Lead Product Designer - Public Sector & Design Leadership

sggovterp; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Housing & Development Board (HDB) in Singapore is seeking a Lead Product Designer to steer design for a product area, lead a team of designers, and collaborate with product and engineering leads to deliver resident- and staff-facing outcomes.

You will drive discovery, planning, and delivery, set quality standards, and ensure accessibility and design-system alignment across services with stakeholders at all levels.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in product design, UX design, service design or a related discipline.
• 2+ years leading or managing designers.
• A portfolio showing shipped work and influence on product decisions.
• Experience leading design on complex, multi-stakeholder products.
• Experience planning design work across a product area: scoping, estimation, sequencing, tracking.
• Strong stakeholder management and evidence-based decision making.
• Competent in using AI tools in day-to-day design work, such as research synthesis and prototyping.
• Strong grasp of design systems, accessibility and interaction design.
• Experience managing and developing designers, and proficiency with tools like Figma.

Responsibilities

• Lead design for a product area end to end, from discovery to post-launch iteration.
• Set quality bar, run design critiques, ensure design intent is shipped.
• Apply and contribute to the central design system for consistency and accessibility.
• Own the design plan, scope work, sequence to milestones, estimate effort, allocate designers.
• Engage stakeholders, present recommendations with clear rationale, secure buy-in.
• Line-manage a team of product designers, set goals, conduct reviews, and coach on craft.

Skills

Product design

UX design

Leadership

Stakeholder management

AI tools in design

Design systems

Accessibility

Figma

Prototyping

Tools

Figma

Job description

Housing & Development Board (HDB) in Singapore is seeking a Lead Product Designer to steer design for a product area, lead a team of designers, and collaborate with product and engineering leads to deliver resident- and staff-facing outcomes.

You will drive discovery, planning, and delivery, set quality standards, and ensure accessibility and design-system alignment across services with stakeholders at all levels.