Lead UX Designer

The role is responsible to focuses on crafting clear, concise, and user-friendly copy within digital products to enhance user experiences. This role typically involves working closely with designers, product managers, and developers to create microcopy, content flows, and messaging that help guide users through interfaces smoothly. He/she aims to ensure that users not only understand how to interact with a product but also feel confident doing so.

• Lead discovery with Product, Research, Engineering and business teams; define customer problems, priorities and measurable success criteria.
• Turn research, analytics and customer feedback into clear journeys, flows, prototypes and polished interfaces; validate decisions through usability testing.
• Design complete experiences, including errors, empty states, recovery, accessibility, Arabic/RTL and responsive behavior.
• Contribute reusable patterns and components to the design system; partner with UX Writing to make complex financial tasks clear.
• Use Figma Agent and Figma Make to explore alternatives and build realistic prototypes; create reusable Skills and prompts for repeatable work.
• Critique AI outputs for usability, accuracy and consistency; use approved tools and protect confidential customer and bank information.
• Partner with engineers through handoff, design QA and UAT; evaluate shipped outcomes and iterate.
• Mentor designers, lead constructive critiques and communicate trade-offs with clear reasoning.
• Perform any other duties assigned to by line manager related to the nature of the work
• Enforce, incorporate, and comply with all necessary controls and related information security (EIS) policies, procedures, practices, training, reporting, personal due diligence and vigilance, within departmental/unit activities and operations.
   

Preferred Qualifications

• A tertiary level qualification from a recognized institution in Communication or relevant field 

Years & Nature of Experience 

• 4+ years in UI/UX or product design, with shipped mobile and web experiences.
• Portfolio case studies showing your contribution, decisions, research, trade-offs and outcomes.
• Advanced Figma skills: Auto Layout, components, variants, variables, prototyping and developer handoff.
• Hands-on experience with Figma Agent, Figma Make and Skills; ability to write structured prompts with context, constraints and examples, then iterate and evaluate results.
• Strong interaction and visual design craft, accessibility knowledge and experience applying design systems.
• Ability to work through ambiguity, influence stakeholders and collaborate across disciplines.
• Strong English communication; Arabic and fintech experience are advantages.

Technical Competencies 

• Business Requirement mapping
• Design Thinking
• Digital Literacy

 Behavioral Competencies 

• Creative Thinking
• Communication
• Problem Solving
• Time-management