Total 11 Director/C-Level product specialist job vacancies in 7 Tuas Loop, Singapore

Job Description & Requirements

Job Summary: The Product Director is a senior leadership role responsible for shaping and executing the product strategy of an organization. This position plays a pivotal role in defining, planning, and overseeing the development of products that meet customer needs, drive business growth, and align with the company's strategic goals. The Product Director typically reports to the Chief Product Officer or another executive leader.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Product Strategy:Develop and communicate a clear product vision and strategy that aligns with the company's overall objectives.
Define and communicate product goals, key performance indicators (KPIs), and success metrics.

2. Market Research:Conduct market research to understand customer needs, market trends, and competitive landscapes.
Use insights to inform product development and enhancement decisions.

3. Product Roadmap:Create and manage a comprehensive product roadmap outlining short-term and long-term development plans.
Prioritize features and enhancements based on customer feedback, business value, and market dynamics.

4. Requirement Gathering:Collaborate with stakeholders, customers, and cross-functional teams to gather and document detailed product requirements.
Create clear product specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.

5. Product Development:Work closely with engineering, design, and other teams to oversee the product development process.
Ensure that the product is developed on time, within scope, and meets quality standards.

6. User Experience (UX) and Design:Collaborate with UX/UI designers to create user-friendly and visually appealing product interfaces.
Validate design decisions based on user feedback and usability testing.

7. Testing and Quality Assurance:Oversee the testing and quality assurance processes to ensure the product meets defined requirements and quality standards.
Address and prioritize issues and defects.

8. Product Launch:Plan and execute product launches, coordinating marketing, sales, and support efforts.
Monitor product performance and gather user feedback after launch.

9. Performance Analysis:Analyze product performance and user feedback to make data-driven decisions for product improvements.
Continuously monitor KPIs and adapt the product strategy as necessary.

10. Stakeholder Communication:Maintain effective communication with stakeholders, including executive management, development teams, marketing, and sales.
Provide regular updates on product progress and outcomes.

Requirements:

1. Education: A bachelor's degree in business, marketing, computer science, or a related field is typically required. An MBA or relevant certifications (e.g., Certified Scrum Product Owner) may be preferred.

2. Experience: A minimum of 5-8 years of experience in product management, with a proven track record of successful product launches and improvements, is typically required.

3. Market Knowledge: Strong understanding of the market, target audience, and industry trends relevant to the product.

4. Technical Knowledge: Familiarity with technology, development processes, and product management tools (e.g., Jira, Trello).

5. Analytical Skills: Proficiency in data analysis and the ability to make data-driven decisions to optimize the product.

6. Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills for effective collaboration with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

7. Problem-Solving: strong analytical and problem-solving abilities to address product challenges and make strategic decisions.

8. Leadership: Effective leadership and project management skills to guide the product development process.

9. Customer-Centric: A customer-focused mindset, with a deep understanding of user needs and the ability to advocate for user-centric product design.

10. Adaptability: The ability to adapt to changing market conditions and evolving product requirements.

The Product Director is instrumental in driving the success of the organization's products, from concept to launch and beyond. They are responsible for shaping the product strategy, overseeing development, and optimizing performance to meet business objectives and customer satisfaction.

Our company is an innovative, global healthcare leader that is committed to improving health and well-being around the world with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and animal health products. We continue to focus our research on conditions that affect millions of people around the world - diseases like Alzheimer's, diabetes and cancer - while expanding our strengths in areas like vaccines and biologics.

Our ability to excel depends on the integrity, knowledge, imagination, skill, diversity and teamwork of an individual like you. To this end, we strive to create an environment of mutual respect, encouragement and teamwork. As part of our global team, you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with talented and dedicated colleagues while developing and expanding your career.

We are seeking an energetic, collaborative and self-driven professional to join the Digital Supply Chain value team to play an active role in transformation journey to become the leading digital supply chain organization that leverages data, technology and processes to deliver end to end solutions enabling enterprise-wide collaboration, customer satisfaction, and seamless orchestration.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

The Value Team Architect works closely with Product Line Leads, Product Managers and all squad members to create a modular, scalable solution that addresses/incorporates future architectural changes and designs.

