UI/UX Lead

Overview

• Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Alef_Abu_Dhabi)

• Office - Flexible

• Fulltime
• Who we are
• Alef Education began with a bold idea: that every learner deserves a personalised and meaningful education experience.
• What started in 2016 as a small pilot programme in Abu Dhabi has evolved into one of the world’s most dynamic EdTech companies—reshaping how millions of students engage with learning across the globe.
• Today, Alef is proudly headquartered in the UAE, working hand-in-hand with ministries of education, schools, and teachers to bring smart, data-powered platforms into classrooms in over 14,000 schools.
• Supporting over 1.1 million students and 50,000 teachers across the UAE, Indonesia & Morocco our AI-driven platforms generate 16+ million data points every day, helping drive smarter learning decisions.
• Whether it’s improving national exam results, boosting classroom engagement, or supporting educators with world-class tools, Alef is committed to impact at scale.
• In 2024, Alef made history as the first EdTech company to list on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), cementing our role as a regional innovator with global reach.

About The Role

Key Responsibilities

• Lead design efforts to create optimal user experiences, collaborating with cross-functional teams and advocating for user-centered design practices, and continuously iterating and improving designs based on user feedback and data analysis.
• Conduct research and reuse design standards and principles whenever possible. They should emphasize the importance of not reinventing the wheel for trivial things, and always keep research in mind when approaching new design challenges. By leveraging existing knowledge and principles, a UX designer can improve the quality of their work and processes, and ultimately achieve better outcomes for their users.
• Help the team as a Lead UI/ UX designer, collaborate across various departments and disciplines with initiatives that improve the quality of work and processes.
• Test and iterate on design solutions based on user feedback and data analysis.
• Design for complex & vague problems and can deliver feasible results considering the dependencies on technology, data, and other resources.
• Proactive expectation management.
• Lead the UI/UX design team and mentor junior designers. This includes setting design standards, providing design critique, and helping designers to develop both hard and soft skills.

To Be The Right Fit, You'll Need

• Bachelor's degree in Design, HCI, Visual or any relevant comparable discipline
• At least 5 years of experience in UX design
• User research, qualitative testing, working with, developing design systems or component libraries required
• Fluent in Figma or similar software.
• Experience with Design Systems, Wireframes, prototyping and user testing, Information Architecture. Demonstrated experience using AI tooling for wireframing and rapid prototyping is essential.
• NN group, Design masterclasses, UI and UX certification preferred.
• Design thinking and workshop facilitation capabilities.
• Collaboration, leading design initiatives, expectation management skills
• Fluency in English; Arabic is preferred.
• What we offer
• We believe our people are our greatest advantage.
• We value curiosity, purpose, and the drive to make a real difference.
• When you join Alef, you join a mission — and a team that’s just as passionate about transforming education as you are.
• Here’s a glimpse of what we offer:
• Annual flight allowance
• Annual performance bonus
• Education allowance
• Life insurance
• Enhanced leave policy
• A hybrid work model and up to 40 remote working days per year to work from anywhere (with flexibility built in)
• At Alef, we don’t just imagine a better future for education.
• We build it — together.