Product Designer

Product Designer (MidSenior)

Data Solutions Manchester (Hybrid x2 a week)
Cox Automotive Europe

Design products that people trust when decisions matter.

At Cox Automotive Europe we build the intelligence that powers decisions across the automotive ecosystem from fleet and logistics to remarketing and finance. Our Data Solutions team sits right at the heart of that mission creating datadriven products used every day by professionals operating under real-time pressure.

Were now looking for a midsenior level Product Designer to join this team and take ownership of user research and design from discovery through to delivery.

This is a genuinely hands-on role. Youll be talking to users shaping problems prototyping solutions and seeing them ship not handing designs over and hoping for the best.

Why this role is different

• Research and design are inseparable here. Youll speak to users in the morning and be sketching testing or prototyping solutions the same day.
• Your work directly impacts trust and adoption. These products help users make highstakes operational decisions clarity speed and confidence matter.
• Design is embedded not bolted on. Youll sit inside a cross-functional squad with Product Engineering and Data Science from day one.
• Real enterprise access. Youll work with real users across multiple markets an unusually rich research environment for a B2B designer.

What youll be working on

• Running discovery usability testing surveys and focus groups with enterprise users
• Designing endtoend workflows for complex dataheavy decisionsupport products
• Turning multivariable data into clear scannable and actionable experiences
• Creating prototypes at the right fidelity to test and learn quickly
• Producing developerready designs and sharing responsibility for what gets built
• Communicating insights and design rationale clearly to stakeholders

If you enjoy simplifying complexity designing for trust and seeing your work used daily this will suit you.

What were looking for

Essential experience

• Strong product design background across both research and interaction/UI design
• Experience designing B2B workflow tools or complex datadriven products
• Confidence designing data visualisation and dense information hierarchies
• Comfortable working in agile squads where design feeds directly into sprints
• Strong synthesis and communication skills
• Able to work with ambiguity and help define the problem not just solve it

Bonus points for

• Experience in automotive fleet logistics or operational decisionmaking environments
• Familiarity with AIdriven or recommendationbased products and trust calibration
• Microcopy and content design instincts
• Design Thinking facilitation and workshop experience

Tools youll use

You dont need to be an expert in everything but you should be comfortable across: Figma Dovetail Maze usability testing prototyping agile workflows and using AI tools (including Claude) to support research synthesis and design thinking.

The team & culture

Youll join a fastmoving product squad within a growing 20person Data Solutions function backed by strong executive support and a clear commercial mandate.

We have a dedicated Design Systems team so your focus stays where it should be: solving real user problems and designing great products.

Design is respected here as a core discipline not a service function.

What we offer

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Meaningful complex design challenges with real impact
• Access to enterprise users across multiple markets
• A team that values craftsmanship evidence and outcomes
• Hybrid working with trust and flexibility

Location & working pattern

Based in Manchester (hybrid).

• 1 day per week with the wider UCD team
• 1 day per week with the Data Solutions team
• Additional inperson time for key ceremonies or stakeholder sessions
  Beyond this you have flexibility to work where youre most effective.

If youre a Product Designer who enjoys research complexity and real-world impact wed love to hear from you.

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Cox Automotive is the worlds largest automotive service organisation. We
provide dependable solutions that improve performance and profitability
throughout the vehicle lifecycle to manufacturers fleets and retailers.
Our businesses are organised around our customers core needs across vehicle
solutions mobility remarketing funding and retail.