Head of UI/UX
Roles and responsibilities
Lead the design team in creating user-centric designs across our product range, advocate for the end users, ensuring their needs drive our design decisions and contribute to exceptional digital experiences in line with developing the team.
Serve as the champion for user experience, making sure that user insights drive design decisions.
Lead and mentor a team of designers and researchers, drive the weekly meetings, and help them in understanding and advocating for the end user in every aspect of our product design.
Collaborate closely with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders, ensuring user experience considerations are integrated throughout the product development process.
Create intuitive and elegant UX solutions to user problems.
Run a user testing programme to deliver continuous improvement for the product portfolio, using data to inform design decisions.
Design all UX best practices and processes, embedding these into the team.
Prompt decision making using data and technical considerations in your thinking.
Innovation and advocacy: Keep abreast of the latest trends in user-centred design and advocate for innovative solutions that enhance user experience.
Team management
Collaborate with stakeholders to analyse their requirements and provide meaningful and intuitive designs ensuring a seamless user experience.
Develop and test prototypes, storyboards, and process flow for both new product ideas and enhancements to existing products.
Create and iterate on UI mock-ups, prototypes, and original graphic designs, incorporating user feedback and adhering to style guidelines.
Identify and resolve UX issues, conduct layout adjustments, and stay ahead with modern, agile design techniques.
Continuously engage in user research and usability testing to integrate market trends and direct user insights into design decisions.
Comply with company policies and procedures and support the company mission and vision.
Perform other job-related duties as assigned by direct manager.
Requirements
Behavioral skills
- Accountability and ownership
- Communication
- Creativity
- Innovation
- Attention to details
- Result focus (delivering results)
- Leadership
- Relationship building
- Customer focus
Technical competencies / skills
- Portfolio of design projects.
- Have ready a portfolio showcasing a range of UX/UI design projects.
- Include case studies that detail your design process, user research, problem-solving approach, and the impact of your designs.
- Highlight any projects where you played a key role in user advocacy or user-centred design solutions.
- In-depth knowledge of design software such as Adobe Suite, Sketch, Zeplin, Figma, InVision, and other prototyping tools.
- Basic understanding of front-end development technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) is a plus.
- Excellent command of English.
Education
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or related field.
Experience
8+ years of professional experience in UX/UI, with a portfolio that demonstrates a strong user-centric approach.
3+ years in a leadership role with a focus on user advocacy in design.
Benefits
- Social insurance.
- Health insurance for employee and family.
- The company will contribute up to EUR 25 per month towards staff perks.
- Benefit from our performance-based bonus scheme, in line with company policy.
- EUR equivalent salaries paid in EGP.