Product Owner

V-ELEGANT PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

V-ELEGANT PTE. LTD. in Singapore seeks an experienced Senior Product Manager to lead modernization initiatives for public-sector and client-facing programs. You will own the functional backlog, write clear user stories, and partner with external tech teams to ensure precise specifications.

You will guide governance, track progress, and communicate risks to executives, while leveraging AI discovery tools to accelerate discovery, evaluate change requests, and align stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Education and experience require a technical background and client-facing expertise.
• Minimum 10 years in digital product management or IT consulting.
• Experience with modernization or cloud migration from a business perspective.
• Proficiency using AI tools to accelerate product discovery and backlog generation.
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder management with delivery oversight.

Responsibilities

• Own the functional product backlog and write clear user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Govern project progress, track feature delivery vs timelines, and present dashboards to leadership.
• Use AI-enabled discovery to draft requirements and iterate on feature designs.
• Manage scope, priority, and changes to protect project timelines.
• Serve as primary liaison between teams and stakeholders on updates and issues.

Skills

Stakeholder facilitation

User story authoring

Progress tracking

Vendor alignment

Public-sector experience

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology

Tools

AI discovery tools

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Product Backlog & User Stories:Own the functional product backlog. Write clear, detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, and process workflows to ensure external technical teams have unambiguous specifications.
• Project Governance & Progress Reporting:Keep modernization projects strictly on track. Track feature delivery against timelines, run status updates, communicate risks early, and present progress dashboards to executive leadership.
• AI-Accelerated Discovery and development support:Utilize AI and modern discovery tools to draft requirements, analyze user pain points, and iterate on feature designs efficiently.
• Scope & Priority Management:Facilitate prioritization workshops, evaluate change requests, and protect project timelines by balancing user needs against phase-one deliverables.
• Stakeholder Management & Alignment:Serve as the primary/secondary product liaison between working level teams and other stakeholders on updates and other issues as needed.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Education:Prefer Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline (provides the background to communicate seamlessly with dev teams without needing to manage execution).
• Experience:Minimum 10 yearsof experience in digital product management or IT consulting, with a strong track record as an augmented expert in client-facing or public-sector engagements.
• Modernization Background:Previous experience navigating legacy-to-cloud application modernization or major system transformation projects from a functional/business perspective.
• AI Discovery Tooling:Excellent proficiency in using AI tools to streamline product discovery, generate backlog items, and run research workflows.
• Functional PM Expertise:Outstanding skills in stakeholder facilitation, user story authoring, progress tracking, and vendor alignment (hands-on technical delivery/DevOps managed separately).