Specialist - Product Designer

About the Company:

Almosafer (part of Seera Group) Saudi Arabia’s Leading Travel Company

 

Elevating the journey for travelers from Saudi Arabia, the region & beyond, while harnessing Seera Group’s 40+ years of expertise, Almosafer supports Saudi Arabia’s vision as a national champion for tourism. Almosafer creates opportunities for outbound, leisure, and religious travel, whilst serving B2C and B2B customers, partners, and suppliers with state-of-the-art travel solutions, a digital-first mindset, and travel advisory. 

 

About the Job: 
We are seeking a Product Designer to join our Accommodations team focusing on the Digital Consumer Travel experience. In this role you will play a key part in shaping the future of our Stays vertical, where customers come to book a diverse range of travel accommodations including hotels, apartments, and more. You will work in a cross-functional team of engineers, product managers, and other designers to turn problems and opportunities into meaningful and impactful experiences. This role requires a deep understanding of customer needs and behaviors, business objectives and market trends, and systems knowledge. 

 

Responsiblities: 

  • You will identify and understand customer needs, behaviors, and pain points and use this to define opportunities and problem statements that inform the team’s work
  • You will work in a fast-paced team of engineers, product managers, and designers to uncover customer problems and deliver impactful solutions across multiple web and mobile platforms
  • You will consider the business needs, technical constraints, data, and platform requirements in order to produce impactful and valuable solutions
  • You will creatively translate opportunities into elegant, intuitive, and effective experiences that deliver customer and business value 
  • You will rapidly and pragmatically produce concepts and prototypes, understanding when further ideation, testing, or changing directions is needed
  • You will run experiments frequently to validate your assumptions and optimize your solutions
  • You are experienced in the entire product design cycle: From UX research, wireframes and prototypes to the final design, implementation and optimization
  • Proficient in design and prototyping tools (such as Figma, Framer, Proto.io)
  • A strong visual design background with knowledge of Google Material Guidelines, Apple Human Interface Guidelines and design systems
  • Solid understanding in the field of research: interviewing users, setting up surveys and usability tests as well as interpreting the results
  • Basic knowledge and experience leveraging data and analytics to inform design decisions
  • Previous experience working e-commerce and in evidence-driven teams is a plus

 

Profile Requirements: 

  • You have 3-5 years of product design experience within a consumer focused organization and a proven record of successfully shipped mobile and web experiences
  • You demonstrate a deep understanding of product strategy and business requirements, with a strong focus on addressing customers’ needs and pain points
  • You are a design thinker and problem solver at heart, and you consistently strive to gain a deep understanding of the customers, business, and problems you are trying to solve
  • You have the necessary communication skills to tell a story about your work and communicate complex concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • You possess excellent visual design skills and are proficient in design, prototyping, and whiteboarding tools (such as Figma, Framer, Miro). You have experience working with and contributing to a design system
  • You regularly seek and give constructive feedback. You share and discuss your work openly at every stage without any “big reveals"
  • You love working with other designers and cross-functional team members and thrive on transparency and effective communication
  • You have an online portfolio or PDF you can share with us. Please include up to 3 projects that best represent your design thinking process and demonstrate the impact of your work. Applications without a portfolio will not be considered. 

 

Being you @ Almosafer:

At Almosafer we strongly believe in diversity and equal opportunities for all candidates. We do not discriminate based on any characteristic and follow fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status. Join our inclusive work environment.