Product Design Lead - AI Prototyping & Design System

Malaa Technologies; Municipality of Al Shamal; On-site; SAR 250,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Malaa Technologies in Riyadh is seeking a Product Design Lead to own the design function across the product suite. You will define quality, build a unified design system, and shape a growing design team while collaborating closely with engineering on implementable solutions.

You will prototype quickly using AI design tools alongside Figma, ensure user-friendly, compliant flows, and mentor junior designers as the product scales in a regulated financial environment.

Qualifications

• Three or more years in product design, with at least two years as the most senior designer on a live consumer product, ideally in financial services or another regulated domain.
• Evidence of all three: a product or flow you designed that shipped and moved a number, a design system you built or materially improved, and something you simplified or removed.
• Experience managing or formally mentoring at least one designer.
• Strong command of Figma and of current AI design and prototyping tools, with working prototypes you can show.
• Fluency in Arabic and English, and a strong sense of bilingual and right to left interface design.

Responsibilities

• The quality bar. Every customer facing screen goes through you. You define what good looks like for a regulated financial product used by people who are often investing for the first time: clear, calm, trustworthy, and simple where the underlying rules are not.
• The design system. One system across the mobile app, the web and internal tools, built and maintained in Figma and matched to what engineers implement. You reduce the number of ways we do the same thing.
• The people. Goals, feedback, growth and regular one to ones. As the team grows, you hire and shape it.
• The process. Design is shared across the product function. You decide how design work is requested, prioritised and delivered so that product managers get what they need without design becoming the bottleneck.
• Discovery and prototyping. Before a specification, a prototype. You build clickable versions quickly, test them with customers and with the team, and let evidence, not opinion, settle design debates.
• Simplifying. Each quarter you remove something: a redundant flow, an inconsistent component, a screen that exists for historical reasons. Shipping less that works well is part of the role.
• Regulated flows. Onboarding, KYC, disclosures, risk warnings and consent are designed as product. You work with compliance early and make the required feel effortless.

Skills

Product design

Mentoring

Bilingual (Arabic/English)

Cross-functional collaboration

User research

Tools

Figma

AI design tools

Job description

Malaa Technologies in Riyadh is seeking a Product Design Lead to own the design function across the product suite. You will define quality, build a unified design system, and shape a growing design team while collaborating closely with engineering on implementable solutions.

You will prototype quickly using AI design tools alongside Figma, ensure user-friendly, compliant flows, and mentor junior designers as the product scales in a regulated financial environment.