Location – Dubai, UAE

Salary – 45,000 – 55,000 AED/month

Qualifications:

• Proven senior leadership experience in design, product systems, or design transformation within large-scale furniture, kitchen, interiors, modular systems, or product-driven retail organizations.
• Strong expertise in design systems development, including standards, design libraries, modular frameworks, technical rules, and repeatable design processes.
• Demonstrated experience in product architecture and modular systems, with the ability to build scalable product platforms, component systems, and design families.
• Experience leading client-facing design operations, translating customer requirements into technical, manufacturable, and installable solutions.
• Strong background in product design and development, including collaboration with product architects, industrial designers, engineers, prototyping teams, and research functions.
• Solid understanding of design-to-manufacturing integration, including how design decisions affect production efficiency, cost, quality, lead time, and scalability.
• Experience in design-to-installation integration, ensuring solutions are practical for site execution and installation efficiency.
• Exposure to digital transformation initiatives, including design software, configurators, automation tools, computational design, or technology-enabled workflows.
• Track record in organizational transformation, including building or restructuring teams, governance models, operating standards, and scalable processes.
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills, with the ability to align design, sales, manufacturing, installation, operations, product development, and technology teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the company’s transition into a design-led systems organization, positioning design as a driver of scalability, customer experience, product development, and operational excellence.
• Define and implement the future design operating model, including structure, workflows, governance, standards, and decision-making processes.
• Oversee the client-facing design function, ensuring customer requirements are translated into accurate, manufacturable, installable, and commercially viable solutions.
• Lead the product design and development function, including scalable product architecture, modular systems, component libraries, and product standards.
• Build and manage the design systems and operations capability, including computational design, standards, design QA, automation systems, process optimization, and software integration.
• Establish design standards, technical libraries, templates, documentation frameworks, and rule-based design logic to reduce manual work and improve accuracy.
• Strengthen the connection between design, manufacturing, and installation to improve efficiency, reduce rework, and support scalability.
• Support the development and business integration of an in-house design and operational software platform connecting design, manufacturing, and installation.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders and technology partners to define business requirements, workflows, automation rules, and user needs for digital tools and platform development.
• Build structured feedback loops from customers, production, installation, and operations into design improvement and product development.
• Lead, develop, and align multi-disciplinary teams across client design, product design, technical design, product engineering, design systems, and design operations.
• Reduce dependence on individual knowledge by embedding expertise into systems, standards, documentation, and repeatable processes.
• Drive a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, collaboration, and execution discipline across the design organization.

About the Role:

The Head of Design & Systems will lead the transformation of the company from a product-led organization into a design-led systems organization.

This role is responsible for building a scalable design function that connects customer experience, product architecture, modular systems, manufacturing compatibility, installation efficiency, automation, digital configurators, and design standards.

The position will oversee three major divisions:

• Client Design Division
• Product Design & Development Division
• Design Systems & Operations Division

The role is critical in helping the business move away from repeated manual design work, excessive customization complexity, and dependence on individual experience toward a more structured, scalable, and systemized model.

The successful candidate will play a central role in shaping the future design organization, product architecture framework, operational model, and proprietary software ecosystem, while ensuring design becomes a core business engine for long-term growth.