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.
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's you'll actually have face time with.
22 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks paid secondary caregivers leave, six weeks paid gender affirming care leave.
What you'll do
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.
next is carsales' new business building arm. We are a small group of entrepreneurs who build new technologies that aim to power the future of mobility. We work on unsolved and high potential problems with a start up mindset and pace
Mobility is being disrupted with industry changes and new technologies that will reshape how everyone on the planet gets around. carsales next is a small, globally-focussed team that explore, build and launch technologies to power the future of mobility and help carsales grow and diversify.
As a Senior Product Designer, you will lead the design of new products and businesses within a small cross functional team. You'll use your research, design and strategic thinking skills to rapidly explore new problem spaces and develop product concepts that our customers and future customers love. You'll take the lead on planning and running early stage research and work with product to design and test promising concepts that are desirable, viable and feasible
- Share expertise to present design concepts to various partners and teams
- Lead research with consumer and business customers.
- Leverage your strategic mindset to design and test concepts that are not only desirable but also help achieve the business objectives.
- Pitch new business concepts to our executive groups
- Develop and support solutions that deliver seamless product experiences based on the user-centered design methods and best practices to make complicated problems look and feel simple but elegant.
- Collaborate and connect with product development and other teams to set 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
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.
Qualifications
What are we 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.
- (Preferred but not required) Experience working in a start up, incubator or internal innovation team.
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'll 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.