Responsibilities

In collaboration with the Value Team Lead, Product Line Leads, Product Managers and Lead Engineers you will work on the following:

• Understand
  supply chain domain business use cases, opportunities and challenges
  current industry technology trends and introduce best practices to Value Team
• Create
  architecture deliverables and artifacts relevant for accountable architecture domain(s)
• Drive
  the technology strategy for the Value Team that aligns with the business needs and enterprise architecture strategy
  the notion of reusable architecture assets & standards such as current-state business/technology capability maps as well as future state planning roadmaps for the Value Team.
  Tech Center strategy for Digital Supply Chain organization by boosting collaboration within Singapore and across all locations in Technology Center network
  Our workforce pipeline in Value Team by leveraging company programs to onboard, mentor and upskill the leaders of the future in Technology Centers
• Partner with
  product teams to use agile, value-centric, business outcomes-oriented, and total cost of ownership-based principles to guide decision making
  product line solution architects to develop a documented business, solution, information, and data architecture for supply chain
  architecture community and leaders across the Value and Enabling Teams in the division focusing on data and analytics, manufacturing and quality systems
  Enterprise Architecture team to drive the adoption of company architecture standards and blueprints
• Manage
  Architecture Governance within the Value Team
• Train and mentor
  technical delivery teams to understand, embrace, and successfully implement solutions following the architecture strategy

WHAT YOU MUST HAVE

Education

• B.A./B.S. or M.A./M.S. in a scientific or technical discipline (such as computer science, engineering, biology, chemistry, etc.)

Required Experience and Skills

• 10+ years of relevant work experience in the pharmaceutical/life sciences or similar industry, with demonstrated hands-on experience in solution architecture and information system designs
• 10+ years of experience in leading development squads/ teams in global environment
• Strong understanding of enterprise, solution and information architecture principles
• Domain knowledge of technology for supply chain management including data and analytics platforms, ERP solutions, supply chain planning, warehousing, distribution and logistics
• Experience in working closely with a range of business lines to identify business needs and opportunities
• Experience with Agile ways of working, leading or working as part of scrum teams
• Experience as a change agent of transformation to product model organization/ operating model
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to quickly establish productive working relationships with a variety of stakeholders
• Ability to perform under broad direction taking initiative and full responsibility for meeting allocated technical and/or project/supervisory objectives

Preferred Experience and Skills

• Demonstrated ability to solve problems with a sense of ownership, enthusiasm and innovation
• Knowledge of current cloud trends and offerings, and extensive hands-on experience and strong expertise in cloud engineering
• Certifications in AWS and/or modern data technologies

Who we are

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

The User Experience Product Line Lead is a core and leadership position in Digital Services, our Digital Manufacuring Division responsible for leading the definition and implementation of User Experience strategy in our Digital Manufacuring Division. The Product Line Lead drives priorities setting and holistic value delivery of the UX capabilities across squads and products in Digital Services. The Product Lead collaborates and partners closely across product teams, our company value and enabling teams, our Manufacturing Operations, and IT CTO with product line UX professionals, UX researchers, UX/UI Designers, product managers, and business stakeholders at all levels to define, implement, maintain, and make innovative improvements to deliver user-centric and outcome-driven products and solutions.

The UX Product Line Lead sets the vision for best-in-class products, anticipating future business capabilities, emerging technologies, designs and best practices, ensuring that vision is realized through implementation and value delivery. This role will lead a product line team to create, scale and maintain our Digital Manufacuring Division UX solutions and capabilities to support digital transformations.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Accountable for Product roadmap (e.g., key capabilities delivered to the business) for designing, building, delivering, and maintaining UX products and technological capability enhancements
• Optimize team setup and delivery models across all functional areas, working with functional leads, while removing roadblocks and impediments, enabling efficient and effective product team delivery
• Translate business goals and end user needs into UX strategy, communicate product priorities to the development team, other matrixed teams, and vendor partners
• Oversee delivery of applications in the products and the on-going operations of cohesive & integrated applications
• Design, develop, and deliver a consistent product line vision, strategy, and roadmap for several products related to Experience Design, UX/UI, User Research, and Technical Product Management relevant to our company user environment.
• Partner with Product teams across our Digital Manufacuring Division and IT to develop, test, and deliver high quality, scalable, and reusable data and digital products
• Oversee Agile Scrum processes for product teams to define and prioritize backlog, create user stories, drive sprint planning and execution, standups, product demos, track velocity, burndown, and deliver retrospectives
• Demonstrated experience in leading strategic design and user-centric research and usability studies, and applying change management approaches to understand user needs and deliver results
• Manage, monitor and calibrate relevant metrics on UX effectiveness
• Demonstrated experience in leading UX designs using a variety of techniques, tools, and best practices to improve product usability, accessibility and desirability
• Lead, develop, upskill, and grow a high-performing and diverse User Experience team
• Set strategy for resource management within systems development, accountable for the allocation of resources for systems development programs, and maintain an overview of the contribution of such program to organizational success. Manage the quality and appropriateness of the work performed and delivers measurable business benefits
• Engage and partner with cross-functional stakeholders (value teams, domain leads, business partners, product owners, etc.) to build project plans and business cases that drive our Manufacuring Division business outcome and value realization while maintaining scalability of UX capabilities
• Ensure senior leaders and business stakeholders are consistently well informed about product strategy, capabilities, priorities, timelines, releases, issues, and risks
• Drive and reinforce highest standards and best practices in technical and operational excellence relevant for user experience
• Accountable for the management and optimization of the product line’s total cost of ownership (TCO)

