Visual Design Lead – UAE Relocation

Axiom Recruit; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 260,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Hybrid work

Health insurance

Life cover

28+ days leave

Job summary

Axiom is hiring a Visual Design Lead to shape the creative direction of an AI-native financial platform. You will define how the product looks, feels, and moves, and create visual language and systems that influence the organisation.

The role demands exceptional craft, a distinctive point of view, and a portfolio that stands out. You’ll lead a design team and drive high-impact product moments in a hybrid setting.

Qualifications

• Exceptional visual design ability with attention to detail.
• A distinctive creative perspective beyond current trends.
• Strong experience across product UI, illustration, motion, and interaction design.
• Ability to build a cohesive visual identity across multiple touchpoints.
• Experience setting and scaling visual direction across a wider team.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the visual direction across all digital products.
• Create a distinctive visual language across typography, colour, imagery, motion, and interaction.
• Turn standout concepts into scalable systems used across product experiences.
• Use AI tools to accelerate exploration, experimentation, and production.
• Art-direct the wider design team and set the quality benchmark for ships.
• Remain hands-on, leading key screens, launches, and signature moments.

Skills

Visual design

Typography

Color theory

Illustration

Motion design

Interaction design

UI design

Creative direction

AI tools

Job description

Axiom is hiring a Visual Design Lead to shape the creative direction of an ambitious, AI-native financial platform.

This is a rare opportunity for a design leader with exceptional craft, a distinctive point of view, and a portfolio that immediately stands out. You’ll have the freedom to define how the product looks, feels, and moves, while creating the visual language and systems that will influence the entire organisation.

The Company

Our client is a fast-growing, technology-led organisation reimagining how modern digital financial products should be designed and experienced.

Design is central to the business—not simply a final layer. The team is building new products from the ground up, combining global design standards, regional insight, modern technology, and AI-enabled ways of working.

What You’ll Do

• Own and continually evolve the visual direction across all digital products.
• Create a distinctive visual language across typography, colour, imagery, motion, and interaction.
• Turn standout creative concepts into scalable systems used across multiple product experiences.
• Use AI tools to accelerate exploration, experimentation, and production.
• Art-direct the wider design team and set the quality benchmark for everything that ships.
• Remain hands‑on, leading key screens, launches, and signature product moments.

What We’re Looking For

• Exceptional visual design ability with outstanding attention to detail and polish.
• A distinctive creative perspective that goes beyond current trends.
• Strong experience across product UI, illustration, motion, and interaction design.
• The ability to build a cohesive visual identity across multiple touchpoints.
• Proven experience setting and scaling a visual direction across a wider team.
• An AI-native, collaborative mindset and the confidence to challenge average work and raise the creative standard.

Why This Opportunity?

• Competitive tax-free salary and comprehensive benefits package.
• Full relocation support for you and dependents (visa, flights, settling in)
• Hybrid working from a regional HQ alongside global tech and fintech talent
• Premium healthcare and life cover for you and your family
• 28+ days leave and a strong lifestyle base in a safe, multicultural, tech-forward city with easy global connectivity
• Opportunity to work at the intersection of AI, backend engineering, and large-scale distributed systems