Senior Product Designer

Cox Enterprises • Atlanta, GA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Product Designer, you’ll lead the design of complex product features and workflows, driving user-centered solutions across our automotive offerings. You’ll impact the end-to-end design process—from discovery and research to prototyping and delivery—while mentoring junior designers and influencing product strategy. You’ll be a key voice in shaping the user experience, advocating for design excellence, and ensuring consistency across platforms. This role requires strong collaboration, strategic thinking, and a proven ability to deliver impactful design outcomes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in HCI, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, or related field and 4 years of experience in product design with a portfolio showcasing strategic thinking and complex problem-solving.
• The right candidate could also have an equivalent combination of education and experience (Master’s and 2+ years’ experience | PHD and 1 year) OR 8 years of experience
• Experience conducting user research and applying insights to inform product design strategy.
• Deep understanding of information architecture, interaction design and usability heuristics.
• Experience contributing to and evolving design systems at scale.
• Experience using facilitation skills in leading design critiques, workshops, and stakeholder alignment.
• Ability to mentor junior designers and provide constructive feedback.
• Demonstrated impact on product outcomes through design leadership and collaboration.
• Familiarity with text-to-prototype tools
• Ability to partner with product teams and leverage tools for rapid prototyping for the purposes of research, discovery, and experimentation
• Experience creating AI products or strong knowledge of AI and agentic design practices, such as model limitations, guardrails, evals, and feedback loops

Responsibilities

• Lead design initiatives for a product, translating business goals and user needs into innovative, user-centered solutions across desktop and mobile platforms.
• Evolve UX strategy in partnership with product and engineering leads, influencing roadmap decisions through design thinking and user insights.
• Conduct user research activities in coordination with UX researchers—including field studies, user testing, and data synthesis—to uncover deep behavioral patterns and inform design decisions.
• Create and refine UX deliverables such as user flows, journey maps, wireframes, mockups, prototypes (low/high fidelity), and information architecture, ensuring alignment with business and user goals.
• Drive the evolution of the design system by identifying gaps, proposing new components and patterns, and ensuring scalable, consistent design across products.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, engineers, content strategists, and other stakeholders to align on vision, constraints, and implementation strategies.
• Facilitate design workshops, critiques, and sprints to foster collaboration, accelerate decision-making, and promote a shared understanding of design goals.
• Present and advocate for design decisions in stakeholder reviews, clearly articulating rationale, user impact, and business value.
• Mentor and support junior designers, providing guidance, feedback, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and design excellence.
• Lead usability testing and behavioral analytics reviews to validate design performance and identify opportunities for optimization.
• Ensure high-quality implementation by maintaining detailed design specifications, partnering closely with developers, and participating in user acceptance testing.
• Continuously evaluate and improve design processes, tools, and team rituals to enhance efficiency, collaboration, and impact.
• Stay ahead of UX trends, emerging technologies, and industry best practices, and actively contribute to the evolution of team capabilities and design culture.
• Manage multiple projects and priorities effectively, estimating effort, planning schedules, and delivering on time within agile workflows.
• 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.

Benefits

• The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members.
• Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
• health care insurance (medical, dental, vision)
• retirement planning (401(k))
• paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees