Angkas mission is to eradicate poverty in the Philippines by providing opportunities for its bikers to create a source of livelihood that impacts their family and their communities.
The Brand & Design Lead will lay the groundwork for this shift by crafting a cohesive, emotion-driven product identity and driving design innovation that strengthens usability, clarity, and product excellence.
What you'll be doing:
- Set the vision and direction for Angkas design and brand expression across all engagement products
- Shape, evolve, and scale the design and brand expression of Angkas customer and driver products
- Lead the experience design of a high-traffic platform serving millions of users, ensuring clarity, consistency, and emotional resonance across all touchpoints
- Simplify complex operational features into intuitive, emotionally resonant flows
- Drive the creation of new design patterns, interaction models, and brand elements in partnership with Marketing, Ops, and Product Managers
- Invent new design patterns, interaction moments, and brand assets that move the Angkas product forward
- Partner deeply with Product, Ops, and Marketing to drive cohesive brand impact and business results
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Design, Psychology, Engineering, Business, or related field (Master's degree preferred).
7+ years in product design (UI/UX) and at least 2 years leading design direction with:
- Proven experience bringing brand personality or narrative into a digital product, not just marketing assets
- Strong interaction design, prototyping, and usability testing skills
- Ability to define and lead workshops (principles, narrative, co-creation)
- Exposure to brand strategy or campaign development
- Design system development in scaling environments
- Proficiency in data analysis and ability to use data and metrics to inform design decisions
- Motion/micro-interaction design capabilities
Specialized skills:
- Capable of influencing cross-functional stakeholders and leadership, thought leader on design and brand
- Portfolio showing examples of design work that increased user pride, motivation, behavior change, or emotional engagement
Benefits
Why join Angkas
- Freedom of work
- Work life balance
- Free meal and use of gym
- Opportunities for promotion
- Start-up environment
- Multi-cultural and Agile work environment
- Diversified use of technology
