When you think of food delivery in the MENA region, we\xe2\x80\x99d be pretty surprised if talabat didn\xe2\x80\x99t pop into your mind first! Since delivering our first order in Kuwait in 2004, we\xe2\x80\x99ve grown quite a lot over the past 17 years.

Today, we deliver hundreds of millions of food orders, grocery items and other products per year, to our customers in nine countries throughout the region with more than 3,000+ employees! Our food delivery business works with over 27,000 brands and almost 50,000 branches, while our q-commerce concept, talabat mart, now delivers groceries to customers in Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman Qatar, and the UAE in 30 minutes or less!

Our philosophy is to make sure we do what is right for our ecosystem - our customers, our partners, our people, our riders, and the communities in which we operate. Our #techforgood program allows our customers a safe and convenient way to contribute to important causes in their community through donating to local and international charities directly on talabat with a focus on food insecurity in the region. Since its inception in 2020, we have facilitated the donation of well over 1 million meals to those in need, as well as donated over $1.5 million to charity with the help of our partners and customers. talabat is part of Delivery Hero, the global leader in online food delivery and q-commerce.

What\'s On Your Plate?

People:

• Manage and develop 1-3 designers
• Having impact through people by developing great relationships with designers, helping and challenging them to succeed
• Provide clear feedback and coaching to designers
• Ensure designers have clear goals that support them in delivering impactful work
• Help designers to understand our wider mission and vision
• Manage designers effectively by helping them achieve maximum impact with minimum effort
• Help recruiting by referring and interviewing candidates
• Onboard new designers to understand our philosophy, process, and values
• Ensure designers are aligned with our beliefs and process to ship high quality work quickly
• Represent Talabat in blog posts, public speaking
• Know, show, help designers
• Understand the philosophy and guidance of leadership

Product:

• Develop deep domain knowledge of your squad\'s service area and team up with your product manager / lead to solve the toughest problems.
• Design for you isn\xe2\x80\x99t just pretty interfaces - you\xe2\x80\x99ll spend a lot more time understanding the problem space through generative research, synthesizing insights, running ideation sessions/workshops to design a delightful customer service experience.
• Understand and embody how we design and build product
• Have impact and influence the direct product team(s) where designers reporting to you work
• Deliver design in support of team goals and OKR items
• Collaborate with other functions within your product team
• Work with product leads to articulate the vision and evolution of the product/discipline area for the next quarter
• Understand and execute on established product direction
• Understand where the team is at, any gaps, planned next steps, and clearly communicate these to designers

Design Craft:

• Think in terms of scalable systems, not just one-off solutions.
• Meet the bar for delivery of design work within your design team
• Connect with the craft of design, especially high-quality, modern design/research
• Give useful design feedback in a clear, respectful way

What Did We Order?

• 6+ years of experience in digital product design, with 2+ years of people leadership experience managing product designers
• Experience with building, hiring and mentoring high performing teams
• You have a transparent, candid and constructive approach to feedback with a keen ability to identify areas of opportunity and improvement
• Track record of delivering business impact, and can speak to design decisions that drive meaningful product value
• Strong understanding of how engineering, analytics, and user research intersects with design
• You have a portfolio of relevant design work, performed by you and teams you\xe2\x80\x99ve led, that demonstrates ability to create products that people love

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