Travel Product Designer Dubai role at Rahal invites a hands-on designer to craft intuitive, mobile-first experiences across flights, hotels, eSIMs, and trip management inside the Super Qi ecosystem. You’ll own the end-to-end design lifecycle—from research, wireframes, and prototypes in Figma to dev-ready specs, motion, and post-launch QA—while building scalable design systems. Partnering with Product, Engineering, and Marketing, you’ll translate traveler insights into high-converting flows, run usability tests and A/B experiments, and iterate quickly. Ideal candidates bring 2+ years’ product design experience, a strong portfolio, Arabic UX familiarity, and a bias for action across Dubai–Baghdad hybrid collaboration and regional impact.
Table of Contents
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Job Overview
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About Rahal (Inside the Super Qi Ecosystem)
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Available Jobs (Related Roles)
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Job Description
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Key Responsibilities
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Why This Role?
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Requirements
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How to Apply
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FAQs
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Final Tips and Internal Resources
Job Overview
Job Title: Travel Product Designer
Company: Rahal (the travel mini-app inside Iraq’s Super Qi ecosystem)
Location: Hybrid – Dubai, UAE (office location) / Baghdad, Iraq
Reports To: Product Manager
Employment Type: Full-time (Onsite/Hybrid)
Start Date: ASAP (upon selection and onboarding)
If you’re searching for Travel Product Designer Dubai roles that blend impact, speed, and regional purpose, Rahal is hiring a hands-on designer to craft travel booking experiences at scale. You’ll shape flights, hotels, and digital add-ons like eSIMs for millions of Qi users—building confidence and delight into every step of the journey. Partnering with Product, Engineering, and Marketing, you’ll translate traveler-first insights into intuitive, high-performing interfaces and iterate quickly through agile delivery. It’s a chance to push the boundaries of travel-tech in MENA and help define what a next-gen OTA looks like—simple, safe, accessible, and loved.
About Rahal (Inside the Super Qi Ecosystem)
Rahal is the dedicated travel mini-app within Super Qi, a high-velocity platform redefining how users search, book, and manage travel across Iraq and beyond. Think of it as a focused rocketship embedded in a powerful super-app, where speed, scale, and trust converge. The mission is straightforward and ambitious: make travel simple, safe, and accessible for everyone. With teams spanning the UAE and Iraq, Rahal blends local insight with global best practices—drawing inspiration from leaders like Booking.com, Hopper, and Careem—while designing uniquely for MENA’s cultures, languages, and accessibility needs.
Available Jobs (Related Roles)
If you’re browsing the ecosystem and adjacent tracks, these related roles and keywords can help your search and skill alignment:
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Senior UX/UI Designer – Travel Tech (Dubai/MENA)
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Product Designer – Super-App Experiences (UAE)
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Design Systems & Components Lead (Figma)
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UX Researcher – OTA/Transactional Flows
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Motion Designer – Microinteractions for Mobile Apps
Job Description
This Travel Product Designer Dubai role is for a creator who thrives in ambiguity, moves fast, and obsesses over user outcomes. You will own the design craft from concept to developer-ready assets, building cohesive journeys across search, discovery, booking, payments, and post-trip management. You’ll create and evolve design systems that unify the Rahal brand across Super Qi, ensure accessibility and performance remain non-negotiables, and push into new experiences such as eSIMs, personalization, and AI-driven recommendations. Success looks like intuitive flows, measurable conversion lifts, and a UI that feels distinctly Rahal—clean, confident, and effortless.
This is ideal for a product designer with a mobile-first mindset, comfort leading agile delivery, and a portfolio that proves you can turn complex transactional flows into frictionless experiences. If you love owning outcomes, partnering closely with engineers, and turning research into decisions, you’ll feel at home here.
Key Responsibilities
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Lead end-to-end design: Move from sketches and wireframes to high-fidelity screens and specs that ship.
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Build a living design system: Develop components, tokens, and guidelines that scale Rahal’s visual and interaction language across platforms.
