Product Manager

Alpha Z; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Alpha-Z is seeking a product manager to turn AI-driven capabilities into a practical product. You will work with founders, engineers, and researchers to translate user problems into concrete requirements, flows, prototypes, and acceptance criteria.

You will break down priorities, drive execution through development, testing, and release, and design AI-powered workflows with review and validation by users. Strong OR background and Python basics preferred; 1–3 years experience welcome.

Qualifications

• Background in Operations Research or related quantitative field with hands-on optimization.
• Strong execution and attention to detail; turn ambiguity into clear tasks.
• Experience prototyping AI-enabled workflows and validating outputs with user review.
• Technical fluency to work with engineers; understand APIs and data flows; Python basics.
• Clear communication and product judgment to make complex workflows understandable.
• 1–3 years of relevant experience; recent graduates welcome; PM experience not required.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with founders, engineers, and researchers to translate capabilities into a usable product.
• Translate user problems into clear requirements, user flows, prototypes, and acceptance criteria.
• Break down priorities into actionable tasks and drive development, testing and release.
• Design AI-powered workflows linking understanding, optimization modeling, solver execution, and result interpretation with user validation.
• Build test cases with researchers, gather user feedback, and drive improvements in quality and usability.

Skills

Operations Research

Python

Product management

AI workflows

Clear communication

Tools

APIs

Data flows

Job description

What you'll do

• Work with the founders, engineers, and researchers to turn Alpha Z’s capabilities into a practical, usable product.
• Translate user problems into clear requirements, user flows, prototypes, and acceptance criteria.
• Break down product priorities into actionable tasks and drive execution through development, testing and release.
• Design AI-powered workflows connecting problem understanding, optimization modeling, solver execution, and result interpretation, with appropriate user review and validation.
• Build representative test cases with researchers and engineers, gather user feedback, and drive improvements in quality and usability.

What we look for

• A strong background in Operations Research or a related quantitative field, with hands-on experience formulating and solving optimization problems. Academic, research, and industry projects are all relevant.
• Strong execution and attention to detail: able to turn ambiguous ideas into clear tasks and follow through to delivery.
• Experience building or prototyping AI-enabled workflows, with an understanding of tool use, human review, failure handling, and output validation.
• Technical fluency to work closely with engineers, understand APIs and data flows, and use Python for basic analysis or prototyping.
• Clear communication and product judgment, with an ability to make complex technical workflows understandable to users.
• Active use of AI tools for research, prototyping, documentation, or testing, with responsibility for the quality of their outputs.
• Ideally 1–3 years of relevant experience. Recent graduates with strong project experience are welcome; prior product management experience is not required.