UI/UX Designer

About The Role We are looking for a UI/UX Designer who is fast and precise in Figma, and understands enough front-end to design things that engineers can actually build. You will own screens end to end, from problem framing through to hand-off and QA against the live build.

What You Will Do

• Design end-to-end flows and interfaces for government digital services across web and mobile, in Arabic and English.
• Translate research, service blueprints, and stakeholder requirements into wireframes, prototypes, and production-ready UI.
• Build and maintain components in the Dubai Design System, and contribute patterns back to it rather than designing one-offs.
• Prototype interactions in Figma to communicate motion, state, and edge cases to developers and stakeholders.
• Work directly with front-end engineers through hand-off, implementation, and QA review of the built product.
• Design to WCAG 2.2 AA from the start, covering contrast, target sizes, focus states, keyboard paths, and screen reader behaviour.
• Present and defend design decisions to stakeholders across government entities.

Figma (essential) What we are looking for

• Expert-level: auto layout, variables and modes, component properties, variants, nested instances, and constraints.
• Comfortable building and consuming a shared library rather than only working in local files.
• Clean, well-named, well-structured files that another designer can pick up without a walkthrough.

Front-end Understanding (strongly Preferred)

• Solid grasp of HTML semantics and CSS: the box model, flexbox, grid, responsive breakpoints, and how design tokens map to CSS variables.
• Understands component-based front-end thinking (props, states, composition) and can read a component's implementation to see why something behaves the way it does.
• Knows the cost of a design decision before proposing it, and can talk to engineers in their terms.
• Bonus: has built and shipped something themselves, however small.

Design taste

• A portfolio showing strong typography, spacing, hierarchy, and restraint, not just tidy wireframes.
• Can explain why a design works, not only that it looks good.
• Attention to craft at the pixel level, with judgement about when that level of detail matters.

Ways of working

• Handles ambiguity and shifting requirements without stalling.
• Communicates clearly in writing and in presentations.
• Takes feedback from stakeholders who are not designers and turns it into the underlying problem.

Nice to have

• Arabic and English bilingual design experience, including RTL layout and Arabic typography.
• Experience designing within or contributing to a large design system.
• Public sector or large-scale enterprise product experience.
• Accessibility work beyond compliance checklists, such as assistive technology testing.
• Familiarity with design tokens tooling, Storybook, or version-controlled hand-off workflows