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UI Design Lead

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Full-time
On-site
United Arab Emirates

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This UI Design Lead role in the United Arab Emirates is a full-time, on-site opportunity that steers discovery across key journeys from SIM and eSIM onboarding to plan management, delivering high fidelity UI for app and web and validating ideas with quick user sessions. You should bring 5+ years shipping consumer products, a strong design portfolio, fluency in Figma and rapid prototyping, and experience building or extending a design system, with a focus on accessibility and both English and Arabic localization. Expect to shape AI moments like a plan advisor, lead cross-functional squads, and write crisp specs with live demos. To apply, tailor your portfolio to show MVP to post-launch iterations, highlight RTL and telco familiarity, and demonstrate storytelling and impact.

Key Accountabilities

  • Lead discovery in all key journeys such as SIM and eSIM onboarding, plan management, care, or bundles
  • Map jobs, flows, information architecture, and states for first release and near- term iterations
  • Design high fidelity UI across app and web and validate with quick user sessions
  • Prototype AI powered moments such as a plan advisor, conversational support, and proactive tips with clear disclosure and safe fallbacks
  • Translate lifestyle partnerships into usable bundles including eligibility, pricing display, redemption, and lifecycle
  • Contribute foundations for the design system including tokens, components, and usage notes
  • Ensure accessibility, performance, and localization in English and Arabic

Qualifications

  • Minimum education level: Bachelor’s in design, HCI, Human Factors, or related field
  • Portfolio of shipped consumer products with strong interaction and visual craft
  • Fluency in Figma and rapid prototyping with design tokens and components
  • Clear written and spoken communication and ability to influence without authority
  • Awareness of accessibility, performance, and English and Arabic localization

Experience

  • 5+; years in product design with at least two notable mobile app launches
  • Repeated 0 to 1 and 1 to n cycles from MVP to post launch iterations
  • Work within lean cross functional squads through delivery
  • Built or extended a design system adopted across features
  • Hands on evaluative research or close partnership with research for quick tests
  • Shipped across iOS, Android, and responsive web with platform guideline fluency
  • Localization and accessibility exposure including right to left languages such as Arabic
  • Basic instrumentation and experimentation to learn from usage without heavy process
  • Domain familiarity in telco is a plus

Skills

  • Interaction design, visual design, and motion craft with attention to detail
  • Rapid prototyping, usability testing, and iteration based on evidence
  • Inclusive design practices and strong edge case thinking
  • Cross team alignment, scope shaping, and clear decision logging
  • Strong storytelling with live demos and crisp specs that reduce rework

Competencies

Please provide the level of competency as per the grade: Level 1 for Band 6, Level 2 for Band 5, level 3 for Band 4, level 4 for Band 3.

  • Think strategically (Level 3 of 5)
  • Achieve tangible results (Level 4 of 5)
  • Lead breakthrough change (Level 3 of 5)
  • Exceed customer expectations (Level 3 of 5)
  • Nurture, Inspire and Motivate (Level 3 of 5)
  • Target win-win outcomes (Level 4 of 5)