Senior Designer
Summary
Senior Product Designer at GovTech/MOE's Digital Excellence & Products Division in Singapore, leading end-to-end design for a teaching-and-learning product team (including the Student Learning Space platform). Day to day: discovery, prototyping, specs, and iteration, plus running research with students and teachers alongside a PM and engineers.
Senior Designer, Student Mission
(MOE)
About GovTech
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.
About MOE DXD
At the Digital Excellence & Products Division (DXD) within the Ministry of Education (MOE),
we drive MOE's digital transformation by creating and delivering reliable, high-quality, and
impactful digital products and services. Spanning technology, data, and AI, our initiatives
enhance user experiences for students, educators, parents, school leaders, and MOE
officers. We design and maintain digital solutions that strengthen teaching and learning,
support data-driven decision-making, simplify work, and ultimately contribute to better
educational outcomes.
About the Student Mission
The Student Mission at DXD aims to empower every student to learn with confidence,
agency, and joy by creating digital products and services that foster holistic growth and
learning, both inside and outside the classroom. One of our core products is MOE’s online
learning platform, the Student Learning Space (SLS). Working closely with schools,
educators, students, and various MOE divisions, we ensure that digital teaching and learning
forms a cohesive experience that achieves intended education outcomes.About the role
We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to lead the design of one of the product
teams in teaching and learning. You will work directly with a product manager and
engineers as the designer on the team, taking work from discovery through to delivery.
Working with a Design Lead and designers on the other Student Mission teams, you will:
Drive the design of your product team, from understanding the problem to shipping
and iterating evidence
Run research with students and teachers so that design decisions are based on
Keep your product team consistent with the rest of the student ecosystem
This role reports to the Design Lead of the Student Mission.
What You Will Do
Lead design for your product team end to end, including discovery, flows, prototypes,
specifications, and iteration after launch
Work with your PM and engineers to shape scope, make trade-offs, and ship
Plan and run research and usability testing, and combine the findings with
behavioural data
Work with education technology and curriculum specialists so designs support how
students learn, including how content and UI work together
Use and contribute to shared patterns, and align with designers from other product
teams within the Student Mission, as well as with designers from other missions
when there is a need to do so
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Take part in critiques and support other designers through feedback
What We Are Looking For
At least 8 years in digital product design, with a portfolio showing complex products shipped
Strong interaction design, visual design, and prototyping skills, including evidence of
designing for accessibility and content-heavy interfaces
Experience owning design for a product area and working closely with PMs and
engineers
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Hands-on experience planning and running user research and usability testing●
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Sound judgement in ambiguous situations, and the ability to explain your design
decisions clearly
Attention to detail combined with an eye for consistency across products
Thoughtful, intentional use of AI tools in your design workflow
Nice to have
Experience designing for education or learning platforms
Experience doing research with children or young people
Familiarity with the public sector or large-scale platforms