Al Futtaim Jobs - UX Designer | Digital Retail | Al-Futtaim Dubai (Dubai, AE)

Job Requisition ID: 105795 

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, 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:

To collect, research, investigate and evaluate user requirements. Responsibility for delivering an outstanding user experience providing an exceptional and intuitive application design. Facilitate the design of industry leading omnichannel retail services with various product teams & brands. You will marry business needs, user needs & technology to help deliver services that drives measurable value for our customers & the business.

 

Key Responsibilities:

• Plan and implement new designs.
• Optimize existing user interface designs.
• Communicate with clients to understand their business goals and objectives.
• Develop technical and business requirements.
• Combine creativity with an awareness of the design elements.
• Responsible for including appropriate user research activities at each stage of design.
• Responsible for providing & communicating actionable findings clearly from user research activities.
• Responsible for continuously including customers in the design process.
• Responsible for effective facilitation of omnichannel experience design.
• Responsible for delivering the appropriate experience design artefacts within schedule.

 

Minimum Qualifications and Knowledge:

• Able to communicate clearly at C-level & on the ground.
• Strong presentation skills.
• Strong analytical and numerical skills.
• Strong UI/UX workshop facilitation skills.
• Leadership ability, with a proven track record of managing and developing people through an organisation.

 

Minimum Experience:

6+ years’ experience in a mid/lead UI/UX role.

At least 2 years exposure to Omnichannel retail with a focus on e-commerce

 

Job-Specific Skills:

• Must be fluent in Sketch/Figma/XD or similar design software, must be familiar with responsive design best practices, graphic and visual design, interaction design and animation.
• Ability to plan, create artifact’s for & facilitate user research.
• Strong persuasive skills.
• Ability to synthesise requirements into a design artefacts and articulate design choices.
• Stakeholder management skills are must.
• Statistical analysis skills are a welcome bonus.
• A high level of customer focus and the ability to synthesis customers’ needs into actionable findings.

 

Behavioural Competencies :

• First and foremost, a great cultural fit with Al-Futtaim.
• Be an experienced team leader, capable of leading and motivating teams to achieve both business and personal objective.
• Able to work at pace with an impatience to get things done.
• Demonstration of expert control of commercial metrics and an understanding of the commercial implications of decisions and actions and competitors.
• Exceptional people and motivational skills.
• Resilient and driven, with the desire to succeed.
• Passionate about their work with a can-do attitude.
• A team player capable of working cross-functionally in a collaborative manner.
• Strong negotiation, influencing and relationship management skills, internally and externally.
• Results-orientated, with the ability to drive and deliver the implementation of new ideas.

 

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