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Company: Cox Automotive – USAJob Family: Group Engineering / Product DevelopmentPosition: UX Designer IILevel: Management Level Individual ContributorWork Option: Hybrid (remote part of the week, 15% travel)Compensation: Base salary $98,300 – $147,500, with potential incentives.

As a Product Designer II, you will build on foundational design skills to take ownership of small to mid‑sized features across our automotive platform. You will work closely with cross‑functional teams to translate user needs into thoughtful, usable interfaces, while continuing to grow your expertise in design systems, interaction design, and user research.

• Translate business requirements and user insights into intuitive, user‑centered design solutions across desktop and mobile platforms.
• Assist in user research activities, including persona development, heuristic evaluations, usability reviews, and competitive analysis, to inform design decisions.
• Create and iterate on UX deliverables such as user flows, journey maps, wireframes, mockups, prototypes (low/high fidelity), and information architecture.
• Extend and apply the design system using reusable components, icon libraries, templates, and brand standards to ensure consistency and efficiency.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams—product managers, developers, content strategists, and UX leads—to align on goals, constraints, and implementation strategies.
• Communicate design rationale clearly in design reviews and stakeholder presentations, advocating for user needs and business impact.
• Participate in agile ceremonies and workflows, providing design assets, specifications, and feedback throughout the development lifecycle.
• Support usability testing and review behavioral analytics to validate and optimize design performance.
• Maintain detailed design specifications and partner with developers to ensure accurate implementation, including involvement in user acceptance testing.
• Stay current with UX trends, tools, and technologies, and contribute to evolving team processes and design practices.
• Manage time effectively by estimating effort, planning schedules, and prioritizing tasks within sprint cycles.
• Use general‑purpose LLM tools to analyze and synthesize user behavior, identify patterns, and prioritize opportunities.
• Use AI to accelerate discovery, experimentation, development, and recommend improvements.

• Bachelor’s degree in HCI, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, or related field, with at least 2 years of related experience; a master’s degree may be acceptable with up to 2 years of experience, or 6 years of experience.
• 2+ years of relevant experience designing responsive web and mobile applications, with a portfolio demonstrating thoughtful UX solutions.
• Advanced proficiency in Figma and familiarity with prototyping tools and AI‑assisted design workflows.
• Strong understanding of user‑centered design principles and accessibility standards.
• Experience conducting user research and translating insights into actionable design decisions.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in Agile environments.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present design rationale to cross‑functional teams.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.
• Familiarity with design systems and component‑based design approaches.
• Familiarity with text‑to‑prototype tools and ability to partner with product teams for rapid prototyping in research, discovery, and experimentation.
• Experience creating AI products or strong knowledge of AI and agentic design practices, such as model limitations, guardrails, evaluations, and feedback loops.

Reports to UX Manager or Product Design Lead. May require occasional travel. Drug testing is required for employment; Xeno testing for marijuana is not administered, but possession or use of illegal substances during work hours, on company property, or in company vehicles is prohibited.

Eligible for flexible vacation with pay, seven paid holidays, and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually. Additional paid time off for bereavement, voting, jury duty, volunteer activity, military service, and parental leave are available. Health care (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days) are offered.

Cox Automotive is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants and employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship. Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship. No OPT, CPT, STEM/OPT or visa sponsorship is available now or in the future.