Product Design Lead: AI-Driven, End-to-End UX & Systems

FlyAkeed; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 340,000; Full time

Job summary

FlyAkeed seeks an experienced Product Design Leader to define the design vision and strategy across our travel platform. You will mentor designers, create scalable design systems, and collaborate with Product and Engineering to deliver exceptional user experiences.

This role blends hands-on design with leadership to drive quality and design excellence across the company in a fast-paced Riyadh-based team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Product Design or related field.
• Proven experience leading projects or mentoring designers.
• Strong portfolio showing end-to-end product design for web and mobile.
• Expertise in Figma, prototyping, interaction design, design tokens and design systems.
• Ability to balance user needs, business goals and technical constraints.
• Familiarity with frontend technologies (HTML, CSS, Tailwind, React) and collaboration with engineers.
• Experience with AI-powered design-to-code workflows (Codex, Cursor, Claude Code).
• Hands-on with Storybook and design-quality review across development process.
• Excellent communication, leadership, presentation, and stakeholder management.
• Experience working in Agile product teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the overall product design strategy aligned with business goals.
• Lead end-to-end product design from discovery and research to high-fidelity UI and production handoff.
• Mentor and support designers through coaching, feedback, and career development.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineers, and stakeholders to shape product direction.
• Conduct user research, usability testing, and translate insights into actionable decisions.
• Create user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and polished interfaces.
• Build, maintain, and evolve a scalable design system.
• Ensure consistency, accessibility, and usability across products.
• Facilitate design critiques and cross-functional collaboration.
• Champion user-centered design and data-informed decisions.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate design, validation, and implementation.

Skills

Product design

UX/UI design

Mentoring designers

Figma

Prototyping

Design systems

Design tokens

Frontend familiarity

AI-powered design

Storybook

Agile

Leadership

Communication

Tools

Figma

Storybook

Codex/Cursor/Claude Code

React

Job description

FlyAkeed seeks an experienced Product Design Leader to define the design vision and strategy across our travel platform. You will mentor designers, create scalable design systems, and collaborate with Product and Engineering to deliver exceptional user experiences.

This role blends hands-on design with leadership to drive quality and design excellence across the company in a fast-paced Riyadh-based team.