Head of Product Design & Design Systems

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

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