Product Designer Contract

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 of designing Digital Experiences and flows based on Design best practices, Design

patterns and principles, designing concepts, and guiding the development of content. He/she is

responsible for creating all visual components as part of the digital experience to deliver, with a superb

aesthetic sense. He/she leads all aspects of the look and feel of mockups and creative concepts of digital

experiences. He/she will be collaborating with a team of multidisciplinary designers, researchers,

technologists, and business partners.

Job Content:
Creative leadership

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

Product Design

• Creating wireframes based as per requirements.
• In collaboration with Designers, Researchers and UI engineers, co-create UX within Agile

delivery mode.

• Leading workshops with various stakeholders with the objective of requirements clarification
and refinement needed for design decisions.

Planning

• Estimating efforts based on requirements.
• Planning design workstreams for user experience and information architecture

• by studying content concepts, strategy, and target audience; envisioning architectural
hierarchies, patterns, features and functionality.

Assessment

• Leading discussions aiming to convert feature-oriented requirements into design backlog items

• Conducts user testing activities to learn and refine the user needs, preferences, objectives and
vocabulary. This includes card-sorting activities, treejack testing, focus groups and other
techniques as required.

• Assessment of 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 engineer

Communication and feedback
• Communicates and articulates design decisions
• Attention to visual details and organization.
• Collaborate with Front-end engineers, by taking and providing comments, and integrate those

comments into the HQ designs
• Interact with business analysts and product owner for business requirements gathering,

communicating the designs, supporting the business in expressing the product specifications from a
design perspective

• Able to take constructive criticisms and adjust the 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
• Design Thinking, Creative outputs and experience of industry standard software &

Prototyping tools
• Foundation of hands-on, applicable experience, in UX/UI or any other related domains

Experience:

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

• Experience in the GCC region is considered as an asset

Knowledge & Skills:

• Human Centered Design Practises,
• 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 innovation thinker with abilities 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 that is able to identify patterns and meaning through design, solutions, and

insights