Research and Design Team Lead (Agentic AI)

Notes for Muhajirs: This is a research and design leadership post with Sana Commerce in Dubai, leading the team building an AI-native, agentic B2B commerce experience. It suits a hands-on design leader who has already built AI-powered or agentic products. The posting states that applications without demonstrable evidence of a product or prototype you built will not be reviewed, so evidence of shipped work matters more than a CV alone.

About the role: Lead the research and design team towards a clear picture of what is being built: an AI-native product and an agentic commerce experience that buyers and sellers will actually use. Own the end-to-end experience, how agents behave, when they surface, and how transparency, control and fallback are designed in. Own the research agenda on agentic commerce, buyer and seller behaviour, and trust and privacy when an agent transacts on someone's behalf, and build an AI-native design system that is machine-readable and token-driven.

Requirements:

• Proven experience building AI-powered or agentic products, with demonstrable examples of products, prototypes or agents you personally helped research, design or build
• A strong portfolio of commercially shipped products used by real customers, showing your personal contribution and measurable user or business impact
• Proven experience leading both product design and user research, owning the end-to-end product experience while staying hands-on in research, prototyping and design
• Practical AI fluency across the research and design process, including design systems built for AI generation
• Experience in e-commerce is strongly preferred, whether B2B or B2C; B2B commerce and complex buyer and seller journeys are particularly relevant

What they offer:

• A hybrid working model of 3 days from the office and 2 days from home
• Up to 8 weeks of work from anywhere per year
• A global and customised onboarding programme

Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Source: Bayt, 10 Nov 2026