Product Designer (UI/UX)

Private Advertiser; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Git-based handoff

Jira coordination

Shared design library

Job summary

Private Advertiser in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is seeking a product designer to own design systems, component libraries, and developer handoff for a multilingual, inclusive product. You will prototype rapidly using AI tools and validate ideas with real users and engineers.

Ideal candidates have 2–4 years of shipping mobile/web products, a strong portfolio, and experience designing for non-expert users across BM and English, with a focus on accessibility and responsive behavior.

Qualifications

• Minimum formal education in Design, HCI or related field or an outstanding portfolio.
• 2–4 years of product design experience with shipped mobile/web products.
• Evidence of designing for non-expert or underserved users.
• Experience collaborating with engineers, including handoff and review.

Responsibilities

• Own design system delivery from components to tokens and developer handoff.
• Run lightweight usability tests and feed findings into the roadmap.
• Collaborate with Marketing to ensure brand consistency inside the product.

Skills

Usability testing

Accessibility

Bilingual design

Portfolio

Collaboration with engineers

Education

Design, HCI or related field

Tools

Figma

React

React Native

Tailwind CSS

Next.js

Lovable

Cursor

Claude Cowork

Job description

• Own the worker and employer journeys end to end: onboarding, job discovery, booking, QR attendance, ratings, payout and profile.
• Design for inclusion as a first-class constraint - low literacy, older users, accessibility for persons with disabilities, bilingual Bahasa Malaysia and English, low bandwidth and low-specification devices.
• Design the trust surfaces: how a reliability score is explained, how a worker appeals an automated decision, and how ratings are presented honestly rather than flatteringly.

Design system and delivery

• Build and maintain a component library and design tokens that map directly onto the engineering stack, so that what is designed in Figma is what gets built in React.
• Deliver developer-ready specifications covering states, edge cases, error and empty states, and responsive behaviour.

Research and validation

• Run lightweight usability testing with real workers and real employers every cycle and feed findings into the roadmap with the Product Owner.
• Prototype quickly and kill weak ideas before they reach engineering.

Brand expression

• Work with Marketing to express the brand consistently inside the product, not only in campaigns.

MINIMUM ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS

Education

• Degree or diploma in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design or a related field - or a portfolio strong enough to make the question irrelevant.

Work Experience

• 2 to 4 years of product design experience, with a portfolio of shipped mobile and web products rather than concept work.
• Evidence of designing for non-expert or underserved users, not solely for polished B2B software audiences.
• Demonstrated use of AI design and prototyping tooling within a production workflow.
• Has worked directly and iteratively with engineers, including handling handoff and implementation review.

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

Craft and tooling

• Figma to a professional standard: components, variants, auto-layout, variables and tokens, prototyping and developer handoff.
• AI design tooling for generation, variation and asset production at volume.
• Familiarity with AI prototyping platforms such as Lovable, and with Cursor or Claude Cowork for turning a design into a testable prototype without waiting on engineering.

Systems and implementation awareness

• Design systems: construction, documentation and governance over time.
• Working understanding of React, React Native and Tailwind CSS - enough to design in components rather than in pictures, and to know what is cheap and what is expensive to build.
• Interaction design and information architecture; native mobile patterns for both iOS and Android.

Research and accessibility

• Usability testing methods - able to run, moderate and synthesise a session without a dedicated researcher.
• Accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA) and their practical application on mobile.

Context

• Bilingual design sensibility across Bahasa Malaysia and English, including copy-length and legibility implications.

TOOLS & WORKING ENVIRONMENT

• Design: Figma (components, variables, prototyping, dev mode), FigJam.
• AI tooling: Claude Cowork, Lovable, Cursor and equivalent generative design and prototyping tools.
• Implementation context: React, React Native, Tailwind CSS, Next.js.
• Delivery: Jira, Git-based design handoff, shared component library with engineering.