Senior Manager/ Assistant Director, Product Strategy Office#GovTechForPublicGoo

Description and Requirements

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.
At GovTech, 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. Our GovTechies embody our Agile, Bold and 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 about GovTech at tech.gov.sg.

Who we are:

The Product Strategy Office’s mission is to enable GovTech to build great products, at scale, to maximise the public good. We chart GovTech’s overall product direction to solve national priority problems, act as a consultant for GovTech’s products, and do whatever it takes, which could include getting our hands dirty to PM with teams, to validate and execute our product strategy.

What you will be working on:

• Top-down strategy/hypothesis development and execution. We will drive the development of an overall product strategy in terms of what GovTech should build. This includes identifying large problem areas, t-shirt sizing that the problem is worth solving, developing hypotheses, assumptions, and de-risking the biggest risks. Some potential areas include building modular enterprise platform products and data products.
• Improving products. The candidate will work as a consultant to sharpen product thinking through product one-pagers, and influence teams to co-create go-to-market plans to improve product impact and efficiency.
• Bottom-up best practices and policy development. We will amplify best product practices and prove them out, to the organisational, and whole-of-government level. This can include co-creating consistent and quality product practices (e.g. common tools, ways-of-working), reviewing funding frameworks and regulations to unblock obstacles while encouraging greater innovation.

Why join:

• Rare opportunity to develop and execute overall government’s product portfolio strategy, to impact public good at scale.
• Learn from, and make impact as a start-up team with experience from Bytedance, Carousell, Klarna, Shopback, Ninjavan.

This is an individual contributor position and the candidate will report directly to the Director of Product Strategy and Ops.

What we are looking for:

• Technical knowledge in product management, including discerning realistic technical requirements and setting the right outcome metrics. Experience in enterprise, backend and data products a plus.
• Hunger to learn, energised by large, ambiguous problem spaces and able to independently break it down into workable chunks.
• Strong communicator in written, slides or spoken form, with good stakeholdering skills.
• VC, corporate/business strategy, government experience a plus.

Our employee benefits are based on a total rewards approach, offering a holistic and market-competitive suite of perks. These include leave benefits to meet your work-life needs and employee wellness programmes.

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 inside GovTech at go.gov.sg/GovTechCareers.

Stay connected with us on social media at go.gov.sg/ConnectWithGovTech.