Product Lead

Job Description

Strategy and Product Direction

• Translate domain strategies and priorities into clear product direction and capability roadmaps.
• Shape and refine product vision within the domain, in alignment with organisational goals and KPIs.
• Partner senior stakeholders to align on priorities, outcomes, and delivery approach.
• Stay informed on industry trends, emerging technologies, and vendor roadmaps to inform decision-making.

Planning & Prioritisation

• Lead roadmap planning and prioritisation on assigned product capabilities while ensuring alignment with Domain and MOH/Cluster priorities.
• Drive disciplined backlog management, balancing business needs, technical feasibility, and resource constraints.
• Guide stakeholders on trade-offs across scope, timeline, cost, and risk
• Ensure a balanced approach towards new feature delivery, technical debt, and compliance requirements.
• Oversee quarterly planning activities, ensuring clear articulation of priorities and outcomes.

Delivery and Execution

• Oversee end-to-end delivery for assigned capability domain, ensuring alignment with architecture, security, and engineering standards.
• Drive adoption of strong product, engineering, and DevOps practices to ensure quality and scalability.
• Ensure effective coordination across teams, platforms, and vendors to deliver outcomes.
• Monitor budget utilisation and resource capacity within agreed parameters.
• Drive change management and stakeholder adoption to realise intended value.
• Accountable for value delivery and resource allocation at product level
• Arbitrates conflicts across capabilities and teams

People Leadership

• Lead and guide cross-functional teams, including Capability Managers where applicable.
• Provide coaching and mentorship to strengthen product management and delivery capabilities.
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Support talent development and performance management processes.
• Drive transformation from project to product mindset, including funding and governance approach

Metrics, Risk, and Governance

• Accountable for capability outcome, performance, and KPIs
• Drive tracking, analysis, and reporting of product and delivery metrics.
• Proactively identify and manage risks, dependencies, and issues.
• Ensure adherence to governance, compliance, and organisational standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/ Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• At least 15 years of relevant experience, including strong hands-on experience in product management and delivery or technology leadership roles.
• Proven track record in driving product outcomes, roadmap execution, and stakeholder alignment.
• Demonstrated ability to drive organisation-level transformation
• Ability to translate strategic priorities into actionable plans and delivery outcomes.
• Experience working in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Strong analytical thinking and data-driven decision-making capabilities.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.