About Auto Trader We're Auto Trader, the UK's leading automotive marketplace and a FTSE 100 tech-listed company, uniting the largest and most engaged consumer audience with the most extensive network of vehicle sellers. At our core, it's all about people. We embrace diversity, celebrate our differences, and forge our own path. Our six core values define our distinct culture, and our dedication to in-person collaboration sets us apart. About the role We are looking for a Principal UI Designer to join our Product Engineering team in Manchester. This role will involve helping to lead and embed the new discipline of UI within Auto Trader, contributing to product design within cross-functional teams-continuously improving our experiences and building continuity across web and mobile-and offering your UI and Brand design expertise to critical parts of our products and our design system. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to collaborate with creative leads, marketing, product teams, and designers, playing a pivotal role in crafting and conveying the Auto Trader narrative from audience acquisition through to our core journeys. Additionally, you'll work closely with product managers, engineers, and researchers, making significant contributions to the entire design lifecycle. This includes actively participating in design workshops and sprints and designing, prototyping, and testing ideas within your team and in more formal testing environments. You'll also play a key role in Influencing, persuading, and evangelising our design system and user experience design within your product teams and the wider design team. We are a very data-driven company at heart, so while working at pace, you'll have the confidence to make decisions, knowing when to use qualitative or quantitative data and when it's acceptable to rely on your knowledge and experience. Our work requires us to be flexible so that you can switch from high-level, big-picture thinking to the detail of user stories and UI designs. Our collaborative approach is key to our success. As part of the broader design team, you'll learn from and help others, identifying and implementing improvements to our work. We want you to give and welcome feedback and critique from other team members and designers to help encourage personal and professional growth. What we're looking for Experience working in-house or at an agency in a UI design role. Significant UI experience designing user interfaces for digital products with a strong portfolio showcasing work. Understanding of UX principles. Extensive experience working in design systems. Experience leading design in multidisciplinary teams to bring products to life. Excellent communication & influencing skills and the ability to synthesise different perspectives. Attention to detail. Provide mentorship to other members of the design team. Lead the maintenance and evolution of the visual design language and style guide to ensure consistency. Although not a requirement, useful experience includes: Experience with user testing/research and using data to define outcomes and measure improvements. Understanding end-to-end UX/product design in a commercial environment - including scoping, researching, prototyping and testing. Understanding of front-end development technologies Benefits and more We're offering a salary of £50,000 - £65,000, and a flexible benefits package to support your health and well-being. Enjoy 28 days of annual leave, in addition to bank holidays and half-day closures on Christmas and New Year's Eve. Our Aviva pension scheme offers employer contributions ranging from 5% to 7%. We also provide Bupa Healthcare enhanced medical coverage to all employees, which includes support for assisted fertility, gender dysphoria, menopause, and period care plans. But that's not all. We offer enhanced parental leave, a car salary sacrifice scheme, share-save options, and much more. When you join us, you'll also become an owner of Auto Trader, receiving an additional 10% of your salary in shares each year. This allows you to share in the value you help create, and you'll also have the chance to increase your ownership through our Save As You Earn scheme. Our hybrid model, Connected Working, combines the best of both worlds - office and home working. With Connected Working, you'll have two fixed weekly office days dedicated to team collaboration. In addition to your fixed office days, we expect you to be in more than you're out. You can choose the specific days that suit your work requirements, home commitments, and team needs. Find out more about Connected Working here. LI-HYBRID LI-EC1