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Graphics Design, or related field.

Required Experience and Skills:

• Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience in a delivery lead, team lead, product owner, or product line lead capacity.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in leading the development and delivery of User Experience, Experience Design, UX Strategy.
• Demonstrated experience in software development lifecycle, agile methodologies e.g. Scrum, and relevant tools such as Jira and Confluence
• Experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing or similar area, building, managing, and leading high-performing, diverse, collaborative and geographically distributed digital product teams
• Solid knowledge and experience in UX capabilities, methodology, and tools to enable User Research, UX/UI Design, and Digital Product capabilities in Manufacturing, Quality, and Supply Chain domains.
• Strong leadership and team building skills and must be able to collaborate effectively with a group of high performing individuals in a fast-paced, agile, dynamic operational environment
• Experience in product and people management with Experience Design, Graphics Design, User Experience, and Data & Digital products knowledge, roadmap, and implementation (e.g., in an organizational unit with 10+ team members)​
• Demonstrated experience owning and delivering digital products​ throughout their entire lifecycle
• Proven ability to facilitate and break down complex product requirements into actionable strategy, implementation plan, and user stories
• Strong leadership skills and the proven ability to drive organizational change​ and alignment, and communicate technical information to senior executives
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills – able to effectively communicate complex concepts in simple ways​
• Active coach and mentor whose goals are to grow, upskill, and maximize the squads’ potential​
• Strong understanding of modern architecture patterns​
• Demonstrated ability to partner with business stakeholders and navigate across conflicting priorities to balance critical tactical and strategic needs ​to achieve business goals and OKRs
• Strategic leader, with demonstrated ability to work in a global, broad, and diverse environment with a fair amount of ambiguity
• Growth and global mindset and ownership mentality with a passion to challenge status quo to find new solutions and drive out of the box ideas

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• MBA or Master’s degree in a relevant field
• Previous experience working in a global environment and transformational change
• Experience with manufacturing shopfloor or lab environments and digital culture is a plus
• Experience with P&L responsibility is a plus

Who we are

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

Team Summary

The Consumer Solutions group manages the deployment and optimization of Visa’s core products base consisting of Credit, Debit and Prepaid payments solutions as well as Engagement Solutions and the benefits platforms that function across all product categories – together, these are Visa’s core products. The team is also responsible for the development and deployment of innovation across this product suite. To do this, we work in close partnership with Visa clients and key internal and external stakeholders. We are also the team responsible for leading the transition of conventional card-based solutions onto digital form factors, ensuring Visa payments solutions remain the market-leading way for consumers to spend their money and manage their payments across the Asia-Pacific region

What the SD, Head of Core Product Management does at Visa:

Reporting to the Head of Consumer Solutions, AP, the Head of Core Product Management will be responsible for initiatives across four broad areas of responsibility

1. Management of established core products - Credit, Debit and Prepaid to maximize operational efficiency in managing these established platforms
2. Identification and development and execute initiatives to drive expansion of Visa’s consumer credit portfolio, in line with the Visa 2030 strategy, driving growth in associated PV and revenue across.
3. Facilitate Visa’s thought leadership in the AP payments industry through promulgation of Core Product best practices.
4. Sourcing and management of Visa’s core cardholder benefits, across mass, affluent and x-border

The role-holder will lead a team of direct line reports in Singapore and works closely with Core Product teams across AP, responsible for evolving and building end-to-end consumer experiences that drive client preference for Visa as a strategic partner and make us an enabler of superior value propositions for digitally-enabled consumers.

