Cox Automotive is looking for a talented and passionate User Experience Designer to intern alongside our team of professionals. In this role, you will be a member of a cross-functional team tasked with designing experiences for the Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book brands. The right candidate for this job is detail-oriented and thorough in thinking through how experiences should work for our consumers. You should be able to design for consumers across devices and advocate for user-centered design techniques and data-driven decision processes.
Cox Automotive offers a highly collaborative work environment where strong communication skills and the ability to build lasting partnerships are essential. You'll join a diverse team that spans design, research, and content strategy, working together in an open and transparent working style. Our UX organization leverages general-purpose LLM tools to analyze and synthesize user behavior, uncover patterns, and prioritize opportunities. We also use AI to accelerate discovery, experimentation, and development, continuously recommending improvements. Embedded in a scaled Agile environment, our group makes a significant impact on both user experience and business outcomes. If you're eager to learn from the best brands in automotive, we'd love to hear from you!
Responsibilities
- Be an active member of a cross-functional team to analyze consumer, client, and business needs and translate them into high quality design solutions that deliver value for the business
- Deliver interactive designs that make complex tasks easier and that align with best practices in the market
- Create design deliverables such as wireframes, prototypes, mockups, specifications, process flows, mood boards, user personas, icons, and finished artwork
- Work with design system assets, such as icon libraries, reusable app components, style guides, and brand standards
- Participate in regular design reviews and clearly rationalize design choices
- Support product development by responding to day-to-day questions from developers, product managers, and team leads
- Strive to understand technical, business, and time limitations, and design within these constraints
Minimum Qualifications
- Major in Human Computer Interaction, Graphic Design, or related field.
- A portfolio that demonstrates aptitude designing for digital media (responsive web and mobile apps)
- Proficient with Figma
- 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
- Knowledge of AI and agentic design practices, such as model limitations, guardrails, evals, and feedback loops.
- Knowledge of current UX design trends across web and mobile platforms
- Solid understanding of graphic design principles and best practices
- Flexibility and openness to feedback from cross-functional team members
- Knowledge of iterative software delivery methodologies like Agile
- Excellent time-management skills, including the ability to work on concurrent projects and quickly prioritize competing tasks and responsibilities
- Strong teamwork and collaboration skills
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills including excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Independent self-starter
- Attention to detail and follow-through on completion of tasks
- Understanding of mobile human interface guidelines (Apple's HIG and Google's Material Design) and current possibilities and limitations of hardware and operating systems
USD 23.65 - 35.48 per hour
Compensation:
Hourly base pay rate is $23.65 - $35.48/hour. The hourly base rate may vary within the anticipated range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include commission (annual, monthly, etc.) and/or an incentive program.
Benefits:
Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page.
Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship.
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For well over a century, Cox Enterprises has been shaping the future with daring ideas and values-driven thinking.
Since our founding in 1898, our relentless spirit of innovation has driven us to disrupt industries and enhance the quality of life in the communities we serve. Through our major divisions — Cox Communications, Cox Automotive and Cox Farms — our people have countless opportunities to grow and make an impact in the communications and automotive industries, as well as in new ventures in agriculture, cleantech, digital media and more.
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