Sr. Product Designer — Los Angeles, CA

Job Title: Sr. Product Designer

Team: Product

Location: Onsite - Sawtelle (Between Santa Monica & West LA)

Employment Type: Full-time, Salary, Exempt

Reports To: SVP, Product & Technology

About mRTW

mRTW is the marketplace for used electric vehicles. Consumers get an instant cash offer backed by battery-health data, and dealers across the US bid in real time on that inventory. Former Tesla executives founded mRTW in 2023. We’ve facilitated over $150M in EV sales and raised a $20M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Why mRTW

• You’ll own a piece of the biggest infrastructure opportunity in automotive.

• You’ll work on a platform built exclusively for EVs, with nothing adapted from legacy automotive.

• You’ll be part of an AI-native company. We’re rethinking how work gets done at a fundamental level.

• You’ll work directly with operators who have scaled multi-billion dollar businesses in automotive, EV, and marketplaces.

• You’ll have real ownership, high autonomy, and a direct line to company outcomes.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Product Designer to own design across mRTW, from the consumer selling experience through the dealer and partner tools. You will report to the SVP of Product and Technology.

This is a senior individual contributor role. You will own your surface end to end, partnering closely with product and engineering and operating with high agency. You talk to customers directly, form a point of view, and ship. You will not wait on a committee or a process. Most of the value you create will come from how well you understand the people using what you build.

You will also set the bar. We move fast, and AI is a real part of how we work, which means the risk isn’t velocity; it’s sameness. We’re looking for someone who uses every tool available to help the team ship quickly and on target, and who also knows which moments deserve soul and will fight for them.

What You’ll Do

• Own end-to-end design for our OEM, commercial partner, and dealer-facing surfaces, from early concept through shipped, polished product.

• Set the bar for taste and craft across mRTW. You’ll be the standard the company calibrates against.

• Define how we build. You’ll design the systems that let design scale: our design system, prototyping and handoff workflows, and how we use tools like Claude Design. The goal is a small team that ships fast without drifting from our brand, our craft bar, or what customers actually need.

• Lead customer research directly, through interviews, contextual inquiry, and usability testing, to build a deep, first-hand understanding of how partners and dealers actually work.

• Bring a curious, AI-forward mindset. You understand how product, engineering, and design work together in an AI-native workflow.

• Help empower teams to move fast with AI while maintaining strong design governance.

• Translate complex B2B workflows (inventory processing, bidding, API-driven integrations) into interfaces that are simple, fast, and trustworthy for professional daily use.

• Drive innovation in how the team works with AI, not just what gets designed.

• Empower teams to design independently, with you as the final say and taste-maker for the org.

• Scale yourself through AI-forward operations, working closely with product and engineering.

• Partner closely with product managers and engineers from problem framing through delivery, not just handoff. You’re in the room for the trade-offs.

• Design and iterate based on real usage data, session replays, and experiment results, alongside qualitative research.

• Represent the voice of the customer in roadmap and prioritization discussions, backed by evidence, not opinion.

• Work directly with high-value external partners (OEMs and commercial accounts) to understand their workflows and constraints.

What You’ll Bring

• 6+ years in product design, with a strong track record designing B2B SaaS products for professional or enterprise users.

• Excellent customer research skills. You know how to get past what people say they want to what they actually need, and you do this proactively, not just when asked.

• Experience designing complex workflows (dashboards, admin tools, partner platforms, marketplaces) into interfaces that feel simple.

• Comfortable operating at the intersection of design, product, and engineering, with strong opinions loosely held.

• Hands-on, shipped experience building with AI tools, and opinions about how they change design work. You’ve already changed your own workflow because of them, and you’re energized by designing the workflow, not just using the tools. As part of the process, we will ask you to show us something you have built.

• Judgment about when to spend craft. You use AI to move fast on the work that should be fast, and you know which surfaces have to be hand-made, and you can explain the difference without hand-waving.

• Builder mentality: you act, you do not just plan, and you are energized by broad ownership in an environment where roles are fluid, and the lines between product, engineering, and design are blurring.

• Strong communication skills. You can present work, defend decisions with evidence, and influence cross-functionally.

• A portfolio that demonstrates both craft and process: how you got to the solution, not just the final screens.

• Authorized to work in the US for any employer.

• Prior experience in automotive, EV, marketplace, or fintech systems is a plus.

Not sure you should apply? Do it.

Research consistently shows that people from under-represented groups are more likely to talk themselves out of applying if they don’t meet 100% of the listed requirements. You don’t need to check every box. If this role excites you and you bring most of what’s listed under “What You’ll Bring,” we want to hear from you.

Compensation And Benefits

Annual salary: $175,000 to $215,000

Salary ranges come from independent, third-party benchmarking against national compensation data. Where an offer falls within the range depends on relevant experience, specialized skills, training and qualifications, current business needs, and market conditions. We review ranges periodically and may adjust them as the market changes.

Benefits & Perks

• Health, Vision, and Dental insurance

• 401(k) plan

• Equity

• Unlimited PTO

• Daily lunch and dinner stipend, plus a fully stocked kitchen

• Dog-friendly office and on-site EV charging

• 30-day remote work from anywhere policy

• Ongoing opportunities for growth and development

This full-time position is in-person, based in Sawtelle (between Santa Monica and West Los Angeles). We will not provide relocation assistance to successful candidates. We do not offer sponsorship at this time.

Acknowledgments

mRTW is an equal opportunity employer. We don’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, marital status, military or veteran status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. mRTW will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring and the California Fair Chance Act.