Designer - Content Design

Autotrader is the most trusted, most visited automotive marketplace in the UK, bringing together vehicle buyers and sellers to give them real choices. Cars may be what we're best known for, but we’re also the place for pretty much everything else on wheels, from e‑bikes to caravans.

Experience Designers at Autotrader sit within our Product & Technology community and play a key role in shaping the products and services our colleagues, customers and consumers rely on every day. This role is focused on content design, but you’ll work across the full experience, contributing to interaction, visual and service design. You’ll help ensure our experiences feel clear, consistent and easy to use, while also supporting broader design work within your team.

A big part of the role is understanding our users. You’ll support the collection and analysis of insights, using them to shape clear, useful content and inform design decisions. At this level, you’ll often be working on well‑defined problems or collaborating with more experienced designers, helping you build confidence across different design disciplines.

You’ll be part of a cross‑functional product team, contributing to improving our web and mobile experiences and building continuity across journeys. You’ll support the full design lifecycle, from discovery and insight gathering through to design, prototyping and testing. Our teams are highly collaborative and data‑driven. You’ll use a mix of qualitative and quantitative insight to guide your work, while also developing the confidence to make decisions and contribute your perspective.

You’ll be encouraged to share ideas, give and receive feedback and continuously improve how we design and deliver experiences.

Additionally, you’ll contribute to the wider design community, supporting the use of our design system and helping to improve how we work together across Product & Technology.

• Experience working in a design role (content design, UX, or product design), either in‑house or in an agency
• A strong interest in content design, with the ability to support writing, reviewing and shaping content using established patterns and guidance
• Ability to contribute to interaction and visual design work, particularly on well‑defined tasks or with support from more experienced designers
• Experience supporting user research or insight work, including collecting information, assisting with facilitation, or contributing to mapping activities
• Ability to help analyse user insights and use these to inform design and content decisions
• Understanding of how digital products are designed and built, including working collaboratively with designers, engineers and product managers
• An appreciation of design systems and how they support consistency across products
• Good communication skills, with the ability to share ideas, take on feedback and collaborate effectively with others
• A curious mindset, with a willingness to learn, ask questions and develop across multiple design disciplines
• Ability to balance attention to detail in content and UI with a broader understanding of end‑to‑end user journeys

We’re offering a salary of £35,000 – £45,000 plus an additional 10 % of your salary awarded to you in shares each year. These awarded shares will become yours in yearly instalments over the next three years, and you can choose to either sell them or keep them as shares.

You’ll have 28 days holiday per year, in addition to bank holidays and half‑day closures on Christmas and New Year’s Eve.

You’ll be enrolled in our pension scheme, where our standard contributions are 7 % and employee contributions are 5 %. We also offer comprehensive private medical cover, enhanced family leave provisions, a car salary sacrifice scheme, share‑save options, and much more.

We provide access to 24/7 online GP and dentist, as well as specialist support for assisted fertility, gender dysphoria, menopause, period care plans and other wellbeing services.

On top of all that, our hybrid model, Connected Working, combines the best of both worlds – office and home working. You'll spend a minimum of three days a week in the office with your team, focused on collaboration and connection. Additionally, we have remote‑first periods at set times during summer and winter. During these periods, you can work remotely anywhere in the UK and from certain locations abroad.

We are committed to making Autotrader a diverse and inclusive environment for everyone. For us to be successful, we want to attract and build a group of people where everyone is unique in their own way.