An essential part of Visa’s success is the establishment and application of rules and standards, to ensure a uniform, reliable point-of-sale UX, both online and offline. The Head of Core Product Management will lead the efficient administration of these Rules and Standards as they pertain to Core Products, ensuring that the Rules are fit-for-purpose, while also ensuring their efficient operation and administration.

The role-holder will be responsible for the identification, development, commercialization and launch of new ways to grow the consumer unsecured credit business in AP, working closely with issuers and internal Global counterparts to expand “credit-card” issuance, as well as newer ways of efficiently facilitating the provision of unsecured credit, for example BNPL or other methods.

In addition, the SD, will manage Visa’s cardholder benefits such as merchant and partner benefits, Visa Concierge, Insurance and Visa Luxury Hotel Collection, as well as Core VAS (Value Added Services) service lines such as GCAS (Global Customer Assistance Services), Lounge referrals, Visa Customized Benefits, and the capabilities that support the delivery of these benefits and services. This includes the identification of Visa’s Concierge and Lounge strategy.

As part of this role, the Head of Core Product Management will also be responsible for facilitating the gathering, analysis and promulgation of best practices and recommendations for optimal Core Consumer Product performance both internally within Visa, and as a thought-leader externally, working closely with Visa Consulting & Analytics. 

You will need to be highly collaborative and will be the key interface between the market teams and Visa’s global team to ensure our platforms drive product differentiation, consumer activation and engagement

As well as working with in-market, client-facing teams, your team will work closely with the Global counterparts, Corporate Strategy, Marketing, Client Services, Finance, Pricing, Legal.

Why this is important to Visa

Core Consumer Products are the key basis for Visa’s business in AP and encompass conventional card-based credit programs as well as newer digital solutions. Within Core Products, Consumer credit spans most life-stage and income segments in all Visa’s AP markets from entry-level credit products through to solutions designed to meet the needs of Ultra-High Net Worth consumers and as such is a key platform for revenue generation and consumer engagement for Visa and our clients. As the largest solution set in AP, Core Products offer Visa the most visible and impactful opportunity to drive digital payments enablement and thus is a key part of our digital migration strategy.

Team Summary

The Product and B2B marketing team is a passionate and dedicated team with a high-performance culture to lead and execute experiential marketing to raise awareness and generate demand through the creation, curation of Product and B2B Marketing Strategies. Success is achieved through collaboration with cross functional teams across Visa to speed up product and solution adoption, migration and retention to deliver business growth.

Overview of the Product & B2B Marketing Director at Visa:

As Regional Director, you will have a dual reporting line to the Sr. Director of Asia Pacific’s Product & B2B Marketing and the Visa Commercial Solution, Vice President of Global Product & B2B Marketing. You are responsible for leading regional marketing programs for Visa’s Growth Engine.

In this role, you will be the link that connects our regional product strategy to the tactics needed to drive success in sales and marketing. You will use strategic insights and data to drive the development of positioning, value proposition and messaging that resonates with buyers and enables our sales teams to be successful. You will collaborate and partner with our global and communications teams to co-design, develop and deliver innovative programs and marketing initiatives to achieve AP’s goals and objectives.

Key Responsibilities

Be a strategic leader:

• You will lead development of regional marketing strategies, in close partnership with global, regional and country teams to engage our clients and deliver against Visa’s business and marketing goals
• Be the expert on our target audiences, and their advocate inside Visa, who they are, how they buy and their key buying criteria and then distilling the deep insights to develop value propositions and messaging
• You will help develop marketing that articulates value propositions, sets forth positioning and messaging, and activation of experiential strategies relevant to the regional priorities
• You will lead, direct and manage agencies to accomplish strategic marketing projects to support the business and drive concreate outcomes.

