
Head of Design at Bjak (United Kingdom)
Bjak · United Kingdom·
Role details
Bjak at a glance
Southeast Asia's largest online insurance comparison platform, letting users compare, buy and renew insurance and roadtax from 16 insurers in one place.
Bjak is a BNM-licensed online marketplace where Malaysians compare quotes from 16 insurers and takaful operators, then buy and renew car, motorcycle, travel, life, medical and home insurance online. It bundles roadtax renewal, roadside assistance, car repair booking and AI tools around the core comparison engine.
Job description
About Doit
We are focused on reinventing how people spend, save, invest, exchange, travel, and more. Our objective is to build tools that will help people get more from their money and become an expert at ease. We believe AI will help make finance smart, assessible and safe.
We are looking for the most talented and driven people we can find. We are looking for people who work for their passion, not counting hours. Who loves building great next-generation products, not status quo. Who cares about redefining how everyone around us can get the best financial applications, not for an exclusive few. We have teams working around the world, with over 20 nationalities and growing from our offices and remotely. Join us and build a better future for our society.
In 2019, we built the first mobile-first, insurance platform, enabling insurance to be accessible online by millions in the region. Today, it's the leading insurance platform in Southeast Asia.
About the Role
The Head of Design will own product design quality across the group's consumer products and brands. This is a hands-on design leadership role with direct involvement in our most important products and user experiences.
What you will be doing
- Set the design direction and quality bar across group products.
- Work directly on or review critical user journeys, product concepts and interfaces.
- Turn complex financial and AI workflows into simple consumer experiences.
- Set standards across product design, interaction, visual design and design systems.
- Review shipped products and identify specific usability and design problems.
- Work with product and engineering from early concepts through production.
- Recruit and assess senior product, UI and brand designers.
What you will need
- Strong portfolio of shipped consumer technology products with meaningful usage.
- Deep product and interaction design capability, not primarily people management.
- Strong visual judgement and attention to interface details.
- Ability to prototype and communicate product interactions directly.
- Experience working closely with product and engineering on shipped products.
- Hands-on design style - able to create, critique and materially improve design work directly.
Portfolio Submission (Mandatory) Applicants are required to submit a portfolio as part of their application. The portfolio should showcase relevant design work, projects, and achievements that demonstrate your experience, creative capabilities, and suitability for the Chief Design Officer role. Please provide a link to your portfolio in the application form. Portfolio submission is mandatory for this role.
Why work at Bjak
- Culture: “Results first” – outcomes over effort; direct feedback; flat organization with minimal bureaucracy; high ownership and speed.
- Work Environment: Remote‑friendly with a “distributed team of experts” and offices in Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, Taiwan, and the UK. Recruiting globally.
- Engineering Focus: Lean, autonomous teams that prioritise product excellence and swift delivery.
- Career Growth: Rapidly scaling company with 356 open roles (including Lead, Founder’s Office, iOS Engineer, DevOps, ML Engineer) – opportunities for impact and advancement.
- Note on Employer Rating: Current Glassdoor-style rating is 2.3/5 (198 reviews) – potential concerns around work‑life balance and compensation. Candidates should verify recent employee sentiment during interviews.