Senior Designer, Carwow
Brand Marketing
Offers Share Options
3+ days a week in office
Leveraging technology, media and innovation to reimagine car-changing.
Open for applications
Leveraging technology, media and innovation to reimagine car-changing.
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
Offers Share Options
3+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To become the car-changing destination of choice. By combining technology, media and deep automotive expertise, we've turned how people buy, sell, advertise and lease cars on its head.
Role
Who you are
- A varied portfolio of design, with examples across print and digital, from ad layouts to more copy-heavy print materials. You are happy to maintain this integrated approach in your next role
- Expertise in the use of Adobe Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop
- Confidence in using Figma, with an interest in learning and teaching best practices to others
- An ability to use AfterEffects and Premiere Pro to produce brand marketing comms (and keen to learn more if these aren’t your strongest tools)
- An infectious passion for the craft of design which you use to excite the wider team about your work
- Experience and enjoyment of working in a team with a copywriter to concept and deliver end-to-end on a brief
- The ability to give and receive feedback, understanding the need for it in strong creative practice
- Proactive and highly organised, able to communicate well about your workload and needs, while being able to balance priorities and team output
- Culturally aware, with an awareness of visual trends and the language used on social media to assist with a social-first approach to campaign roll out
- Illustration skills are a bonus, but not a requirement
- You are keen to shape the team culture as well as crafting the brand look and feel
What the job involves
- This role sits in the growing Brand Creative team and reports to the Head of Creative
- We are a busy and ambitious creative hub, working across all brands within the Carwow Group; Carwow, Auto Express, evo, Car Buyer and Driving Electric
- We work cross-functionally and exist to create connections, tell stories and provide total car confidence to our customers, whether you love cars or don’t know where to start
- We have the opportunity to work with a portfolio of content-first brands (none of that one-font-lifestyle you normally get in house), all with a different spin on the world of auto
- This role exists to help solve design problems which vary broadly from internal values to concepting and rolling out campaigns to every touchpoint. It’s a diverse role which suits candidates who are keen generalists with an eye for detail
- As a senior team member you take a proactive lead on projects, overseeing freelancers and mentoring more junior colleagues, sharing your expertise to accelerate their growth and strengthening our team as a whole
- A creative guardian for the portfolio of brands, responsible for applying and evolving guidelines across all touch points, working with peers in marketing, product and content to ensure they are used effectively
- Design execution across the full brand marketing stack (both B2B and B2c), working alongside copy partners to interpret insights and concepts into compelling design work
- Working closely with our Head of Creative and a Copywriter to concept compelling creative campaigns which bring our brands to life
- Presenting your work and ideas to key stakeholders with clear commercial application and rationale
- Working with channel leads and Product Designers to ensure visuals are consistent throughout the brand or specific campaign
- Taking a keen interest in creative partnership across the business, taking part in or leading content and commercial brainstorms when required
- Working effectively with the Product Design team to translate both your brand and campaign design work to the online journey
- Sharing best practice and helping to implement new ways of working in the team
- Our creative team will grow with the brand, and over time you will play a role in hiring, managing and onboarding new team members
- Onboarding freelancers and feeding back on their work where needed
- You must at all times strive to act in the customers’ best interest, delivering honest, fair, and professional services
Application process
- Step 1: Video call with a member of our Talent Team to find out more about your experience and why you want to work at Carwow
- Step 2: Video-interview with the Head of Creative
- Step 3: Concepting or design task presented to two of the team
- Step 4: Interview with Brand and Comms Director
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Carwow believes there should be a better way to buy cars than the traditional method of visiting local dealerships and negotiating prices. The platform has simplified the car-buying process by allowing customers to easily find the exact car they want, including the preferred combination of optional extras while eliminating the need for haggling. This has made Carwow a popular choice for consumers looking for a more transparent and hassle-free experience.
As the largest web platform for new car sales in the UK, Germany, and Spain, Carow has grown rapidly through innovative marketing strategies. One of its key tactics is leveraging it massive YouTube following, which boasts nearly 10M subscribers. The videos feature a mix of in-depth car reviews and entertaining drag races, helping to engage potential customers and drive traffic to the platform.
Over 10M customers now use the platform to buy and sell cars and in 2023, nearly £3B worth of cars were bought through the platform. Carwow continues to grow and innovate, and with its strong customer base and expanding partnerships, it's ready for continued success.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
36% female employees
52% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Career progression
"Every engineer has a career growth plan and goals agreed with their manager, with regular check-ins and feedback cycles to help us get there. Our..."
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jul 2024
$52m
LATE VC
Nov 2023
$3.8m
LATE VC
Total funding: $224.5m
Company benefits
- 🌴 28 days' holiday increasing to 35 with length of service, plus extras for house moves, weddings and more!
- 📈 Employee-friendly share options
- 💰 Pension scheme via Royal London - up to 5% company contribution
- ❤️🩹 Vitality private healthcare insurance
- 💵 Life Assurance - 4x annual salary
- 💚 Monthly coaching sessions with Spill - our mental wellbeing partner
- 👪 Inclusive parental, partner and shared parental leave including up to 20 weeks' full pay maternity and shared parental leave, and 8 weeks' full partner pay, as well as fertility treatment and pregnancy loss policies
- 🧒🏽 Bubble childcare support and discounted nanny fees for little ones
- 🏖️ 'Work from abroad for a month' annual scheme
- 🧠 Generous learning and development budget
- 🖥️ £500/€550 home office budget
Company values
- Be clear
- Be collaborative
- Be curious
- Be effective
- Be humble
- Be positive
- Be proactive
Company HQ
Victoria, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
David Santoro
(Co-Founder & CTO)Experienced Developer having previously worked at Barclays, ITV, ThoughtWorks, Xbright, and Confetti Network.
John Veichmanis
(CEO)Previously the CMO at Farfetch and Vice President of Global Search Marketing and Consumer Acquisition at Expedia.
Alice Flaye
(Chief Business & Operations Officer)Previously worked in People and Strategic Projects at Sproutl. Prior to that they spend 5 years at Farfetch in various Senior Legal roles.
Sally Foote
(Chief Commercial Officer - Sell My Car)Previously the Vice President of eCommerce at GoCompare. They also spent 6 years at 10 Digital Ladies as an Associate.
People progressing
Joined as an Account Manager in 2016. Has worked as Director of Strategic Growth of 'Sell Your Car' since November 2023.
Alyx joined as an Account Manager in 2017, they are now the Head of Commercial Operations and Leasing.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Carwow
Zaina Ishaq (Culture & Inclusion Manager)
- Our mission is to foster an environment of belonging that enables everyone to bring their authentic selves to work, harnessing the unique perspectives and talents that drive us to be the car-changing experts for life’s defining moments. Our DEI strategy is centred around three key pillars; Talent Attraction, Supporting Career Development and Inclusive Workplaces.
- We recently launched our own real-time DEI Gender & Ethnicity Pay Gap dashboard to measure the impact of our efforts in real time
- We've developed our Internal Mentoring Programme to help employees from diverse backgrounds climb the career ladder
- We are proud partners of BYP Network - helping us to attract and retain black talent
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