Deputy Director, Lawnet Product Management

**About us**

LawNet Technology Services (LTS) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Singapore Academy of Law (SAL), a promotion and development agency for Singapore’s legal industry. LTS is the technology company behind LawNet, a one-stop law practice portal providing a complete suite of information and transactional solutions for the Singapore and global legal community.

**Responsibilities**:

- Oversee development of LawNet on time and within budgets assigned
- Determine internal and external stakeholders needs and desires whether by market research, surveys or user group testing
- Lead product ideation, technical development, product testing, launch, end user training and rollout
- Recommends the nature and scope of present and future product lines by reviewing product specifications and requirements; appraising new product ideas and/or product or packaging changes.
- Lead the planning of product release plans and set the expectation for delivery of new functionalities
- Define product vision, roadmap and growth opportunities to the development teams and stakeholders
- Build business cases for products and features, and analysing performance
- Play an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
- Establish shared vision across the company by partnering with key internal business stakeholders
- Evaluate risk and provide advice and guidance to stakeholders and business units
- Assesses market competition by comparing the LawNet to competitors' products.
- Provides source data for product line communications by defining product marketing communication objectives.
- Obtains product market share by working with sales to develop product sales strategies.
- Assesses product market data by calling on customers with sales and evaluating sales call results.
- Provides information for management by preparing short-term and long-term product sales forecasts and special reports and analyses; answering questions and requests.
- Brings new products to market by analysing proposed product requirements and product development programs; preparing return-on-investment analyses; establishing time schedules with development teams.
- Introduces and markets new products by developing time-integrated plans with sales, marketing and development teams.
- Completes operational requirements by scheduling and assigning team members; following up on work results.
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

**Skills and Qualifications**:

- Proven track record in software product management, or as an associate product manager, with successes in:understanding the end-user and driving product adoption;
analysing end user requirements;
delivering products on-time and within budgets for internal / external stakeholders
- Technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies
- Polished professionalism with outstanding strategic, organizational, planning (project & finances), communication, and problem-solving skills
- A team player
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
- Proven track record of exceeding KPIs
- Proven ability to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders
- Experience in liaising with government stakeholders and working with public sector systems is an advantage
- Strong metrics and analytical orientation
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills, with strong presentation skill
- Background operating in Legal practice will be a plus