Product Design Lead📣 Job Ad

About FlyAkeed

FlyAkeed is an innovative online platform established in 2017 and headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The company focuses on transforming the travel booking experience by enabling seamless flight and hotel reservations. Its mission is to simplify work-related travel planning for businesses and individuals alike. FlyAkeed is currently in its Series A funding stage, backed by investors including PIF subsidiary Sanabil Investments, Elm, Artal Capital, and Alrajhi Partners.

The Product Design Lead Role

FlyAkeed is seeking an experienced Product Design Lead to define the design vision, strategy, and execution across its product offerings. This full-time position, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, involves leading end-to-end product design processes and mentoring other designers. The role requires establishing scalable design systems and close collaboration with Product and Engineering teams to deliver user experiences. It combines hands-on product design responsibilities with leadership, aiming to drive both product quality and design excellence within the company.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and drive the overall product design strategy aligned with business goals.
• Lead end-to-end product design, from discovery and research to high-fidelity UI and production handoff.
• Mentor and support designers through coaching, feedback, and career development.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and stakeholders to shape product direction.
• Conduct user research, usability testing, and translate insights into impactful product decisions.
• Create user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and polished user interfaces.
• Build, maintain, and evolve a scalable design system.
• Ensure consistency, accessibility, and usability across all products.
• Facilitate design critiques, workshops, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Champion user-centered design and data-informed decision making.
• Leverage modern AI tools and workflows to accelerate design, validation, and implementation.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• 5+ years of experience in Product Design, UX/UI Design, or a related role.
• Proven experience leading projects or mentoring designers.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design for web and mobile applications.
• Expertise in Figma, prototyping, interaction design, design tokens, and design systems.
• Strong product thinking with the ability to balance user needs, business objectives, and technical constraints.
• Familiarity with frontend technologies (HTML, CSS, Tailwind CSS, React) and the ability to communicate effectively with engineers.
• Experience with AI-powered design-to-code workflows, including tools such as Codex, Cursor, or Claude Code.
• Hands-on experience with Storybook.
• Comfortable reviewing implementation, contributing to design quality in code, and collaborating throughout the development process.
• Excellent communication, leadership, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working in Agile product teams.

Valued Attributes

• Experience designing AI-native products or developer tools.
• Knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG) and inclusive design.
• Experience with product analytics and experimentation.
• Basic frontend development experience.
• Passion for emerging AI technologies and modern product development workflows.

Work Setting

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, within an environment that values collaborative and Agile product development. The role requires active participation in cross-functional teams to achieve product goals.