Whiteshield
UX Design Lead
- Permanent
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 2 - 5 yrs
Job expiry date: 19/04/2026
Job overview
Date posted
05/03/2026
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 20,000 - 30,000 per month
Compensation
Comprehensive package
Experience
2 - 5 yrs
Seniority
Senior & Lead
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
19/04/2026
Job description
Whiteshield is a global advisory firm working at the intersection of policy, data, and technology, helping governments navigate economic transformation, education, employment, and innovation challenges by building products that improve lives. The UX Design Lead (Immediate Start) plays a central role in shaping how complexity is translated into clarity through design across mobile applications, large public-facing citizen platforms, government portals and digital services, and data-rich dashboards and decision-support tools. The role sets and evolves the design language across mobile and web environments, raises the bar for visual design, interaction design, and overall user experience, and ensures cohesion across a growing product ecosystem without sacrificing creativity. The position leads user research and design sprints to understand diverse users including citizens, students, jobseekers, policymakers, businesses, and institutions, and translates complex policy, data, and services into intuitive, human-centered journeys that are accessible and culturally relevant across regions. Working closely with product, engineering, and policy teams, the UX Design Lead takes ideas from concept to launch, champions design as a strategic function, mentors designers, and drives consistency in design systems, components, patterns, and responsive layouts while maintaining high standards of UX Design and Visual Design in a hybrid, outcome-driven environment.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Set and evolve the design language across mobile applications, web platforms, and large-scale public-facing citizen platforms, ensuring consistency, cohesion, and high visual quality across all Whiteshield products
- Lead UX Design and Interaction Design initiatives across government portals, digital services, data-rich dashboards, and decision-support tools, translating complex policy and data systems into intuitive, human-centered user journeys
- Conduct user research and facilitate design sprints to deeply understand diverse user groups including citizens, students, jobseekers, policymakers, businesses, and institutions, and convert insights into clear product experiences
- Design mobile application design and web design solutions using structured design systems, components, patterns, and responsive layouts that maintain accessibility and cultural relevance across regions
- Partner closely with product, engineering, and policy teams to move concepts from early ideation through prototyping to polished execution and successful launch
- Raise the bar for overall experience quality by driving excellence in Visual Design, Interaction Design, and usability standards across the entire product ecosystem
- Guide and mentor designers to strengthen UX Design craft, design systems thinking, and confidence while embedding best practices in human-centered design
- Communicate design decisions clearly and persuasively to cross-functional stakeholders and champion design as a strategic function within multidisciplinary teams
Experience & skills
- Present a portfolio demonstrating strong Visual Design, thoughtful UX Design, clear problem-solving capability, and successful delivery of mobile products and large-scale platforms
- Demonstrate experience designing both mobile application design and large-scale web platforms including citizen platforms, government digital services, dashboards, or decision-support tools
- Show proficiency in thinking in systems including design systems, components, patterns, and responsive layouts to ensure scalable and cohesive user experiences
- Apply structured user research and design sprints methodologies to translate complex policy, data, and service environments into intuitive, human-centered design solutions
- Exhibit strong cross-functional collaboration skills with product, engineering, and policy teams to deliver end-to-end UX Design from concept to launch
- Demonstrate experience guiding or mentoring designers and elevating overall UX Design and Visual Design standards within a team environment
- Communicate design rationale effectively in English Fluency and collaborate confidently across disciplines and non-design stakeholders
- Operate effectively in a hybrid, outcome-driven work model while maintaining high standards of UX Design execution across global, multi-region projects