About Grab and our workplace
Grab is Southeast Asia’s leading superapp. We are dedicated to improving the lives of millions of users across the region by providing them everyday services such as deliveries, mobility, financial services, enterprise services and others. More than that, we provide the opportunity for them to have a better life. And that aspiration starts inside Grab because we believe in a seamless blend of work and home life, making every aspect of life better for all.Guided by The Grab Way, which spells out our mission, how we believe we can achieve it, and our operating principles—the 4Hs: Heart, Hunger, Honour and Humility—we work to create economic empowerment for the people of Southeast Asia. With our unwavering commitment to our values, we believe that we're more than a service provider; we're agents of positive change.
Get to know the role
As a Lead Product Designer on the transport team, you will own Product Design outcomes and practise for several problem space teams - owning quality & excellence across these teams. You will work in a highly collaborative fashion, exploring the needs of our users and creating impactful solutions for the business.If you have a user-centric approach, embrace ambiguity and thrive in collaborative environments, then the Grab Design team is the place for you. We’re looking for exceptional designers who are excited by the opportunity to have a major impact on how millions of people across Southeast Asia interact with Grab.
The day-to-day activities
- Drive Product Design outcomes and set direction across teams; driving complex, strategic initiatives.
- Ensure we build the right solutions - addressing value, usability, feasibility and viability, and negotiating any necessary trade-offs with minimal waste, while safeguarding goals.
- Confidently defend design decisions and effectively convince senior stakeholders.
- Drive collaboration across domains, functions and teams; facilitating their alignment and efficiencies by driving discussions, workshops and exploration.
- Drive problem exploration, solution discovery and solution delivery across teams; displaying autonomy to work and navigate complexity independently.
- Act as a force multiplier by helping designers in adjacent teams deliver better work.
- Develop problem-framing approaches, establishing new starting points that lead to new kinds of solutions, affecting strategic thinking, not just execution, across teams.
- Design simple solutions to particularly complex problems; knitting together multiple ‘products’ in an experience and unlocking new value.
- Produce visual design that elevates the quality, consistency, and credibility of user experiences.
- Use a variety of prototyping tools and methods to create highly interactive and realistic prototypes with complex functionality.
The must-haves
- 6+ years Product Design experience.
- Portfolio demonstrating design process, shipped work and impact.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
- Experience working on cross-functional product teams.
- Excellent fundamentals in interaction and visual design craft and practice.
- Experience coaching others in interaction design, visual design or prototyping.
- Excellent knowledge of mobile and front-end web standards and development.
- Experience with Figma, Protopie, After Effects or other design tooling.
The nice-to-haves
Experience in Service Design, User Research, Front-end Development, Accessible Design or Design Systems are all a plus.
