Job Description

GIC is one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds. With over 2,000 employees across 11 locations around the world, we invest in more than 40 countries globally across asset classes and businesses. Working at GIC gives you exposure to an extraordinary network of the world’s industry leaders. As a leading global long-term investor, we Work at the Point of Impact for Singapore’s financial future, and the communities we invest in worldwide.

Risk and Performance Management Department (RPMD)

In Risk & Performance Management Department (RPMD), we work collaboratively across teams to identify and address potential blind spots, ensuring that all relevant risks are considered and duly addressed.

Enterprise Risk and Performance

The Enterprise Risk and Performance (ERP) team within RPMD is responsible for integrated total portfolio risk management across investment, liquidity, leverage, sustainability, and other transversal risks. The team delivers independent assessments of investment risks and performance drivers, provides constructive challenge on portfolio design, and capital allocation decisions and leads the strategic development of total portfolio risk analytics and model risk management capabilities.

What will you do as a Risk Analytics Product Manager?

This role offers the opportunity to shape GIC’s next-generation portfolio analytics capabilities and contribute to the firm’s long-term investment and risk management excellence. The role sits within the ERP team and focuses on driving the strategic buildout of enterprise-level risk analytics, bringing industry best practices to enhance GIC’s analytical capabilities. This positions bridges business needs, quantitative methodologies and institutional-grade software solutions.

As a Product Manager , you will own the end-to-end lifecycle of a major risk analytics product or domain. Acting as the “CEO” of your product suite, you will define the strategic vision, manage a multi-year roadmap, and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams — including risk managers, quantitative analysts, and technologists— to deliver high-impact analytics that meet the evolving b usiness needs.

Key Responsibilities

1. Product Strategy & Roadmap

• Define and own the multi-year product vision and roadmap for your analytics domain
• Align product goals with firm-wide business requirements and priorities, ensuring technical development supports long-term institutional capabilities.
• Act as a thought leader, collaborating with business users (investment teams and risk managers) to conceptualize new features and enhancements.

2. Stakeholder Management & Advisory

• Build and manage relationships across business, technology, and quantitative functions.
• Understand the underlying business context of user requests to provide expert guidance on product usage and design.
• Promote world-class risk management practices through user engagement, training and demonstrations.

3. Technical Collaboration & Delivery Oversight

• Partner with Project Managers to oversee end-to-end delivery, ensuring methodological consistency, functional integrity, and technical scalability.
• Lead high-level planning and milestone setting, maintaining delivery discipline and alignment with scope and timelines.

4. Risk Analytics & Methodology Integration

• Develop a deep understanding of risk methodologies (e.g. VaR, sensitivities, stress testing ) and their applications, data sources, and limitations.
• Ensure consistent and best-practice implementation of methodologies across product features.
• Collaborate with validation teams to confirm methodological soundness and fitness for purpose.

What qualifications or skills should you possess in this role?

• Education: Graduate degree (Master’s or PhD) in a quantitative or technical discipline such as Finance, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, or Engineering.
• Experience: At least 5 years of experience developing analytical software (including methodology and coding) within a major financial institution or financial technology firm Minimum 3 years of Product Management experience, including delivery of complex financial systems, stakeholder management and full software development lifecycle management – from use case definition to UAT and production deployment Exposure to risk or portfolio management is advantageous
• Knowledge Strong understanding of risk methodologies including multi-asset modelling, Monte Carlo simulations, and factor-based models
• Skills: Proficiency in Python and experience with large-scale data pipelines and risk engine computations.
• Leadership: Proven ability to communicate and "sell" ideas effectively, influence senior stakeholders, and lead cross-functional teams in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. Proactive, highly motivated, organized, and able to deliver under tight deadlines.

Work at the Point of Impact

We need to be forward-looking to attract the right people to help us become the Leading Global Long-term Investor. Join our ambitious, agile, and diverse teams - be empowered to push boundaries and pursue innovative ideas, share your views, and be heard. Be anchored on our PRIME Values: Prudence, Respect, Integrity, Merit and Excellence, which guides us in how we make our day-to-day decisions. We strive to inspire. To make an impact.

Flexibility at GIC

At GIC, our offices are vibrant hubs for ideation, professional growth, and interpersonal connection. At the same time, we believe that flexibility allows us to do our best work and be our best selves. Thus, our teams come into the office four days per week to harness the benefits of in-person collaboration, but have the flexibility to choose which days they work from home and adjust this arrangement as situational needs arise.

GIC is an equal opportunity employer

GIC is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please email grphrodtaops@gic.com.sg at any point of the application or interview process if adjustments need to be made due to a disability.

Learn More

Learn more about our Risk & Performance Management Department here: https://gic.careers/group/risk-performance-management/