Lead Product Designer · GCC

Hi, I'm Saleh Bazuhair.

I help GCC fintech and product teams ship work their customers actually trust.

11 years of design leadership across open banking, marketplaces, and Arabic-first products. I partner with a small number of teams each year, the kind that care about craft as much as outcomes.

Impact Highlights

Designing experiences that drive measurable business impact.

Over the past 11+ years, I've led design for complex digital products across fintech, marketplaces, and enterprise platforms, delivering results that matter.

+27%

Conversion Lift

On Tarabut Connect Flow consent journey, scaling open banking adoption across GCC banks.

Open Banking
+11%

Margin Uplift

At Cars24 Arabia by reimagining the VAS checkout experience, lifting upsell and customer satisfaction.

Marketplaces
40%

Faster Delivery

Through scalable design systems, design tokens, and component libraries, accelerating delivery and improving consistency.

Design Systems
+413%

Signup Conversion

At BUILTOP by removing key friction in the registration flow, lifting conversion from 1.6% to 8.2%.

Construction Tech
Selected Visuals

Explorations across UI, dashboards, and motion.

A curated look at interface work and visual experiments.

Recommendations

What people say about working with me.

Feedback from founders, designers, engineers, and leaders I've partnered with over the years.

I had the pleasure of working with Saleh at Tarabut, where he brought deep knowledge of the Middle Eastern market and a rare ability to quickly grasp the nuances of diverse industries, from e-commerce and high-value retail to financial services. He has an exceptional talent for translating complex business needs and customer behaviors into intuitive, effective UX and designs. Any team in Riyadh would be lucky to have him.

Nino Ocampo
Nino Ocampo
Chief Product Officer at Tarabut
Open Banking

Saleh is a fantastic designer who always puts the product experience first. He is detail-oriented and genuinely curious about the business problems behind the work, which means his designs are not just intuitive but also make a real impact. Beyond his technical expertise, Saleh is highly collaborative, open to feedback, and consistently seeks opportunities to improve the product experience. Any team would be lucky to have him.

Nidhi Bhattacharya
Nidhi Bhattacharya
Head of Data Product at Tarabut
Tarabut

I had the pleasure of working with Saleh at Tarabut. He is a fantastic designer, always asking the right questions and truly thinking about the product experience. He is incredibly receptive to feedback and constantly seeks to improve. He would be a valuable asset to any team.

Keerthana Lakshmanan
Keerthana Lakshmanan
Head of Design at Tarabut
Now at Cercli, ex-Revolut, ex-Tabby

I brought Saleh in to work on a complex app design project for a high-profile bank brand in UAE. His role was to bring UX research and design expertise to a team that was lacking it. Saleh quickly became a very valuable addition, bringing a great amount of rigour, experience design knowledge, research methodology and understanding of user behaviour to the team. He was a great foil for some of our more radical thinking but also sought to challenge the norm in places too. All in all, he was a great asset to the team and the project.

Dan Wilkinson
Dan Wilkinson
Creative Director at Horizontal
UAE

Saleh is a great designer to work with. He is very thoughtful about how he approaches problems and is quick to come up with solutions. He has a great understanding of UX principles that helped him make simple and subtle UI. He always ensured whatever we are building truly solved user needs. It was a pleasure to work with Saleh. He redesigned every aspect of our product that led to massive improvements across engagement and core metrics.

Haris Alghadi
Haris Alghadi
VP of Product at Calo
Former CEO at Meddy

Saleh is a REAL Innovator. Beside his great skills in UX and Design, he demonstrates a great team spirit where he cares about the whole project, not only himself. He always looks for ways to push his fellows and support them in their tasks, even if it is not his own area. He always goes 10x extra miles with his duty and delivers as promised. He has a creative mindset, complex problem solving skills, and is a great presenter. I highly recommend this REAL Designer for any complex project.

Mohammed Alibrahim
Mohammed Alibrahim
Innovation Catalyst
Strategic Innovation & Growth Advisor

During our time together at Winfooz, Saleh was handling design for multiple features on our 3 platforms: web, android and iOS. He came into a company that had no in-house designers and had a considerably long queue of designs that needed to be delivered. Normally, this would scare any new joiner. But not Saleh. He took on the job, he delivered designs right, left and center, quickly and with a nice quality. He was the true definition of can work under pressure. On a personal level, Saleh is a really kind person. A breeze to deal with. No complications and no bad temper.

Sary Al-Assad
Sary Al-Assad
Sr. Manager at Expedia
Former Technology Lead at Winfooz

Saleh is an excellent designer. He is very passionate about his work and has a very high versatility and resilience to doing large amounts of work under many verticals. Even though he came from a background of Mobile Application design he was able to translate his skills to Web Application design under a lot of pressure and the everlasting stress of a growing startup. Was very happy to work with Saleh.

Yasser Elsayed
Yasser Elsayed
Software Engineer at Scale AI
Scale AI
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Trusted by teams at

Companies across the GCC and beyond who care about shipping work that lasts.

Client logos including Tarabut, Emirates NBD, Cars24 Arabia, Meddy, BUILTOP

Good design earns trust. Great design compounds it.

I work with a small number of fintech and product teams each year, helping them build experiences their customers actually believe in. If you care about craft as much as outcomes, we should talk.