Lead Product Designer
Role Summary
Join Motorway as a Lead Product Designer, where you'll tackle complex design challenges and shape design culture within a fast-growing company.
About the Organisation
Motorway is the UK's largest online car-selling platform. We connect private sellers directly with over 8,000 dealers nationwide. Our online platform helps sellers achieve great prices for their cars while giving dealers fast, reliable access to the stock they want for their dealerships. Founded in 2017, our award-winning, technology-led approach has redefined the experience of selling a car. Motorway is backed by some of the world’s leading technology investors, having raised £143 million in Series C funding.
This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing scale-up at a crucial phase of growth and help change an industry for the better.
Key Responsibilities
- Design Execution: Produce high-quality design deliverables including user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mock-ups for mobile and web applications, ensuring solutions meet accessibility standards and set the bar for inclusive design across the team.
- Collaboration & Commercial Awareness: Work in close partnership with product managers, engineers, and data analysts throughout the product development lifecycle. Connect user insights to product opportunities and broader business goals. You have strong commercial awareness and can articulate the business case for design decisions.
- Stakeholder Communication: Establish strong relationships across product, engineering, and the wider organisation. Communicate clearly at all levels, lead online and offline sessions to validate design decisions, and represent product design with confidence and authority.
- Mentorship & Guidance: Provide mentorship to junior and senior designers alike - sharing best practices, supporting their growth, and helping create an environment where designers can do the best work of their careers.
- Driving Design Culture: Help foster a strong design culture by contributing to weekly team rituals, running workshops, planning design-focused events, and encouraging diverse participation. You love bringing people together around ideas.
- Continuous Improvement: Explore and encourage continuous learning across the team, playing an active role in developing our core design principles and keeping the team sharp on emerging tools, patterns, and practices.
Minimum Requirements
Our team comes from a diverse range of backgrounds, and team fit matters immensely to us. We are looking for a passionate advocate for craft and user experience who can check off several of these boxes:
- Proven Leadership: A deep track record as a Senior or Lead Product Designer, successfully shipping impactful digital products across web and mobile ecosystems.
- A Builder’s Instinct: You don’t stop at the design file. You love getting your hands dirty and have experience shipping code, building your own products, or spinning up functional, high-fidelity tools and prototypes.
- Versatile Experience: A strong grasp of consumer journeys, ideally with experience navigating both B2C and B2B product landscapes.
- An AI-Forward Mindset: A highly considered approach to AI in design. You understand how to strategically use it to accelerate work, when to rely on human judgment, and how to guide a team through this evolving landscape.
- Commercial Acumen: The ability to see the bigger picture, connect design execution directly to business outcomes, and confidently shape broader product strategy.
- Modern Toolkit & Research Rigour: High proficiency in design and prototyping tools (like Figma, Claude, Kiro), combined with strong user-centered design methodologies, accessibility standards, and research synthesisation.
- Bonus Points: Experience optimizing user journeys/conversion funnels via experimentation, or experience working within a fast-paced, two-sided marketplace.
Working Conditions
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- Competitive salary
- Equity scheme - we all share in Motorway's success
- 25 days holiday
- Flexible working (2 days a week in our London office, with socials and snacks galore)
- Private medical insurance via BUPA
- Life assurance
- Pension scheme (we contribute 5%)
- Enhanced family leave (e.g. 26 weeks full pay for maternity or adoption)
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
- EV leasing scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Nursery salary sacrifice scheme
- 1 paid volunteering day a year
Eligibility Criteria
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