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About the Role

The Visual Design Team at Carvana is seeking a talented Visual Designer to join our dynamic team. Visual Designers are instrumental in making a lasting impact across a diverse array of customer touchpoints, encompassing both digital and physical experiences. We are looking for a designer with a strong passion for brand, visual craft, and creative problem-solving who can translate strategic goals into compelling visual design solutions.

Responsibilities

• Create consistent, on-brand, high-quality design work across both digital and physical touchpoints.
• Translate strategic goals, briefs, and business needs into clear and compelling visual design solutions.
• Support the development and evolution of Carvana’s brand identity, design systems, campaign expressions, partnerships, sub-brands, and internal/external brand experiences.
• Own projects from concept through delivery, including research, exploration, design development, revisions, production handoff, and final execution.
• Bring a strong design POV to projects while remaining open to feedback, collaboration, and iteration.
• Actively collaborate with cross-functional teams including Brand Management, Creative, Product Design, Production, Project Management, and other business partners.
• Explore and apply AI-enabled tools where appropriate to support ideation, image exploration, production efficiency, and workflow improvements.
• Ensure all AI-assisted work remains intentional, brand-aligned, thoughtfully crafted, and appropriate for the business need.
• Help identify opportunities to improve workflows, templates, guidelines, and scalable design practices across the team.
• Present design work clearly and confidently, explaining the thinking, rationale, and creative decisions behind the work.
• Ensure that all work adheres to Carvana’s voice, visual style, and quality standards.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience working as a professional designer in-house, at an agency, or in a similar creative environment.
• An available online portfolio that demonstrates strong visual craft, brand thinking, layout, typography, and design execution across a range of applications.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, prioritize effectively, and meet deadlines in a fast-moving environment.
• Strong attention to detail and consistency across the customer journey.
• Ability to take ownership of a project when necessary and move work forward with clarity, accountability, and good judgment.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to present design rationale and respond thoughtfully to feedback.
• Baseline AI fluency: strong working knowledge of AI tools and the ability to apply them responsibly within the creative process.
• Interest in improving how design work gets created, shared, scaled, and maintained across a growing brand system.
• Must be able to read, write, speak, and understand English.
• Hiring is contingent on passing a complete background check.
• This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Skills

• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma.
• Strong understanding of visual design fundamentals, including typography, layout, hierarchy, composition, color, and brand consistency.
• Animation, 3D, illustration, retouching, or production design skills would be a plus.

Location

• Playa Vista, CA

Work Type

• Fully on-site
• Monday through Friday

Experience Level

• 3+ years of experience

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree in design or equivalent practical experience.

Salary/Compensations

• Full-Time Salary Position with a competitive salary.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits.
• 401K with company match.
• A multitude of perks including student loan payments, discounts on vehicles, benefits for your pets, and much more.
• A great wellness program to keep you healthy and happy both physically and mentally.
• Access to opportunities to expand your skill set and share your knowledge with others across the organization.

About the Company

• At Carvana, we’re changing the way people buy and sell cars. With an ambitious vision and a fundamentally different approach designed to be fun, fast, and fair, Carvana became the fastest-growing automotive retailer in history.
• We expanded nationally, went public on the New York Stock Exchange, sold our 1 millionth car, and reached the Fortune 500, all in just eight years.
• Today, with 4 million retail customers and counting, Carvana is both the fastest-growing and the most profitable public automotive retailer, and we’re just getting started.
• We continue to raise the bar for our customers as we tackle the enormous opportunity still ahead in the largest consumer vertical.
• Working here means being part of a team that embraces change, celebrates creative problem solving, and always strives to be better.
• At Carvana, you’ll have the opportunity to take on meaningful challenges, learn quickly, and help shape the future of automotive retail.
• If you’re driven to grow and make an impact as part of a collaborative team, you’ll fit right in.
• Learn more about what it’s like to work here from the people that already do.

Equal Opportunity

• Carvana is an equal employment opportunity employer. All applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
• Carvana also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories.