Location: Chicago, IL
URL: www.classifiedventures.com
Cars.com, a top-tier online destination for automobile shoppers and sellers, seeks an experienced and passionate user experience professional to join our growing UX team.
The UX Manager will collaborate with a cross functional team of designers, product managers and front-end developers to create an effective, user-centered online experience. Our team manages the user experience for several highly-trafficked areas of the Cars.com web site including the home page, key landing pages, inventory search, client and consumer facing interfaces, and portions of our Research section. This position will offer broad exposure across Cars.com and excellent advancement opportunities.
In this role you will:
- Own the product requirements documents that define how consumer goals are married to business goals through specific features, functionality and design maneuvers.
- Serve as an advocate for consumer customers, dealer customers and advertising clients.
- Collaborate with product managers to conceptualize new products and site features based on business needs and product goals.
- Define user interface requirements, including use cases, user stories, page flows, wireframes and web site copy that communicate and achieve product goals.
- Work with web designers and front-end developers to ensure graphic design and interaction is consistent with user interface requirements and usability best practices.
- Track and analyze user-behavior metrics; define new metrics when necessary.
- Help design and conduct user research, including usability testing, A/B testing, surveys, persona development and focus groups. Analyze results, recommend and execute appropriate product/interface changes.
- Participate in or lead business and functional requirements gathering as needed.
Preferred Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
- At least five years experience as a user experience manager, interaction designer, information architect, web product manager or similar role. Direct experience with e-commerce, online classifieds, online data-reporting or large-scale web application development initiatives is an attractive plus for this position
To apply: Please have all resumes submitted to: cvrecruiter@classifiedventures.com