How to Apply to Carsales.com

About Carsales.com

Application Process

1. 1
   Start at the canonical CAR Group careers hub at carsales

   Start at the canonical CAR Group careers hub at carsales.com/careers, which is the company's public-facing jobs portal and the authoritative source for all open roles across every brand in the group including Carsales, Webmotors, Trader Corporation, Chileautos, DeMotores, Soloautos, CarsGuide, and RedBook. Regional sub-sites sometimes surface in local languages, but every live role is replicated here, and submitting through this hub ensures your application reaches the central Talent Acquisition team in Melbourne rather than a dormant country-specific inbox.

2. 2
   Choose the right brand and region carefully before clicking apply

   Choose the right brand and region carefully before clicking apply. CAR Group operates under one corporate umbrella but internal mobility between brands is handled as a formal transfer, not a reapplication, so starting in the right business unit matters. Carsales (Melbourne) handles the core Australian marketplace and group technology platforms. Webmotors (São Paulo) runs Brazilian product, engineering, data, and commercial. Trader Corporation (Norfolk, Virginia and Toronto) runs the US and Canadian truck, motorcycle, and powersports marketplaces. RedBook operates as a data and valuations business across Australia and Southeast Asia. Confirm the office, time zone, and reporting line before you submit.

3. 3
   Create a candidate profile and upload an ATS-friendly resume in PDF or Word form

   Create a candidate profile and upload an ATS-friendly resume in PDF or Word format. CAR Group runs a generic hosted careers ATS on carsales.com rather than Workday, Greenhouse, or SmartRecruiters, which means the parser is more forgiving of standard layouts but still fails on two-column templates, text boxes, headers and footers, and embedded graphics. Use a single-column layout with standard fonts (Arial, Calibri, or Helvetica) and let the parser auto-fill, then manually correct any mis-extracted dates, job titles, or education entries before submitting.

4. 4
   Tailor your motivation statement and screening answers to the specific brand you

   Tailor your motivation statement and screening answers to the specific brand you are targeting. The central careers site serves every business in the group, so generic answers are obvious. If you are applying to Webmotors, reference the joint venture with Banco Santander and the Brazilian dealer network. If you are applying to Trader Corporation, reference the truck, motorcycle, and powersports verticals and the 2021 acquisition. If you are applying to Carsales proper, reference the flagship Carsales.com.au marketplace and the ongoing GenAI search rollout. Specificity is rewarded; genericity is filtered.

5. 5
   Expect a recruiter phone or video screen within five to ten business days for ro

   Expect a recruiter phone or video screen within five to ten business days for roles you are a match for, and no response at all for roles you are not — CAR Group does not send form rejection emails in every region, which many candidates find frustrating. The initial screen is 20 to 30 minutes, covers your background, salary expectations in local currency, work authorization status, notice period, and your specific interest in the brand and role, and concludes with logistics on next steps.

6. 6
   Prepare for two to four rounds of interviews depending on seniority and function

   Prepare for two to four rounds of interviews depending on seniority and function. Early-career and individual-contributor roles typically run recruiter screen, hiring manager interview, and one panel with two to three peers or cross-functional partners. Senior individual-contributor and first-line manager roles add a functional leader round. Director-level and above add a Chief-level interview and a culture or values interview with a senior people-team member. Engineering candidates should expect at least one technical round with a coding exercise or system-design discussion; product candidates should expect a product-sense or case round grounded in a real marketplace problem.

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   If you are hired into Melbourne, expect a hybrid working arrangement anchored on

   If you are hired into Melbourne, expect a hybrid working arrangement anchored on the Richmond office, typically two to three days on-site depending on team. Richmond sits on Punt Road directly across from the MCG and is well-connected by tram and train. If you are hired into São Paulo, Santiago, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, or the United States, regional hybrid norms and local holidays apply, and Trader Corporation maintains a traditional four-day-in-office cadence at its Norfolk, Virginia campus.

8. 8
   Before signing, negotiate thoughtfully

   Before signing, negotiate thoughtfully. CAR Group offers competitive but disciplined compensation — base plus short-term incentive plus equity participation for eligible levels, with long-term incentive plans (LTIP) that include performance rights and restricted share awards vesting over three years. Australian base ranges are benchmarked to ASX 200 digital-classifieds peers (REA Group, Seek) rather than US tech giants, so comparisons to FAANG total-comp packages will fail. Regional compensation in Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, and the US follows local market norms. Always ask for the LTIP structure in writing, the grant date, the vesting schedule, and the performance-condition definitions.

