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TrueCar is a leading automotive digital marketplace, and we are on a mission to make car buying and selling easy, transparent, and efficient. We work to empower consumers with data and foster connections with our network of Certified Dealers who share our belief that truth, transparency, and fairness are the foundation of a great experience. We forge partnerships to power car-buying programs for some of America’s most trusted brands. And we continually innovate to provide useful tools, research, market context, and pricing transparency to help consumers feel empowered and confident throughout their journey.
As consumers’ priorities and shopping habits shifted, so did we. We are building a modern-day marketplace and invite you to join the TrueCar Crew. You can have a real and direct impact on our journey as we continue to evolve and revolutionize the car-buying and selling experience.
The Opportunity:
TrueCar is seeking an exceptional UX Designer to join our team. In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with Product/UX Designers, Product Managers, Engineers, and other stakeholders to support the development of key TrueCar products and contribute to solving meaningful user experience challenges across platforms, with a focus on mobile-first and responsive web design. The position requires a strong eye for visual design and the ability to translate your ideas into thoughtful, user-centered solutions that balance aesthetics with usability, business goals, and technical constraints. Through wireframes, user flows, hi-fi mockups, prototypes, and usability testing, you’ll help the team shape ideas, test assumptions, and align on design decisions.
How you will contribute to TrueCar’s success:
- Support Product Leads, Engineers, and other stakeholders to develop compelling user experiences from concept to delivery
- Take product requirements and efficiently turn them into user-centered design solutions, ensuring alignment with project goals and timelines
- Shape broad, conceptual ideas and transform them into meaningful solutions
- Design flows and experiences that are overall familiar, flexible, and functional for users
- Leverage internal data, user insights, and competitive research to inform design decisions—grounding solutions in evidence, best practices, and user mental models
- Give and solicit feedback from other designers, stakeholders, and users to continually raise the quality of your designs – you excel at riffing on ideas with your teammates
- Keep current with design trends, Figma capabilities, and new technologies to enhance both craft and efficiency
Your Expertise:
- Possess a deep understanding of desktop & mobile design, including responsive and adaptive techniques
- Proven professional UX experience shipping consumer-facing products
- Self-motivation and passion for solving complex problems (bonus points for loving cars)
- The ability to internalize and care about the company strategy and vision, not just how things look
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills -- you can defend and articulate your design decisions
- Demonstrated ability to thrive in agile, cross-functional teams—designing iteratively and contributing throughout sprint cycles
- Offer a strong portfolio of your original work featuring examples of visual and interaction design work
- Expert-level Figma experience and advanced knowledge of the Adobe suite
- Ability to travel occasionally by airplane or car, including overnight trips
- Experience with research tools, such as UserTesting.com, Lyssna, Mouseflow, FullStory, etc.
- Experience and/or knowledge with code (HTML, CSS, JS) and front-end frameworks (React, Bootstrap, etc.)
Base salary range: $96,000 - $120,000
Your TrueCar Experience
At TrueCar, we champion remote work because we know great work can happen anywhere. This flexibility allows our TrueCar Crew to live and work from anywhere in the U.S. (with some role-based exceptions). To support our remote team, we provide a home office setup that suits their needs and offer monthly reimbursements for phone and internet connectivity.
You will receive excellent benefits that include, but are not limited to, 100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental premiums; a 401(k) plan with company contributions; equity; a wellness reimbursement account; and learning & development reimbursement opportunities. We also understand the importance of recharging, so we offer flexible PTO for exempt TrueCar Crew Members and a generous PTO accrual policy for non-exempt TrueCar Crew Members, in addition to 14 company-paid holidays and 2 floating holidays. In short, we care deeply about our Crew Members and have designed employee-centric programs that reflect this.
At TrueCar, we believe in the power of diversity to create a deeper understanding of our consumers and partners, driving innovation in our products. We welcome a workforce that reflects the diversity of car-buying consumers and encourage everyone interested in our mission to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with applicable law. Additionally, TrueCar will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
TrueCar does not accept unsolicited agency submissions.
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