Staff Product Designer

Who Are We

HALA is a leading fintech player in the MENAP region that aims to redefine financial services and build the future bank of SMEs. HALA aims at empowering SMEs to start, run, and grow their businesses by providing them with cutting-edge financial and technological tools.

HALA currently holds multiple entities in UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt (including HALA Payments, HALA Cashier and HALA Logistics) and offers solutions that enable merchants to digitize their payments as well as manage their sales and operations.

Founded in 2017, HALA is currently duly licensed by the Saudi Arabian Central Bank as well as the Financials Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) in Abu Dhabi Global Market.

Overview

We’re looking for a seasoned Senior Product Designer to join our growing team at Hala, this role is a prime opportunity for someone eager to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment, who loves working independently but also being part of a collaborative team, relishes a challenge, and aims to significantly impact a growing suite of products. 

Are you a holistic product designer comfortable working end-to-end, from idea inception to completion? Come join the Hala team! 

What You’ll Be Doing

• Collaborative - Partnering with product managers, senior leadership, engineering, design, and other teams. Together, you will be involved in designing & shipping features across the entire product.
• Working across the entire product life cycle, from idea to ship.
• Articulate - Communicating your vision and designs effectively by presenting your work to key stakeholders.
• Accountable - Taking accountability for high design quality and contributing to the design team’s culture and growth through knowledge sharing to ensure we drive quality forward
• Inquisitive—Build domain knowledge by speaking to internal experts, monitoring feedback channels, speaking with users, and reviewing usage and data. Set up, run, and synthesise learnings from user research studies and benchmarking to help inform what use cases and improvements we should focus on.
• Simplifying—Turning complexity into simplicity in a beautiful solution that truly solves customer needs requires deeply understanding our users' problems and the capabilities of current technology.
• Meticulous—Design and prototype interfaces to make our product simple and elegant while taking care of every small detail. This role could involve quickly building lightweight prototypes to explore interaction patterns or an idea, or building complex prototypes.
  
  

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of professional experience in a product design role.
• Exceptional visual and user interface design skills, grounded in user-centred design principles.
• Strong Design Thinking and UX experience. 
• Experience working across iOS, Android and Web is a must.
• A portfolio that covers UX case studies, not just end screens. 
• Strong sense of consistency, colour, typography, and an eye for detail. And you’ve worked with design systems to produce beautiful and functional design that scales
• Ability to grasp complex issues and distil them into clear, focused solutions for our partners and customers.
• Effectively communicate product direction even under tight deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills, coolness under pressure, creative problem-solving, attention to detail, and a passion for design.
• You can take work from inception to completion. 
• Self-starter with a proactive approach.
• Comfortable thriving in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Comfortable presenting work, articulating design decisions, and rationale
• Experience mentoring and leading designers
• Speaking Arabic is a significant plus, but it is not vital.

• We have an inclusive and diverse culture that encourages innovation and flexibility in remote, in-office, and hybrid work setups.
• We offer highly competitive compensation packages, including the potential for shares.
• We prioritize personal development and offer regular training and an annual learning stipend to tackle new challenges and grow your career in a hyper-growth environment.
• Join a talented team of over 30 nationalities working in 7 countries and gain valuable experience in an exciting industry.
• We offer autonomy, mentoring, and challenging goals that create incredible opportunities for both you and the company.
• You will be given a lot of responsibility and trust. We believe that the best results come when the people responsible for a function are given the freedom to do what they think is best.