Product Designer I

Role summary
We 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, you'll join our passionate, fast-paced Design
System team and help create a modular, inclusive system of patterns and
guidelines which support all Talabat's 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'll 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's 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's 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).