Senior UX/UI Designer

confidential; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative tech company in Riyadh is seeking a product designer with over 5 years of experience to lead user journey design across web and mobile platforms. The ideal candidate has expert skills in Figma, a solid portfolio demonstrating design capabilities, and a passion for user research and iterative design. This role involves mentoring fellow designers and ensuring rigorous design standards are met.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product design experience, with a strong portfolio.
• Proficient in Figma, including wireframing and prototyping.
• Experience running user research and usability testing.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of user journeys and wireframes for various platforms.
• Run user research activities and convert findings into actionable improvements.
• Collaborate with engineering to ensure design fidelity.

Skills

Product design experience

Expert proficiency in Figma

Visual design skills

User research experience

Strong communication skills

Tools

Figma

Jira

Confluence

HTML/CSS

Job description

Overview

In this role you will be responsible for:

• Lead the design of user journeys, wireframes, high-fidelity UI mockups and interactive prototypes for websites, web applications and mobile apps.
• Own and grow a component-based design system (tokens, components, patterns) to ensure visual and interaction consistency across product and marketing surfaces.
• Run user research activities (interviews, usability tests, guerrilla testing) and convert findings into actionable product improvements.
• Produce responsive designs that solve for desktop, tablet and mobile breakpoints, and ensure a strong mobile experience.
• Create pixel-perfect designs and handoff artifacts (specs, annotations, assets) for engineering; collaborate closely through implementation to ensure fidelity.
• Facilitate and present design reviews, workshops, and design critiques with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Define and track usability metrics; iterate on flows based on analytics and qualitative feedback.
• Ensure accessibility (WCAG) best practices are followed and champion inclusive design across the product.
• Mentor mid/junior designers and help raise the team’s craft and process.

Skills

What background do I need for this job?

• 5+ years professional product design experience, with a strong portfolio demonstrating work across websites, web apps and mobile apps.
• Expert proficiency in Figma — wireframing, prototyping and component libraries.
• Strong visual design, interaction design and information architecture skills.
• Proven experience building or maintaining a design system and component libraries.
• Solid experience running user research and usability testing; able to synthesize qualitative and quantitative insights.
• Familiarity with HTML/CSS and a pragmatic understanding of frontend implementation constraints.
• Experience working in agile teams and using tools such as Jira / Confluence.
• Strong communication skills — able to present design rationale and influence stakeholders.
• Demonstrable experience designing for accessibility and performance.
• Portfolio required — please include case studies that show problem, process, decisions and outcomes.

Nice to have

• Experience designing SaaS products, admin consoles or complex workflows (document editors, signing flows, dashboards).
• Experience with design ops (design tokens, automated linting, Figma plugins).
• Experience designing for regulated industries or trust/security products.
• Background working with developers on React / component-driven frontends.