Senior Designer, Design Practice

GovTech Singapore, Min. of Social & Family Development; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

GovTech Singapore is the lead agency driving Singapore's Smart Nation initiative and public sector digital transformation. The Senior Designer will join the Design Practice to set standards, build systems, and raise design quality across the organisation.

You will work with design leaders and senior practitioners to shape GovTech's design future. The role is based in Singapore on a hybrid basis, with up to three work-from-home days per week depending on the role.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience building or contributing to design systems that scale across teams or products.
• Interest in organizational-level design impact beyond a single project.
• Natural instinct for what should be documented, standardised, or shared.
• Comfort working across functions and seniority levels—from design leads to practitioners.

Responsibilities

• Surface gaps by talking with design leads and product teams.
• Document and share guidance to raise design quality across teams.
• Own and develop the design portal as the go-to place for standards and learning materials.
• Build frameworks to measure design quality across government.
• Drive execution of GovTech-wide design system direction with the design system team.

Skills

Design systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Documentation & standards

Tooling decisions

Tools

Design tooling

Job description

GovTech Singapore is the lead agency driving Singapore's Smart Nation initiative and public sector digital transformation. As the Centre of Excellence for Infocomm Technology and Smart Systems, GovTech builds the Singapore Government's capabilities across Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Application Development, Smart City Technology, Digital Infrastructure, and Cybersecurity.

The role

The Design Practice is GovTech's central body for growing design quality across the agency, building the design community, and unlocking what design can do for government. This Senior Designer role sits within that small central team and focuses on setting standards and building systems that help good design work happen across the organisation. You would work directly with the head of design practice and design leaders across GovTech, with visibility into how design is shaped at the organisational level.

What you would do

• Talk with design leads and product teams to surface gaps, identify what is working well, and decide what should be standardised.
• Bring together patterns from across teams, working with design leaders to document and share guidance that raises quality.
• Own and develop the design portal as the go-to place for standards, best practices, and learning materials.
• Build frameworks for measuring design quality across government, making impact visible and learnable for the wider community.
• Drive execution on the strategic direction for a GovTech-wide design system, partnering with the design system team.

What they are looking for

• 6 or more years of experience building or contributing to design systems that scale across multiple teams or products.
• Interest in how design creates change at an organisational level, not just within a single project.
• A natural instinct for spotting what should be documented, standardised, or shared across teams.
• Comfort working across functions and seniority levels, from design leads to practitioners doing the day-to-day work.
• Preferred: hands-on experience shaping tooling decisions, team structures, or practice-level initiatives.

Working arrangements

The role is based in Singapore on a hybrid basis, with up to three work-from-home days per week depending on the role.