Product Designer

Marc Ellis; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization as a Senior Product Designer, where your creativity will shape exceptional digital experiences. In this role, you will lead the design process, collaborate with talented professionals, and influence the look and feel of innovative products. With a focus on human-centered design, you'll utilize your expertise in UX/UI, wireframing, and prototyping to create impactful solutions. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a team dedicated to transforming the banking experience through exceptional design. If you're passionate about design and eager to make a difference, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in UX/UI or related fields.
• Degree in Graphic Design or similar; graduate degree is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of digital experiences and ensure alignment with brand vision.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to refine design requirements.

Skills

Human Centered Design Practices

UX/UI Design

Design Thinking

Prototyping Tools

Wireframing

Collaboration

Education

Degree in Graphic Design

Graduate degree (MSc/MA)

Tools

Industry-standard software

Prototyping tools

Job description

Job Title: Senior Product Designer
Duration: 1-year extendable contract
Location: Dubai, UAE

Organization Unit Purpose:
The goal of the Design office is to enable the organization to become the world’s most human-centric bank where customers & business partners can pursue and achieve their goals through exceptionally designed experiences.

Job Purpose:
The candidate will be part of the Design team within the Digital Office organization. In this position, he/she is responsible for designing Digital Experiences and flows based on Design best practices, patterns, and principles. He/she will create all visual components as part of the digital experience with a superb aesthetic sense and lead all aspects of the look and feel of mockups and creative concepts. Collaboration with a team of multidisciplinary designers, researchers, technologists, and business partners is essential.

Job Content:

Creative Leadership

• Lead the overall look and feel of a product, taking ownership in creative executions, deriving the brand personality, and ensuring product alignment to the head of design's vision.

Product Design

• Create wireframes based on requirements.
• In collaboration with Designers, Researchers, and UI engineers, co-create UX within Agile delivery mode.
• Lead workshops with various stakeholders to clarify and refine requirements for design decisions.

Planning

• Estimate efforts based on requirements.
• Plan design workstreams for user experience and information architecture by studying content concepts, strategy, and target audience; envisioning architectural hierarchies, patterns, features, and functionality.

Assessment

• Lead discussions to convert feature-oriented requirements into design backlog items.
• Conduct user testing activities to learn and refine user needs, preferences, objectives, and vocabulary, including card-sorting activities, treejack testing, focus groups, and other techniques as required.
• Assess existing digital experiences in terms of UX consistency, information architecture, navigation, and classification effectiveness.

Collaboration

• Collaborate with other designers and business stakeholders in shaping digital experiences.
• Co-create digital experiences with the support of other designers.
• Support designers in the handover to front-end engineers.

Communication and Feedback

• Communicate and articulate design decisions.
• Pay attention to visual details and organization.
• Collaborate with Front-end engineers, taking and providing comments, and integrate those comments into the designs.
• Interact with business analysts and the product owner for business requirements gathering, communicate designs, and support the business in expressing product specifications from a design perspective.
• Be able to take constructive criticism and adjust designs accordingly.

Education:

• Holding a degree in Graphic Design, Interactive Media Design, or similar.
• Graduate degree a plus; MSc/MA will be considered an asset.
• Experience with Design Thinking, creative outputs, and industry-standard software & prototyping tools.
• Foundation of hands-on, applicable experience in UX/UI or related domains.

Experience:

• 8+ years of experience in a related field.
• Experience in the Banking or Financial industry is considered an asset.
• Experience in the GCC region is considered an asset.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Human Centered Design Practices.
• Designing for Native app UI.
• Designing for web.

Behavioral Competencies:

• A design thinker that is comfortable with vagueness and unknowns.
• A collaborator and co-creator with others.
• An innovative thinker with the ability to challenge.
• Understands, appreciates, and lives User Experience & Information Architecture as a craft.
• Self-motivated and open to feedback, experimentation & learning.
• Passionate about analyzing problems & designing solutions.
• A curious observer who can identify patterns and meaning through design, solutions, and insights.