Senior Brand Designer, Motorway
2+ days a week in office
Car marketplace
Job no longer available
Car marketplace
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
2+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build a better car market for everyone, harnessing the power of technology to deliver an amazing experience.
Role
Who you are
- Hands-on experience as a Brand Designer in a commercial environment
- A strong portfolio that demonstrates conceptual thinking, the highest visual design standards and experience working across a variety of brand comms projects
- You have experience running design projects independently, from ideation and research through to presenting mock-ups and producing final assets in print and digital formats
- Strong communication skills ensure you can confidently & effectively convey creative visions to stakeholders and align team efforts with company objectives in cross-functional settings. As well as an openness to seek & give constructive feedback
- Team player that’ll fit into our design-driven and collaborative teams
- Ability to provide art direction for smaller scale projects, being a brand steward especially when collaborating with freelancers or external agencies
- Completely at home working in Figma and Adobe CS
- You are able to work reactively and at speed in a fast-paced environment
- Additional skills in motion, 3D, illustration etc are a big plus
What the job involves
- Motorway is looking for a talented Senior Designer to join our growing in-house Creative Studio
- Reporting to our Creative Lead, you will be responsible for developing effective, exciting and relevant work across both sides of our marketplace that resonates with our target audiences, drives growth and effectively communicates our core message
- You will be part of a team of designers and copywriters who work with our network of producers and external partners
- The Senior Designer will be a strategic thinker, problem solver and a proactive cross-functional partner who can deliver business-driving ideas
- The creative scope will include integrated 360 campaigns, branding, growth initiatives, digital design, CRM, and more
- This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate and ambitious designer to make a meaningful impact in the rapidly growing used-car market
- Developing creative concepts for a variety of communications, including high-visibility print, digital campaigns, digital social content, growth, and performance marketing
- Develop creative concepts that take into account industry trends and best practices to drive design choices driven by an understanding of our customers
- Brief and direct external agencies and freelance talent where necessary, providing clear, constructive feedback and direction, ensuring a consistent look and feel of the Motorway brand
- Support our wider Design team to evolve our brand guidelines taking us to the next level
- Consult and collaborate with the Product Designers to bring the new brand guidelines through to Product
- Provide Art Direction for stills shoots for owned channels to build out our image library
- Work closely with the Creative Lead and wider brand Creative Team to ensure visual excellence across all platforms and channels
- Champion bold and powerful creative work and continually push boundaries
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including marketing to help translate briefs into a compelling creative solution and ensure brand consistency at all times
- A willingness to take creative risks but also to follow and interpret creative direction
- Striking a balance between performance-led creativity and maintaining brand consistency
- Understanding the critical metrics impacted by design decisions and iterating creatively
- Contributing creative ideas in brainstorming sessions to enhance overall design quality
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices in graphic design and branding to continuously improve the quality and effectiveness of our visual assets
Application process
- Given the continued spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus), all interviews will be conducted by phone or virtual connection to protect our candidates and employees
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Like many industries, the second-hand car market has undergone significant transformation, with more and more dealers and car owners looking to buy and sell cars online. Motorway is one of a handful of online car marketplaces that are capitalising on this trend.
Motorway differentiates itself from traditional e-commerce and brick and mortar stores because it’s a marketplace, rather than an inventory. This allows for improved speed and verification. Owners sell their cars 100% online in as little as 24 hours with free car collection, while Motorway also supports car dealerships with a new channel for acquisition of used car stock.
Since being founded in 2017, Motorway has grown rapidly, achieving unicorn status in 2021. It is planning on putting this capital to use expanding both geographically and internally, adding more features to its already well-reviewed product. One such feature is its ULEZ checker, which allows car buyers to assess the environmental compliance of vehicles.
The biggest challenge Motorway faces is competing with other well-funded competitors jumping on this trend, such as Auto1 and Cazoo, as well as established companies like Webuyanycar.com. However, online penetration in the £480 billion British and EU used car market is minimal - suggesting that there is enough market to share amongst Motorway and its competitors.
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34% female employees
28% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Challenging work
"We push boundaries all the time, some people think we're an automotive company, but we're a tech company and think like one. So that includes using..."
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Nov 2021
$190m
SERIES C
Jun 2021
$62.7m
SERIES B
Total funding: $270.8m
Company benefits
- Many of our roles include significant stock options, so you can share in Motorway’s growth and future success
- Our friendly team meet up regularly for lunches and after-work drinks, plus we hold larger events at least twice a year
- Many of our roles include flexibility to work from home regularly, or fully remote for some of the year
- Many roles allow you to choose a schedule that works for you around your core hours
- Your health is your wealth! We take our health and well-being seriously with comprehensive BUPA health insurance offered to every team member, regardless of seniority
- You will have a personal learning and development budget to spend on a wide range of books, courses and conferences. We also include subscriptions to services like Headspace and Audible
- Lease a brand new electric car through your gross salary saving up to 40% on the retail cost
- Purchase a bicycle, accessories and safety equipment through your gross salary, so that you can save on the cost of a new bike & accessories
- Juggling parenting and work is challenging. We want to support you as best we can at this important time for you and your family
- Our pension provider is NEST, through whom you have a choice of funds that you can align with your faith, beliefs and attitudes to risk
Company values
- Create new roads - Changing things for the better through innovation
- Take the wheel - Being accountable and facing hard challenges head-on
- Be humble - Leaving egos at the door — we succeed as one
- Pedal to the metal - We move fast and act decisively
- 5-star comes as standard - Experiences that delight, excellence as standard
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Tom Leathes
(CEO)Alex, Tom and Harry are serial founders. Together they founded LoanCube (Exited to AOL), Official Space (Exited to Office Broker) and Top10 (Exited to uSwitch).
Harry Jones
(CPO)Alex, Tom and Harry are serial founders. Together they founded LoanCube (Exited to AOL), Official Space (Exited to Office Broker) and Top10 (Exited to uSwitch).
Alex Buttle
(Co-Founder & VP Growth)Alex, Tom and Harry are serial founders. Together they founded LoanCube (Exited to AOL), Official Space (Exited to Office Broker) and Top10 (Exited to uSwitch).
People progressing
Steve joined Motorway back in October 2018 as a Senior Product Manager, and in his 3+ years at Motorway he has risen through the ranks to Lead PM, Head of Product, and is now a Product Director.
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