Al-Futtaim Hiring for UX/UI Designer Job at Dubai Full Time

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 Arab 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 organization 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

Location : IKEA, Jebel Ali (Service Office)

Overview of the role

Lead the creation of a compelling Omnichannel experience for customers, based on research and customers shopping journey analysis. Work with the team (product management, development, commercial & optimization) t streamline the digital experiences for Mobile, Web and App. Making consistent improvements to the user journey to deliver the best possible user experience and increasing online conversion. Also partner strategically with a range of stakeholders from across the business to deliver seamless experiences across a range of touchpoints.

What you will do

• Leverage data analytics and conduct user research to gather insights and identify opportunities to further enhance the customer experience.
• Persona development based on patterns and commonalities in the research
• Responsible for the User experience (UX) and Customer Experience (CX) of digital products to ensure high customer satisfaction.
• Gathering and evaluating user requirements, designing graphic elements, and building navigation components.
• Illustrating design ideas using storyboards, process flows and sitemaps
• Determining the information architecture of a digital product
• Developing user flows and wireframes for the Web, App and digital products
• Developing UI mockups and prototypes that clearly illustrate how sites function and look like
• Develop User Acceptance Criteria and be heavily involved in testing your design across staging prior to production deploys
• Setup measurement frameworks to measure the success of the design implementations.
• Preparing and present drafts to internal teams and key stakeholders
• Identify and troubleshoot UX problems
• Continuously iterate on solutions to progressively improve the product and deliver to the customers the best possible experience.
• Ability to apply agile analysis techniques for creating user stories and acceptance criteria

Required skills to be successful

• Ability to apply agile analysis techniques for creating user stories and acceptance criteria
• Ability to apply modern UX/CX standards to improve the user interface design and usability to achieve high customer satisfaction delivering business results
• Ability to design thinking skills which provides a solution-based approach to solving problems user centric
• Ability to understand the user challenges and redefine problems to identify alternative strategies and solutions
• Stimulates creative ideas and perspectives that add value
• Ability to understand the complexity of IKEA business and the role of UX/ CX as an integrated part of the business

What equips you for the role

• Minimum 5 years of experience in a UX design role (E-Commerce and retail experience desirable)
• Strong understanding of analytics and how to draw insights from data.
• Extremely high attention to detail and a meticulous approach to work.
• Strong experience in UX by delivering concepts, personas, user research, user journeys, storyboards, wireframing, prototyping and testing
• Demonstrable experience in work with designing graphic user interface elements for web and App.
• Hands on experience in working with design software/ tools, like Figma, Adobe XD etc.
• Strong communication skills with business and technical stakeholders
• Strong team working and collaboration skills
• Knowledge of IKEA Brand, culture, values and ways of working
• Good design thinking skills which provides a solution-based approach to solving problems user centric. Understand the user challenges and redefine problems to identify alternative strategies and solutions.

About Al-Futtaim Retail

Al-Futtaim Retail has established itself as one of the leaders in Retail across the Middle East, Africa & Asia over the past 30 years. We have developed partnerships with some of the biggest and most respected Brands in the world including IKEA, ACE and Toys R Us in the Middle East and the Inditex Group of Brands (Zara, Mango, Bershka and P&B) across Asia. We are also one of the largest Global partners of Marks and Spencer’s in both regions with over 75 stores offering both fashion & food options.

Most recently we have been responsible for bringing brands to the Middle East for the first time with the exciting launches of Watsons and B&Q and we aim to continue to be agile and adaptive to our markets with new launches and further development. For this to be possible we aim to recruit the best talent from all backgrounds who will continue to challenge and develop our diverse workforce which includes over 100 nationalities across 12 countries. Join us today and make a difference…