Product Designer I

About Tekion:

Positively disrupting an industry that has not seen any innovation in over 50 years, Tekion has challenged the paradigm with the first and fastest cloud-native automotive platform that includes the revolutionary Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC) for retailers, Automotive Enterprise Cloud (AEC) for manufacturers and other large automotive enterprises and Automotive Partner Cloud (APC) for technology and industry partners. Tekion connects the entire spectrum of the automotive retail ecosystem through one seamless platform. The transformative platform uses cutting-edge technology, big data, machine learning, and AI to seamlessly bring together OEMs, retailers/dealers and consumers. With its highly configurable integration and greater customer engagement capabilities, Tekion is enabling the best automotive retail experiences ever. Tekion employs close to 3,000 people across North America, Asia and Europe.

Job Description:

Tekion is redefining automotive retail through its unified, cloud-first platform—Tekion Operating Cloud (TOC)—enabling world-class experiences for automotive retailers, OEMs, and partners.As a Product Designer 1 on our Chennai TOC design team, you’ll help create seamless, intuitive digital solutions for complex business workflows that make a real difference for users. In this highly collaborative environment, you'll design high-impact, scalable experiences for real-world problems, balancing strong systems thinking with exceptional executional craft.This role offers the perfect opportunity for a mid-level designer to take on greater ownership of product and design decisions, and have a deep influence on product direction through thoughtful, user-centred solutions across multiple user journeys, modules, and touchpoints.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineers, and fellow Designers to conceptualise, create, and deliver innovative, user-centric features for the Tekion Operating Cloud.
• Drive the design process end-to-end: conduct and document user research, map user journeys, create flows, wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes, and contribute to polished visual designs.
• Build, maintain, and expand our component library and variable usage in Figma, ensuring consistency and scalability across products.
• Use Tekion's design system thoughtfully and contribute to its evolution by identifying
• gaps or proposing enhancements.
• Advocate for exceptional UX by deeply understanding user personas and complex business workflows in the automotive and cloud platform space.
• Integrate user research, usability testing, and analytics into your design decisions for continuous improvement.
• Share work frequently and participate in design critiques with distributed and on-site teams.
• Communicate your design decisions effectively to a variety of audiences and adapt your storytelling as needed.

• User & Data Focus
  • Advocate for user needs across the product development lifecycle, making tradeoffs
  • based on behavioral analytics, qualitative feedback, and business priorities.
  • Partner with UX research to validate concepts and improve product usability
  • continuously.

Skills and Experience:

• 3+ years of experience designing digital products, especially in B2B, SaaS, or enterprise web applications.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating expertise in UX/UI—covering user flows, wireframes, interactive prototypes, final UI, and shipped products.
• Advanced proficiency in design tools, especially Figma (auto-layout, variables, advanced prototyping, design systems, and component management).
• Experience working across web, iOS, and Android platforms.
• A clear grasp of product thinking, user psychology, and agile team dynamics.
• Strong communication and storytelling skills-you articulate decisions and rationale confidently across disciplines.
• Proven ability to navigate ambiguity and proactively clarify problems through a mix of research, collaboration, and iteration.

Perks and Benefits:

• A world-class team of 75+ designers, working on real industry transformation at scale.
• A learning-first environment with budgets for conferences, courses, and mentorship.
• Competitive salary, equity options, and comprehensive medical benefits.
• Opportunities to grow into the next level and beyond through well-defined
• competencies and mentorship.

Tekion is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, victim of violence or having a family member who is a victim of violence, the intersectionality of two or more protected categories, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. 

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