Design Lead

Sun Day Carwash

Design Lead specializing in digital and on-site experiences for a tech-driven carwash chain. Leading design quality to enhance customer trust and retention as the company grows.

Posted 5/15/2026full-timeLos Angeles • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $135,000 - $165,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own end-to-end design for our POS, member web app, admin tools, and marketing site
Maintain and evolve our visual language across digital products, on-site screens, and all other customer touchpoints
Build and scale a shared component library across multiple products and platforms
Identify UX friction, experiment with solutions, and ship improvements that drive conversion, retention, and clarity
Support new location launches, promotions, referrals, loyalty, and lifecycle initiatives
Reimagining our POS and core product surfaces used across every Sun Day location
Designing intelligent on-site screens and customer-facing experiences that adapt in real time
Creating seamless, AI-assisted member onboarding, management, and recovery flows
Building internal tools and workflows that help teams run smarter, more efficient locations
Designing systems for offers, loyalty, referrals, and promotions that drive long-term membership growth

Requirements

What you’ll need

4+ years of product design experience, ideally on consumer-facing products
Strong portfolio showing product thinking and visual taste
Deep proficiency in Figma
Experience designing for mobile screens
Familiarity with design systems and scalable components
Ability to clearly articulate design decisions and tradeoffs
Thrives in small, fast-moving teams with real ownership
Comfortable with ambiguity and setting direction where none exists
Has strong opinions, but iterates quickly and pragmatically
Excited to modernize a traditional, physical-world business through software and design

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary and equity
Health, dental, and vision insurance
Flexible PTO
Real ownership and influence over product and brand direction
Free car washes at any Sun Day location

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Hard Skills & Tools

product designvisual designUX designcomponent librarymobile designdesign systemsAI-assisted designuser onboardinguser managementuser experience improvement

Soft Skills

articulate design decisionsownershipadaptabilitycollaborationpragmatismcreativityproblem-solvingcommunicationteamworkfast-paced environment