Senior UX Designer - Map Visualisation

Join TomTom as a Senior UX Designer - Map Visualisation, where you’ll help create powerful, easy-to-use mapping products that delight customers, from millions of drivers to automotive partners embedding TomTom technologies in their vehicles.

• Contract: Employee, Full Time
• Category: Product
• Team: UX
• Department: Product Engineering

What You'll Do

• Design compelling map experiences by creating and refining 2D and 3D map visualisations from concept through production delivery. Own the end-to-end cartographic design process, from data exploration and sketching through to style implementation, QA, and iteration across zoom levels, regions, and use cases.
• Maintain and evolve core map styles, ensuring consistency, readability, and visual quality across platforms, screen densities, and global markets while balancing aesthetic ambition with rendering performance and data constraints.
• Collaborate with engineering teams building TomTom's map data structures, renderers and SDKs. Contribute to solution design discussions, provide clear design specifications, review visual output during development, and participate in agile workflows, pull request reviews, and feature development cycles.
• Contribute to renderer and tooling requirements by defining data and rendering capabilities needed to achieve design goals, shaping internal cartographic authoring tools, and identifying workflow improvements.
• Inform decisions with research and data through user research, customer conversations, and competitive benchmarking to advocate for improvements that address real user needs.
• Support the design system and standards by documenting patterns, conventions, and cartographic guidelines that enable consistency and scale across the product portfolio.

What You'll Need

• Strong professional background in digital cartography, GIS, or geographic information design.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing multi-zoom digital maps with attention to cartographic conventions, label placement, generalisation, and cultural adaptation.
• Working proficiency with key mapping technologies and ecosystems: MapLibre, Mapbox GL JS, OpenStreetMap data and tooling, QGIS, ArcGIS, Leaflet, OpenLayers, or comparable platforms.
• Experience working with diverse spatial datasets such as vector tiles, raster tiles, GeoJSON, shapefiles, point clouds, or terrain data.
• Solid geographic knowledge and familiarity with cartographic standards across regions and cultures.

Map Visualisation & Rendering

• Demonstrated ability to build visually compelling 2D and 3D map experiences, from thematic styling and terrain visualisation to street-level detail.
• Good understanding of real-time rendering concepts as they apply to maps: style layers, zoom interpolation, data-driven styling, symbol rendering, and performance considerations.
• Proficiency in photorealistic or stylised rendering of real-world environments within a mapping context.

Software Development Collaboration

• Proven experience working inside product engineering teams, not just handing off designs. You're comfortable with agile methodologies, sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Familiarity with software development workflows: version control (Git), pull requests, code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, and feature branching.
• Ability to read technical documentation and engage meaningfully with engineers on implementation trade-offs. You don't need to write code, but you need to understand how your designs translate into a rendering pipeline.
• Experience contributing to or consuming solution design documents, technical specifications, and cross-functional planning processes.

Senior-Level Craft & Collaboration

• 5+ years of relevant professional experience in UX design, cartographic design, GIS, geospatial visualisation, or a closely related discipline.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Cartography, Geography, GIS, UX Design, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Ability to build clear, concise prototypes and specification documentation that bridge design and engineering.
• Strong visual and graphic design fundamentals: typography, colour theory, hierarchy, and layout.
• User-centric mindset with a collaborative, low-ego approach to problem-solving.
• High attention to detail and genuine passion for the craft of map making.

Nice to Have

• Experience with game engines or 3D content pipelines (Unity, Unreal Engine, Blender) and their application to geospatial visualisation.
• Familiarity with front-end development languages (JavaScript/TypeScript, WebGL, GLSL) or scripting for cartographic automation (Python, PostGIS, Overpass API).
• Experience with map data processing tools and pipelines: Tippecanoe, Tilemaker, osm2pgsql, Mapnik, or similar.
• Understanding of the automotive, fleet management, or logistics industries and their mapping requirements.
• Familiarity with emerging trends in spatial computing, AR navigation, or digital twins.
• Experience contributing to design systems at scale.

What we offer

A competitive compensation package, of course.

Time and resources to grow and develop, including a personal development budget and paid leave for learning days, as well as paid access to e-learning resources such as O’Reilly and LinkedIn Learning.

Time to support life outside of work, with enhanced parental leave plus paid leave to care for loved ones and volunteer in local communities.

Work flexibility, where TomTom’ers, in agreement with their manager and team, use both the office and home to focus, collaborate, learn and socialize. It’s all about getting the best out of both worlds – we ask TomTom’ers to come to the office two days a week, and the remaining three are free to be worked in either location.

Improve your home office with a setup budget and get extra support with a monthly allowance.

Enjoy options to work from your home country and abroad for a set number of days each year, to visit family and friends, or to simply explore the world we’re mapping.

Take the holidays you want with a competitive holiday plan, plus an extra day off to celebrate your birthday.

Join annual events like our Hackathon and DevDays to bring your ideas to life with talented teammates from around the world.

Meet your team

We’re the User Experience Design team. Fueled by user insights and data analytics, our mission is to create powerful, easy-to-use products that delight our customers, from millions of drivers to automotive customers who embed our technologies in their vehicles. We deliver the design specifications for all TomTom’s products. Joining us, you'll be part of a team that brings together design disciplines from user research to interaction, concept and visual design. Together, we'll continue to develop a map that people trust all around the world.

At TomTom...

You’ll help people find their way in the world by contributing to the first-ever real-time map.

Work with a team of 3,600+ unique, curious and passionate problem-solvers helping car manufacturers, enterprises and developers better understand and navigate the world around them.