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# Staff Product Designer at Carwow

- **Company:** Carwow
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/carwow/2b0f3536-e584-4111-9d70-5c290881434d

## Job description

## OUR MISSION

To become the car-changing destination of choice. By combining technology, media and deep automotive expertise, we've turned how people buy, sell, advertise and lease cars on its head.

What started as a simple reviews site is now one of the largest online car-changing destinations in Europe. Last year alone we grew over 50% with nearly £3bn worth of cars bought on site, while £1.8bn of cars were listed for sale through our Sell My Car service.

In 2024 we went big and acquired Autovia - creators of AutoExpress and Evo magazines - doubling our audience overnight. Together we now have one of the biggest YouTube https://www.youtube.com/carwow channels in the world with almost 10m subscribers and over 1.1 billion annual views, while we sell 1.2 million print copies of our magazines and have an annual web content reach over 350million.

And we’re a long way from done!

## THE ROLE

We're looking for a Staff Product Designer to shape some of the most important experiences in our marketplace. You'll own complex, high-impact problem spaces end to end, from ambiguous discovery through to shipped, measured outcomes and raise the bar for design craft and pace across the whole team.

This is a senior individual-contributor role with real influence. You'll partner directly with product and engineering leadership, mentor other designers, and set the standard for how design work gets done at Carwow.

A note on how we work: AI fluency is integral to the role. Our design team works AI-natively. We use Claude Design (and similar tools) to move from idea to high-quality prototype in hours, not weeks, and we expect designers at this level to be genuinely fluent in this way of working, not just curious about it. If you're still designing the way teams did in 2023, this probably isn't the right role. If you've rebuilt your workflow around AI and it's made you dramatically faster and more ambitious, we'd love to talk.

## WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

- Own end-to-end design for a major problem space in our marketplace. Buying, selling, or dealer-facing products. from discovery and framing through to launch and iteration
- Prototype at pace using AI design tools (Claude Design or equivalent), getting real, testable experiences in front of users and stakeholders early and often
- Work shoulder-to-shoulder with engineers, using AI-assisted workflows to close the gap between design intent and shipped product, ideally getting hands-on in code where it speeds things up
- Set direction, not just execute: identify opportunities, make the case with evidence, and bring product and engineering partners with you
- Raise the craft bar across the team through critique, mentorship, and by making your own work an example worth following
- Champion AI-native ways of working. Sharing techniques, building reusable prompts and workflows, and helping the wider team level up
- Ground decisions in evidence, combining user research, data, and rapid experimentation

## WHAT YOU'LL NEED

- 7+ years of product design experience, with a track record of leading complex, high-impact work in consumer or marketplace products
- A high degree of AI fluency. Hands-on, demonstrable experience using Claude Design (or an equivalent AI design/prototyping tool) as a core part of your workflow. This is critical to the role, and we'll want to see it in your portfolio and hear about it in interviews
- Strong end-to-end craft: you can go from a fuzzy problem statement to polished, production-ready design, and everything you ship is considered
- Comfort with ambiguity and pace. You make good decisions with incomplete information and iterate quickly
- Excellent communication and influence: you can align senior stakeholders, tell a compelling story with your work, and hold your ground constructively
- Experience mentoring designers and lifting the standard of a team|

## STRONGLY PREFERRED SKILLS

- Experience with Claude Code (or an equivalent AI coding agent) — enough to prototype in real code, collaborate more deeply with engineers, or ship small changes yourself
- Marketplace, e-commerce, or two-sided platform experience
- Familiarity with experimentation-driven product development (A/B testing, funnel analysis)

## WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

In your first six months you'll have taken ownership of a significant problem space, shipped work that measurably moves a core metric, and become someone other designers seek out — both for the quality of your craft and for how you use AI tools to work at a pace and ambition level others want to copy.

WHY CARWOW?

- Genuine scale and impact: your work is used by millions of car buyers and sellers
- An AI-forward culture where new tools and workflows are embraced, not resisted — with access to the best tooling available
- A senior, supportive design team that takes craft seriously
- Hybrid working, competitive salary and equity, private healthcare, enhanced parental leave, and a car-buying perk you'd expect from us

## HOW TO APPLY

- Send us your CV and portfolio. Please include at least one example of work where AI tools (Claude Design, Claude Code, or equivalents) played a meaningful role in your process — tell us what you used, how, and what it changed about the outcome.

## WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU

- Hybrid working
- Competitive salary to fund that dream holiday to Bali
- Matched pension contributions for a peaceful retirement
- Share options - when we thrive, so do you!
- Vitality Private Healthcare, for peace of mind, plus eyecare vouchers
- Life Assurance for (even more) peace of mind
- Monthly coaching sessions with Spill - our mental wellbeing partner
- Enhanced holiday package, plus Bank Holidays
- 28 days annual leave
- 1 day for your wedding
- 1 day off when you move house - because moving is hard enough without work!
- For your third year anniversary, get 30 days of annual leave per year
- For your tenth year anniversary, get 35 days of annual leave per year
- Option to buy 3 extra days of holiday per year
- Work from abroad for a month
- Inclusive parental, partner and shared parental leave, fertility treatment and pregnancy loss policies
- Bubble childcare support and discounted nanny fees for little ones
- The latest tech (Macbook or Surface) to power your gif-sending talents
- Up to £500/€550 home office allowance for that massage chair you’ve been talking about
- Generous learning and development budget to help you master your craft
- Regular social events: tech lunches, coffee with the exec sessions, lunch 8 learns, book clubs, social events/anything else you pester us for
- Refer a friend, get paid. Repeat for infinite money

Diversity and inclusion is an integral part of our culture. We know that diverse teams are strong teams, so we welcome those with alternative identities, backgrounds, and experiences to apply for this position. We make recruiting decisions based on experience, skills and potential, so all our applicants are treated fairly and equally.

## About Carwow

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Carwow is an online car-changing marketplace that connects consumers with trusted dealers to buy new cars and sell their old ones, supported by one of the world’s most popular motoring YouTube channels.
- **Entity Type**: Private (last funding round $52M led by Bessemer Venture Partners)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: Not provided in search results
- **Founders**: James Hind, Alexandra Margolis, David Santoro

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Online automotive marketplace, car-buying and car-selling services, automotive media and content
- **Target customers**: B2C (consumers buying or selling cars) and B2B (car dealers and partners)
- **Mission or purpose**: “The car-changing marketplace for life-changing moments” and “give total car confidence” (carwow.co.uk)

## Products & Services
- **Carwow Marketplace**: An online platform where consumers configure a new car and receive competitive offers from thousands of trusted dealers – no haggling and no fees (SaaS / marketplace).
- **Sell My Car Service**: A service that lets consumers list their used car and get offers from dealers, arranging collection upon acceptance (service).
- **Carwow YouTube Channel**: One of the largest car channels on YouTube with 5.8 million subscribers and over 63 million monthly views, featuring drag races, reviews, and automotive news (content / media).
- **Autovia Group (acquired 2024)**: Print magazines, additional websites, and a portfolio of automotive brands that extend reach across Europe (media / publishing).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $52M (most recent round, led by Bessemer Venture Partners)  
  - Gross Merchandise Value (GMV): nearly £3 billion worth of cars bought on the site in the last year; £1.8 billion in cars listed via Sell My Car
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Bessemer Venture Partners (early backer of LinkedIn and Shopify); also “industry-leading investors” (carwow.co.uk)
- **Growth Signals**:  
  - 50%+ year-over-year growth  
  - 12 million active users with an “Excellent” Trustpilot rating  
  - 500 employees and counting  
  - Expanded to Germany, Spain, and Portugal  
  - Acquisition of Autovia in 2024 (1.1 billion annual YouTube views, 1.2 million print copies sold, 100 million website visits/year)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Massive organic content engine**: The Carwow YouTube channel is a top driver of brand awareness and trust, generating over 63 million monthly views and 9 million subscribers.
- **Dual-sided marketplace**: Strong network effects between car buyers and dealers, with a reputation for transparency and “no haggling” model.
- **Scale and cross-border reach**: Presence in UK, Germany, Spain, and Portugal plus the Autovia portfolio gives Carwow a European‑wide footprint that competitors struggle to match.
- **Trust and customer satisfaction**: 12 million active users and an “Excellent” Trustpilot rating differentiate the brand from other car-buying services.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling the **Sell My Car service** in the UK and accelerating European operations.
- Leveraging **AI and data** to drive product innovation and commercial growth (as highlighted by CTO Hizam Sahibudeen).
- Continuing to grow and monetise the **Carwow content ecosystem** (YouTube, magazines) as a lead‑generation funnel.
- Building a **people‑centric engineering culture** and investing in DEI initiatives to attract top tech talent.

## Why Work Here
- Named one of the **Culture 100** – recognised as one of the world’s most progressive tech businesses for building a people‑focused environment.
- **Benefits**: Share options, flexible working, £500/€550 home‑office budget, private medical insurance, generous learning and development budget, “Work from anywhere for 1 month” scheme, family‑friendly policies, mental health first aiders and coaching.
- **DEI commitment**: Membership in BYP Network (Black Young Professionals), employee‑led Diversity Committees, bi‑annual DEI surveys, fundraising for charities.
- **Engineering culture**: CTO-led focus on AI‑native practices and data‑driven decision‑making; engineering blog and data science blog available.
- **Offices in London, Munich, Porto, and Winnersh** – hybrid and flexible working arrangements.

## Sources
1. [carwow.co.uk](https://www.carwow.co.uk/about-us?device=m) – About Carwow (company overview, funding, growth)
2. [carwow.co.uk](https://www.carwow.co.uk/jobs) – Careers page (perks, values, 500 employees, Culture 100)
3. [carwow.co.uk](https://www.carwow.co.uk/) – Homepage (product description, FAQ, how it works)
4. [carwow.co.uk](https://www.carwow.co.uk/team) – Team page (leadership, CTO focus on AI, founders)
5. [uk.linkedin.com](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/carwow) – LinkedIn (HQ location, company type, size)

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