Product Designer I

Job Description

Role summaryWe are on a mission to become one of the strongest Experience first companies in the region, and we need a Product Designer I to champion the cause. As a Product Designer, youll join our passionate, fast-paced Design System team and help create a modular, inclusive system of patterns and guidelines which support all Talabats 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, youll 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!Whats 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

• Preferably a Bachelors 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

• 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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About Company

Talabat (Arabic: طلبات, Ṭalabāt) is an online food ordering company founded in Kuwait in 2004. As of April 2021, Talabat operates in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq. A subsidiary of Delivery Hero since 2016, Talabat became the largest online food ordering company in the Middle East.