Junior Product Designer (Abu Dhabi, UAE)

Summary

Andersen is hiring a Junior Product Designer in Abu Dhabi to support a public-sector digital transformation initiative, creating user-centric solutions that improve services, engagement, and operational efficiency.

The customer is a public-sector organization responsible for advancing digital innovation and modernizing services across multiple domains. It supports strategic initiatives in emerging technologies, collaborates with industry and research partners, and develops long-term technology frameworks for improving operational efficiency and service accessibility. The organization focuses on secure, scalable, and sustainable digital development to drive continuous improvement within the broader ecosystem.

The project focuses on digital transformation in the UAE to develop and support digital solutions, enhance social services, strengthen public engagement, advance international relations, and optimize administrative processes.

Responsibilities

• Taking responsibility for scoping and planning UX projects.
• Engaging with product management, engineering, business stakeholders, and third-party vendors to understand the project.
• Conducting concept and usability testing and gathering feedback.
• Leveraging user research, to make product improvements.
• Developing and presenting documentation, user flows, annotated wireframes, interactive prototypes, personas and other research artifacts.
• Creating and maintaining usability documentation.
• Demonstrating track record with applying best practices in usability heuristics
• Ensuring that established design standards are consistently and appropriately applied within design work.
• Communicating regularly with the agile development team through development sprints.
• Building a clean and effective user experience.
• Gathering requirements from the product management, engineering, and business stakeholders and being able to build solutions that fit those needs.
• Initiating and carrying out continued user research and discovery.
• Creating and updating user personas, user journeys and site maps.
• Translating concepts into wireframes, prototypes and user flows.
• Solving complex interaction problems, humanizing product ideas and developing these ideas into elegant application design.

Requirements

• Experience as a Product Designer or in a similar role for 6+ months.
• Deep knowledge of User Centered Design.
• Familiarity with Double Diamond Design Approach.
• Understanding of UX principles, personas, User and Usability Testings, Accessibility Principles.
• Good communication skills and ownership of identifying design steps from goals and vision.
• Empathy, ability to connect with people and ensure that their needs come first. 
• Experience in an Agile environment.
• Level of English – from Upper-Intermediate and above.

Reasons to join us

• Experience in teamwork with leaders in FinTech, Healthcare, Retail, Telecom, and others. Andersen cooperates with such businesses as Samsung, Siemens, Johnson & Johnson, BNP Paribas, Ryanair, Mercedes, TUI, Verivox, Allianz, T-Systems, etc..
• The opportunity to change the project and/or develop expertise in an interesting business domain.
• Guarantee of professional, financial, and career growth! The company has introduced systems of mentoring and adaptation for each new employee.
• The opportunity to earn up to an additional 1,000 USD per month, depending on the level of expertise, which will be included in the annual bonus, by participating in the company's activities.
• Access to the corporate training portal, where the entire knowledge base of the company is collected and which is constantly updated.
• Bright corporate life (parties / pizza days / PlayStation / fruits / coffee / snacks / movies).
• Certification compensation (AWS, PMP, etc).
• Referral program.
• English courses.
• Private health insurance and compensation for sports activities.

Join us!