Designer, MOE Digital Excellence & Products Division (Geospatial Team)

Public Service Division; Singapore; On-site; SGD 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A government agency in Singapore is looking for a professional to design geospatial products and mapping interfaces. The role involves creating intuitive visualizations for future education demand forecasts and other planning tools. Candidates should have experience in geospatial design, user research abilities, and strong collaboration skills. This position offers opportunities for impactful work in shaping public policy through technology.

Qualifications

• Experience designing geospatial products, mapping interfaces, or planning systems.
• Familiarity with GIS platforms and spatial data visualization.
• Excellent visual design skills, particularly in interaction design.

Responsibilities

• Design intuitive interfaces for spatial models and visualizations.
• Develop design patterns and guidelines for geospatial tools.
• Conduct user research to understand needs and iterate designs.

Skills

Designing geospatial products

User research skills

Collaboration skills

Visual design skills

Data visualization

Tools

ArcGIS

Web mapping libraries

Job description

What the role is

GovTech is the lead agency driving Singapore’s Smart Nation initiatives and public sector digital transformation. As the Centre of Excellence for Infocomm Technology and Smart Systems (ICT & SS), GovTech develops the Singapore Government’s capabilities in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence, Application Development, Smart City Technology, Digital Infrastructure, and Cybersecurity.

At GovTech, we offer you a purposeful career to make lives better where we empower our people to master their craft through robust learning and development opportunities all year round.

Play a part in Singapore’s vision to build a Smart Nation and embark on your meaningful journey to build tech for public good. Join us to advance our mission and shape your future with us today!

Learn more about GovTech at tech.gov.sg.

What you will be working on

Design Intuitive Spatial Modelling & Planning Interfaces for MOE’s users (Primary)

• Design intuitive interfaces for spatial models that visualise future education demand forecasts, housing growth patterns, demographics, and accessibility insights.
• Create clear visual representations of multi-year scenarios to support decisions on new schools, mergers, campus shifts, capacity planning, and infrastructure renewal.
• Design map-based workflows that allow planners to explore, compare, and interrogate spatial data from URA, SLA, LTA, DOS, HDB, and GovTech.
• Translate complex geospatial data and modelling outputs into understandable visual formats for non-technical users.

Establish MOE-Specific Design Patterns in the Geospatial Platform (Secondary)

• Develop consistent design patterns, components, and interaction models for map-based interfaces across MOE's geospatial tools.
• Design how users interact with geospatial data layers (school locations, travel-time layers, catchments, urban constraints, environmental layers) intuitive and meaningful ways.
• Create design standards and guidelines that ensure geospatial features are accessible, consistent, and user-friendly across different products.
• Work with product and engineering teams to ensure design, feasibility and technical implementation.

Integrate Geospatial Features into MOE Products (Secondary)

• Design mapping and location-intelligence features for existing MOE planning and operating tools such as School Cockpit+.
• Improve decision-making workflows through thoughtful information architecture, visual hierarchy, and interactive map-based interfaces.
>Conduct user research with planners, policy officers, and operational teams to understand their needs, pain points, and decision-making processes.
• Test and iterate designs based on user feedback and real-world usage patterns.

What we are looking for

What Success Looks Like

• Planners can easily understand and trust spatial-modelling outputs through clear, intuitive visualisations.
• A consistent design system for geospatial interfaces used across MOE planning tools.
• Planning teams can efficiently explore spatial data and scenarios to make informed infrastructure decisions.
• Geospatial features are seamlessly integrated into key MOE products with high user satisfaction.
• Strong working relationships with product, engineering, and planning teams that result in user-centred solutions.

Candidate Profile

• Experience designing geospatial products, mapping interfaces, data visualisation tools, or planning systems.
• Familiarity with geospatial concepts and tools (GIS platforms such as ArcGIS, web mapping libraries, spatial data visualisation, 2D/3D mapping interfaces).
• Ability to design for complex data sets including demographics, land-use, transport networks, and spatial relationships.
• Strong user research and usability testing skills, particularly with specialist or technical user groups.
• Excellent visual design skills with attention to information hierarchy, data visualisation, and interaction design.
• Strong collaboration skills with product managers, engineers, planners, and policymakers.
• Design thinking mindset with the ability to translate planning questions and user needs into functional, elegant interfaces.