Product Designer - DoneDeal.ie

What’s the Opportunity

DoneDeal is Ireland’s largest marketplace, helping millions of people buy and sell cars every year. We’re looking for a strong mid-level Product Designer to help evolve the car buying and selling experience, with a particular focus on search, discovery, listings, and trust across the journey.

You’ll join a modern, product-led team where design plays a central role in shaping direction—not just execution. Working closely with Product, Engineering, and Data, you’ll help identify meaningful user problems, explore solutions quickly, and ship experiences that balance user needs with marketplace health and commercial outcomes.

You’ll work in an AI-enabled design environment, using contemporary tools and workflows to accelerate discovery and iteration, while applying strong human judgement, craft, and user-centred thinking to deliver high-quality outcomes. You will be entrusted with maintaining design excellence, encouraging innovation, and delivering outstanding user experiences to set us apart in the market.

What will I be doing?

• Contribute to high-quality design standards: Play your part in ensuring high-quality design standards that enable a flawless and intuitive product experience to our users, while also exploring innovative new directions.

• Conducting detailed Design Reviews: Utilise feedback to uphold consistency and excellence in design, encouraging a culture that prioritises high-quality work.

• Solving user problems through design: Collaborate closely with Product to identify user problems or opportunities and build lean, innovative solutions grounded in user needs, data, and feasibility.

• Advocating for Usability Testing and Research: Champion modern research and experimentation practices, using qualitative insights, behavioural data, and existing tools (such as GA, Hotjar, Convert) to inform decisions, validate solutions, and measure impact post-launch.

• Working with AI-Enabled Workflows: Leverage AI tools to accelerate discovery, ideation, content exploration, and prototyping, while collaborating on AI-powered product features and continuously evolving design workflows as capabilities mature.

• Systems, Scale and Craft: Contribute to scalable design systems and patterns that support consistency, adaptability, and personalised or AI-assisted experiences, maintaining high standards of craft while working at pace.

• Contribute to a Positive Team Culture: Bring diversity of thought, inclusivity, and collaboration to the design & product team, and contribute valuable perspectives.

Requirements

What skills and experience do I need

• History of crafting beautiful experiences: At least 3-5 years experience in the field of product design or UX/UI fields.

• Compelling Portfolio: Showcase a portfolio highlighting previous Product/UX/UI Design experience, emphasising problem-solving through solutions and their impact on user metrics.

• Strategic Alignment: Ability to align design efforts with the business strategy of your delivery team, driving significant impact through design initiatives.

• User-Centred Design: Strong grasp of user-centred design principles, design thinking methodologies, design systems and research practices. You should have a focus on excellent user experiences and improving key user metrics of your product area.

• Design Tools Proficiency: Confident in Figma and collaborative tools(like Miro), Adobe Creative Suite, and using AI-driven tools to help early explorations, to enable design delivery and execution.

• Collaboration and Communication: Effective communication skills to articulate ideas and rationale to cross-functional teams, enabling collaboration and understanding.

• Agile Environment: Work in an Agile development environment, emphasising iterative design and rapid prototyping in an open and regular feedback culture.

• Front-End Development Knowledge: Understanding of high level front-end development and the impact on design decisions, supporting collaboration with engineering teams.

• Product Design Ownership: Demonstrated ability to think innovatively and challenge your own products with a willingness to explore and test new insights.

What’s it like to work here

You will have the opportunity to work with one of Ireland's fastest growing Internet companies. You will get the chance to create a significant contribution to our strategic direction. Projects are exciting and employees are given wide scope for creativity and innovation

Benefits - what you can expect

• Our goal is to maintain a culture where people look forward to work – whether in our centrally located office in Dublin or working from home, which is optional for all employees.

• We do that by making Distilled a place you'll be listened to and trusted to do your job. Where you can have fun, learn and feel appreciated. And where you get focused career development, growth and progression opportunities.

• We want you to feel confident that this is the right place for you, your career, your wellbeing and your future.

• Above all, your health and wellbeing are at the forefront of how we build the business. That means looking after you while you're here and later in life. So you'll receive life insurance, fully-paid healthcare and a 5% contribution towards your pension.

More about Distilled

We exist to make buying and selling in Ireland simple.

We put our people first, creating an inclusive environment where we can develop products that put our users first. We value people’s work and time, creating a community where they have an opportunity to make an impact and grow.

Our challenge is to enhance our market-leading products using insights and empathy to present our users with the perfect match.

What we build is technology, but what we do is create connections for life’s most meaningful moments. We are Distilled and we bring people together.

Our Values

We have five core values: We have a growth mindset. We like to simplify things and make things happen. We collaborate across teams, business units and brands. We're passionate about what we do.

These values give us a framework for leadership and daily decision making. They embody how we behave and present ourselves — as individuals and as a business — both internally and externally for our colleagues, our users and our customers.

We are a diverse bunch of people here in Distilled, and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our Company. We do not discriminate based on gender, marital status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race and membership of the Traveller community.