Al Futtaim Jobs - UAE National - Graphic Designer | Retail | Dubai (Dubai, AE)

Job Requisition ID: 38237 

No two days are the same at Al-Futtaim, no matter what role you have. Our work is driven by the desire to make a difference and to have a meaningful impact with the goal of enriching everyday lives. Take our engaging and supportive work environment and couple it with a company culture that recognises and rewards quality performance, and what do you get? The chance to push the limits every single day.

 

As a humble family business that started on the banks of the Dubai Creek in the 1930s, Al-Futtaim has expanded to a presence in 31 countries, a portfolio of over 200 companies, and 42,000 employees. You’ll find us in industries ranging from automotive and retail, to finance and real estate, and connecting people with international names like Lexus, Ikea, Robinsons, and Adidas. Our team is proudly multicultural and multinational because that kind of diverse representation gives us the global mindset to grow and impact the people, markets, and trends around us.

 

Come join us to live well, work better, and be the best.

About the role:

 

As a Creative Graphic Designer, your primary mission will be to understand business requirements and transform that understanding into user-focused and intuitive interfaces, content and graphic elements for mobile, web & print.  
 

Our mission is to inspire Al-Futtaim retail customers & community to act together via awareness through our communication tools.

 

Description of the Accountability:

Responsible for delivering the appropriate Interaction design artefacts within schedule

Responsible for presenting delivered designs deliverables

Responsible for continuously including customers in the design process

 

Minimum Experience:

 

• A minimum of five years of interaction design experience; experience with responsive Web design and frameworks that incorporate strong grid principles, such as Bootstrap.
• Proven well-designed examples of responsive grid-based layouts. Strong work portfolio that demonstrates systematic and creative design thinking as well as a deep understanding of UI/UX best practices.
• Strong ability to recognize and predict use cases and user interaction, including happy path as well as edge and corner cases, and incorporate them into designs.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (the ability to effectively sell an idea).
• Deep understanding of information design / architecture, gestalt principles, and user psychology.
• Ability to manage time wisely across projects and competing priorities, meet agreed upon deadlines, and be accountable for work.
• Proficiency in graphic design, motion graphics, digital art, a sensitivity to typography, color, layout, and a general awareness of materials/textures.
• Experience in working with a cross-functional team or large-scale software development lifecycle, including waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Awareness of Accessibility, Usability and Assistive technologies.
• Experience working in Agile multi-skilled digital delivery teams.
• Proficient in Sketch, Photoshop and experience working with prototyping tools e.g. Principle.
   
  Job-Specific Skills:
   
  You would be working closely with User Experience Design, Development, other IXDs, Content, analysts and other key stakeholders, you must be a team player. Your tasks will include the creation of end to end experience, component design, handover assets, interaction design, prototypes of varied fidelity, stakeholder management.
   

• Validating ideas and designs using split A/B tests and product performance.

• Collaborating and communicating professionally with clients and internal teams.
• Designing pixel perfect mock-ups.
• Measuring recently released product features to establish benchmarks and to identify potential areas of improvement
• Working closely with CX, Research, POs and stakeholders
• Creating rapid prototypes to validate design concepts with stakeholders and customers
• Highly detailed communication of design principles + direction, as well as design specifications to engineer
   
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