Circle Back Initiative Employer which means we are committed to responding to every job applicant.
- Successful candidates joining the carsales family are required to undergo a National Police Record check and must have full-time Australian working rights on an ongoing basis.