Drive Visa Commercial Solution ecosystem awareness and thought leadership:

• Work with Global Product & B2B Marketing to help shape industry thought leadership content and promote across B2B ecosystem audiences
• Partner with regional Communications lead to plan and execute thought leadership programs with and through Media Partners
• Accelerate bringing more products and solutions to market:
• Work in partnership with product and sales to deploy a B2B awareness and lead generation campaigns targeting Financial Institutions, FinTechs, BPSPs, Strategic Partners, Large Mid-Market Commercial Accounts, SMBs, and Government Institutions
• Work to localize, build and deploy sales enablement content to help Visa Commercial Solution product & sales team engage clients and partner
• Localize and launch Visa.com and owned channel content in support of B2B campaigns
• Build and activate experiential digital marketing strategies and plans to advance an always-on content strategy to build awareness and drive demand
• Help accelerate end user adoption and usage through:
• Work closely with country Client Marketing teams to drive client engagement in support of building cardholder activation, acquisition and usage
• Engage with strategic partners to drive regional co-marketing efforts

Team Summary

Visa DPS is one of the world’s largest processors, providing our customers with innovative issuer processing solutions. Not resting on our laurels, we want to transform and modernize the Visa DPS platform, technology, and product set into a unified best-in-class processing business to drive the next generation of payment innovation for our issuing partners.

What a Director, Visa DPS Product Management does at Visa:

Visa is searching for a Singapore-based Director to play a critical role in the Visa DPS product solution. Working as part of a growing team and supported by strong global product and technical teams, you will use your breadth of software and product development skills to support the co-located Singapore-based product managers and product owners.

This role will work with business owners, architects, and other global cross-functional counterparts to gain a deep understanding of the features and artifacts that will be delivered by the Singapore-based teams. Additionally, this role will need to collaborate with the Global Visa DPS Product Management teams to ensure expectations and priorities are aligned.

Why this is important to Visa.

This role is an opportunity to be part of a team that is building future capabilities for Visa and will be the product voice for Visa DPS overall in Singapore. This role will support several agile trains across a global footprint of teams in Denver, Singapore, Poland, and the United Kingdom. The strategically important programs these teams deliver will help facilitate and expansion and modernization of the Visa DPS product suite.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

We are seeking a highly skilled specialist to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for IT systems and operations to ensure the reliability, security and integrity of our organization's data and systems.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate, qualify, and manage contracts with partners, vendors, and technology providers.
• Work with vendors to provide operational support and ensure that they meet the contractual obligations and service-level agreements.
• Oversee IT projects throughout the life cycle, from requirements gathering, crafting of contract specifications and procurement to implementation.
• Drive and oversee resolution of operations and support incidents.
• Set direction for continuous improvement of operational procedures and customer experience.
• Recommend enhancements to improve systems availability and performance.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive library of supporting documentation.
• Formulate disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
• Oversee disaster recovery plan drills and activities to determine if technical criteria is met.
• Ensure compliance with industry regulations and data protection standards.
• Supervise and mentor a team of IT professionals and foster a collaborative and high-performance work environment.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends, providing insights and recommendations for adopting new technologies to improve IT services.
• Other duties as required.

Requirements

• Degree holder in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field
• Preferably minimum 10-12 years of design, implementation, and operation experience, with good knowledge in cloud technologies and cloud security solutions, infrastructure and network design, servers and storage and virtualisation.
• Well versed in IT Service Management, Project Management and Vendor Management.
• Ability to work in large, collaborative teams to achieve organisational goals, and passionate about building an innovative culture.
• Experience in team leadership.
• Knowledge of IT best practices, security protocols, and compliance standards.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skill.
• Ability to multitask and prioritise with strong sense of urgency.
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Able to work independently and as a strong team player who is proactive, quality-conscious, and results-oriented.

Only Singaporeans may apply.

Designation and salary will commensurate with experience.

We will only contact shortlisted candidates

Joining Razer will place you on a global mission to revolutionize the way the world games. Razer is a place to do great work, offering you the opportunity to make an impact globally while working across a global team located across 5 continents. Razer is also a great place to work, providing you the unique, gamer-centric #LifeAtRazer experience that will put you in an accelerated growth, both personally and professionally.

Job Responsibilities :

Associate Director, Product Marketing, Razer Software

Do you love video games?  We are looking for a passionate gamer to lead the marketing strategy for Razer Software. 
 

The Razer software ecosystem connects our amazing hardware and innovative software with video games and digital platforms world-wide.  The Associate Director of Product Marketing for Razer Software would be responsible for creating the marketing vision and customer messaging for Razer Software.   

