Principal Creative Technologist, Innovation Team (Consulting Practice)

Government Technology Agency; Singapore; On-site; SGD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A governmental agency in Singapore is seeking a Creative Technologist to lead the prototyping of next-generation public services. This role will involve bridging product design and engineering to create innovative digital solutions aimed at improving service delivery. Ideal candidates will have over 10 years of experience in creative technology and a passion for public service innovation. Join us to help advance our mission in Singapore’s Smart Nation agenda.

Qualifications

• Experience in UX engineering and human-AI interaction.
• Solid understanding of full-stack architecture.
• Strong communicator who bridges technical and non-technical disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Rapidly design and build working prototypes.
• Facilitate co-creation between agencies and partners.
• Set up experiments and proof-of-concepts.

Skills

10+ years of experience in product design and creative technology

Ability to lead projects in multi-stakeholder environments

Familiarity with designing AI-driven experiences

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:

About Consulting Practice:

The Consulting Practice within the Government Technology Office of GovTech helps agencies resolve complex IT challenges, modernize systems and develop innovative solutions with confidence. We bring together deep engineering, product, and design expertise to assess legacy environments, align stakeholders, and shape multi-year solutions that are human-centric, scalable, and delivered by GovTech and industry partners.

Each Consulting team member is a leader in their domain and works collaboratively with GovTech teams and agencies to address the government’s most critical technology challenges. As a founding member, you’ll also shape this growing practice while working on diverse and impactful problems in the public sector.

Role:

As the first Creative Technologist in the Innovation Team, you’ll be at the forefront of prototyping the next generation of public services. You’ll bridge product design and engineering by turning solution concepts into usable, working prototypes in short timeframes.

This role is ideal for someone who embodies the hacking spirit, and brings an experimental approach to making emerging technologies relevant and usable. You’ll operate across the technology stack to help agencies imagine and test new kinds of human–digital interactions that enable more effective service delivery.

• Rapidly design and build working prototypes of new digital experiences, that solve public sector use cases, in innovative ways




• Create tools, workflows, and experimental interfaces that demonstrate what’s possible with human-AI interaction, LLMs, and other new emerging technologies




• Facilitate the co-creation between agencies, GovTech, and industry partners to translate abstract ideas from the lab, into tangible, testable solutions




• Set up the experiments, proof-of-concepts and analytics needed to evaluate the feasibility of innovative solutions




• Capture and share learnings—patterns, playbooks, templates that level up GovTech’s capacity to prototype and innovate quickly

You’ll thrive here if you:

• Embody a culture of experimentation and learning




• Comfortable navigating uncertainty, quick to adapt when things change




• Can shift fluidly between design, coding, evaluating & fine-tuning model outputs, storytelling




• Energised by working in ambiguous spaces at the edge of what is possible




• Influence through building trust, clarity, and collaboration




• Love hacking together working prototypes in days, not months

What we are looking for:

• 10+ years of experience spanning product design, creative technology, UX engineering, data visualisation, human-AI interaction or adjacent fields




• Proven ability to lead projects in complex, multi-stakeholder environments, working with and managing team members across disciplines (design, tech, ops and policy) to bring innovative solutions to life




• Use a variety of design methods, code and AI tooling, to rapidly turn solution concepts into interactive experiences, to validate ideas and technical feasibility




• Solid understanding of software development fundamentals and the full-stack architecture (front-end and back-end) sufficient to communicate effectively with other engineers and understand the implications of design choices.




• Strong communicator and natural collaborator who can bridge technical and non-technical disciplines and bring stakeholders along




• Familiarity with designing and prototyping AI-driven experiences, including working with LLMs, APIs, or custom models (nice-to-have), evaluating outputs, fine-tuning, and shaping emergent user behaviors into usable workflows




• Passion for public service innovation and building technology for societal impact

About Government Technology Agency

The Government Technology Agency (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. We empower our people to master their craft through continuous and robust learning and development opportunities all year round. Our GovTechies embody our Agile, Bold and Collaborative values to deliver impactful solutions. GovTech aims to transform the delivery of Government digital services by taking an "outside-in" view, putting citizens and businesses at the heart of everything we do. 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.