Senior Visual and Brand Designer

Ruca Philippines

• Employment Type: 3-Month Contract-to-Hire
• Start Date: ASAP

Ruca is hiring a Senior Visual & Brand Designer to join our PH team. We’re looking for someone who builds brands that resonate—designers who can make people feel something through bold, beautiful, and thoughtful visuals.

You’ll collaborate with our global team to shape brand identities, craft compelling visual systems, and create work that’s as strategic as it is striking. From big-picture ideas to pixel-perfect execution, you’ll bring clarity, consistency, and creativity to everything you touch. We’re looking for someone who is already actively using emerging AI tools, understands how they can improve workflows, applies them thoughtfully to real client work, and shares learnings and best practices with the wider team.

We value self-starters who thrive in fast-paced environments and don’t wait to be told what to do. If you’re a strong communicator, a proactive collaborator, and genuinely care about great design—we’d love to meet you.

Core Responsibilities

• Develop thoughtful, impactful design solutions across web, mobile, print, presentations, social, and more.
• Lead branding projects from concept through execution, delivering cohesive, differentiated visual identities.
• Translate complex ideas into intuitive, engaging visuals that balance brand, business, and user needs.
• Create pitch decks, marketing collateral, and internal documents that are both informative and beautifully designed.
• Collaborate with other designers to maintain a consistent, high-quality brand experience.
• Communicate ideas clearly—visually and verbally—with clients and internal teams.
• Stay sharp on trends, tools, and best practices to keep our work fresh and forward-thinking.
• Integrate AI tools into the design process to improve speed, quality, and creative exploration.
• Identify opportunities where AI can improve workflows across design, collaboration, and delivery.
• Test new tools, features, and workflows, then recommend practical use cases to the team.
• Share learnings, prompts, and best practices with designers and cross-functional teammates.
• Maintain high design standards, critical thinking, and human judgment when using AI-assisted outputs.

Qualifications

• Background & Experience: Bachelor’s degree in relevant field (or equivalent experience).
• 5-10 years of experience in visual, brand, or graphic design—ideally across both B2C and B2B projects
• Strong portfolio showcasing multi-channel work (web, mobile, social, print, etc.)
• Experience creating brand guidelines and building visual systems
• Agency or startup experience is a plus

Skills and Tools

• Proficiency in Adobe CC (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) and Figma
• Bonus: Familiarity with Premiere and After Effects
• Strong grasp of typography, color theory, layout, and information design
• Clear communicator in English—both written and spoken
• Organized, reliable, and able to manage multiple projects at once
• A critical thinker who can both follow and challenge design rules when needed
• Comfortable presenting work and giving/receiving feedback

You might be our person if you geek out over great branding, love a well-kerned headline, and have strong opinions about color palettes (but are chill about it). You’re the kind of designer who’s just as comfortable leading a client call as you are deep in Figma, fine-tuning a layout. You don’t wait around for permission—you jump in, figure things out, and make things better. You care about the details, but you never lose sight of the bigger picture. Most of all, you want to work with a team that values good design, great people, and doing work that actually makes a difference.

ABOUT US

Ruca, a global nomadic tribe. We are a flat, non-hierarchical self-organizing community for creatives by creatives. We are undefined by design. We are a people-first organization allowing our passions to define our paths. We are a home for hustlers to connect, hipsters to dream, and hackers to build cool shit.

Ruca, our deep-rooted beliefs.

• Ruca operates with a common understanding of how the best work gets done. We keep things simple and consistently focus on removing all potential barriers to doing great things together at speed. Our beliefs have stayed the same since we were two people to now more than 70. These themes are crowdsourced from and subscribed to by our co-op members and partners based on why they love Ruca and convene here.
• Remote first
• Light footprint
• No bullshit
• Quiet confidence
• Doers, not reviewers
• Eclectic at speed
• Design kith & kin

https://ruca.co/