Al Futtaim Jobs - Interaction Designer UI/UX | Corporate Retail | Dubai,UAE (Dubai, AE)

Job Requisition ID: 127122 

Established in the 1930s as a trading business, Al-Futtaim Group today is one of the most diversified and progressive, privately held regional businesses headquartered in Dubai, United A”rab Emirates. Structured into five operating divisions; automotive, financial services, real estate, retail and healthcare; employing more than 35,000 employees across more than 20 countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, Al-Futtaim Group partners with over 200 of the world's most admired and innovative brands. Al-Futtaim Group’s entrepreneurship and relentless customer focus enables the organisation to continue to grow and expand; responding to the changing needs of our customers within the societies in which we operate. 

By upholding our values of respect, excellence, collaboration and integrity; Al-Futtaim Group continues to enrich the lives and aspirations of our customers each and every day.

 

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 Role Specific Accountabilities

 

• 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

 

About You

 

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 organization

 

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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