Principal Product Manager, Developer Productivity

GovTech Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

GovTech Singapore seeks a Principal Product Manager to lead the developer productivity platform, shaping the strategy across a broad portfolio and aligning with government needs. You will drive adoption across agencies, partner with policy, security, and operations, and define an AI-enabled tooling roadmap, balancing innovation with governance.

You will also own go-to-market, pricing, and communications, mentoring PMs and collaborating with engineering, policy, and leadership to deliver

Qualifications

• Significant experience in product management with multi-product portfolios.
• Experience working with developer tools and AI-enabled workflows.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the product strategy for GovTech's developer productivity portfolio.
• Drive Whole-of-Government adoption and stakeholder engagement for developer tools.
• Lead AI-enabled tooling initiatives and shape the product vision for scale.
• Own go-to-market, pricing strategy, and cross-functional communications for adoption.

Job description

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.

The Developer Productivity Programme equips thousands of government engineers with the platforms, tools, and practices they need to ship faster, more safely, and with greater confidence. This is a platform product role. The programme's product suite spans CI/CD, Managed Runtimes, AI tooling and enablement, as well as surfacing data, insights and productivity metrics to stakeholders. We serve close to 100 government agencies and thousands of developers, including vendors who build and maintain government systems.

A key part of the programme's direction is deepening AI usage for developers, from running experiments and building agentic workflows to ensuring the right security guardrails are in place for AI-assisted development at scale. We are seeking a Principal Product Manager who combines strong product leadership with a genuine understanding of developers and how they work. The best person for this role has a feel for what makes developer tools great, cares deeply about the developer experience, and can bring both strategic vision and practical credibility to the role.

[What you will be working on]

Product Strategy, Portfolio Health and New Product Development

• You will own the product strategy across the programme's full portfolio. This means building strategy grounded in user insights, market trends, and organisational goals, translating them into OKRs and long-term roadmaps, and driving execution within and across teams.
• You will define the right success metrics across the programme and products, track them consistently, and follow up to ensure the insights are being acted on. Products must not just be built and launched but actively used, delivering genuine value to users, and financially sustainable.
• You will also be expected to envision what comes next. This means identifying opportunities the programme has not yet addressed, staying close to where the developer landscape is heading, and working with the Product Managers to develop and execute on new product ideas.

Whole-of-Government Adoption and Stakeholder Engagement

• You will drive adoption of developer productivity tools across the Whole of Government. Government agencies are at different stages of digital maturity and the approach must account for that, meeting agencies where they are while progressively raising the bar. You will work with counterparts from engineering, policy, security, and operations to unblock challenges in product rollouts, whether navigating policy constraints, meeting security and compliance requirements, or building the guardrails that allow teams to move forward.

AI Product Leadership

• You will define how the programme's products evolve to support an AI-native software development lifecycle. The programme works with and integrates AI developer tools, including building components and workflows that extend their capabilities for the government context. You will shape the product vision for AI-enabled developer tooling at scale, ensuring the portfolio helps government engineering teams adopt AI across how they write, review, test, and ship code.

Go-to-Market Leadership

• You will own the go-to-market function for the programme's products, including platform pricing strategy and working with Comms and Marketing on positioning and communications. You are accountable for ensuring that what gets built also gets adopted.

Team Leadership and Talent Development

• You will lead and grow a team of Product Managers, setting high standards for product craft and mentoring individuals on analysis, strategy, and execution.

[What we are looking for]

• Significant experience in product management, with a proven track record of owning product strategy for complex, multi-product portfolios and driving outcomes across multiple teams.
• A developer or engineering background, or deep experience working alongside engineering teams. Someone who has used developer tools, has strong opinions about what makes them good, and can speak with authority on what great looks like. The kind of person who tinkers, experiments out of curiosity, and instinctively understands the difference between a tool that empowers developers and one that gets in their way.
• Deep empathy for developers as users and a clear understanding of what enterprises and government agencies need from developer tooling at scale, including how to navigate policy constraints and compliance requirements without blocking adoption.
• Demonstrated ability to build product strategy from user insights and market trends. Experience owning go-to-market strategy including pricing, positioning, and communications.
• Strong cross-organisational skills. Able to work with counterparts from engineering, policy, operations, and other product teams, influence at the executive level, and build the relationships needed to get things done in a complex organisation.
• Proven ability to cultivate high-performing teams, mentor product managers, and actively develop future leaders.
• Actively experimenting with AI tools and thinking about what they mean for the developer experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Able to be an authoritative voice on what good product looks like, and communicate clearly with engineers and senior leadership alike.

What we offer you:

• 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 programs.
• 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.

GovTech is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that values diverse voices and perspectives, as we believe that diversity is the foundation to innovation.

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

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