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UX & Creative Lead

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

Financial

  • Estimate: $90k - $130k*
  • Zero income tax location

Accessibility

  • Apply from abroad
  • Visa Provided

Requirements

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

Position

Location
United Arab Emirates

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About the Job
Shape the product vision and the brand experience across the new app and connected surfaces. Work directly on high leverage flows while creating simple mechanisms that help a small team move fast with quality.

Job Description

  • Define the north star experience for shop, onboard, manage, care, and rewards across app and web.
  • Lead cross team initiatives such as a universal plan advisor, a bundles and rewards platform, and omnichannel care.
  • Establish design system strategy including tokens, theming, motion, accessibility, and partner readiness.
  • Design critical flows and high-fidelity prototypes that unblock ambiguity and set the quality bar.
  • Set the operating cadence for critiques, design reviews, decision logs, and a lightweight request for comment process.
  • Co-own quarterly sequencing and scope tradeoffs across squads with a focus on customer value and delivery risk.
  • Choose and govern tools, file hygiene, branching, and the contribution model for the design system.
  • Mentor, set growth plans, give calibrated feedback, and support performance reviews without direct line management.

Qualifications

  • Minimum education level: Bachelor’s in design, HCI, Human Factors, or related field.
  • Portfolio demonstrating complex systems and cross journey outcomes.
  • Depth in design systems strategy including tokens, theming, motion, and accessibility.
  • Executive ready storytelling and stakeholder alignment.

Experience

  • 8+ years in product design with multiple portfolio scale launches.
  • Led 0 to 1 initiatives and scaled 1 to n systems across squads or surfaces.
  • Set or evolved an org level design system with governance and adoption.
  • Orchestrated multi stakeholder programs across product, engineering, data and machine learning, marketing, and care.
  • Regular participation in executive reviews with clear narratives and option framing.
  • Mentored seniors, ran critique cadences, and influenced hiring bars and interview loops.
  • Operated in regulated or privacy sensitive contexts with consent and data handling constraints.
  • Worked across multi market and multi language products including MENA and Arabic.
  • Managed vendor or partner design workstreams with consistency to internal systems.

Skills

  • Systems thinking and orchestration across journeys and channels.
  • High leverage IC work on critical flows, prototypes, and UI polish.
  • Sequencing and trade off framing that balances speed, risk, and customer value.
  • Coaching, calibrated feedback, and mechanisms that scale quality without heavy process.
  • Clear org narratives for executives and cross functional alignment.

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