Senior Design Systems Lead – Flexible Work Arrangements

GovTech Singapore; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Learning and development opportunities

Job summary

GovTech Singapore, the public sector digital transformation agency, is hiring for its Design Practice to raise the quality of design across government services. You’ll help build scalable systems, document best practices, and partner with design leaders to grow shared guidance.

You will shape standards, drive the GovTech-wide design system, and work across teams to measure design quality and impact. Flexible work arrangements apply based on role and responsibilities.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience building or contributing to design systems that scale across multiple teams or products.
• Ability to establish standards and create scalable systems across GovTech.
• Experience documenting best practices and creating showcases.
• Strong collaboration with design leads, product teams, and senior leaders.
• Experience shaping tooling decisions, team structures, or practice-level initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Navigate conversations with design leads and product teams to surface gaps, spot wins, and shape what gets standardised.
• Synthesize across teams and document patterns that raise quality.
• Drive the design portal forward as the go-to place for standards, best practices, and learning materials.
• Work on how design quality is measured across the government, building frameworks seen across the community.
• Drive execution on the GovTech-wide design system strategy.

Skills

Design systems

Cross-team collaboration

Documentation

Standards development

Pattern sharing

Job description

GovTech Singapore, the public sector digital transformation agency, is hiring for its Design Practice to raise the quality of design across government services. You’ll help build scalable systems, document best practices, and partner with design leaders to grow shared guidance.

You will shape standards, drive the GovTech-wide design system, and work across teams to measure design quality and impact. Flexible work arrangements apply based on role and responsibilities.