UI/UX Copywriter (Arabic Speaker)

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Write and structure end-to-end interface copy for government digital services across web and mobile, in Arabic and English.
• Translate research, service blueprints, and stakeholder requirements into content models, flows, and production-ready UI copy.
• Build and maintain content patterns in the Dubai Design System (labels, error states, empty states, confirmations, notifications) and contribute new patterns back to it rather than writing one-offs.
• Partner with designers in Figma to write in context, checking copy against real layouts, character limits, and component states rather than in a document.
• Work directly with UI/UX designers and front-end engineers through hand-off, implementation, and QA review of the built product.
• Write to WCAG 2.2 AA from the start, covering plain-language clarity, alt text, error messaging, and screen reader announcements.
• Present and defend content decisions to stakeholders across government entities, including legal, policy, and service owners.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

UX writing and content strategy (essential)

• Arabic and English bilingual writing experience, including RTL content and Arabic UI conventions.
• Expert-level: microcopy, content models, voice and tone systems, and writing for state, error, and edge cases.
• Comfortable writing for and maintaining a shared content library rather than only writing one-off strings.
• Clean, well-structured content documentation and copy decks that another writer or designer can pick up without a walkthrough.
• Arabic and English bilingual writing experience, including RTL content and Arabic UI conventions.

Figma and design fluency (essential)

• Solid working knowledge of Figma: auto layout, component properties, variants, and how content sits inside constraints.
• Understands component-based design thinking (states, composition, character limits) and can read a component to see why copy needs to change.
• Knows the cost of a content decision before proposing it, and can talk to designers and engineers in their terms.

Writing craft

• A portfolio showing clarity, structure, and restraint, not just polished sentences.
• Can explain why a piece of copy works, not only that it reads well.
• Attention to word-level craft, with judgement about when that level of detail matters.

Ways of working

• Handles ambiguity and shifting requirements without stalling.
• Communicates clearly in writing and in presentations.
• Takes feedback from stakeholders who are not writers and turns it into the underlying problem.

Nice to have

• Public sector or large-scale enterprise product experience.
• Accessibility work beyond compliance checklists, such as writing for assistive technology testing.
• Familiarity with content tooling, terminology databases, or version-controlled hand-off workflows.

Skills: UX writing , Figma , Accessibility