Lead Product Designer (50% Travel to Saudi Arabia)

Thoughtworks is a global technology consultancy that delivers extraordinary impact by blending design, engineering and AI expertise. Our designers work in multi-disciplinary teams that shape complex AI-powered products and experience that create extraordinary impact for our clients, their employees and their customers. As a product designer, you will be the creative force that shapes how AI-powered products look, feel, and behave - from the very first day of engagement through to shipping the product. 

Job responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of digital products from ideation,  concept, prototype, through to build, working in parallel close collaboration with product strategists, developers and business stakeholders. 
• Ensure quality across product touchpoints through consistent and differentiating visual design, accessible design system components, and an adherence to best practice UX and interaction design principles.
• Bring the AI fluency to design conversational and agentic user interfaces: AI chat, task-oriented assistants, multi-modal experiences, and autonomous agent flows 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, developing a shared understanding of user and customer jobs, journeys, and needs through research, testing, and synthesis, and ensure that product design principles continuously evolve to meet these needs.
• Be the primary bridge between design, technology, and business teams, ensuring your vision is seamlessly executed in collaboration with developers and other stakeholders.
• Champion the continuous improvement of design practices by mentoring your team, facilitating knowledge sharing, and running workshops or feedback sessions.
• Actively engage and bring thought leadership and best practices to Thoughtworks and our client’s design practice.
• Translate complex user pain points into innovative design concepts and high-fidelity prototypes that drive product strategy.
• Operate as a strong individual contributor.

Job qualifications

Technical Skills

• Rich experience designing digital products and interface solutions from scoping and concept through to scalable delivery
• Strong foundations in user experience and interaction design principles and heuristics, including an applied understanding of information architecture
• Exceptional visual design skills with a strong eye for detail in colour, layout, typography, and motion
• Experience creating programme-wide design guidelines, and collaborating with design and development partners on modular design system components
• Experience with AI-accelerated design tooling: UX Pilot, Bolt, Mural, Maze, or similar tools that accelerates the path from ideation and testable prototype
• Familiarity with front-end fundamentals (HTML/CSS, React component structure) sufficient to partner deeply with engineers on implementation fidelity and design token governance.
• Use AI as your ideation partner to generate breadth quickly - generating concept variations, exploring 'what if' scenarios, and accelerating synthesis 
• Comfortable with trial and error, embracing feedback, and using prototyping to explore new ideas.
• Expertise in working closely with business and tech teams to bring real-world design solutions to life.
• Good overall understanding of the various aspects of design discipline that contributes to building impactful products.  
• Deep understanding of Middle Eastern market dynamics, including local organizational behavior and consumer cultural nuances.
• Proven experience in designing for Right-to-Left (RTL) languages and understanding how content is consumed within the local culture

 

Professional Skills

• You excel in leading agile, cross-functional teams and confidently overseeing the design and development of product solutions and user interface assets across multiple workstreams.
• Complex, large-scale challenges captivate you and you have the ability to break them down into simple, strategic, and impactful product solutions that drive business outcomes.
• As a seasoned storyteller, you not only communic