Ashiful Haque Pappu is a product designer at Grab. He has years of design experience across Bangladesh and Singapore, and his path runs from freelancing to a first job, to Pathao, and then to Singapore and Grab.
In this episode Ahmed Fahad talks with Pappu about how he started in design and freelancing, his job application and interview process, and the skills you need to land a $70,000 to $120,000 design job at a company like Grab. He also shares salary ranges for different design roles. At the time of this episode (July 2022), the description lists these monthly ranges in SGD:
- Product designer: S$8-9k
- Senior product designer: S$9-12k
- Lead product designer: S$12-15k
- Manager: S$14-15k
- Senior manager: S$17-18k
What the conversation covers
- Early life and starting design
- His first income and first job
- Joining Pathao
- Getting a job in Singapore, and the interview process
- Salary ranges for design jobs
- Joining Grab, and his projects there
- What skills a product designer should have
- Salary ranges at Grab
- Advice to designers
The conversation is in Bangla.