UX Designer, Mobile Apps

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Role overview

CarGurus is looking for a User Experience Designer to join our mobile team, helping to build intuitive, delightful, and high-performing experiences for our iOS and Android apps. This mid-career role is a great opportunity for a mobile-focused UX designer who is curious, collaborative, and passionate about solving real-world problems through user-centered design.

You'll work cross-functionally with engineers, product managers, researchers, and data analysts to ideate, prototype, and validate mobile experiences that support millions of users on one of the biggest financial decisions of their lives - buying or selling a car.

You will be embedded within our Mobile design pod, working under the guidance and mentorship of our Mobile Lead. Our mobile team builds using React Native, so familiarity with this environment is highly desirable. We're especially excited about candidates who are experimenting with AI tools, enjoy rapid iteration, and bring an entrepreneurial spirit to their work. Our mobile team is in growth mode, so the ability to execute quickly without sacrificing quality is key. You'll also need to be comfortable navigating shifting priorities and frequent context switching - this is a fast-paced environment where multitasking is essential. Our team values diverse perspectives and learning from one another, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. A portfolio or samples of your work are required.

What you'll do

• Design intuitive and effective mobile experiences for iOS and Android platforms, contributing to both feature work and longer-term UX strategy for the mobile app

• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and researchers to understand user needs, define problems, and explore a range of solutions through wireframes, flows, and prototypes

• Apply user research insights, behavioral data, and A/B test results to iterate and improve designs

• Participate in discovery efforts, helping identify the right problems to solve and how to validate proposed ideas

• Use tools like Figma to create production-ready designs, with a strong emphasis on visual polish and attention to detail

• Design and communicate micro interactions, transitions, and motion design to enhance mobile UX and create a more fluid and engaging user experience, using best practices for mobile animation and interaction design

• Rapidly prototype experiences using design tools, AI-enhanced workflows, or light front-end technologies to convey interaction intent and support iterative testing

• Move quickly and confidently through the design process, adapting to fast-changing priorities while maintaining a user-first approach

• Support and contribute to the CarGurus design system, helping ensure consistency across the mobile app experience

• Consider accessibility and inclusive design principles in all of your work

What you'll bring

• 3-5 years of UX/product design experience with a strong focus on mobile app design (iOS and/or Android), proficiency with tools like Figma and comfort working in agile, cross-functional teams

• A solid understanding of mobile UX/UI best practices, trends, and platform guidelines

• Demonstrated experience with interaction and motion design, including the thoughtful use of animation to guide, inform, and delight users on mobile platforms

• Familiarity with user-centered design, including usability testing, rapid prototyping, and evidence-based iteration

• Experience using data and analytics to inform design decisions, and a desire to improve designs based on what users actually do

• Strong communication skills - you can explain your design thinking clearly to designers, engineers, and product leaders

• A growth mindset and a passion for continuous learning, including experimentation with AI-powered design tools and emerging UX methods

• Ability to work quickly and efficiently while upholding high design standards in a fast-paced, context-switching environment

• Familiarity with accessibility principles and a commitment to creating inclusive user experiences

• Experience working with React Native and an understanding of how it influences mobile UX implementation is highly desirable

• Familiarity with prototyping tools and techniques - including AI-enhanced design workflows and light coding - to communicate design intent and support usability validation

Working at CarGurus

We reward our Gurus' curiosity and passion with best-in-class benefits and compensation, including equity for all employees, both when they start and as they continue to grow with us. Our career development and corporate giving programs, as well as our employee resource groups (ERGs) and communities, help people build connections while making an impact in personally meaningful ways. A flexible hybrid model and robust time off policies encourage work-life balance and individual well-being. Thoughtful perks like daily free lunch, a new car discount, meditation and fitness apps, commuting cost coverage, and more help our people create space for what matters most in their personal and professional lives.

We welcome all

CarGurus strives to be a place to which people can bring the ultimate expression of themselves and their potential-starting with our hiring process. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. We foster an inclusive environment that values people for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. That's why we hope you'll apply even if you don't check every box listed in the job description. We also encourage you to tell your recruiter if you require accommodations to participate in our hiring process due to a disability so we can provide the appropriate support. We want to know what only you can bring to CarGurus. #LI-Hybrid