Deputy Director/ Assistant Director, Product Strategy Office

Government Technology Agency; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established agency is seeking an experienced digital product manager to lead strategic initiatives that advance Singapore's Smart Nation agenda. This role involves developing and executing product strategies that address national priorities, collaborating with various teams, and guiding a talented group towards impactful solutions. With a focus on public good, this position offers a unique opportunity to influence government digital services on a large scale. Join a dynamic team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning, and make a meaningful impact in the digital transformation of public services.

Benefits

Flexible Work Arrangements

Employee Wellness Programmes

Leave Benefits

Continuous Learning Opportunities

Qualifications

• 8-12 years in digital product management with a proven track record.
• Strong communicator with skills in influencing senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product strategy and align with senior leaders.
• Identify key national priorities and set up impactful programmes.

Skills

Digital Product Management

Stakeholder Communication

Problem Solving

Data Analysis

Agile Methodologies

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

Product Management Tools

Data Analytics Software

Job description

What the role is:

The Government Technology Agency (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. We empower our people to master their craft through continuous and robust learning and development opportunities all year round. Our GovTechies embody our Agile, Bold and Collaborative values to deliver impactful solutions.

GovTech aims to transform the delivery of Government digital services by taking an "outside-in" view, putting citizens and businesses at the heart of everything we do.

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.

Who we are:

The Product Strategy Office’s mission is to maximise GovTech’s resources to solve the most impactful problems, effectively and efficiently. We define GovTech’s overall product strategy, catalyse the setup of key programmes that solve national-level priorities and implement the processes and mechanisms to identify key problem areas and review products/programmes in terms of their product effectiveness, efficiency and iterative speed.

This role reports to the Director of Product Strategy Office and offers a rare opportunity to shape GovTech's product direction in driving strategic initiatives that advance Singapore's Smart Nation agenda.

What you will be working on:

• Product Strategy Development and Execution
  • Own end to end strategy for key areas and drive alignment with senior leaders across multiple teams including tech, policy and business.
  • Develop key product metrics to measure impact against problem areas, product effectiveness, efficiency and iterative velocity, across GovTech’s product portfolio, to inform resource allocation.
  • Identifying key problems and blockers against product strategy, such as (i) setting up a process to define the impactful problem areas to solve for; and (ii) removing barriers to product adoption.
  • Managing product doctrines, strategies and best practices like a product, in terms of developing them as a POC, taking in learning, ground realities from forward-deployed Product Leads, and iterating on it.
• Strategic Programme Set Up and Execution
  • Identify key problem areas of national priority and catalyse the set up of programmes to tackle these areas. This includes working with teams to align on the problem statement, set the north-star metric, overall direction and R&Rs.
  • Guide teams in implementing best product practices, such as frameworks for product development, metrics and review methodologies.
  • For selected programmes, you will drive it as the Product Lead, leading product teams towards the north star. This would include defining the product vision, roadmap, strategy and drive full lifecycle development of products within the programme, from ideation to POC, POV, launch, scale and maintenance.
  • This is to (i) ensure the execution from strategy to implementation; (ii) tighten the feedback loop to improve strategy; and (iii) translate doctrine, strategies and practices to the programme to ensure product excellence & innovation.
• Product/Programme Reviews
  • Drive reviews and recommendations for GovTech's products, getting alignment from management and product teams.
  • Establish frameworks to measure and improve product success.

Why join:

• Rare opportunity to develop and execute the Singapore government’s product strategy, to impact public good at scale vs. managing a single product/product suite.
• Own and drive overall product strategy that influences the organisation, with frequent reviews and high visibility with leadership.
• Gain broad perspective across government by working with leaders and understanding their priorities and plans.
• Learn from, make impact and mentor a young team with experience from Bytedance, Carousell, Klarna, Shopback, Ninjavan, Shopee.

What we are looking for:

• 8 – 12 years’ experience in digital product management, with a track record of leading complex product initiatives across multiple product teams.
• PM knowledge, especially in terms of articulating the impact of the problem and root cause, setting the right vision and success metrics, and discerning realistic technical requirements. Experience in enterprise, backend and data products a plus.
• Hands-on, with end-to-end ownership of the problem. Energised by large, ambiguous problem spaces and able to independently break it down into workable chunks.
• Strong communicator in written, slides or spoken form, with proven skills in influencing multiple senior stakeholders and teams without direct authority.
• Interest in guiding a young team and the larger organisation in the PM skillset.
• Entrepreneurial, corporate/business strategy, government experience a plus.

Our employee benefits are based on a total rewards approach, offering a holistic and market-competitive suite of perks. These include leave benefits to meet your work-life needs and employee wellness programmes.

We champion flexible work arrangements (subject to your job role) and trust that you will manage your own time to deliver your best, wherever you are, and whatever works best for you.

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

Stay connected with us on social media at go.gov.sg/ConnectWithGovTech.