mobile.de

Berlin

Senior Product Designer (d/f/m), Search Experience at mobile.de

SENIOR
Posted about 24 hours ago
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Company snapshot

mobile.de

Germany's largest online vehicle marketplace, mobile.de offers a diverse selection of new and used vehicles, connecting buyers and sellers seamlessly.

E-Commerce & Marketplaces B2C Information Technology & Services E-commerce
HQ
Kleinmachnow, Brandenburg, Germany
Team size
251-1K
Founded
1996

Quick Summary

Role Overview

Join mobile.de as a Senior Product Designer to own and ship end-to-end search experiences for Germany’s largest vehicle marketplace. This Berlin-based hybrid role is a 26-month parental leave cover focused on creating intuitive, data-informed consumer journeys.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end user experience for vehicle search from discovery to delivery
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate product goals into feasible solutions
  • Validate hypotheses using quantitative analytics and qualitative user research methods
  • Create rapid prototypes and high-quality UI aligned with the existing design system
  • Present design rationale to stakeholders while navigating trade-offs and business needs
  • Integrate AI tools into the design workflow for synthesis and rapid prototyping

Requirements Snapshot

  • Senior-level product design experience with a portfolio showing end-to-end ownership
  • Proven background in consumer-facing e-commerce platforms or digital marketplaces
  • Strong interaction and visual design skills using Figma and prototyping tools
  • Practical experience framing research questions and conducting usability tests
  • Excellent English communication skills and ability to work in a hybrid Berlin setup

Expected Impact

You will directly influence the search experience for over 140 million monthly visits, making complex vehicle-buying journeys clear and trustworthy. By optimizing core platform elements and leveraging AI, you will help maintain mobile.de's position as a market leader while driving measurable improvements in user satisfaction and business goals.

A DesignJobs.World summary of the employer's posting, written to highlight scope, requirements, and fit (AI-assisted, human-reviewed). For full details, see the description below.

Job Description

Job description

mobile.de is Germany’s largest vehicle marketplace, with more than 1.6 million listed cars, commercial vehicles, motorcycles, and e-bikes (annual average 2025). Both private customers and registered vehicle dealers use the platform and benefit from more than 140 million visits per month*. As a “one-stop shop,” mobile.de’s offering includes not only buying and selling, but also financing and leasing solutions. Founded in 1996, the company is a subsidiary of Adevinta, a global leader in online classified portals.

Based in Berlin-Charlottenburg, we offer a dynamic environment where growth, learning, and collaboration are at the heart of everything we do. If you are driven by an eagerness to disrupt, have a passion for collaboration, and are excited about shaping the future of mobility, we would love to hear from you.

At mobile.de, we help people find the right vehicle and move forward with confidence. You’ll join a cross-functional product team working on the search experience of Germany’s leading vehicle marketplace. Our UX team brings together designers, researchers, and content specialists to make complex journeys clear, useful, and trustworthy. Your mission is to translate customer needs and product goals into intuitive search experiences, informed by qualitative and quantitative insights.

We are looking for a Senior Product Designer (d/f/m) to own and ship end-to-end experiences for consumers on mobile.de’s vehicle search.

This is a Berlin-based, hybrid role, intended as a parental leave cover for 26 months.

Job requirements

Senior-level product design experience, with a portfolio showing end-to-end ownership and the impact of your work.Proven background creating consumer-facing experiences within e-commerce platforms or digital marketplaces.Strong product thinking: able to frame problems, prioritise trade-offs, and define success metrics.Strong interaction and visual design skills, and the ability to produce low- and high-fidelity prototypes and high-quality UI that aligns with a design system.Strong design-tooling skills (e.g. Figma, including components, variants, and prototyping) and experience producing production-ready assets and specifications.Practical research skills: able to frame research questions, run or support usability tests, and turn insights into product improvements.Familiarity with analytics and experimentation; able to form hypotheses and use data to evaluate results.Collaboration and communication skills: able to present design decisions clearly and work effectively with cross-functional partners.Excellent communication skills in English; German is a plus.Berlin-based, willing to work in a hybrid setup with the team.

Job responsibilities

What you’ll do:

Own the user experience for consumers around specific elements within the vehicle search through discovery, ideation, prototyping, validation, handoff to engineering, delivery, and post-launch iterationWork with Product, Engineering, User Research, Marketing, and Commercial teams to align on goals and translate needs into clear, feasible solutions.Leverage quantitative research, product analytics, A/B tests as well as qualitative research such as interviews and user testing to validate hypotheses and continuously optimize user experience.Create rapid prototypes and polished UI that align with the mobile.de design system and support a high-quality, premium advertising product.Present design rationale and strategic direction to partners and stakeholders, build alignment, and navigate trade-offs between customer experience and business needs.Share work with other designers, give and receive constructive feedback, and help raise design standards across the UX team.You have a strong grasp of how to apply AI across the design workflow. From insight synthesis and ideation to rapid prototyping and design-to-code—and use it responsibly while maintaining a high quality bar. Fluency with tools such as Figma, Claude, and similar tools is expected.

Job benefits

Working at mobile.de comes with its perks! Enjoy the following benefits (some of many):

Rewards: competitive base salary and participation in the company’s incentive programs.Plan for the Future: On top of the statutory retirement insurance, we offer a competitive company pension scheme.Team-Building: Regular team and company events offer the opportunity to network and learn from each other.Learning & Development: Keep growing with access to coaching, learning platforms and resources.Mobility: Stay mobile with a monthly transportation allowance.Enjoy working: Our well‑equipped office supports focused work and teamwork - plus inviting social zones where colleagues can relax and connectFlexible working: a hybrid approach with the option to work abroad for a set number of days per year.Wellbeing: confidential employee assistance and support services available to employees and their immediate families.Family support: enhanced parental leave and family‑friendly policies to support all parents and careers.

Meaningful Work: We are a diverse, international, highly skilled and passionate team committed to a world where people share more and waste less. Every day you will have the opportunity to make a huge difference for our users, customers as well as shape the future.

Embracing AI: We're at the forefront of integrating cutting-edge AI technologies into our operations. Being part of mobile.de you will work with and learn about AI tools, contributing to projects that leverage AI to enhance efficiency, improve customer experiences, and drive our mission forward. With an AI-first mindset, we foster a culture of continuous learning and experimentation, empowering our team to explore and apply AI in meaningful ways for the company and themselves.

Growth and Development: We are a global organisation who truly believes in growing our people. To support this we offer lots of development and training opportunities and provide a budget for our team members.

Connection and Inclusion: Our culture is the glue that holds us together. We believe in making meaningful connections and creating an inclusive atmosphere with lots of opportunities to connect both in your day to day work and through social team activities (online and offline).

mobile.de is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.

(*Source: mobile.de Google Analytics Tracking, average per month January to December 2025)

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