Principal Designer - AI Workflows & Processes

Government Technology Agency; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Total rewards benefits

Inclusive workplace

Job summary

GovTech in Singapore seeks a senior design leader to drive outcomes across a portfolio of public sector engagements. You will shape how design integrates with product, engineering, data and policy, using AI to enhance workflows and decision-making.

You will mentor designers, build scalable processes, and recruit top talent while guiding teams through rapid experimentation in a fast-paced government environment.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in design with senior or lead experience.
• Proven track record shaping design teams and workflows.
• Genuine curiosity about AI and its impact on design workflows.
• Active experimentation with new workflows and team structures.
• Strong cross-functional credibility with product, engineering, and data leads.
• Experience hiring, developing, and retaining designers.

Responsibilities

• Lead design across a portfolio of agency engagements — owning outcomes, supporting project teams, and driving modernisation across different domains and contexts.
• Shape how the design team's workflows and processes evolve with AI — running experiments across projects, carrying learnings forward, and turning what works into repeatable process.
• Build the collaboration model between design and adjacent streams: product, engineering, data, and business — using AI as a lever to improve how teams work together.
• Identify where new tools need to be built or adopted, from AI-assisted research and synthesis to new ways of prototyping and communicating decisions.
• Hire, mentor, and grow designers — creating the conditions for the team to do their best work across diverse and demanding engagements.

Skills

Design leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

AI in design

Experimentation & learning loops

People management

Job description

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.

AtGovTech, 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 aboutGovTechat tech.gov.sg.

[What you will be working on]

GovTech Consulting embeds expert teams directly with government agencies to modernise services and build lasting in-house capability. We work at the intersection of design, engineering, product, and policy — and AI is changing how all of that fits together.

This role exists because we're at an inflection point. The way design teams work alongside product, engineering, data, and business is shifting fast — and we need someone to lead how we evolve. Not just adopt new tools, but continuously rethink workflows, run structured experiments across projects, carry learnings forward, and build the collaboration models that let every stream work better together.

What you'll do

• Lead design across a portfolio of agency engagements — owning outcomes, supporting project teams, and driving modernisation across different domains and contexts
• Shape how the design team's workflows and processes evolve with AI — running experiments across projects, carrying learnings forward, and turning what works into repeatable process
• Build the collaboration model between design and adjacent streams: product, engineering, data, and business — using AI as a lever to improve how teams work together
• Identify where new tools need to be built or adopted, from AI-assisted research and synthesis to new ways of prototyping and communicating decisions
• Hire, mentor, and grow designers — creating the conditions for the team to do their best work across diverse and demanding engagements

You’ll thrive here if

• You treat workflow and process as real design problems — worth the same rigour as anything you'd ship to a user
• You run experiments to get to outcomes, not just to learn — you close the loop and drive change based on what you find
• You're as comfortable in the weeds of a project as you are setting direction across a portfolio
• You get energy from other people's growth, and see building a strong team as some of the most important work you do

[What we are looking for]

• 12+ years in design, with meaningful time at senior or lead level running teams and cross-functional programmes
• A track record of shaping how design teams operate — not just delivering design work, but improving the workflows and processes around it
• Genuine curiosity about AI and its implications for design workflows — you don't need to have all the answers, but you need to be actively working through the questions
• Over the last one to two years, you've been actively experimenting: new workflows, new team shapes, new ways of collaborating — not just following the conversation, but running your own tests and forming your own views
• Strong cross-functional credibility — someone who can work as a peer with product, engineering, and data leads, not just an advocate for design
• Experience hiring, developing, and retaining designers across different disciplines and levels

What you can expect

• A mandate to shape something genuinely new — this isn't a maintenance role, it's a build role
• Real influence at the team level, with the seniority and space to make calls that matter
• A team that takes design seriously and a leadership group that wants to understand what AI means for how we work — not just what it means for what we build

GovTechis an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that values diverse voices and perspectives, as we believe it is key to innovation.

Our employee benefits are based on a total rewards approach, offering a holistic and market-competitive suiteofperks.

We champion flexible work arrangements (subject to your job role) and trust you to manage your time to deliver your best.

Learn more about life insideGovTechat go.gov.sg/GovTechCareers. Stay connected with us on social media at go.gov.sg/ConnectWithGovTech