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UI Design Lead

Unlock employer Dubai, United Arab Emirates Posted: 19 Feb 2026

Financial

  • Estimate: $80k - $120k*
  • Zero income tax location

Accessibility

  • Apply from abroad
  • Visa Provided

Requirements

  • Experience: Senior
  • English: Professional
  • Arabic: Professional

Position

About the Job
Key Accountabilities:

  • Lead discovery in all key journeys such as SIM and eSIM onboarding, plan management, care, or bundles.
  • Map jobs, flows, information architecture, and states for first release and near-term iterations.
  • Design high fidelity UI across app and web and validate with quick user sessions.
  • Prototype AI powered moments such as a plan advisor, conversational support, and proactive tips with clear disclosure and safe fallbacks.
  • Translate lifestyle partnerships into usable bundles including eligibility, pricing display, redemption, and lifecycle.
  • Contribute foundations for the design system including tokens, components, and usage notes.
  • Ensure accessibility, performance, and localization in English and Arabic.

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Qualifications

  • Minimum education level: Bachelor’s in design, HCI, Human Factors, or related field.
  • Portfolio of shipped consumer products with strong interaction and visual craft.
  • Fluency in Figma and rapid prototyping with design tokens and components.
  • Clear written and spoken communication and ability to influence without authority.
  • Awareness of accessibility, performance, and English and Arabic localization.

Experience

  • 5+ years in product design with at least two notable mobile app launches.
  • Repeated 0 to 1 and 1 to n cycles from MVP to post-launch iterations.
  • Work within lean cross-functional squads through delivery.
  • Built or extended a design system adopted across features.
  • Hands-on evaluative research or close partnership with research for quick tests.
  • Shipped across iOS, Android, and responsive web with platform guideline fluency.
  • Localization and accessibility exposure including right to left languages such as Arabic.
  • Basic instrumentation and experimentation to learn from usage without heavy process.
  • Domain familiarity in telco is a plus.

Skills

  • Interaction design, visual design, and motion craft with attention to detail.
  • Rapid prototyping, usability testing, and iteration based on evidence.
  • Inclusive design practices and strong edge case thinking.
  • Cross team alignment, scope shaping, and clear decision logging.
  • Strong storytelling with live demos and crisp specs that reduce rework.

Competencies
Please provide the level of competency as per the grade: Level 1 for Band 6, Level 2 for Band 5, Level 3 for Band 4, Level 4 for Band 3.

  • Think strategically (Level 3 of 5)
  • Achieve tangible results (Level 4 of 5)
  • Lead breakthrough change (Level 3 of 5)
  • Exceed customer expectations (Level 3 of 5)
  • Nurture, Inspire and Motivate (Level 3 of 5)
  • Target win-win outcomes (Level 4 of 5)

Location
United Arab Emirates

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