9. 9
   Clear background checks and reference calls

   Clear background checks and reference calls. Australian hires typically complete a national police check, education verification, and right-to-work confirmation. Brazilian hires complete additional documentation under CLT labor law. US hires complete standard I-9 work-authorization verification and, for regulated roles, credit and driving checks. The offer-to-start-date window is typically four to eight weeks in Australia, accommodating the four-week standard notice period common in Australian executive contracts.

10. 10
    Consider internal mobility seriously once you are in

    Consider internal mobility seriously once you are in. CAR Group has a real history of moving high-performers across brands and regions — Australian product managers taking Webmotors assignments in São Paulo, Brazilian engineers rotating into Melbourne platform teams, US commercial leaders joining Trader Corporation from Carsales — and the company publishes an internal careers board before external posting for most mid-level roles. Signal your interest in mobility during onboarding; it gets logged against your profile.

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Interview Culture

Interviewing at CAR Group reflects the company's identity as a commercially-led ASX-listed marketplace operator rather than a Silicon Valley product company.

What Carsales.com Looks For

• Commercial literacy — candidates who can discuss unit economics, take rate, customer acquisition cost, lifetime value, and the dealer-subscription model without needing the concepts explained. CAR Group is a publicly-listed marketplace business and interviewers expect you to speak that language from the first conversation.
• Operator mentality — evidence that you have actually owned outcomes (a product launch, a revenue target, a platform migration, a data pipeline rebuild) end-to-end rather than participating in work someone else drove. Framing matters: 'owned,' 'delivered,' 'shipped,' 'grew,' 'turned around' beat 'supported,' 'assisted,' or 'contributed to.'
• Marketplace instinct — intuition for two-sided dynamics, liquidity management, trust and safety, the tension between buyer experience and seller monetisation, and the economics of private-seller versus dealer supply. Direct experience at REA Group, Seek, Domain, Mercado Libre, OLX, eBay, Cox Automotive, or any similar classifieds or marketplace operator is a strong positive signal.
• Cross-functional empathy — CAR Group product, engineering, commercial, and data teams are tightly integrated, and friction between functions costs the business money. Candidates who describe collaborating with, for example, a dealer account manager on a pricing feature, or a revenue-operations analyst on a reporting rebuild, tend to interview well.
• Long-term orientation — the senior leadership team has long tenure (the CEO is in his eighth year; many product and engineering directors are six to ten years in), and the company looks for candidates who are not planning to leave in 18 months. Demonstrating genuine interest in the business and its regional portfolio matters.
• Right-to-work in the relevant region — Australian roles require citizenship, permanent residency, or a valid skilled-worker visa (Subclass 482 or 186). Brazilian roles default to CLT employment. US roles at Trader Corporation rarely sponsor visas below senior director level. Flag your status early.
• Business-level English — mandatory for every role across the group. Additional working fluency in Portuguese is a strong differentiator for Webmotors and for Melbourne-based group roles that interface with Brazil. Spanish is valuable for Chile, Argentina, and Mexico operations.
• Data-driven decision-making — candidates who frame decisions around concrete metrics, A/B test results, cohort analysis, and explicit hypotheses beat candidates who rely on intuition or executive preference. The company invests heavily in experimentation infrastructure and expects product and engineering hires to use it.
• Integrity and judgment under public-company scrutiny — CAR Group is ASX-listed, subject to continuous-disclosure obligations, and operates in regulated markets in every region. Interviewers look hard for candidates who will not cut corners on data privacy, advertising-standards compliance, Fair Work Act obligations in Australia, CLT obligations in Brazil, or US labor and advertising law.
• Willingness to engage with the product — a surprising number of candidates reach a Carsales or Webmotors interview without having browsed the actual product. Spend an hour before every interview exploring the marketplace for the brand you are interviewing with: run a search, evaluate a listing, submit a (test) enquiry, look at a dealer page. Interviewers notice, and the observations you bring back shape the conversation.

Open Positions

Carsales.com currently has 5 open positions.

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