Product Designer I

Are you passionate about creating exceptional experiences that revolutionize how people live their lives? Are you a visionary who can help take a team on a journey to new heights in user-centered design? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you as a product designer within the product design team at Careem

We have a few values  at Careem, three of which we truly hold dear in the design team; To the Moon, Committed to developing each other and Every Experience Matters, if you embody these then you’re in the right place! 

About the role

As a Product Designer and part of the design team at Careem, you will be at the forefront of innovation, working with  a team of talented product  designers to deliver world-class experiences. 

You'll embark on a thrilling journey, delving into rich data insights, and crafting ingenious hypotheses. With your experiments and innovations, you'll create meaningful connections between our users and the value they seek. Your passion for uncovering untapped opportunities to meet customer needs will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our organization, guiding work for a significant product area, and handling complex projects with overlapping organizational lines, driving the user experience strategy and championing design excellence. 

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business goals into intuitive, engaging, and visually stunning experiences. Your work will have a direct impact on millions of users, captains and partners transforming their interactions and enhancing their lives on a daily basis.

What you'll do:

• Contribute to the UX design strategy, aligning it with business goals, industry best practices, and emerging trends.
• Advocate for user-centered design principles, championing the importance of empathy, research, and iterative design methodologies throughout the organization.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to ensure seamless integration of user experience design into the product development process.
• Contribute to user studies, usability testing, and gather insights to inform the design strategy and optimize the user journey.
• Create, collaborate, and iterate on  wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs, ensuring they adhere to best practices in interaction design, accessibility, and visual aesthetics.
• Contribute & support in the maintenance of the  design system, style guides, and UI components to ensure consistency, efficiency, and scalability across products and platforms.
• Stay up to date with the latest trends, technologies, and design innovations, sharing knowledge and inspiring the team to push boundaries and explore new possibilities.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to align design initiatives with the overall business strategy, presenting compelling design concepts and advocating for user needs.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of design processes, tools, and methodologies, optimizing efficiency and quality throughout the design lifecycle.
• Help deliver and refine clear storytelling around product needs and opportunities
• Design and ship high quality product improvements
• Support the evolution of the design processes within the broader org to optimize for efficiency
• Nurture and champion the design culture at Careem

We'd love to hear from you if:

• You love tackling complex and ambiguous problems and shaping them into clear goals
• You strive to find answers to difficult questions, garnering insights from research & data to close the gaps in knowledge
• You leverage prototyping skills to articulate your designs, especially in cases where interactions may be particularly nuanced
• You value high quality well crafted visual & interaction design, and care about the details
• You are comfortable leading large initiatives
• You advocate for user needs, leveraging insights to create better designs while making sure everything built is scalable and follows our guidelines, best practices and standards
• You love supporting team members passing on your skills/ to help  shaping the next generation of designers

What you’ll need:

• 4+ years of extensive product design experience with a strong focus on excellent craft and a proven track record of contributing to  projects with demonstrated impact on the organization success
• Understanding  Growth domains and data-informed design approach
• Strategic and critical thinking, paired with flexibility and being open minded
• Ability to effectively contribute to end-to-end design process within your team