AI-Driven Design System Lead & Ops

1011 United Overseas Bank Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

1011 United Overseas Bank Ltd is seeking a Design System Lead to drive Design Operations for UOB TMRW across native mobile and web platforms. The role focuses on building a reliable design system foundation with reusable components, templates, tokens and clear guidance that teams can apply with confidence.

You will set priorities, guide a design system team and collaborate with technology partners to align standards with implementation.

Qualifications

• Proven design system leadership.
• Significant experience in digital product/experience design leading design systems.
• Strong craft in reusable interface design, patterns and design tokens.
• Experience with Figma libraries and components.
• Experience supporting native mobile and web products with platform conventions.
• Design-to-development collaboration across teams.
• AI and automation awareness in design workflows.
• Team leadership and capability development.
• Experience in complex organisations; financial services exposure is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design system’s direction and priorities.
• Define and manage the design system roadmap across native mobile and web.
• Translate requests from teams and markets into priorities.
• Develop and maintain a high-quality, reusable system.
• Lead the development and maintenance of components, patterns, templates, design tokens and usage guidance.
• Ensure design system addresses visual design, interaction, accessibility and states.
• Partner with engineering to align libraries with implementations.
• Support cross-market consistency while accommodating localisation and variations.
• Establish governance and contribution processes for design system changes.
• Maintain visibility of changes, dependencies and exceptions.

Skills

Design system leadership

Experience design

Figma libraries

Native + web

Design-to-development

AI awareness

Team leadership

Component architecture

Tools

Figma

Job description

1011 United Overseas Bank Ltd is seeking a Design System Lead to drive Design Operations for UOB TMRW across native mobile and web platforms. The role focuses on building a reliable design system foundation with reusable components, templates, tokens and clear guidance that teams can apply with confidence.

You will set priorities, guide a design system team and collaborate with technology partners to align standards with implementation.