Head of Product Design

Salt; Dubai; On-site; AED 500,000 - 700,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Competitive salary

Annual leave 25 days

Parental leave

Career development

Collaborative team

Half-day Fridays

Job summary

Salt is looking for a Product Design Lead to raise the bar on product quality across its growing homeownership services and platforms. You’ll lead and grow the design function, stay hands-on with high-impact work, and shape complex workflows while evolving the design system.

You’ll collaborate with Product and Engineering to ensure cohesive, scalable experiences across web, internal tools, and mobile. The role emphasizes quality, simplicity, and scalable systems, offering opportunities to mentor

Qualifications

• 6+ years of product design experience including leading or mentoring designers.
• Track record of raising design quality and establishing strong standards across teams.
• Strong end-to-end UX skills across research, interaction design, visual design, and systems thinking.
• Experience designing complex internal tools, operational systems, or workflows.
• Ability to design service experiences across the full customer lifecycle, not just individual screens.
• A systems-oriented approach and the ability to make complex experiences clear without oversimplifying them.
• Experience building and maintaining scalable design systems.
• Comfort balancing hands-on design work with team leadership and hiring.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain design decisions to Product and Engineering partners.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement UX principles and design standards across our products and platforms.
• Own the evolution and governance of the design system.
• Design high-impact, complex workflows across critical user experiences.
• Improve the end-to-end service experience, beyond individual screens.
• Partner with Product and Engineering on discovery, usability validation, and delivery quality.
• Introduce structured user research and usability testing practices.
• Reduce design sprawl and improve consistency across web, internal tools, and mobile products.
• Establish scalable practices for design reviews, critique, and documentation.
• Support the growth of the design function through mentoring and, as the team grows, hiring.

Skills

Product design experience

Leadership

UX design

Design systems

Communication

Adaptability

Standards

Job description

Product Design Lead / Head of Product Design

Location: Dubai, UAE

The role may be scoped at Lead or Head level depending on the experience of the person appointed.

About the company

We're a growing technology-led homeownership business making the process of buying and owning a home simpler through digital products, expert guidance, and greater transparency.

Our services span mortgage solutions, homebuying support, conveyancing, finance, and partner platforms, with an expanding presence in the Saudi market. We're building a smarter, faster, and more accessible homeownership experience.

The role

We're looking for a Product Design Lead to raise the bar on product quality across our growing range of services and platforms. As our product surface area expands, we need someone who can bring cohesion, clarity, and strong design principles to everything we build.

You'll lead and grow the design function while staying hands-on with high-impact work. You'll shape complex workflows, improve service experiences, evolve our design system, and bring strong UX thinking into discovery and delivery.

This role combines design craft with leadership. You'll define what great product design looks like, help teams deliver consistently, and work closely with Product and Engineering to make better experience decisions.

If you care about quality, simplicity, and building systems that scale thoughtfully, this role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact.

What you'll own

• Define and implement UX principles and design standards across our products and platforms.
• Own the evolution and governance of the design system.
• Design high-impact, complex workflows across critical user experiences.
• Improve the end-to-end service experience, beyond individual screens.
• Partner with Product and Engineering on discovery, usability validation, and delivery quality.
• Introduce structured user research and usability testing practices.
• Reduce design sprawl and improve consistency across web, internal tools, and mobile products.
• Establish scalable practices for design reviews, critique, and documentation.
• Support the growth of the design function through mentoring and, as the team grows, hiring.

What we're looking for

• 6+ years of experience in product design, including experience leading or mentoring designers.
• A track record of raising design quality and establishing strong standards across teams.
• Strong end-to-end UX skills across research, interaction design, visual design, and systems thinking.
• Experience designing complex internal tools, operational systems, or workflows.
• The ability to design service experiences across the full customer lifecycle, not just individual screens.
• A systems-oriented approach and the ability to make complex experiences clear without oversimplifying them.
• Experience building and maintaining scalable design systems.
• Comfort balancing hands-on design work with team leadership and hiring.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain design decisions to Product and Engineering partners.
• The ability to work with ownership in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

Bonus experience

• Experience in fintech, proptech, marketplaces, or other high-consideration transactions.
• Experience designing for bilingual English and Arabic markets.
• Familiarity with user research frameworks and structured usability testing.
• Experience helping a design team grow from an early stage.

Why this role matters

As the business grows across markets, teams, and product surfaces, maintaining a clear and consistent experience becomes more important and more challenging. We're building tools that support internal teams and customer-facing experiences that need to earn trust.

You'll help bring clarity, cohesion, and strong design standards to our products, so the experience can scale thoughtfully as the business grows.

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Health insurance and other benefits.
• 25 days of annual leave, plus national holidays.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave.
• Career growth and development opportunities.
• A supportive, collaborative team environment.
• Half-day Fridays, finishing at 1 p.m.