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Lead Product Designerwith 8+ Years ofExperience

I'm Talal Jawaid, I work across strategy, systems and craft. Helping teams navigate ambiguity, align around the right problem and ship scalable experiences across banking, SaaS, lifestyle and AI.

RECENTLY ADDED

A no-code platform where teams build, test and ship AI customer-support agents on an open canvas, designed end to end.

Case Studies with Results

Product challenges where I shaped direction, aligned teams and turned messy systems into experiences that delivered measurable customer and business outcomes.

LEADERSHIP ✱ PRACTICE

I turn ambiguity into direction teams can build on

I work across product, engineering, operations and business to frame complex problems, align teams around what matters and create systems that scale.

My role doesn’t stop at strategy. I stay close to the craft moving from service models and product flows into interaction details, prototypes and polished experiences that teams can confidently take to market.

YEARS OF EXPERIENCE

8.8

REVENUE IMPACTED

200M+

FASTER GO-TO MARKET

30%

USER RESEARCH

100K+

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PROUD TO HAVE WORKED WITH →

From his very first day at Careem (placed via VentureDive), it was clear Talal would drive step-change improvements in Careem’s design-led outcomes. He is user-centric by nature, has strong critical thinking, and engages actively in team critiques and reviews — always driving for bar-raising across the board. His contributions to the design team, and Careem product experiences still live on to this day! A great designer to add to any design team!

Tiago CabaçoVP DESIGN · CAREEM
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