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We are looking for a Lead Product Manager to build Ministry of Education (MOE)'s geospatial and spatial modelling capabilities to strengthen long-term infrastructure and space planning. The role focuses on developing models, tools, and a geospatial foundation that helps MOE anticipate future demand, optimise school locations, and make evidence-based planning decisions.
Key Responsibilities
- Build MOE’s Spatial Modelling Engine (Primary)
- Develop spatial models that forecast future education demand based on housing growth, demographics, migration patterns, land-use plans, and accessibility.
- Create multi-year scenarios to support decisions on new schools, mergers, campus shifts, capacity planning, and infrastructure renewal.
- Integrate datasets and insights from other government agencies such as URA, SLA, LTA, DOS, HDB, and GovTech into MOE’s planning logic.
- Translate planning and policy needs into clear modelling requirements.
- Establish MOE’s Geospatial Data & Platform Foundation (Secondary)
- Build and maintain the authoritative geospatial data layers for MOE (school locations, travel-time layers, catchments, urban constraints, environmental layers).
- Develop internal APIs, standards, and governance rules to ensure accurate, consistent, and accessible geospatial data.
- Work with engineering and data teams to set up the geospatial platform that powers analytic tools and downstream products.
- Integrate Geospatial Capabilities into MOE Products (Secondary)
- Embed mapping and location-intelligence features into existing MOE planning and operating tools such as School Cockpit+
- Improve decision-making workflows using map-based interfaces and visual analytics.
- Work with planners, policy officers, and product teams to ensure geospatial tools meet real operational needs.
- A working spatial-modelling engine that planners trust for long-term demand forecasting.
- A central geospatial platform used across MOE for planning and operational decisions.
- Planning teams have clear, data-backed insights to guide school infrastructure decisions.
- Geospatial features are embedded meaningfully into key MOE products.
- Strong cross-agency partnerships that improve data quality and modelling accuracy.
- Experience developing geospatial products, planning tools, or modelling systems.
- Familiarity with spatial data (GIS platforms such as ArcGIS, routing engines, geospatial APIs, 3D/2D mapping).
- Able to work with complex demographics, land-use, and transport data.
- Strong collaboration skills with planners, policymakers, engineers, and analysts.
- Product mindset with the ability to translate planning questions into functional tools and datasets.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company as we believe that diversity is meaningful to innovation.
Our employee benefits are based on a total rewards approach, offering a holistic and market-competitive suite of perks. This includes generous leave benefits to meet your work-life needs. We trust that you will get the job done wherever you are, and whatever works best for you – so work from home or take a break to exercise if you need to*.
We also believe it’s important for you to keep honing your craft in the constantly-evolving tech landscape, so we provide and support a plethora of in-house and external learning and development opportunities all year round.
Subject to the nature of your job role that might require you to be onsite during fixed hours.