Senior Product/UI Designer_ Arab📣 إعلان

About the Role

Astek Middle East is seeking a Senior Product/UI Designer to join our team in Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves taking ownership of the visual design language across our digital products. The designer will collaborate closely with UX Researchers, Product Managers, and Front-End Engineers to translate user needs, research insights, and product requirements into intuitive, accessible, and on-brand digital experiences.

This is a hands-on position for a designer who combines strong visual and UI craft with product thinking, understanding how design decisions impact users and business outcomes. The successful candidate will be responsible for guiding designs from early concepts through to developer-ready implementation.

Key Responsibilities

• Design high-fidelity UI for web and mobile products, from wireframes to final developer-ready screens using Figma.
• Build interactive micro-prototypes to demonstrate interactions, animations, transitions, and component behavior prior to development handoff.
• Own, build, and continuously evolve the design system, including components, patterns, design tokens, documentation, and governance.
• Translate UX research, user journeys, and flows into clear, consistent, and intuitive visual experiences.
• Partner with UX Researchers and Product Managers to ensure designs address user needs and business objectives.
• Collaborate with Front-End Engineers to ensure a high level of design fidelity in the final product.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and sprint reviews.
• Present and defend design decisions to both design and non-design stakeholders, using user insights and data to support recommendations.
• Incorporate feedback from usability testing, stakeholder reviews, and product teams into design iterations.
• Maintain strong attention to typography, layout, color, visual hierarchy, interaction design, and accessibility.
• Stay updated with UI/UX trends, accessibility standards, and platform guidelines across Web, iOS, and Android.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Experience: 5–6 years of relevant professional experience in Product/UI Design, ideally within a product-led, SaaS, or technology environment.
• Portfolio: A strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end UI design work, including the reasoning behind design decisions and their impact on users and business outcomes.
• Design Systems: Proven experience building and maintaining design systems at scale.
• Agile Environment: Experience working within Agile, cross-functional product teams.
• Figma Expertise: Expert-level Figma skills, including component architecture, Auto Layout, variants, variables/tokens, and scalable file structures.
• Prototyping: Strong experience creating interactive prototypes and micro-interactions in Figma or tools such as ProtoPie.
• Visual Design: Strong understanding of visual design fundamentals, including typography, layout, color, spacing, and visual hierarchy.
• Interaction Design: Strong understanding of interaction design, responsive design, and micro-interactions.
• Accessibility: Working knowledge of WCAG/accessibility standards.
• Front-End Awareness: Understanding of front-end constraints; basic knowledge of HTML/CSS is advantageous.
• Communication: Comfortable presenting, explaining, and defending design decisions using user research and data.

Desired Attributes

• Experience designing for Arabic RTL and English LTR interfaces.
• Knowledge of Saudi DGA standards, regulations, or Digital Maturity metrics.
• Experience with motion/prototyping tools such as ProtoPie or After Effects.
• Basic understanding of front-end frameworks such as React.
• Experience designing products for both Web and mobile platforms.

Role Impact and Contributions

• Deliver polished and user-friendly digital experiences that are consistent across platforms.
• Help establish and continuously improve a scalable design system that supports product growth.
• Ensure a smooth transition from design concepts to high-quality final implementation in collaboration with engineering teams.
• Create design solutions that balance user needs, product objectives, and business priorities.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia, offering an opportunity to contribute to digital product development within a collaborative team environment.