Senior Product Design Lead — Government & Enterprise

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

Job summary

The Housing & Development Board (HDB) is building digital products and services that improve the lives of Singaporeans. We are looking for a Lead Product Designer to lead design for a product area, manage a team of product designers, and work alongside product and engineering leads to deliver outcomes for residents and staff.

You will guide design from discovery to launch, set quality standards, contribute to the central design system for consistency and accessibility, and plan work to align

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in product design, UX design, service design or a related discipline, with 2+ years leading or managing designers.
• A portfolio showing shipped work, the process behind it, and your influence on product decisions.
• Experience leading design on complex, multi-stakeholder products, ideally in government, enterprise or regulated environments.
• A track record of planning and running design work across a product area: scoping, estimation, sequencing and tracking.
• Strong stakeholder management: you build alignment, present clearly, and hold your ground on design decisions with evidence.
• Competent in using AI tools in day-to-day design work, such as research synthesis, content drafting, exploration and prototyping.
• Strong grasp of design systems, accessibility and interaction design.
• Experience managing and developing designers.
• Proficiency with design tools such as Figma.

Responsibilities

• Design leadership: lead design for a product area end to end, set quality bars, run design critique, ensure design intent in ships.
• Design planning and delivery: own the design plan, scope, sequence, estimate effort, allocate designers, surface risks, track progress.
• Stakeholder engagement: be the design voice for the product area, present recommendations with clear rationale, secure buy-in.
• People management: line-manage a team of product designers, set goals, conduct reviews, build development plans, coach on craft.

Skills

Product design

UX design

Service design

Leadership

Stakeholder management

AI in design

Design systems

Tools

Figma

Job description

The Housing & Development Board (HDB) is building digital products and services that improve the lives of Singaporeans. We are looking for a Lead Product Designer to lead design for a product area, manage a team of product designers, and work alongside product and engineering leads to deliver outcomes for residents and staff.

You will guide design from discovery to launch, set quality standards, contribute to the central design system for consistency and accessibility, and plan work to align