Product Designer

Job Description

About Us Baraka?s mission is to help millions of young people across the Middle East find financial empowerment. Our apps help young professionals in the GCC region trade stocks, buy index funds, discover financial news, and do much more. We?re here to educate and empower the Middle East?s next generation of investors.We?re a world class team of ambitious young professionals. Baraka was part of Y Combinator?s Summer 2021 cohort. Shortly after, we raised Seed funding from a host of top tier VCs that have backed iconic companies like Facebook, Alibaba, Slack and many more. Our team includes pros who have worked at Barclays, Trade Republic, Microsoft, Accenture, and a number of other leading global companies.But our real secret is hiring people who care about their colleagues and are excited to build something big. This culture helps fuel a high-trust workplace, which allows us to do fun things like offer work from home days and other flexible work arrangements. Our team is constantly looking to improve and works hard to build each other up. We win and lose together and we?re all seriously committed to your growth.What we are looking forCreative, thoughtful and driven people who can wear multiple hats in any given week. You should be someone that is comfortable with ambiguity, you enjoy a challenge, and you learn quickly from your mistakes. You are gritty, results-oriented, and you always set ambitious goals. The best candidates will be comfortable collaborating with colleagues across various teams. You are a strong communicator who is constantly driving to share insights and progress with the rest of the company. When looking to evaluate success, you turn to data and outcomes. You?re tenacious. You understand that big goals require persistence and hard work. You aren?t afraid to do some less-glamorous work in pursuit of a larger accomplishment. You?re a self-starter - instead of being told what to do, you?d much rather figure it out for yourself and show everyone how it?s done.On top of all that, you?re pumped to build a world-class product and experience that helps improve people?s lives.Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout the Product design process.
• Design and prototype intuitive and engaging content that includes but is not limited to digital ads, responsive email design, RWD, applications, platforms and digital products with interactivity via no-code tools like Webflow.
• Participate throughout the design process end-to-end, from discovery, through design, build, test, release, maintenance, measure and optimization.
• Collaborate with UX Designers to decipher UX problems into actionable items to solve business problems.
• Provide clear and organized support through the preparation and hand-off of assets to developers.
• Prepare files and assist in the organization and logging of assets within a digital asset management system.
• Create wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows, site maps, and original graphic designs to communicate interaction and design ideas.
• Present and defend designs and key deliverables to peers and executive level stakeholders.
• Stay abreast of design trends and technologies, continuously looking for creative ideas, inspiration and resources to sharpen your craft.
• Perform other assigned duties as may be required in meeting company objectives
• Communicate effectively with other departments within the organization and function within a team environment

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