Product Design and Research Lead

About WalaPlus:

We encourage loyalty and happiness for your employees and customers.

An integrated system that delights and helps employees. And customers Organizations rely heavily on employee and customer loyalty. It is a key factor for organizational success to achieve endeavors and goals. This is why Wala Plus has designed and rolled out a range of innovative and flexible programs to support companies in achieving these goals to make the employee and client more (happy) and loyalty to the company and the brand.

Responsibilities:

Mentor your team and grow individual designers careers and their responsibilities.

Participate in recruiting and ensuring that your teams are resourced and allocated appropriately.

Lead your team in the creation of a product design roadmap.

Lead the design for whole new experiences and improvements of existing experiences while planning and defining strategy for the direction of future iterations.

Integrate the latest standards in interaction design and trends in user design into the product creating the most intuitive and easy-to-use products in the transportation market.

Develop a new standard in how core design patterns are shared and documented ensuring that the engineering teams can seamlessly tap into the patterns allowing them to independently build with confidence.

Quickly iterate on multiple interactive design solutions and work through details.

Develop high-level and/or detailed storyboards, mock-ups, interaction flows, and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas.

Deliver work thats not only user-friendly, and aesthetically engaging, but also produces results.

Work alongside engineers and product managers throughout all stages of the product development cycle.

Use data and user research to validate assumptions, optimize performance, and find user experience gaps.

Develop and maintain detailed user-interface specifications.

Skills:

Experience in a highly agile/scrum environment.

Experience designing and shipping products for mobile and web.

Experience in User Research activities: Usability Testing ,User Interviews etc .

Have shipped and maintained multiple products and features with an online portfolio that showcases this work.

Ability to work cross-functionally and influence partners with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Proficiency in a variety of design tools such as Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.

Familiarity with JIRA is highly preferred.

Experience with collaborating with front-end & flutter development is a plus.

Optional/preferred: 1+ years of experience working on a design system.

Requirements

Any Bachelors degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.

7+ years as a Digital Product Designer.

Experience leading teams of 3+ designers.

Fluency in Arabic and English.