Senior Product Designer – Design Systems Lead

About the role

Careem is building an Everything App for the Middle East, covering rides, food, groceries, payments and more. The design system powers every product experience, and the senior product designer will own its evolution, making it AI‑native and ensuring consistency across platforms and locales.

Key responsibilities

• Own the lifecycle of design‑system tokens, components and patterns, from creation to deprecation, across iOS, Android and web.
• Define and enforce standards for color, typography, spacing and interaction, including RTL/Arabic support.
• Build AI‑native workflows: structure tokens for agentic design‑to‑code, create Code Connect mappings, and implement AI‑assisted audits and linting.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation and champion accessibility (WCAG) as a system‑level guarantee.
• Drive adoption by articulating value, facilitating guilds, and delivering AI‑focused training.

Required profile

• 5+ years of product design experience, with at least 3 years focused on design systems at scale.
• Proven ability to build real workflows with large language models and agentic tools.
• Strong English writing and presentation skills.

Required skills

• Design token architecture and variable management.
• Component library management and branching strategies.
• Figma Plugin API and MCP integrations.
• JavaScript / TypeScript and JSON for prototyping design‑token pipelines.
• AI‑assisted auditing, linting and documentation versioning.
• WCAG accessibility standards.

What we offer

• Opportunity to impact a fast‑growing region while learning from inspiring colleagues.
• 30 days of remote work per year and unlimited vacation days.
• Healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements.