UX Designer

Job Description

<p><strong>About the Role</strong></p><p><br></p><p>We are looking for a UX Designer, based in Dubai, to work closely with our product team focusing on the Travel Agents booking experience for our Consumer Travel business unit.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Who you are:</strong></p><ul><li>Experience: You have 2-4 years of design experience within a consumer focused organization and a proven record of successfully shipped mobile and web experiences.</li><li>Collaborator: You love working with other designers and cross functional team members and thrive on transparency and effective communication.</li><li>Problem solving: You are a design thinker and problem solver at heart, and you consistently strive to gain a deep understanding of the customers, business, and problems you are trying to solve. </li><li>UI Design: You possess excellent visual design skills and are proficient in design, prototyping, and white-boarding tools (such as Figma, Framer, Miro). You have experience working with and contributing to a design system.</li><li>Communication: You have the necessary communication skills to tell a story about your work – and are comfortable talking to customers, collaborating, and presenting.</li><li>Feedback: You regularly seek and give constructive feedback. You share and discuss your work openly at every stage without any “big reveals.” </li><li>Portfolio: You have an online portfolio or PDF you can share with us. Please include up to 3 projects that best represent your design thinking process and demonstrate the impact of your work.<strong> Applications without a portfolio will not be considered.</strong></li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>What you’ll do:</strong></p><ul><li>Define: You will identify and understand user needs, behaviors, and pain points and use this to define opportunities and problem statements that inform the team’s work. </li><li>Understand: You will consider the business needs, technical constraints, data, and platform requirements in order to produce impactful and valuable solutions.</li><li>Solve: You will creatively translate opportunities into elegant, intuitive, and effective experiences that deliver user and business value.</li><li>Ideate &amp; prototype: You will rapidly and pragmatically produce concepts and prototypes, understanding when further ideation, testing, or changing directions is needed.</li><li>Experiment: You will run experiments frequently to validate your assumptions and optimize your solutions.</li><li>Collaborate: You will work in a fast-paced team of engineers, product managers, and designers to uncover customer problems and deliver impactful solutions across multiple web and mobile platforms.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Qualifications</strong></p><ul><li>You are experienced in the entire product design cycle: From UX research, wireframes and prototypes to the final design, implementation and optimization</li><li>You have been part of several iterations, with product teams and developers. Deep experience in designing for multi-platform, with deep knowledge on the uniqueness of design challenges on each.</li><li>Previous experience working on internal systems and in evidence-driven teams is a plus</li><li>Proficient in design and prototyping tools (such as Figma and Framer)</li><li>A strong visual design background with knowledge of design systems.</li><li>Solid understanding in the field of research: interviewing users, setting up surveys and usability tests as well as interpreting the results</li><li>Being able to interpret qualitative and quantitative data into opportunities for improvements</li><li>Agile and Scrum methodologies.</li><li>Required languages: English, Arabic (is a plus)</li></ul><p>Please apply with your comprehensive CV and PORTFOLIO :</p><p>With clear examples/case studies of projects that were developed/shipped:</p><ul><li>Explaining your way of working</li><li>What you improved, what impact you made – with before and after metrics.</li></ul><p>The following will be excluded from consideration for the position:</p><ul><li>Submissions without portfolios. </li><li>Portfolios with just images/wireframes/designs, (i.e. portfolios not explaining the thinking and way of working).</li></ul><p></p>