Product Policy Lead — Hands-on Public Impact

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

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Yearly learning months

Hackathons

Public good mission

Job summary

Open Government Products (OGP) is a fast-paced, mission-driven team within the Singapore government that embeds product policy directly into delivery. Officers work end-to-end from problem identification to policy implementation, sitting in stand-ups and roadmaps to influence what gets shipped.

The role emphasizes autonomy, rapid prototyping, and close collaboration with technologists and civil servants. You will drive policy that actually changes product outcomes, with strong emphasis on

Qualifications

• Comfortable picking up tech policy frameworks (e.g. data governance, IM8, PDPA) fast, and translating what they actually mean for an OGP product
• You've worked at the seam between policy and delivery, or you're ready to.
• You should be comfortable enough with both technologists and civil servants to translate between them
• You can hold an agency relationship yourself, including the difficult version of that conversation
• You can tell a policy that's landing from one that only looks like it, and you're willing to say so before it's welcome
• Being technical already is a plus. Getting technical on the job is not optional. You don't need to arrive able to read the codebase. You do need to arrive intending to. Officers who can't follow the technical argument end up managing relationships instead of shaping decisions, and you set that ceiling for your whole team by where you put your own
• You want public impact, and you're tired of watching good ideas die in the gap between policy and product

Responsibilities

• Embed with one or more OGP product teams as their day-to-day Product Policy point person: in the stand-ups, in the roadmap, in the room
• Identify problems on the ground, then write the policy that solves them at a whole-of-government (WOG) level at MDDI. This is so the fix outlasts your one team and one programme
• Co-write policy directly with agency business owners, so the policy and the product both come out better
• Own the agency relationship for your team: build trust, advance public interest, unblock it when it's stuck, accelerate only when it genuinely needs a bigger hammer
• Sense-check whether governance, tech policy, and transformation efforts are actually landing, and flag it early, before it's a paper problem or a public one
• Build real technical fluency in how your product actually gets built, not from a deck, but from the people building it
• Feed what you're seeing on the ground back to OGP leadership — you're often the first to know when something's off
• [For Leads and above] Mentor and set the standard for more junior officers working alongside you

Skills

Policy and delivery interface

Technical fluency

Stakeholder management

Public sector experience

Job description

Open Government Products (OGP) is a fast-paced, mission-driven team within the Singapore government that embeds product policy directly into delivery. Officers work end-to-end from problem identification to policy implementation, sitting in stand-ups and roadmaps to influence what gets shipped.

The role emphasizes autonomy, rapid prototyping, and close collaboration with technologists and civil servants. You will drive policy that actually changes product outcomes, with strong emphasis on