Senior Design Technologist: AI Tools & Design System Lead

HDB Housing & Development Board; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

HDB Housing & Development Board in Singapore seeks a Senior Design Technologist to design, build and evolve our design system and AI tooling. You will ensure accessibility, write tokenized components and collaborate with designers and front-end engineers to keep products on-system.

You will create AI-enabled design workflows, plugins and templates, document the system for adoption, and govern contributions across squads to maintain consistency and quality.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in product design, UI design, design engineering or a related discipline, with 2+ years working on a design system.
• A portfolio showing design system work: components, tokens, documentation, and the effect on the teams who use them.
• Strong grasp of component architecture, design tokens, variants and theming in Figma.
• Working knowledge of accessibility standards, including WCAG AA, and how to build them into components.
• Experience building AI tools for design work, such as Figma plugins, custom agents, skills or prompt templates.
• Experience making design system content usable by AI tools, such as structured documentation or MCP servers.
• Ability to write scripts with the Figma API, JavaScript or similar to automate design tasks.
• Comfortable working in GitHub with engineers.
• Clear writing for documentation and guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Design system: design, build and maintain components, patterns and design tokens with theming and accessibility.
• AI tooling: build AI tools (Figma plugins, agents, templates) and document them for on-system use.
• Adoption and governance: support design teams, audit for drift, and manage a contributed design system.

Skills

Design system experience

Portfolio of design system work

Figma proficiency

Accessibility (WCAG AA)

AI tools for design

AI-ready design system docs

Scripting with Figma API / JavaScript

GitHub collaboration with engineers

Technical writing for guidelines

Tools

Figma

Code Connect

Storybook

GitHub

Job description

HDB Housing & Development Board in Singapore seeks a Senior Design Technologist to design, build and evolve our design system and AI tooling. You will ensure accessibility, write tokenized components and collaborate with designers and front-end engineers to keep products on-system.

You will create AI-enabled design workflows, plugins and templates, document the system for adoption, and govern contributions across squads to maintain consistency and quality.