Design Team Lead

99brightminds seeks a full-time, on-site Design Team Lead. The source lists Amman, Dubai and Cairo as available locations. The role develops and governs an enterprise Design Studio.

Lead a multidisciplinary UX, UI, Product Design, Design Systems and DesignOps team. Assess skills, seniority and capacity, maintain a skills matrix, close gaps through hiring/upskilling, allocate designers to project needs and complexity, and grow future design leaders.

Govern a scalable lifecycle from intake through UX/UI, Design QA, developer handover and release. Establish gates, definitions of done and SLAs; manage demand, capacity and priorities; measure turnaround, rework, design-language-system adoption and stakeholder satisfaction.

Own Figma Enterprise teams, projects, libraries, permissions, access and file lifecycles. Treat the design-language system as a product, governing contributions, versions, releases, adoption and alignment with coded components.

Embed governed AI-assisted research, UX/UI, documentation, QA and design-to-code workflows. Define approved tools, reusable processes, human reviews and compliance controls, measuring productivity, cycle time, quality and consistency. Represent the studio to executives, business/technology teams and vendors, communicate complex topics, align priorities and constructively challenge requirements.

Establish shared governance across internal, project and vendor teams. Lead onboarding, design reviews and audits, enforce common standards and prevent parallel design systems.

Mandatory qualifications include substantial corporate/large-enterprise experience in complex governance and senior-stakeholder environments; at least 12 years in UX/UI, product or experience design, including five years leading multidisciplinary teams; and leadership of large/distributed design organisations with a DesignOps model. Strong practical Figma Enterprise libraries, variables, permissions, Dev Mode and governance expertise is required.

Applicants must have built or governed an enterprise design system, operated AI-assisted workflows in real production, collaborated closely with engineers, and demonstrate exceptional executive presentation, storytelling and stakeholder-management skills.

Apply through the linked official employer portal. No numeric salary or closing date is stated.