Product Lead, Edutainment

at  Mandai Wildlife Reserve

Advertised on: 17 Jan 2025
This role is hired under Mandai X, the growth accelerator and venture building arm of Mandai Wildlife Group.
We live in a world where the delicate balance with nature has been disrupted. Reversing this trend will require a global effort of unprecedented speed and scale.
An impossible task alone.
Which is why we challenge ourselves to reach 1 billion consumers, as potential for change can only happen when many come together.
And this is where Mandai X can make a difference. Working to influence changes in attitudes, decisions and behaviours.
Leveraging over 50 years of experience in inspiring people to value and protect nature as part of the Mandai Wildlife Group, our efforts will spark, catalyse and accelerate innovative ventures in completely new domains to drive growth and impact beyond boundaries. Eliminating the well-entrenched trade-offs faced between commercial, human and the planet’s wellbeing; and blending everything together so that these usual conflicts faced are aligned.
We will redefine what a better life means; and unleash humanity’s collective power to make this change through impactful ventures that enable and empower individuals and companies with everyday choices that not only help them, but also make the world a better place at the same time.
Welcome to Mandai X.
Nurturing every child to drive positive change for the planet, through stories and adventures.
Mandai X is building an immensely purpose-led pair of ventures that enable children to learn about our world and absorb values that help them thrive in an ever-changing world. The first venture uses fun missions to empower children in their formative years to imbibe critical values that prepare them to face the world, while the second venture transforms memorable physical experiences into personalized stories that stem from children’s imagination.
The ventures are based in Singapore and backed by one of the most purpose-led organizations that treasures humanity and conservation alongside a focus on the bottom-line.
We are looking for a Product Lead with a passion for nurturing every child to become an everyday hero who drives positive change for himself / herself, others and the world, who also cares about animal welfare, wildlife conservation, and sustainability.
As Product Lead you will be responsible for product definition and delivery, working with multidisciplinary team members across design, engineering, business and corporate stakeholders to drive product-market-fit.

REQUIREMENTS

• 8-10 years’ experience building products end-to-end using agile

methodologies

• 0-1 experience building products or businesses as a founder or founding

team member at startups or startup-like environments

• Solid understanding of product fundamentals including market analysis, MVP

and product-market fit, positioning, go-to-market, pricing, testing, iterating

based on feedback, legal, operations and finance

• Experience building B2C or B2B2C products with familiarity with GTM and

commercialisation

• Experience working in the edu-tech space is a strong plus
• Familiarity working in corporate environments and managing stakeholders

therein

• Familiarity working with cross-functional “pods” of engineering, PM, design

and commercial

• Strong communicator with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to think creatively, strategically and resourcefully
• A diligent attention to detail and strong technical intuition

Specialization
:
Mandai X
Type of Employment
:
Permanent
Minimum Experience
:
8
Work Location
:
Mandai X Office

• Develop and execute short-term and long-term product strategy to achieve business objectives and growth targets, from launch to scale
• Act as the voice of the customer in defining innovative digital products and solutions
• Be a champion of the MVP concept, distilling the product down to what is desirable, viable and feasible
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to scope, design, concept-test and drive outcomes
• Develop feature lists, user stories, and roadmaps and ensure on-time delivery
• Gather and manage product feedback through surveys, concept testing, analytics tools, and A/B testing
• Develop venture materials (business case, pitches, demos) to communicate progress to key stakeholders
• Provide insights into product, technology and market trends
• Monitor and report on product KPIs