Senior UX Designer: Design Systems & AI Tools

Housing and Development Board; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Housing & Development Board is seeking a Senior UX Designer (Design Systems) in Singapore to lead the design system and AI tooling efforts. You will build components, tokens and documentation, ensure accessibility, and collaborate with engineers using Storybook and Code Connect.

You will drive adoption, governance, and a contribution model, while guiding teams to stay on-system and aligned with WCAG AA standards for government digital services.

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, build and maintain components, patterns and design tokens, including variants, theming and documentation.
• Build accessibility into every component so products meet WCAG AA.
• Collaborate with front-end engineers to align design and code using Code Connect and Storybook.
• Develop AI tools to help designers work faster and stay on-system, e.g. Figma plugins and templates.
• Audit products for drift and contribute to a governance model to manage system growth.

Skills

Product design

UI design

Design systems

Design tokens

Figma

Accessibility WCAG AA

AI tools for design

JavaScript / Figma API

GitHub

Documentation

Storybook

Code Connect

Tools

Figma

Storybook

Code Connect

GitHub

JavaScript

Job description

Housing & Development Board is seeking a Senior UX Designer (Design Systems) in Singapore to lead the design system and AI tooling efforts. You will build components, tokens and documentation, ensure accessibility, and collaborate with engineers using Storybook and Code Connect.

You will drive adoption, governance, and a contribution model, while guiding teams to stay on-system and aligned with WCAG AA standards for government digital services.