UX Designer
Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, CarGurus is the all-in-one platform that’s moving the entire car shopping journey online and guiding customers through each step. This includes everything from selling an old car to financing, purchasing, and delivering a new one. Today, millions of consumers visit cargurus.com each month, and more than 30,000 dealerships use our products. We have a people-first culture that fosters kindness, collaboration, and innovation, while empowering our Gurus with tools and resources to fuel their career growth. Our goal is to give all people—consumers, dealers, and our employees—the power to reach their destination.
Job Description
Role overview
CarGurus is looking for a User Experience Designer to join our growing Product Design and User Research team. In this role, you’ll help design intuitive, engaging, and visually compelling user experiences across our marketplace and platform.
We’re looking for a designer who can think holistically, iterate quickly, and refine designs with care. You’ll collaborate with engineers, product managers, analysts, content strategists, and researchers to deliver meaningful solutions to real user problems. You’ll be expected to balance creativity with structure - producing work that’s well-reasoned, well-crafted, and aligned to business and user goals.You’ll report to a Senior UX Design Manager, who will support your professional growth and performance and your day-to-day work will be guided by one of our Lead Designers, who provides design direction, mentorship, and helps ensure high-quality, consistent execution within your product area.
An online portfolio is required. Your work should demonstrate clear problem-solving, user-centered thinking, polished visual design, and the ability to iterate toward thoughtful solutions.
What you'll do
- Collaborate with product and engineering partners to design high-impact, user-friendly, and visually engaging experiences
- Translate research and requirements into user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and polished, production-ready UI designs
- Iterate quickly by exploring multiple directions, incorporating feedback, and continuously improving your work
- Apply accessibility and responsive design best practices
- Use data (e.g., usability testing, A/B tests, analytics) to inform and validate design decisions
- Receive direction and mentorship from a Lead Designer and contribute to team-wide critiques and rituals
- Contribute to shared design systems, uphold design quality, and help create a cohesive product experience
What you'll bring
- 3+ years of experience in UX/product design, ideally within agile, cross-functional product teams
- A strong portfolio that showcases polished visual design, user-centered thinking, and clear design rationale
- Proficiency with tools like Figma, and familiarity with prototyping and working within design systems
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and visual—able to clearly explain ideas and decisions to different audiences
- Experience applying accessibility, inclusive design, and responsive principles to your work
- A growth mindset and an iterative approach to problem-solving
- Curiosity about emerging design practices, including thoughtful use of AI tools to support ideation, content exploration, or research synthesis—used in service of better user outcomes, not as shortcuts for quality
Role overview
CarGurus is looking for a User Experience Designer to join our growing Product Design and User Research team. In this role, you’ll help design intuitive, engaging, and visually compelling user experiences across our marketplace and platform.
We’re looking for a designer who can think holistically, iterate quickly, and refine designs with care. You’ll collaborate with engineers, product managers, analysts, content strategists, and researchers to deliver meaningful solutions to real user problems. You’ll be expected to balance creativity with structure - producing work that’s well-reasoned, well-crafted, and aligned to business and user goals.You’ll report to a Senior UX Design Manager, who will support your professional growth and performance and your day-to-day work will be guided by one of our Lead Designers, who provides design direction, mentorship, and helps ensure high-quality, consistent execution within your product area.
An online portfolio is required. Your work should demonstrate clear problem-solving, user-centered thinking, polished visual design, and the ability to iterate toward thoughtful solutions.
What you'll do
- Collaborate with product and engineering partners to design high-impact, user-friendly, and visually engaging experiences
- Translate research and requirements into user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and polished, production-ready UI designs
- Iterate quickly by exploring multiple directions, incorporating feedback, and continuously improving your work
- Apply accessibility and responsive design best practices
- Use data (e.g., usability testing, A/B tests, analytics) to inform and validate design decisions
- Receive direction and mentorship from a Lead Designer and contribute to team-wide critiques and rituals
- Contribute to shared design systems, uphold design quality, and help create a cohesive product experience
What you'll bring
- 3+ years of experience in UX/product design, ideally within agile, cross-functional product teams
- A strong portfolio that showcases polished visual design, user-centered thinking, and clear design rationale
- Proficiency with tools like Figma, and familiarity with prototyping and working within design systems
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and visual—able to clearly explain ideas and decisions to different audiences
- Experience applying accessibility, inclusive design, and responsive principles to your work
- A growth mindset and an iterative approach to problem-solving
- Curiosity about emerging design practices, including thoughtful use of AI tools to support ideation, content exploration, or research synthesis—used in service of better user outcomes, not as shortcuts for quality
