Do you want to play an important role in transforming how cars are traded in the future? Do you love building digital experiences that will challenge how things are done in an industry? We are looking for a strong UX Design Director to be part of building the technology solution and gateway for European Car Trading of the future. The role can be based in Vejle or Copenhagen.

AUTOproff is a car trading SaaS solution for the professional market. We are growing fast and serve more than 6,500 customers across the whole professional value chain in several European countries. Our mission is to make it seamless, secure, and more attractive to trade used cars, and we are looking for the right profile to join our journey.

As our UX Design Director at AUTOproff you will be responsible for designing a compelling digital experience on our SaaS platform and make sure all elements connect into a strong value proposition across our full portfolio of digital touchpoints.

Your mission will be to drive our design through UX research, user requirements, prototypes and wireframes as we develop high quality service-products. Your work will integrate across the full UX, design and development process where you stand accountable for user needs and articulation of these through conceptual and detailed UX designs. You will work closely with people across our business, operations, and specialist area as you design and develop the logic and systemic experience across our full digital portfolio.

You will report to our Head of Product Portfolio and be instrumental to driving our product designs from concepts to implementation.

You will join a fast-growing SaaS business and a fantastic team of dynamic and result oriented digital product people in an ambitious yet informal environment. Our goal is to design the most valuable digital service for our customers using digital technology, innovation, and service design as key drivers.

Let's dive into your key responsibilities

• Understand user needs – and communicate and advocate them

• Take designs through from concepts to valuable implementations

• Perform user research and user tests

• Articulate and map out design opportunities

• Define and manage a scalable design system

• Manage customer-flows and customer-journeys

• Quickly develop, test, and evaluate prototypes, wireframes, and mockups

• Produce production-ready designs and specifications

• Guide external UX & UI designers

• Understand and apply best practices for design

• Manage stakeholders with clear and visual communication.

• Define and mature the UX domain in AUTOproff

• Promote design-thinking and user centered design

• Build best-in-class digital service-product

The need-to-have skills

• A degree in Design, Media, Information, Technology or similar

• Significant experience and demonstrated results within UX research, user requirements gathering and user story definition

• Significant experience and demonstrated results within UX design

• Experience with UX and design software like Sketch and Figma

• A strong and visual UX design mindset

• Extensive strategic UX design experience, minimum +6 years. 

The nice-to-have skills

• Experience within UI/graphical design

• Experience with SaaS, B2B and commercial service development

• Experience with agile methodologies

• Familiar with data driven design processes

You will thrive in this role if you

• Understand how to combine UX, design and commercial agenda into solid user experiences

• Proactive and collaborative by nature – ability to drive a strong design agenda while managing stakeholders across the business

• Enjoy an ambitious and fast changing work-environment

Your colleagues say about you that you

• Drives design- and experience-agenda throughout the organization with strong confidence

• Makes complex stuff easy and appealing

• Always proactive and not afraid to attack problems/opportunities head-on

If you think we could be a match, we can’t wait to hear from you. Hurry up and apply!

About AUTOproff

AUTOproff was founded in 2013, became the market leader in Denmark in 2016, and has since expanded across Northern Europe covering Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, and Poland. We employ 100+ enthusiastic professionals across our offices.

In 2020, we posted revenues of more than DKK 400 million and we have been profitable since our inception. AUTOproff is privately owned by Jesper Ratza, our CEO and founder, André Rogaczewski, CEO and co-founder of Netcompany, key employees, and as well as other private investors.

If this role doesn’t fit your profile – don’t hesitate to reach out if you want to join a fun and fast-growing SaaS company on a mission! We are constantly on the lookout for new and awesome colleagues.