Director / Deputy Director, Design Management - Data Programme

GovTech is the lead agency driving Singapore’s Smart Nation initiatives and public sector digital transformation. As the Centre of Excellence for Infocomm Technology and Smart Systems (ICT & SS), GovTech develops the Singapore Government’s capabilities in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence, Application Development, Smart City Technology, Digital Infrastructure, and Cybersecurity.

At GovTech, we offer you a purposeful career to make lives better where we empower our people to master their craft through robust learning and development opportunities all year round.

Play a part in Singapore’s vision to build a Smart Nation and embark on your meaningful journey to build tech for public good. Join us to advance our mission and shape your future with us today!

Learn more about GovTech at tech.gov.sg.

[What you will be working on]

GovTech builds the digital infrastructure behind Singapore's Smart Nation vision. The Data Programme is focused on one of the harder problems in that space: how analysts, engineers, and policymakers across government discover, access, and make sense of data that shapes real decisions.

As a Director / Deputy Director, Design Management, you'd be the most senior design voice in the programme — setting direction, defining what good looks like, and building interaction models that don't really have a playbook yet.

• Lead discovery across the data ecosystem — uncovering where agencies get stuck accessing, understanding, and acting on government data
• Design interaction models that span the full stack: UI, APIs, CLI, and AI-driven interfaces, with coherence across all of them
• Define the principles and patterns for how data is surfaced, trusted, and used in high-stakes, sensitive environments
• Shape how the programme thinks about design — influencing product, engineering, and policy on what good looks like and why it matters
• Drive adoption of what gets built, treating usage and impact as design problems, not someone else's problem

You'll thrive here if

• You think in systems and interaction paradigms, not just screens
• You're energised by problems that don't have established playbooks
• You hold a strong point of view and know how to bring senior stakeholders along with it
• You care as much about whether something gets used as whether it gets built

[What we are looking for]

• 12+ years of experience, with a track record at principal level — shaping platforms, ecosystems, or systems-scale products in multi-stakeholder environments
• Deep experience with data-heavy products: search, APIs, dashboards, or developer tooling
• Technical fluency — comfortable enough with APIs and data models to co-create with engineers, not just hand off to them
• A portfolio that shows paradigm-level thinking, not just execution; experience in AI-native interactions or regulated/public sector environments is a strong plus

What you can expect

A genuinely novel problem and the seniority to shape how it gets solved — this is not an execution role- Work with real consequences: the data infrastructure you help define underpins how government operates and makes decisions

GovTech is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that values diverse voices and perspectives, as we believe it is key to innovation.

Our employee benefits are based on a total rewards approach, offering a holistic and market-competitive suite of perks.

We champion flexible work arrangements (subject to your job role) and trust you to manage your time to deliver your best.

Learn more about life inside GovTech at go.gov.sg/GovTechCareers.

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