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Champion usability & accessibility: Bake inclusive design and performance into every decision, from layout to microcopy.
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Prototype to learn fast: Create interactive prototypes in Figma to validate hypotheses, de-risk flows, and align stakeholders.
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Test with real users: Run usability tests, A/B experiments, and concept evaluations; translate findings into product improvements.
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Collaborate deeply: Co-create with Product, Engineering, and Marketing to balance traveler needs, business goals, and technical feasibility.
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Specify clearly: Deliver dev-ready specs, interaction logic, and motion principles; support handoff and post-launch QA.
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Continuously improve: Monitor post-release performance, triage UX debt, and iterate based on data, feedback, and market dynamics.
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Innovate with intent: Explore how AI, personalization, and dynamic content can lift confidence, conversion, and loyalty.
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Stay market-aware: Track OTA trends, competitor patterns, and super-app best practices; bring fresh ideas into roadmaps.
Why This Role?
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Massive user impact: Design for millions across MENA inside a super-app users already trust.
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Hybrid regional exposure: Collaborate across Dubai and Baghdad, gaining on-the-ground context and reach.
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Greenfield + scale: Shape foundational patterns (search, booking, payment, eSIMs) while leveraging a fast-growing platform.
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Career acceleration: Work with a travel-tech team that values ownership, speed, and creativity—your decisions ship.
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Learning loop: Tight product/design/engineering triad, strong research cadence, and rapid iteration cycles.
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Purpose-built for MENA: Apply Arabic UX/UI nuances, cultural insight, and accessibility standards to unlock inclusive growth.
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Brand runway: Help make Rahal the most loved travel companion in the region through thoughtful design and microinteractions.
Requirements
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Experience: 2+ years in UX/UI or Product Design, ideally on mobile-first consumer products.
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Portfolio: A modern, clear body of work showing user-centered design thinking and scalable interface craft.
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Tools: Mastery of Figma (design, components, prototyping).
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Process: End-to-end transactional journeys—discovery → booking → payment → post-trip—or similar high-stakes flows.
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Collaboration: Excellent communication and presentation skills; comfortable guiding stakeholders through design decisions.
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Nice to Have (Highly Desired):
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Travel-tech or hospitality background (OTA, loyalty, or booking systems).
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Regional insight into Arabic UX/UI and cultural/accessibility nuances.
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Motion & microinteractions to bring usability and delight to life.
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Traits:
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🔥 Biased for Action—move fast, learn faster.
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🌍 Traveler-Obsessed—every decision starts with the user.
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🤝 Team Player—collaborates across functions and geographies.
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⚙️ Operator Mindset—comfortable in high-growth environments.
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🎯 Strategic & Executional—balance long-term vision with delivery.
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Location & Work: Hybrid between Dubai (office) and Baghdad; onsite collaboration as needed.
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Eligibility: Able to work in the UAE/Iraq per company policy and visa requirements; English proficiency, Arabic familiarity is a plus.
How to Apply
Apply on the official job page: Travel Product Designer (Hybrid Dubai/Baghdad).
FAQs
1) Is this a remote job or hybrid?
It’s a hybrid role centered on Dubai as the office location with collaboration in Baghdad. Expect onsite work and cross-border teamwork.
2) What kind of projects will I own first?
High-impact travel flows: flight and hotel search, availability and pricing UI, checkout/payment, plus new surfaces like eSIM onboarding and trip management.
3) Which tools and processes are must-haves?
Figma for design, components, and prototyping; usability testing, A/B experiments, and agile delivery with tight designer–PM–engineer loops.
4) Do I need travel-tech experience?
Not mandatory, but OTA/hospitality experience is highly valued. Strong transactional-flow work can substitute if you demonstrate clear outcomes.
5) How will my impact be measured?
By traveler satisfaction and conversion uplifts—think search→select→pay funnel health, error rates, time-to-book, and qualitative feedback from tests.
6) What regional knowledge helps?
Familiarity with Arabic UX/UI, cultural norms, and accessibility in MENA—from language direction to payment preferences and trust cues.