Sr Product Designer - Design System

Role Summary

We are on a mission to become one of the strongest Experience first companies in the region and we need a Senior Product Designer to champion the cause.

As a Product Designer youll join our passionate fastpaced Design System team and help create a modular inclusive system of patterns and guidelines which support all talabats customerfacing products (web/mobile). The ideal candidate will have a passion for creating and maintaining design systems and helping product designers apply them across talabat apps and platforms to create consistently delightful user experiences.

Additionally youll be a part of interesting productbased projects when needed.

Were looking for a Senior Product Designer Design Systems to join our growing Design Experience group in Dubai. Youll help drive the evolution of Marshmallow talabats crossplatform design system enabling consistency accessibility personalization and speed across all our app.

As a Senior Product Designer on the Design System team youll lead initiatives independently think systemically and scale your impact beyond your immediate team by collaborating closely with engineers designers product managers and brand experts. This is a unique opportunity for a designer who thrives in fastpaced crossfunctional environments and knows how to build not just components but scalable systems.

Whats On Your Plate

• Design system evolution: Lead the expansion and refinement of our component library foundations tokens and interaction patterns across mobile
• Figma mastery & documentation: Manage our libraries with precision structure component variants and slots delivering highquality documentation through Zeroheight
• Systems thinking: Build flexible scalable systems that enable rapid personalization stateful behaviors (via SDUI) and consistent handoffs. Run design audits usability tests and handson workshops to identify gaps and improve our design system health score
• Crossfunctional collaboration: Work handinhand with engineers product designers brand and accessibility teams to shape and deliver scalable UI and system adoption. Youre a champion when it comes to understanding our squads needs scaling up for them as well as hosting design system office hours to support them to raise the bar
• Governance and adoption: Define contribution processes support squads in adoption and lead design audits to raise system health and consistency
• Accessibility by default: Champion inclusive design embedding semantic labels color contrast and responsive interactions from the ground up
• Strategic : Contribute to the roadmap help drive rollout strategies and align your work with OKRs and business priorities
• Communication & storytelling: Present your work confidently influence decisions across functions and become a visible advocate for design systems.
• Squads empowerment and scalability: Drive contribution processes and support external contributors (product designers engineers) in shaping the system

Qualifications

What Did We Order

• Preferably a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts/Design/Marketing/Graphic Design Visual Communication Multimedia graphics
• 3 years of experience as a product designer with at least 2 year focused on design systems (as a contributor or dedicated DS designer)
• Strong portfolio showcasing system thinking complex component work and design that scales

Exceptional communication and collaboration skills you know how to explain your decisions build buyin and bring people along the journey

• Proven ability to work autonomously in ambiguous fastchanging environments
• Experience working in multinational or crosscultural teams; youre adaptable curious and thrive in diversity
• Strategic mindset: you balance business goals technical feasibility and design quality
• Proficient in Figma (and Figma libraries) familiar with atomic design tokens slots theming and documentation workflows
• Comfortable partnering with engineers understanding constraints and bringing components to life in code
• Working knowledge of accessibility motion principles and responsive design
• Experience with accessibility (following WCAG standards and working previously with screen readers semantic labels)
• Understanding of design system governance and success metrics

Tools/technologies/techniques

• Figma for UI/UX Design and Prototyping
• Familiar with Atomic Design
• Interest in AI design tools automation or performance measurement

Additional Information

Why Join Us

• Be part of a highimpact team shaping the future of design at scale in one of the fastestgrowing regions globally
• Own visible crosscutting work that impacts every customerfacing touchpoint across talabat
• Collaborate with a passionate diverse and fun team of designers engineers and product leaders
• Enjoy Dubais vibrant multicultural lifestyle with its mix of modernity and tradition
• Competitive compensation visa sponsorship and relocation support (if from outside the UAE)

Remote Work

No

Employment Type

Fulltime