Senior UI Designer
(AE 25/008)

We’re looking for a Senior UI Designer to join our team and help shape standout digital experiences. Reporting to the Head of Design, you’ll bring user-centred thinking and a sharp eye for detail to everything you create. Working closely with the rest of the team, you’ll define the look and feel of our digital products, turning complex ideas into clean, intuitive interfaces. You’ll have the freedom to lead your work with confidence and the support to keep growing your craft.

• Collaboration like a pro – Work in a cross-functional team of talented designers and engineers. You will play a vital role in the wider design team, providing the components, guidelines and standards that they will adopt.
• Design thinking – Have a good understanding of design thinking tools and methodologies. What makes a senior designer, senior, is the understanding of user  journeys, problem/solution context and technology.
• Design details – Create pixel perfect designs and detailed specifications for components, patterns, interactions and behaviours. Work together with the UX team to define interaction and animation.
• Guide – Help define and uphold design standards, guidelines and best practices across the Gravitas Team, not just the junior members.
• Systematic – Comprehensive understanding of developing, managing and growing design libraries and systems. And how to take them further than Sketch.
• Get stuck in – You enjoy rolling up the sleeves and getting your hands dirty. Doing and thinking is a part of everyone’s job at Gravitas. You lead by example, not by words.
• Be brave – don’t be afraid to break out from the process, break away from the status quo and find new ways of doing things. Mould processes and techniques around the needs of the client (and the project).
• Think Holistic – Have the skills and techniques needed to support and balance team recommendations with research, analytics, usability testing, customer insights and other quantitative/qualitative insights as appropriate to advance ideas forward.
• Lead by example – Be a leader, example and inspiration for the Experience Design & Strategy function at Gravitas to inspire and commit teams to long-term client success.
• Problem solving – You think outside the box and you highlight possible solutions, not just the problems.
• Be curious – try to understand the way things work and why. Have bold (feasible) ideas and share them. And listen to what others have to say too.
• Award winning – Be ready to win awards, clients and media interest as a result of your ideas, leadership and brilliant executions.
• Mentorship – Mentor and support junior members by reviewing/supporting work, coordinating workloads and working closely with the Project Management Office.
• Storytelling – Be able to tell a good story and structure an argument well. Design and think with reason and logic. But also understand you are only 1 point of view.
• Always growing – A strong creative thinker is always at the fore-front of the latest best practices and trends. You stay abreast of innovations in best practices, tools and topics of interest to the design community and help infuse them back into the team.

You’re comfortable to work with remote teams.

• Have a minimum of 7 years of professional experience.
• Hold excellent written and spoken English. Arabic is a plus.
• Experience with and passion for modular design, systems and technology.
• Ability to articulate design decisions and the value of design systems to our internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience working across websites, mobile applications and wearables. AR & VR a plus.
• Experience working on adaptive and responsible interfaces. And understand the difference between the two.
• Strong client presentation and visual communication style, excellent verbal and written skills mandatory. Be able to form and tell a good story.
• Strong client management skills with the ability to balance scope, brand objectives and user goals.
• Able to differentiate between “leadership” and “management”.
• Have a sense of responsibility, ownership and accountability towards the rest of the team.
• Comfortable working with tight deadlines across multiple projects and clients all the while keeping your A-game.
• Have excellent time management skills.
• Have natural curiosity to understand the “why”. Ask questions, be able to form a point of view and be able to defend it.
• Excellent team working and collaboration skills.
• Be eager to learn from the whole team. No matter the seniority, everyone has something to learn, and something to teach others.
• Financial services experience is a plus, preferably in banking.
• Working knowledge and experience of Agile methodologies such as SCRUM, SaFe & Kanban is a must. Along with the respectful ceremonies.
• Have some understanding of front-end technologies and their capabilities. You don’t have to be an expert but you should understand how they impact the overall project and work. And be able to adapt your approach accordingly.
• Hold a strong portfolio of work across a variety of clients, including enterprise level projects (large scale, multiple stakeholders, long term). Please include a link to your portfolio with the application.

Bonus Points

• Experience with AI projects? Awesome.
• Financial services or banking projects? Great.
• Creative thinking and strategic? Even better.

This role is based in Dubai, with occasional travel within the UAE and GCC (for workshops, kick-offs, and client collabs).

• Sketch
• Slack
• Abstract / Zeplin
• Marvel
• Jira & Confluence
• Figma
• Miro Boards (Real Time Boards)
• No need to mention MacOS, Microsoft Suite and Adobe CC are a given.

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