Sr. Product Designer - Design System

Role Summary

We are on a mission to become one of the strongest “Experience first” companies in the region, and we need a  Senior Product Designer to champion the cause. As a Product Designer, you’ll join our passionate, fast-paced  Design System team and help create a modular, inclusive system of patterns and guidelines which support all  talabat’s customer-facing products (web/mobile). The ideal candidate will have a passion for creating and maintaining design systems, and helping product designers apply them across talabat apps and platforms to create consistently delightful user experiences. Additionally, you’ll be a part of interesting product-based projects when needed. 

We're looking for a Senior Product Designer – Design Systems to join our growing Design Experience group in Dubai. You’ll help drive the evolution of Marshmallow, talabat’s cross-platform design system, enabling consistency, accessibility, personalization, and speed across all our app.

As a Senior Product Designer on the Design System team, you’ll lead initiatives independently, think systemically, and scale your impact beyond your immediate team by collaborating closely with engineers, designers, product managers, and brand experts. This is a unique opportunity for a designer who thrives in fast-paced, cross-functional environments and knows how to build not just components, but scalable systems.

What’s On Your Plate?

• Design system evolution: Lead the expansion and refinement of our component library, foundations, tokens, and interaction patterns across mobile

• Figma mastery & documentation: Manage our libraries with precision, structure component variants and slots, delivering high-quality documentation through Zeroheight

• Systems thinking: Build flexible, scalable systems that enable rapid personalization, stateful behaviors (via SDUI), and consistent handoffs. Run design audits, usability tests, and hands-on workshops to identify gaps and improve our design system health score

• Cross-functional collaboration: Work hand-in-hand with engineers, product designers, brand, and accessibility teams to shape and deliver scalable UI and system adoption. You’re a champion when it comes to understanding our squads’ needs, scaling up for them, as well as hosting design system office hours to support them to raise the bar

• Governance and adoption: Define contribution processes, support squads in adoption, and lead design audits to raise system health and consistency

• Accessibility by default: Champion inclusive design, embedding semantic labels, color contrast, and responsive interactions from the ground up

• Strategic execution: Contribute to the roadmap, help drive rollout strategies, and align your work with OKRs and business priorities

• Communication & storytelling: Present your work confidently, influence decisions across functions, and become a visible advocate for design systems.

• Squads empowerment and scalability: Drive contribution processes and support external contributors (product designers, engineers) in shaping the system 

What Did We Order?

• Preferably a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts/Design/Marketing/Graphic Design, Visual Communication,  Multimedia graphics

• 3+ years of experience as a product designer, with at least 2+ year focused on design systems (as a contributor or dedicated DS designer)

• Strong portfolio showcasing system thinking, complex component work, and design that scales

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• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, you know how to explain your decisions, build buy-in, and bring people along the journey

• Proven ability to work autonomously in ambiguous, fast-changing environments

• Experience working in multinational or cross-cultural teams; you’re adaptable, curious, and thrive in diversity

• Strategic mindset: you balance business goals, technical feasibility, and design quality

• Proficient in Figma (and Figma libraries), familiar with atomic design, tokens, slots, theming, and documentation workflows

• Comfortable partnering with engineers, understanding constraints and bringing components to life in code

• Working knowledge of accessibility, motion principles, and responsive design

• Experience with accessibility (following WCAG standards and working previously with screen readers semantic labels) 

• Understanding of design system governance and success metrics
   

Tools/technologies/techniques:

• Figma for UI/UX Design and Prototyping
• Familiar with Atomic Design
• Interest in AI design tools, automation, or performance measurement

Since launching in Kuwait in 2004, talabat, the leading on-demand food and Q-commerce app for everyday deliveries, has been offering convenience and reliability to its customers. talabat’s local roots run deep, offering a real understanding of the needs of the communities we serve in eight countries across the region.

We harness innovative technology and knowledge to simplify everyday life for our customers, optimize operations for our restaurants and local shops,  and provide our riders with reliable earning opportunities daily.

At talabat, we foster an innovative environment where our talabaty employees can strive to create a positive impact across the region through the use of our platform.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a high-impact team shaping the future of design at scale in one of the fastest-growing regions globally

• Own visible, cross-cutting work that impacts every customer-facing touchpoint across talabat

• Collaborate with a passionate, diverse, and fun team of designers, engineers, and product leaders

• Enjoy Dubai’s vibrant, multicultural lifestyle with its mix of modernity and tradition

• Competitive compensation, visa sponsorship, and relocation support (if from outside the UAE)