Product Designer

Growsari is hiring a Junior/Mid Level Product Designer to help us build our design function from the ground up and shape the future of Sari Sari stores in the Philippines.

What is Growsari?

Sari Sari stores are the largest retail channel and source of employment in the country, yet the average store owner barely makes ends meet. This is a disconnect that we want to change. Our teams help stores digitally procure goods for their stores at better prices and free delivery. We then use that same infrastructure to offer hundreds of new ways for stores to earn, such as upgrading them to bills payment and wallet top up points, e-commerce drop-offs, wi-fi hotspots and even ATMs for their communities.

Today marks 9 years in operation. From doing the first deliveries in our own cars, we are now the market leaders in our space, and have assembled an amazing team of alumni from Uber, Boston Consulting Group, Unilever, P&G, Maya, GCash... and even ex Sari Sari store owners. It's been quite a journey and you can read more about our story in
TechCrunch
,
Tech in Asia
, or the
The Ken
.

What is Our Design Challenge?

We solve problems for Sari Sari store owners, with the goal to make each peso in their pocket go further. What makes it interesting is that all store owners interact with us digitally, but for many of them it could be their first time using e-commerce, or even using a smartphone at all. Running a store also has unique pressures. The order volumes, frequencies and other service design aspects of the experience are very different from a typical e-commerce transaction. This adds up to unique design challenges that require interesting approaches to solve them and just replicating what the other big superapp, e-commerce or wallet players won't cut it

Who We Are Looking For?

Responsibilities

• Grow your skills and ownership:
  Work closely with senior designers and product leads, with opportunities to take on more complex projects as you develop your expertise.
• Collaborate across disciplines:
  Partner with product managers, engineers, researchers, and operations to design solutions from discovery through delivery.
• Deliver high-quality design execution:
  Take ownership of design work on key projects, ensuring strong design thinking, attention to detail, and polished outcomes.
• Help craft and evolve our design system:
  Develop scalable components and patterns to support consistent execution across product, engineering, and design teams.
• Solve complex design challenges:
  Work with cross-functional teams to create solutions tailored to our unique user base and context.
• Champion design thinking in the organization:
  Implement design thinking across projects, processes, and testing within the teams.
• Design with purpose:
  Create solutions that directly help small business owners earn more and serve their communities better.

Qualifications

• A versatile design skillset:
  Some prior experience in one or more areas such as user research (quantitative or qualitative), interaction design, information architecture, copywriting, visual design, service design, design systems, or prototyping. You don't need to know it all, just be eager to learn the rest.
• Collaboration experience:
  Comfortable working closely with product, engineering, and data teams to solve design problems together.
• Mission-driven mindset:
  Motivated by empowering underserved communities, with ideas on how design can drive positive change for our store owners.
• Bonus experience in gaming or social UX/UI:
  We're exploring ways to make our store owner experience more engaging and fun — relevant experience in these areas is a plus.
• Fluency with design tools:
  We use Figma, Maze, Miro, Dovetail, and other tools in our process and we're actively adopting AI to speed up research, ideation, and design delivery. We're open to new tools or AI-powered workflows if you can show they'll help us scale

What You Can Expect From Us

• A melting pot of industries:
  There are not many other companies where you get a unique combination of fintech, e-commerce, and social impact
• A diverse team:
  You will hear accents from all corners of the Philippines as well as the rest of SouthEast Asia, Africa, India and North America
• A Philippines-first approach:
  We build everything in house, from the ground up. No waiting on the regional prioritization and resourcing that you often experience in other big regional tech companies in the Philippines
• Freedom in how you work:
  Your choice on preferred software and when you come into office. As long as you deliver results, we don't care about the time card or when you want to take leave

Ready to design with impact?

When applying, share 1–2 case studies that show how you approached a design challenge, we love seeing your thinking process as much as the final design.