Art Director / Senior Digital Designer

At CarGurus, we are all about making the online car shopping experience more transparent. We give you the data and information you need to make smart, empowered car shopping decisions.

Are you an exceptional visual designer who thrives on bringing digital brands to life? CarGurus offers a unique opportunity to make your mark on a significant consumer brand by bringing our visual design standards to the same level of excellence as our site functionality.

* Help define and implement design vision, guidelines, and processes * Elevate CarGurus brand standards to better reflect our industry-leading value proposition and brand personality. * Lead redesign of core site pages to bring CarGurus’ brand to life * Develop strong brand style guidelines to enable the nimble UX design efforts of our front-end development team * Serve as design lead for ongoing interpretation and evolution of our brand standards to support new applications across the business * Multimedia designs – site pages, email templates, banner ads, design assets for content marketing and social media, you might even get to take your skills in offline media for a spin from time to time

* 7+ years digital graphic design experience, preferably working for consumer web brands * Deep expertise in digital-first design with a focus on brand impact while never losing site of the criticality of site functionality. If AB testing brand designs sounds wrong to you, CarGurus isn’t the right place for you * Love of design; you stay current and ahead of design trends * Ability to conceptualize design and campaign concepts, not just deliver pixel perfect creative against someone else’s ideas * Highly collaborative and able to partner with a range of internal stakeholders within marketing, product, engineering and beyond * A low ego approach to getting it right, you’re always open to constructive feedback * Mastery of design tools – Illustrator, InDesign, PhotoShop, etc. * Deadline-driven and highly results-oriented * Appetite for jumping in as an individual contributor with the opportunity to build a team over time * Degree in graphic design or a related field