Lead UX Designer – Public Sector Product Leadership

Housing and Development Board; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

The Housing & Development Board (HDB) is building digital products and services for residents and staff in Singapore. We are seeking a Lead UX Designer to lead design for a product area, manage a team of product designers, and collaborate with product and engineering leads to deliver outcomes.

You will drive design from discovery through delivery, set quality standards, and align stakeholders around user-centered decisions. You will mentor designers and scale design systems across programs.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in product/UX/service design or related field with 2+ years leading designers.
• Portfolio showing shipped work and influence on product decisions.
• Experience leading design on complex, multi-stakeholder products, ideally in government, enterprise or regulated environments.
• Experience planning and running design work across a product area: scoping, estimation, sequencing and tracking.
• Strong stakeholder management; align, present clearly, defend design decisions with evidence.
• Competent in using AI tools for research synthesis, content drafting, exploration and prototyping.
• Strong grasp of design systems, accessibility and interaction design.
• Experience managing and developing designers.
• Proficiency with design tools such as Figma.

Responsibilities

• Lead design end-to-end for a product area, from discovery to post-launch iteration.
• Set the quality bar, run design critique, and ensure design intent ships.
• Manage and develop a team of UX designers, including goal setting and performance reviews.
• Engage with stakeholders; secure buy-in and present design decisions with clear rationale.

Skills

Experience leading designers

Shipped product design portfolio

Stakeholder management

AI tools in design

Design systems & accessibility

Experience managing and developing/des

Cross-functional collaboration

Regulated environments experience

Tools

Figma

Job description

The Housing & Development Board (HDB) is building digital products and services for residents and staff in Singapore. We are seeking a Lead UX Designer to lead design for a product area, manage a team of product designers, and collaborate with product and engineering leads to deliver outcomes.

You will drive design from discovery through delivery, set quality standards, and align stakeholders around user-centered decisions. You will mentor designers and scale design systems across programs.