Lead Product Designer

Company 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 tact, 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 a certified Great Place to Work, Family Friendly Workplace and WGEA Employer of Choice.
- The support of a highly engaged, high-performing team including a leadership team that's you'll actually have face time with.
- 18 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks paid secondary caregivers leave, six weeks paid gender transition leave.

**Job Description**:
**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.

As our Lead level designer, you will have the opportunity to work on the highest-impact product initiatives, the role also requires the strategic capability to partner with Product and Tech leadership within the tribe to define their future strategic direction.

As a Lead, you will have direct management responsibility with the opportunity to coach and mentor Designers who also work within the product teams of the tribe.
- Collaborate with product leadership to define medium and longer-term strategy, as well contribute to assessing and prioritising shorter-term roadmaps
- Define best-practice product design processes and general operating models in collaboration Product and Tech leadership
- 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
- Collaborate with product development and other teams to set realistic expectations for project scope, delivery timeframes whilst maintaining quality standards

**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)
- The ability to influence change, whilst engaging with stakeholders of all levels.
- Expertise in designing seamless product experiences based on the user-centered design methods and best practices
- Demonstrated expertise to share and promote collaboratively design thinking across the entire business
- Competent skills in industry-standard software such as Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD and Adobe Creative Suite, etc. You'll have the ability to create inspired concepts to a highly polished finish.

Additional Information
**A few other things we want to let you know about...**
- We know how important keeping that balance between work/life is and have a range of flexible working options on offer, including part time work. 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.

So come and join our team - because every role is a big role in our plans to go big.