Senior Product Designer

Company

Cox Automotive - USA

Engineering / Product Development

Sr UX Designer

Individual ContributorHybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week

Yes, 25% of the time

Day

Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $101,500.00 - $169,100.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

As a Senior Product Designer, you’ll lead the design of complex product features

and workflows, driving user-centered solutions across our automotive offerings.

You’ll impact the end-to-end design process—from discovery and research to

prototyping and delivery—while mentoring junior designers and influencing

product strategy.

You’ll be a key voice in shaping the user experience, advocating for design

excellence, and ensuring consistency across platforms. This role requires strong

collaboration, strategic thinking, and a proven ability to deliver impactful design

outcomes.

Position Responsibilities:

• Lead design initiatives for a product, translating business goals and user needs into innovative, user-centered solutions across desktop and mobile platforms.

• Evolve UX strategy in partnership with product and engineering leads, influencing roadmap decisions through design thinking and user insights.

• Conduct user research activities in coordination with UX researchers—including field studies, user testing, and data synthesis—to uncover deep behavioral patterns and inform design decisions.

• Create and refine UX deliverables such as user flows, journey maps, wireframes, mockups, prototypes (low/high fidelity), and information architecture, ensuring alignment with business and user goals.

• Drive the evolution of the design system by identifying gaps, proposing new components and patterns, and ensuring scalable, consistent design across products.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, engineers, content strategists, and other stakeholders to align on vision, constraints, and implementation strategies.

• Facilitate design workshops, critiques, and sprints to foster collaboration, accelerate decision-making, and promote a shared understanding of design goals.

• Present and advocate for design decisions in stakeholder reviews, clearly articulating rationale, user impact, and business value.

• Mentor and support junior designers, providing guidance, feedback, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and design excellence.

• Lead usability testing and behavioral analytics reviews to validate design performance and identify opportunities for optimization.

• Ensure high-quality implementation by maintaining detailed design specifications, partnering closely with developers, and participating in user acceptance testing.

• Continuously evaluate and improve design processes, tools, and team rituals to enhance efficiency, collaboration, and impact.

• Stay ahead of UX trends, emerging technologies, and industry best practices, and actively contribute to the evolution of team capabilities and design culture.

• Manage multiple projects and priorities effectively, estimating effort, planning schedules, and delivering on time within agile workflows.

• Use general-purpose LLM tools to analyze and synthesize user behavior, identify patterns, and prioritize opportunities.

• Use AI to accelerate discovery, experimentation, development, and recommend improvements.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in HCI, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, or related field and 4 years of experience in product design with a portfolio showcasing strategic thinking and complex problem-solving.

  • The right candidate could also have an equivalent combination of education and experience (Master’s and 2+ years’ experience | PHD and 1 year) OR 8 years of experience

• Experience conducting user research and applying insights to inform product design strategy.

• Deep understanding of information architecture, interaction design and usability heuristics.

• Experience contributing to and evolving design systems at scale.

• Experience using facilitation skills in leading design critiques, workshops, and stakeholder alignment.

• Ability to mentor junior designers and provide constructive feedback.

• Demonstrated impact on product outcomes through design leadership and collaboration.

• Familiarity with text-to-prototype tools

• Ability to partner with product teams and leverage tools for rapid prototyping for the purposes of research, discovery, and experimentation

• Experience creating AI products or strong knowledge of AI and agentic design practices, such as model limitations, guardrails, evals, and feedback loops

To be employed in this role, you’ll need to clear a pre-employment drug test. Cox Automotive does not currently administer a pre-employment drug test for marijuana for this position. However, we are a drug-free workplace, so the possession, use or being under the influence of drugs illegal under federal or state law during work hours, on company property and/or in company vehicles is prohibited.

The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.Through groundbreaking technology and a commitment to stellar experiences for drivers and dealers alike, Cox Automotive employees are transforming the way the world buys, owns, sells – or simply uses – cars. Cox Automotive employees get to work on iconic consumer brands like Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book and industry-leading dealer-facing companies like vAuto and Manheim, all while enjoying the people-centered atmosphere that is central to our life at Cox. Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page. Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer – All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual’s age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship.

EOE, including disability/vetsApplicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship. No OPT, CPT, STEM/OPT or visa sponsorship now or in future.