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Lead Product Designer

Open Government Products 🇸🇬 Singapore

Full-time

Lead hands-on design for complex government products, turning ambiguous problems and user insights into prototypes and intuitive experiences. Manage and develop 2–3 designers, set design standards, and collaborate with engineers, policymakers, and stakeholders to deliver user-centred outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Lead hands-on design for complex government products, turning ambiguous problems and user insights into prototypes and intuitive experiences. Manage and develop 2–3 designers, set design standards, and collaborate with engineers, policymakers, and stakeholders to deliver user-centred outcomes.

Requirements

  • Candidates should have more than 8 years of digital product design experience, a strong portfolio, excellent visual craft, and practical user research experience. They should be proficient in Figma, communicate effectively across technical and non-technical teams, demonstrate people leadership and conflict-resolution skills, and be motivated by public service; frontend experience is a plus.

Key Skills

Product design leadership Complex government product design User research Prototyping Design systems People management Mentoring designers Design standards setting Cross‑functional collaboration Figma Visual craft Stakeholder communication Conflict resolution Public service motivation Frontend development knowledge Agile methodology

About Open Government Products

Open Government Products is an in-house government team of engineers, designers, and product managers who build technology for the public good. We proactively identify areas where technology can help, test our prototypes with actual users, and bring our best ones to launch. This includes everything from building better frontend applications for citizens, to automating the internal operations of public agencies. We use and release open source software, keep a flat hierarchy, and bypass bureaucracy to focus on delivery. We work on real problems, build for the user, and push for change. Projects we have worked on include: FormSG - A form builder tool for agencies to self-service and create online forms that capture classified data, with the goal of replacing paper forms. Data.gov.sg - An open repository of all the Singapore Government’s public data. It helps people understand the data using visualizations and articles, and provides real-time APIs for developers to use. Parking.sg - A

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