Senior Product Designer

About Motorway

Motorway is the UK’s fastest-growing used car marketplace - our online-only platform connects private car sellers with thousands of verified dealers nationwide, ensuring everyone gets the best deal. 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.

About the role

We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to tackle complex user problems and shape design across large, sometimes ambiguous, product areas within your Squad. You’ll own the end-to-end design process, delivering work that drives meaningful impact for both our users and the business.

You’ll bring clarity to complexity, helping to prioritise the right problems and influence product direction through insights from data and research. Systems-thinking, strong UI/UX instincts, and a focus on scalable, user-friendly solutions will be key, as well as deepening your craft in areas like design systems, mobile and web patterns, and accessibility.

Collaboration is at the heart of this role – you’ll work closely with cross-functional teams, align stakeholders around customer needs, give thoughtful feedback, and foster inclusive design discussions. Strong communication skills and commercial awareness will help you deliver exceptional experiences while shaping the future of Motorway’s product.

Key responsibilities include:

• Owning design from problem definition to polished UI within your Squad. Lead discovery, user testing, and implementation while navigating complexity independently.

• Delivering cohesive solutions across web, mobile and native apps), applying and contributing to shared design patterns and components that create a unified user experience.

• Consistently delivering high-impact design work that moves key business and user metrics, bringing clarity to complex problems.

• Partnering with product managers, data analysts and other functions to shape roadmaps, connecting user insights to product opportunities and broader business goals.

• Applying systems-thinking and deep UI/UX expertise to produce consistent, scalable, and user-friendly solutions that align with design standards.

• Championing a user-centred design approach throughout the product development process. Conduct user research, usability testing and analysis to inform design decisions.

• Working cross-functionally to align stakeholders around customer needs and design direction. Advocate for the user's perspective in decision-making processes.

• Providing thoughtful feedback and foster inclusive, team-wide design discussions. Mentor junior designers and contribute actively to team rituals and practices.

• Deepening your craft in strategic areas (e.g. design systems, accessibility, mobile patterns) that drive Product goals. Share expertise and raise the bar for others.

• Evaluating and applying AI tools appropriately in the design process, considering both their speed and limitations in quality or nuance.

• Staying current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and design best practices. Proactively identifying opportunities to improve user experience, usability, and visual consistency across the product.

Benefits

• A competitive salary

• BUPA health insurance

• Discounted gym membership through BUPA

• OnHand volunteering membership and one paid volunteering day per year

• Hybrid working

• Pension scheme

• Motorway car leasing scheme - lease a zero-emissions electric vehicle at a significant discount

• Enhanced parental leave - We offer enhanced maternity pay (26 weeks of full pay) and enhanced paternity pay (4 weeks of full pay) to eligible employees.

• Workplace nursery scheme

• Regular social events

• Cycle to work scheme

Equal opportunities statement

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all employees. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where people can maximise their full potential. We believe our workforce should reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.

We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.