Senior Manager/ Assistant Director, Product Strategy Office#GovTechForPublicGood

What the role is

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 and corporate 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 with POCs, to validate and execute our product strategy.

The role of a Manager/ Senior Manager/Assistant Director offers an opportunity to develop and execute the government’s overall product portfolio strategy, making an impact on the public good at scale.

What you will be working on:

This role sits at the intersection of, and the candidate can expect to be involved in:

• VC, corporate strategy and organisational development. The candidate can expect to drive the development of an overall product strategy in terms of what GovTech should build. He/she will learn different frameworks of how to invest and fund products, and setting up the right corporate and systemic structures to drive towards the strategy.
• Improving products. The candidate will work as a consultant to sharpen product thinking and co-create go-to-market plans to improve product efficiency, doing user research, writing case studies, and performing POCs/POVs to validate hypotheses.
• Bottom-up policy development. The candidate will have the opportunity to amplify best practices, when proven out, to the organizational, and whole-of-government level. This can include reviewing funding frameworks and regulations to unblock obstacles while encouraging greater innovation.

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.
• Bias towards action and relentlessly resourceful in getting things done.
• Strong communicator in written, slides or spoken form, with good stakeholdering skills.
• Energised by big problem spaces and able to break it down into workable chunks.
• 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.