Head of Design

Ziina; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Ziina in Dubai seeks a Head of Design to own the vision, lead a growing design team, and craft end-to-end user experiences across fintech products. You’ll sit at the intersection of product, engineering, and brand, shaping how people interact with money in a region underserved for too long.

You will help the organization scale by maturing design systems, shipping bold features, and influencing leadership with data-driven insight and AI-enabled design

Qualifications

• Lead and grow design teams in a fast-scaling product environment (fintech, consumer tech, or similar).
• Exceptional designer who can show the work, not just talk about it.
• Think in systems and outcomes, linking design decisions to user behavior and business results.
• Ship 0-1 products and navigate from nothing to launch.
• Communicate with clarity and influence with founders, engineers, and stakeholders.
• Build design systems that scale and get adopted.

Responsibilities

• Build and grow a high-performing design team. Coach designers, raise the bar on craft, and create paths for progression.
• Set the design vision and translate strategy into products that drive acquisition, activation and retention.
• Lead end-to-end design on major bets, from concept to launch, actively designing.
• Turn user insight into product decisions by building feedback loops for the roadmap.
• Scale design without dilution by maturing the design system and reducing debt.
• Be a strategic voice in the room and influence product and leadership decisions with data and AI/automation.

Job description

The Role

Design at Ziina isn’t decoration. It’s how we make money feel simple, human, and unmistakably ours - for millions of people across a region that’s been underserved for too long.

We’re looking for a Head of Design to own that. A leader who sets the vision and keeps their hands on the work. This is a player-coach role: you’ll build and grow the design team, and you’ll design. If you want to lead purely from a distance, this isn’t the right role.

You’ll sit where product, engineering, and brand meet, shaping how people experience their money every day. You’ll inherit a growing team, an expanding product ecosystem, and a clear mandate - make design one of Ziina’s sharpest competitive advantages.

As a Product Designer at Ziina you will:

• Build and grow a high-performing team. Coach designers, raise the bar on craft, and create real paths for people to progress. Great design is a team sport, and you’re building the team.

• Set the design vision - and make it count. Turn strategy into products that move what matters: acquisition, activation, retention. Design here is measured by the difference it makes.

• Lead design end-to-end on our biggest bets. From 0-1 concept to launch, hands-on, especially on new products and features.

• Turn user insight into product decisions. Build feedback loops that sharpen the roadmap and cut rework before it starts.

• Scale design without diluting it. Mature the design system, clear design debt, and speed up how fast we ship quality work as the company grows.

• Be a strategic voice in the room. Influence product and leadership decisions with clear thinking and evidence, and lead where AI and automation give us an edge.

To succeed in this role, you likely:

• Have led and grown design teams in a fast-scaling product environment - fintech, consumer tech, or similar.

• Are still an exceptional designer yourself. You can show the work, not only talk about it.

• Think in systems and in outcomes. You connect design decisions to user behaviour and business results.

• Have shipped 0-1 products and know the messy reality of taking something from nothing to launch.

• Communicate with clarity and influence. You hold your own with founders, engineers, and a room full of stakeholders.

• Build design systems that scale and actually get adopted.

What would amaze us:Deep experience designing consumer financial or payments products.

• A track record of using AI or automation to lift the quality or speed of design work.

• A portfolio that shows the impact of your work, not only the beauty of it.