Creative Designer
About The Position
CarParts.com is looking for an experienced Digital Designer to join our creative team. This is a hands-on production role for a designer who moves fast, thinks in systems, and takes pride in craft - from a pixel-perfect PDP module to a campaign banner that converts. You will work across our entire owned and earned retail and house-brand ecosystem - e-commerce site, blog, social media and paid media channels, partnering closely with Marketing, Product, Merchandising and Engineering to bring the CarParts.com portfolio of brands to life at scale. This is a highly executional role for a designer who moves fast, pays meticulous attention to detail, and takes pride in his/her craft. You will ship work every week. The right candidates are comfortable in high-volume production environments, fluent in Figma, and excited about using AI tools to work smarter and faster. This is a hands-on individual contributor role. You will design every day, set the standard for quality and speed, and build the systems that let a lean team produce at the output of a much larger one. You report to the Chief Marketing Officer.
Requirements
- 4-6+ years of professional digital design experience, preferably in e-commerce, retail, or a high-production marketing environment
- Demonstrated experience designing for both web, print, and paid media across multiple formats and surfaces
- Portfolio showing strong brand sensibility, typographic control, and production-quality output
- Expert-level proficiency in Figma - you live here; components, auto layout, and design systems are second nature
- Strong working knowledge of AI design tools (Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, or similar), Canva, and the judgment to use them effectively
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite - Photoshop and Illustrator at minimum
- Strong proficiency in video editing and motion content creation for both social media and performance marketing channels, with hands-on experience in CapCut, Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and/or Final Cut Pro
- Experience adapting video creative across platform-specific formats including TikTok, Instagram Reels, Meta, YouTube, paid social ads, and other digital advertising placements
- Familiarity with CMS platforms like Bloomreach and basic understanding of how design translates to development handoff
- Proficient at WordPress
- Working knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG) for web and mobile layouts
- Basic HTML/CSS knowledge
- You produce clean, on-brand work quickly and without a lot of hand-holding
- You manage your own workload, flag blockers early, and consistently hit deadlines
- You have a strong eye for detail and high standards for your own output
- You thrive in a fast-paced environment where priorities shift and volume is high
- You communicate clearly with cross-functional partners in marketing, merchandising, and engineering
- You are proactive about learning new tools - especially AI - and integrating them into your workflow
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Amazon A+ content modules and brand store design
- Familiarity with automotive, aftermarket parts, or e-commerce retail categories
- Experience working across both U.S. and LATAM teams
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain a scalable design system: templates, component libraries, and brand guidelines in Figma that let us ship more with fewer people.
- Partner with performance marketing and our agency partners to concept, produce, and iterate on ad creative based on test results – particular emphasis on video assets.
- Design promotional and seasonal campaigns, landing pages, and on-site merchandising with ecommerce conversion in mind.
- Use AI-assisted tools for image generation, product imagery cleanup, resizing, and versioning to raise throughput without lowering quality.
- Manage the creative request queue, set priorities with marketing leadership, and hit deadlines on a fast retail calendar.
- Contribute to brand evolution, including loyalty program, partnership, and investor-facing materials as needed.
- Support high-volume asset production for campaigns, producing multiple sizes, formats, including video and platform variations efficiently and accurately
- Uphold CarParts.com brand standards across all deliverables, ensuring visual consistency from concept through deployment
- Create and update on-site PDP modules and Amazon A+ content to improve product storytelling, conversion, and brand consistency
- Design and resize promotional and banner assets for CMS-driven merchandising campaigns
- Support layout updates and UX improvements across multiple digital surfaces including PDPs, landing pages, and category pages
- Fix and enhance blog mobile layouts, widget structure, and accessibility to improve readability and engagement
- Design and develop visual layouts for blog articles, including headers, inline graphics, and editorial imagery
- Deploy campaign ad creatives on the blog, ensuring proper sizing, placement, and brand alignment
Benefits
- A reasonable salary estimate for this role based on experience, education, and geographic location is: $90,000-$110,000
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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