Senior Product Designer – Design Systems

About the role

Careem is seeking a Senior Product Designer to lead its Design System, which powers the super‑app across rides, food, groceries, payments and more. The role combines deep systems design expertise with the ability to build AI‑enabled tooling that makes the system faster to maintain and easier to adopt.

Key responsibilities

• Own the end‑to‑end lifecycle of the Design System’s tokens, components and patterns, from creation through shipping, iteration and deprecation.
• Define and enforce visual and interaction standards across iOS, Android, web and RTL/Arabic locales.
• Maintain clear token architecture and resolve ownership ambiguities across product and engineering teams.
• Produce comprehensive documentation and guidelines to ensure cross‑component consistency.
• Champion system‑level accessibility (WCAG) and manage related backlog with partners.
• Make the system AI‑native by structuring tokens and components for agentic design‑to‑code and prompt‑to‑design workflows.
• Build and maintain Code Connect mappings, MCP integrations and structured component metadata.
• Implement AI‑assisted audits and linting to improve quality and consistency.

Required profile

• Senior‑level individual contributor with strong experience in design systems and UI/UX design.
• Proven ability to create and govern token architectures and component libraries at scale.
• Hands‑on experience building AI‑enabled design tooling or workflows.
• Familiarity with accessibility standards (WCAG) and multi‑locale design, including RTL languages.

Required skills

• Design Systems
• Token Architecture
• Component Library development
• iOS, Android and Web platforms
• Accessibility (WCAG) compliance
• AI‑assisted design tooling