Senior Product Leader, AI Safety & Governance Platform

GovTech Singapore; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 120,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

GovTech Singapore is seeking a strategic Lead/Senior Product Manager to spearhead the AI Safety and Governance pillar within PlatformAI. You will ensure every AI-enabled application is secure, fair, and accountable by design, collaborating with engineers, policy, and legal teams.

You will own a dual-track roadmap for the Safety Stack and Governance Layer, building automated evaluations and risk dashboards that scale across government services.

Qualifications

• Senior product leadership experience managing complex technical products (Security/AI infra).
• Deep understanding of Generative AI risks and AI safety research.
• Ability to distill ethics into concrete technical requirements and APIs.
• Data-driven evaluation mindset to measure performance and risk.
• Empathy for developers to accelerate safety tooling.

Responsibilities

• Defining the Sovereign Safety Standard
• Define the long-term strategy for AI Safety-as-a-Service, transitioning governance from a manual checklist to an automated platform feature.
• Synthesize emerging global frameworks and local AI governance policies into platform features that make compliance invisible for developers.
• Establish the government’s standard for AI risk levels, determining the safety benchmarks required for different use cases (citizen-facing vs internal).
• Building the Guardrails & Audit Trails
• Lead the development of automated evaluation engines that stress-test products and models for prompt injection, PII leakage, toxicity, and hallucination before and after deployment.
• Partner with Engineering to integrate safety checks directly into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring that Safety-by-Design accelerates deployment.
• Build real-time monitoring tools to detect jailbreak attempts and model drift, ensuring rapid mitigation of live AI risks.
• Bridging Policy & Code
• Act as the primary liaison between Policy/Legal teams and Engineering teams to ensure technical tools meet policy and legal intent.
• Cultivate a culture of safety across GovTech by publishing playbooks, standardizing red-teaming exercises, and educating teams on the evolving LLM vulnerability landscape.
• Trust-Centric Metrics & Accountability
• Define and track KPIs such as Mean Time to Detect vulnerabilities, Policy Coverage %, and Guardrail Efficacy Rates.

Skills

Senior Product Leadership

AI Safety Domain Expertise

Translator Skillset

Analytical Rigor

Developer Empathy

Job description

GovTech Singapore is seeking a strategic Lead/Senior Product Manager to spearhead the AI Safety and Governance pillar within PlatformAI. You will ensure every AI-enabled application is secure, fair, and accountable by design, collaborating with engineers, policy, and legal teams.

You will own a dual-track roadmap for the Safety Stack and Governance Layer, building automated evaluations and risk dashboards that scale across government services.