ux designer for digital cartography

TomTom develops real-time digital maps and navigation technologies for car manufacturers, enterprises, developers, and drivers worldwide.

• Set and evolve the long-term visual direction for TomTom's 2D and 3D map rendering;
• Establish design principles that scale across product lines, platforms, and global markets;
• Partner with graphics and platform engineers to specify, develop, and validate rendering capabilities in the Premium Map Display engine;
• Translate design intent into renderer specifications covering lighting models, shader parameters, level-of-detail strategies, and style-layer behaviour;
• Participate in solution design reviews, pull requests, and sprint ceremonies;
• Own map experiences from ideation through prototyping, implementation, and production delivery;
• Enhance and maintain TomTom's core map styles while balancing aesthetics, readability, and runtime performance;
• Shape product and roadmap decisions across visual fidelity, rendering performance, SDK compatibility, and data constraints;
• Influence the Map Visualisation roadmap with Product Management, Map Data, and Engineering leadership;
• Define requirements for internal cartographic design tooling and authoring pipelines;
• Identify workflow gaps and advocate for tooling investments;
• Participate in user research, customer success conversations, and competitive analysis;
• Translate customer feedback into design and rendering improvements.

• Deep expertise in digital cartography, multi-zoom map design, and cartographic conventions across cultures and regions;
• Proven experience building advanced 2D and 3D map experiences from lane-level detail to global overviews;
• Extensive experience with spatial datasets and geospatial data pipelines;
• Strong understanding of real-time 3D rendering concepts, including shaders, lighting, modeling, texturing, level-of-detail, post effects, and runtime performance optimization;
• Experience working within and influencing a rendering technology stack, including mapping libraries such as MapLibre and Mapbox GL JS and game engines such as Unity;
• Proficiency in graphical styles ranging from photorealistic to stylised rendering of real-world environments;
• Significant experience working inside product engineering teams;
• Understanding of agile methodologies, CI/CD workflows, git, pull request reviews, branching strategies, and feature-flag rollouts;
• Ability to read and reason about code and engage with engineers on technical implementation details and architectural decisions;
• Fluency with solution design documents, technical specifications, and cross-functional RFC processes;
• 8+ Years of relevant professional experience in UX design, technical art, cartographic design, or a closely related discipline;
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Cartography, Geography, GIS, Computer Science, UX Design, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience;
• Ability to drive alignment across engineering, product, and design without direct authority;
• Experience influencing technical and product roadmaps at an organisational level;
• Strong documentation, storytelling, and presentation skills;
• Deep user empathy and pragmatic product thinking;
• Comfort navigating ambiguity in complex, multi-layered technology stacks;
• Collaborative, low-ego working style with the ability to build trust across teams and with customers;
• High attention to detail and passion for craft at every zoom level;
• Nice to have: Hands-on proficiency in front-end development such as JavaScript and WebGL, experience in the automotive, fleet management, or logistics industries, familiarity with consumer location-technology products and spatial computing, AR navigation, or digital twins, experience defining or contributing to design systems at scale.

• Competitive compensation package;
• Personal development budget and paid leave for learning days;
• Paid access to O’Reilly and LinkedIn Learning;
• Enhanced parental leave;
• Paid leave to care for loved ones and volunteer in local communities;
• Office and home flexibility with two office days per week and three days worked from either location;
• Home office setup budget and monthly allowance;
• Options to work from the home country and abroad for a set number of days each year;
• Competitive holiday plan and an extra birthday day off;
• Annual Hackathon and DevDays events;
• Inclusive global culture with a diverse community of over 80 nationalities;
• Additional local benefits tailored to the employee's location.