About the Role
As part of the company network, talabat is a pioneer in the online food ordering industry in the Middle East, aiming to become one of the most 'Experience-first' companies in the region. We are looking for a passionate Product Designer to join our team and grow with us. In this role, you will be responsible for building intuitive, scalable, and user-centered digital products. At the IC2 level, you will take autonomous ownership of feature-level end-to-end design within your product squad, collaborating closely with Product Managers and Engineers to address complex interaction challenges. If you thrive in an agile, fast-paced environment and enjoy transforming user insights into elegant interface solutions, we’d love to meet you!
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What’s On Your Plate?
- End-to-End Execution: Own the full design lifecycle for feature initiatives—from discovery and user research to wireframing, interactive prototyping, and pixel-perfect production delivery.
- Problem Definition & Framing: Work directly with your PM and Engineering leads to translate user needs and business requirements into clear, validated design solutions.
- User Research & Insights: Plan and execute evaluative user research (usability testing, user interviews) and utilize quantitative metrics to validate design hypotheses.
- Design System Stewardship: Apply and advocate for our design system consistently across web and mobile experiences. Identify gaps, propose new components, and help evolve system patterns.
- Systems & Edge Case Thinking: Design with a deep understanding of complex backend workflows, edge cases, offline states, and multi-step user journeys.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with developers during handoff and QA to ensure technical feasibility and craft quality during release.
- Design Advocacy & Communication: Present design solutions, logic, and trade-offs clearly to squad stakeholders, incorporating feedback iteratively.
- Craft & Process Innovation: Participate actively in design critiques, help facilitate ideation workshops, and integrate AI tools to accelerate design workflows.
Qualifications
What Did We Order?
- Education: Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts, Design, HCI, Visual Communication, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
- Experience: 3–4 years of full-time UX/UI design experience in an agile, consumer-facing digital product environment (e-commerce, food delivery, or hyper-scale platforms).
- Portfolio: A strong product design portfolio demonstrating end-to-end problem-solving, UX rationale, edge-case consideration, and polished visual UI execution.
- Tooling Expertise: Advanced proficiency in Figma (component libraries, auto-layout, interactive prototyping) and familiarity with AI design tools.
- Data & Research Competency: Demonstrated experience using qualitative feedback and quantitative metrics (A/B testing, funnels, heatmaps) to guide design iterations.
- Cross-Functional Skills: Solid understanding of technical constraints, design handoff workflows, and collaboration with Product Management and Engineering ('Three-in-a-Box' model).
- Mindset: Autonomous, detail-oriented, open to critique, and driven by a continuous growth mindset.
