Role summary

We are on a mission to become one of the strongest \xe2\x80\x9cExperience first\xe2\x80\x9d companies in the region, and we need a Product Designer I to champion the cause. As a Product Designer, you\xe2\x80\x99ll join our passionate, fast-paced Design System team and help create a modular, inclusive system of patterns and guidelines which support all Talabat\xe2\x80\x99s customer-facing products (web/mobile). The ideal candidate will have a passion for creating and maintaining design systems, and helping product designers applying them across Talabat apps and platforms to create consistently delightful user experiences. Additionally, you\xe2\x80\x99ll be a part of interesting product-based projects when needed.

Sounds like your cup of tea? Then an exciting job and an international workplace is waiting for you in the heart of UAE!

What\xe2\x80\x99s on your Plate?

Drives the effort for creating, building and documenting the design system

Working closely with our product designers, craft components with your creativity and mastery of layout, typography, iconography, colour theory and composition

Specify core UX, visual, interaction and motion elements, create prototypes, document usage guidelines and create libraries for design teams to use

Evangelize the design system company-wide as a platform that supports our business, brand and product team in creating the best possible user experience

Cultivate internal knowledge around the design system by serving as a subject matter expert to contributing teams who are building additions to the design system

Use collaborative skills to facilitate the adoption of the design system and ensure the best outcome for stakeholders

Uncover unmet needs from customers, product design teams and engineering stakeholders and identify opportunities to make the design system more powerful and usable

Partner with engineers as they build and ship components

Run lightweight usability testing on new components

Own and execute across all phases of design work: research, conceptual design, prototyping, detailed design, usability testing, and implementation for special product projects

Use a variety of metrics to evaluate and continuously improve the user experience

Continuously improve design processes, knowledge, and tools to measurably enhance productivity and product quality

Regularly present your work to peers and leaders for review and feedback

What Did We Order?

Preferably a Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s Degree in Fine Arts/Design/Marketing/Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Multimedia graphics

Minimum 1-2 years of full-time UX & UI design experience in an agile consumer-focused, high-performance organizations

1-year experience working with a design system as a contributor or in a design system team working on a UI library

Have a great eye for detail, colour usage, typography, iconography and layout

A portfolio of work that showcases world-class UI design

Extraordinary ability to advocate for UI consistency with designers, engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders through writing, visuals, and presentations

Flexible and comfortable with ambiguity and change during a project

Technologies/Techniques:

UI/UX Design and Prototyping Tools (e.g. Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, Invision, Abstract and similar tools)

Familiar with Atomic Design and Components

HTML & CSS (for understanding constraints, no coding required)

Colour Theory (and implication to accessibility).

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