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Senior Product Designer

Carsales β€’ Melbourne, Australia πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί

Hybrid Full-time Senior

As a Senior Product Designer, you will lead research into new business opportunities and develop seamless product experiences through user-centered design practices. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to shape scope and uphold quality standards.

Responsibilities

  • Lead research into emerging business opportunities and adjacent markets
  • Share your expertise by presenting design concepts to partners and teams across the business
  • Develop seamless product experiences through user-centred design practices β€” turning complexity into clarity
  • Pitch new ideas to the leadership team for funding and support, and help stand up new teams to bring concepts to life
  • Collaborate with product development and other teams to shape scope, set delivery expectations, and uphold quality standards
  • Partner with cross-functional leads β€” strategists, technical experts, and developers β€” to recommend the best path forward

Requirements

  • Expert-level research capability β€” across market, quantitative and qualitative methods β€” with a knack for turning complex data into actionable insights
  • Clear, persuasive communication β€” you can translate ideas into compelling concepts and inspire investment
  • Team-first mindset that reflects our values: we change the game, we own it, we step in, we stay curious, and we don’t take ourselves too seriously
  • Design leadership β€” you guide the development of new solutions that enhance our products at every stage of the user journey
  • User understanding β€” you identify problems, uncover pain points, and create thoughtful interfaces that balance business goals and user needs
  • Collaborative strength β€” you bring diverse teams together to solve tough challenges and craft simple, elegant design solutions

Key Skills

  • Expert-level research capability
  • Clear, persuasive communication
  • Team-first mindset
  • Design leadership
  • User understanding
  • Collaborative strength

Benefits

  • The opportunity to work in a global role and make real, significant impact across all our international marketplaces.
  • A place where you can move your career forward and where you’ll be continuously backed to make new ideas happen.
  • The support of a highly engaged, high-performing team.
  • A wide range of benefits such as 24 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks paid secondary caregivers leave, and six weeks paid gender affirming care leave.

About Carsales

At carsales, we’re all about making buying and selling a great experience. For over 25 years we’ve been evolving with the new economy to help people choose how they move today and tomorrow. We started out with the idea of digitising print classifieds back in 1997 when we thought that β€˜this internet thing might actually be starting to take off’. Fast forward to today and we have close to 800 team members across Australia and New Zealand and we’re part of CAR Group - an ASX 50 business and a global leader in digital marketplaces across Oceania, Asia and The Americas. And don’t let our name fool you – we might have the word β€œcar” in there, but we’re about so much more.... 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 e

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