Director, Regional Product Lead (APAC Global Payments & Trade)

We're seeking a future team member for the role of Director, POM Product Management (Regional Product APAC Lead) to join our Global Payments & Trade Client Platform team. This role is located in Singapore.

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways: 

• The Director, Regional Product Lead – APAC serves as the strategic product leader for the Asia-Pacific region, representing regional client needs, market opportunities, competitive dynamics, and ecosystem trends within GP&T's global product organization.
• This role is responsible for shaping and executing an APAC product growth strategy that accelerates revenue expansion, increases product adoption, supports strategic client acquisition and retention, and ensures regional market requirements are reflected in product priorities.
• Acting as the voice of APAC, this leader partners with Product, Sales, Engineering, Operations, and Commercial teams to translate market opportunities into scalable product investments and commercialization strategies. The role creates a credible regional product presence, helping GP&T compete effectively in one of the world's fastest-growing payments and treasury markets while building on the region's strong growth trajectory.
• Develop and maintain a multi-year APAC product growth strategy aligned to GP&T business objectives.
• Identify regional market opportunities, client needs, and competitive threats.
• Leads delivery against regional revenue and P&L targets by maintaining strong visibility into the APAC portfolio, identifying revenue opportunities and risks, and partnering with the commercial and regional product teams as a trusted voice on product-related P&L performance.
• Influence global product roadmaps through business cases supported by client demand, market intelligence, and commercial opportunities.
• Assess emerging technology trends and their impact on product priorities.
• Ensure APAC market requirements are appropriately represented during product investment and roadmap planning discussions.
• Partner with APAC Sales and Commercial leadership to support revenue growth and product adoption.
• Develop regional commercialization plans that align product capabilities with market opportunities.
• Support strategic deal pursuits with product expertise, roadmap visibility, and solution positioning.
• Drive initiatives that accelerate pipeline conversion and increase wallet share with existing clients.
• Support renewable revenue growth through improved client engagement and product relevance.
• Experience identifying and utilizing AI in a product mindset to optimize workflows, strengthen insights, and accelerate delivery will be an important differentiator for this role.
• Experience evaluating and supporting digital asset capabilities, opportunities, and operational considerations will be an important differentiator for this role.
  
   

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following: 

• Bachelor's degree in business or a related discipline. 
• Deep Payments & Trade product management experience, with the ability to translate regional market opportunity, client demand, and strategic business priorities into clear product direction and execution plans.
• Strong understanding of APAC payments market dynamics, including local client expectations, regulatory considerations, competitive disruption, and fintech innovation across key corridors.
• Proven ability to operate effectively in a matrixed environment, influencing global product, engineering, sales, and client-facing stakeholders to align around regional priorities and business outcomes.
• Strong commercial orientation, with the ability to connect product decisions and investment priorities to pipeline growth, client adoption, market expansion, and revenue impact.
• Credibility in both internal and client-facing settings, with the ability to represent the product strategy clearly, build trust with senior stakeholders, and strengthen market confidence in the platform’s regional product presence.
• Excellent prioritization, communication, and strategic judgment, with the ability to balance regional growth opportunities with broader platform strategy, enterprise goals, and delivery constraints.
• Minimum of 10 years of demonstrated ability in product development, management, and delivery.
• Passion for changing status quo and driving out-of-the-box ideas.
• Eagerness to ‘roll up the sleeves’ in execution and learning; pushes the team to do the same.
• Strong leadership and influencing skills.
• Ability to make hard and fast decisions.
• Strong problem-solving skills.