Senior Designer, Design Practice

About the role

GovTech's Design Practice is the central body for growing design across the agency, raising the quality of design and building the design community. It is looking for a Senior Designer who sets standards and builds systems so that good work happens across the organisation. You will document best practices, create showcases and partner with the design system team to grow shared guidance.

Key responsibilities

• Navigate conversations with design leads and product teams to surface gaps, spot wins and shape what gets standardised.
• Synthesise what works across teams and document patterns with design leaders to raise quality.
• Drive the design portal forward as the place designers go for standards, best practices and learning materials.
• Work on how design quality is measured across the government, building frameworks that make impact visible and learnable.
• Drive the execution of the strategic direction for a GovTech-wide design system.

Required profile

• 6+ years of experience building or contributing to design systems that scale across multiple teams or products.
• A keen interest in how design moves the needle at an organisational level, not just within a single project.
• Natural instinct for spotting what should be documented, standardised or shared across teams.
• Ease working across functions and seniority levels, from design leads to practitioners.
• Preferred: hands-on experience shaping tooling decisions, team structures or practice-level initiatives.