Design Lead
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About the Role
Keyper is seeking a Design Lead to own the design direction across digital products and customer journeys in the proptech/fintech space. This hands-on leadership role involves shaping end-to-end experiences, building design systems, and partnering with cross-functional teams to drive clarity, trust, and conversion.
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Responsibilities
- Own Keyper's design strategy and shape end to end experience across mobile, web, partner channels, and internal tools.
- Set strategic direction for critical journeys across onboarding, payments, financing, property services, and lifecycle touchpoints.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Strategy, Commercial, and Operations to turn business goals into effective experiences.
- Build and evolve the design system, including components, patterns, and standards.
- Raise quality bar through design reviews and QA, while leading, mentoring, and developing the design team.
Requirements
- Senior product design leadership experience on consumer facing digital products in fintech, consumer finance, payments, BNPL, embedded finance, digital banking, wallets, proptech, or marketplaces.
- Portfolio of shipped products, complex journeys, and measurable business impact, especially across high consideration flows.
- Product thinking and broad craft range across UX, UI, interaction, and growth design.
- Track record of building and scaling design systems, reusable components, and standards.
- Experience leading, mentoring, and growing designers.
- Experience at a high growth regional or global consumer platform (e.g., Tabby, Ziina, Wio, Careem, Tamara) strongly preferred.
- Experience in the UAE, GCC, or wider MENA market.
- Background in embedded finance, BNPL, credit, payment flexibility, wallets, or affordability based journeys.
- Experience designing across B2C, B2B2C, and partner led distribution models.
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About Keyper
- Keyper is a high growth startup transforming real estate ownership, management, and investment across the region, blending property and financial technology.
Role Summary
- The Design Lead will lead the design direction across Keyper's digital products and customer journeys, sitting at the intersection of product design, customer experience, growth, and brand expression.
What you'll do
- Own Keyper's design strategy and shape end to end experience across mobile, web, partner channels, and internal tools.
- Set strategic direction for critical journeys across onboarding, payments, financing, property services, and lifecycle touchpoints.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Strategy, Commercial, and Operations to turn business goals into effective experiences.
- Build and evolve the design system, including components, patterns, and standards.
- Raise quality bar through design reviews and QA, while leading, mentoring, and developing the design team.
What we're looking for
- Senior product design leadership experience on consumer facing digital products in fintech, consumer finance, payments, BNPL, embedded finance, digital banking, wallets, proptech, or marketplaces.
- Portfolio of shipped products, complex journeys, and measurable business impact.
- Product thinking and broad craft range across UX, UI, interaction, and growth design.
- Track record of building and scaling design systems.
- Experience leading, mentoring, and growing designers.
- Experience at a high growth regional or global consumer platform strongly preferred.
- Experience in the UAE, GCC, or wider MENA market.
- Background in embedded finance, BNPL, credit, payment flexibility, wallets, or affordability based journeys.
- Experience designing across B2C, B2B2C, and partner led distribution models.
What success looks like
- Keyper's product experience is clearer, more consistent, and more scalable.
- Customer journeys are easier to understand, more trustworthy, and more conversion oriented.
- Design system measurably improves speed, consistency, and quality.
- Design is a stronger partner to cross functional teams.
- Design quality improves release over release.
Keyper Guiding Principles & Values
- Data Driven, Tech First
- Committed to Exceptional Experience
- Holistic Ownership
- Challenging the Status Quo
- Together for Growth
- No Finish Line
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