Product Designer📣 Job Ad

About Almosafer

Almosafer Travel & Tourism Co. is a leading travel company in Saudi Arabia, serving millions across various segments of the travel and tourism ecosystem. The company's name, "Almosafer" (meaning the traveler), reflects its commitment to delivering seamless, personal, and purposeful journeys. Almosafer provides diverse platforms and services designed to offer enriching experiences that align with the spirit of Saudi Arabia and the wider region. The organization aims to be a leader in travel services, fostering connections and setting new benchmarks for excellence.

The Product Designer Role

Almosafer is seeking a Product Designer to join its team in Riyadh. This is a full-time position focused on enhancing the Digital Consumer Travel experience. The Product Designer will contribute to shaping how customers book and manage a range of travel products, including flights, accommodations, and activities. This role involves working within a cross-functional team of engineers, product managers, and other designers to translate challenges and opportunities into impactful user experiences. Success in this position requires a deep understanding of customer needs, business objectives, market trends, and system knowledge.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and understand customer needs, behaviors, and pain points to define opportunities and problem statements that guide team efforts.
• Lead and support discovery activities, such as user interviews, surveys, and usability tests, to uncover customer needs and validate opportunities.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to address customer problems and deliver effective solutions across web and mobile platforms.
• Integrate business needs, technical constraints, data insights, and platform requirements to produce valuable solutions.
• Translate opportunities into intuitive and effective experiences that provide customer and business value.
• Develop concepts and prototypes efficiently, discerning when further ideation, testing, or directional changes are necessary.
• Conduct experiments regularly to validate assumptions and optimize solutions.

Qualifications and Skills

• 2-5 years of experience in product design or a related field.
• Demonstrated understanding of product strategy and business requirements, with a focus on customer needs and pain points.
• A design thinking approach and strong problem-solving abilities, with a commitment to understanding customers, business contexts, and problems.
• Proficiency in planning and conducting research, including interviews, usability tests, and surveys, and integrating insights into the design process.
• Effective communication skills to articulate design work and convey complex concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience across the entire product design cycle, from UX research, wireframing, and prototyping to final design, implementation, and optimization.

Application Requirements

Candidates must provide an online portfolio or PDF showcasing up to three projects that best illustrate their design thinking process and the impact of their work. Applications submitted without a portfolio will not be considered.