Staff Product Designer – Talabat

This Staff Product Designer role is with Talabat, which is building out its presence as a Tech Hub for Delivery Hero — meaning this isn’t a peripheral design function but part of a genuine regional tech center working to bridge local innovation with the group’s global product organization. Staff-level product design is a senior individual-contributor track, typically meaning this person shapes design direction and quality across a product area rather than working on execution alone.

The role involves leading design work across the product lifecycle — research, concept development, interaction and visual design, and close collaboration with product managers and engineers to ship features that work well for Talabat’s large and diverse user base across the region. At staff level, the role usually also involves mentoring other designers, contributing to design systems and standards, and having real influence over product strategy decisions, not just executing a spec handed down from elsewhere.

This suits an experienced product designer with a strong portfolio demonstrating both craft and strategic product thinking — someone comfortable operating with real ambiguity and influencing product direction, not just polishing interfaces. Experience designing for consumer apps at scale, particularly in delivery, marketplace, or similar high-frequency-use categories, is directly relevant.

Being part of Talabat’s Tech Hub role within Delivery Hero means working on products used by millions of people across the region, with the resources and cross-regional collaboration that come from being part of a genuinely global product organization.

Product design quality has a direct, measurable effect on a consumer app used as frequently as Talabat's — small friction points in ordering, browsing, or checkout compound quickly across millions of interactions, while genuinely well-designed flows can meaningfully improve conversion and customer satisfaction. As a staff-level individual contributor, this role has influence well beyond a single feature: the design direction and standards set here shape how consistently good the product experience is across the whole platform, not just in one isolated part of it. Because Talabat operates as a genuine Tech Hub within Delivery Hero, strong design work here also has influence beyond the local market — design patterns and product thinking developed in this role can inform how the broader Delivery Hero group approaches similar problems elsewhere. Mentorship is also a real part of the impact at this level; a strong staff designer raises the quality bar for the whole design team, not just their own output, which compounds the organization's design capability over time. In a competitive q-commerce market where user experience is a genuine differentiator, this role sits close to one of the most direct levers on customer retention and satisfaction.

A staff-level product design role at a company operating as a genuine Tech Hub for a global group like Delivery Hero offers a rare combination: the scale and resources of a major international product organization, combined with real regional influence and visibility. You'll build senior-level expertise not just in design craft but in product strategy influence, design systems leadership, and mentoring — the exact combination of skills that defines the next step toward Principal Designer or Design Lead roles. Working on products used by millions of people across the region gives you genuinely large-scale design experience, the kind that's highly valued across the broader tech industry, not just in delivery or q-commerce specifically. Being part of Delivery Hero's global network also means exposure to design practices, tooling, and collaboration across multiple markets, broadening your perspective well beyond a single regional product. Strong staff designers at companies like this are well positioned for Principal Designer, Head of Design, or broader design leadership roles, either within the Delivery Hero group or at other major consumer tech companies globally, since the combination of scale, craft, and strategic influence built in a role like this is exactly what senior design leadership positions require. It's also work that's genuinely visible — millions of people interact with what you design, which is a rare kind of scale to point to on a portfolio.

• Significant experience as a Product Designer, with demonstrated progression to a senior or staff-level individual contributor role
• Strong portfolio showing both design craft and strategic product thinking, ideally for consumer apps at scale
• Experience across the full design process — research, concept development, interaction design, and visual design
• Comfort collaborating closely with product managers and engineers to ship features effectively
• Experience mentoring other designers or contributing to design systems and standards
• Ability to operate with ambiguity and influence product strategy, not just execute a defined brief
• Experience designing for delivery, marketplace, or similar high-frequency consumer apps is a strong advantage