Senior Product Manager (SWDA)

Government Technology Agency; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Leave benefits

Flexible work arrangements

Employee wellness programs

Career development opportunities

Job summary

GovTech, Singapore’s lead agency for Smart Nation and public sector digital transformation, is hiring a Lead Product Manager/Senior Product Manager embedded in SWDA. You will drive large-scale transformation of training providers and modernise course applications, delivery, and grants management.

You will work with product, design and engineering teams to prioritise discoveries, prototype solutions, and measure impact with robust metrics, while guiding stakeholders through complex changes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Product Management, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Platforms, or related roles.
• Experience leading complex discovery or modernisation initiatives involving enterprise or operational systems.
• Strong systems thinking and ability to navigate ambiguity and organisational complexity.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills to influence senior leaders and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Validated leadership ability to lead product teams to iterate and solve problems.
• Deep technical capabilities and communication skills to work with design and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and transformation efforts with cross-functional teams to uncover pain points and shape future-state journeys.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers and engineers to translate findings into prioritized modernisation work.
• Mitigate risks and validate ideas through rapid prototyping and POCs.
• Define and track metrics to measure success of product decisions.
• Balance new capabilities with migration of reusable components while ensuring continuity.
• Uncover opportunities to leverage AI to enhance capabilities and user experience.

Skills

Product Management

Digital Transformation

Enterprise Platforms

Stakeholder Management

Leadership

Systems Thinking

Cross-functional Collaboration

Data-driven Decision Making

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.

AtGovTech, 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. OurGovTechiesembody our Agile,Boldand 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 aboutGovTechat tech.gov.sg.

We are looking for a Lead Product Manager/Senior Product Manager to be embedded in the new statutory board, Skills and Workforce Development Agency (SWDA), which strives to strengthen the ecosystem of training, career and employment services providers by raising quality standards, spurring innovation, and fostering collaboration to deliver new workforce solutions. This role will drive a large-scale transformation and modernisation initiative for training providers, and rethink how their experience from course application, course delivery and grants management, could evolve.

[What you will be working on]

• Lead discovery and transformation efforts with cross-functional teams to uncover user, operational, policy, and technology pain points and shape future-state journeys for training providers and internal users.
• Work closely with product managers, designers and software engineers to translate discovery findings into concrete problem areas to prioritise and modernise in phases, while considering co-existing with legacy systems.
• Mitigate risks and validate ideas through rapid prototyping and POCs.
• Define and track appropriate metrics to measure success of product decisions.
• Balance between development of new capabilities, migration of re-usable components, and maintenance of existing tools, while ensuring stakeholder alignment and operational continuity.
• Actively uncover opportunities to leverage AI to enhance the team’s and organisation’s capabilities and users’ experience.

[What we are looking for]

• 8+ years of experience in Product Management, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Platforms, or related roles.
• Experience leading complex discovery or modernisation initiatives involving enterprise or operational systems.
• Strong systems thinking and ability to navigate ambiguity and organisational complexity.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, to influence senior business leaders and collaborate with cross-functional teams to undertake business process transformation.
• Validated leadership ability, to lead product teams to rapidly iterate and solve problems.
• Deep technical capabilities and communication skills, to work effectively with design and engineering teams.
• Keen product intuition, to identify high-potential opportunities and place strategic bets.
• Strong analytical skills, to synthesize product metrics and user feedback into actionable insights.

What we offer you:

GovTechis 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.

Our employee benefits are based on a total rewards approach, offering a holistic and market-competitive suite ofperks. 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.

Learn more about life insideGovTechat go.gov.sg/GovTechCareers. Stay connected with us on social media at go.gov.sg/ConnectWithGovTech