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the user acquisition strategy for Razer Software products like Razer Chroma, Razer Synapse and Razer Axon.
• Create a positioning and communication strategy for Razer Software including advertising, events and public relations.
• Drive the strategy with Global Business Development teams to grow the Chroma RGB ecosystem through partnerships with game developers and hardware partners.
• Develop and implement marketing launch plans to align with product team objectives and set success metrics for marketing teams.
• Coordinate cross-company initiatives with a variety of stakeholders including Razer hardware, services, sales and global marketing teams.
• Seek and manage partner collaborations to grow the Chroma RGB ecosystem.
• Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of each marketing campaign.
• Responsible for managing the marketing budget and approval processes.

Pre-Requisites

• Bachelor’s degree with 8-10 years of relevant marketing or product management experience with proven track record of success in PC software.
• Solid expertise and experience in execution of product marketing strategies and campaigns in both a strategic and tactical sense
• A strong self-starter mentality and the capability to build relevant connections with internal & external stakeholders.
• Ability to work smart in a fast-paced, ever-changing and high-growth environment.
• Curiosity to discover new marketing trends and to know what our competitors are doing in our industry.
• Strong interest in tech products and gaming industry is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills - both verbally and in writing.
• Passionate about video games.

Pre-Requisites :

Are you game?

Who we are looking for

The Custody Product organisation is recruiting for an APAC Custody Product Head to run the product in the region and be a key part of the custody leadership group.  State Street’s product organisation is leading an exciting period of transformation for the business and requires an experienced APAC Custody Product Head to join the team and take the business forward.

Join us if making your mark in the financial services industry from day one is a challenge you are up for.

As the APAC Custody Product Head, you will be responsible for Global Custody and Direct Custody Products in APAC.  The individual will have responsibility for the P&L and product strategy collaborating closely with internal stakeholders across technology, operations, sales and client management teams. The industry is embarking on a period of significant change, innovation and new business opportunities and State Street is looking to play a leadership role. The role will report directly to the Global Head of Custody Product and will matrix to the APAC Head of Product Management.

What you will be responsible for

As APAC Custody Product Head, you will

• Developing and driving the vision and product strategy

• P&L Management

  • Partner with the business to drive revenue and profitable growth

  • Own product commercials for direct and global custody across the region

  • Partner with operations to manage operating costs, drive process improvements and improve cost to serve

  • Provide market insights to drive development and competitive positioning of the product

• Lead the development and execution of the APAC custody product strategy including ongoing priorities and annual investment decisions

  • Identify areas of improvement in the core products

  • Explore new business opportunities that help to shorten the chain of custody, drive efficiency and reduce risk

  • Participate in Industry groups across the region to drive market leadership and change

  • Partner with clients and industry participants to drive and deliver value added products

• Collaborate on commercial topics with key stakeholder and business partners across functions including legal, risk and compliance.

What we value

These skills will help you succeed in this role

• Senior level, experienced talent with deep subject matter expertise in direct custody, global custody and the broader asset servicing product set

• Proven track record of working with large complex clients and establishing strong partnerships at all levels

• Strong working knowledge of technology, market infrastructures and industry partners that support the global custody chain

• Excellent client skills and the ability to engage at all levels

• Strong understanding of operational processes across all aspects of Global and Direct Custody

• Active participation in industry groups across the region, showcasing State Street’s thought leadership and actively driving the advocacy agenda

• Ability to effectively communicate at all levels within an organization

• Demonstrates strong leadership skills and the ability to effectively manage and mentor staff

• Proven ability to execute on product deliverables and strategic vision

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• Seasoned MD/ED with 15+ years’ experience in Financial Services

• Worked in Product organisations in prior roles

• Prior experience working in Custody/Banking/ Asset Management

• Consultative experience working with large complex institutional investors

• Strong team player who can thrive in a large complex global organization

About State Street

What we do. State Street is one of the largest custodian banks, asset managers and asset intelligence companies in the world. From technology to product innovation, we’re making our mark on the financial services industry. For more than two centuries, we’ve been helping our clients safeguard and steward the investments of millions of people. We provide investment servicing, data & analytics, investment research & trading and investment management to institutional clients.

Work, Live and Grow. We make all efforts to create a great work environment. Our benefits packages are competitive and comprehensive. Details vary by location, but you may expect generous medical care, insurance and savings plans, among other perks. You’ll have access to flexible Work Programs to help you match your needs. And our wealth of development programs and educational support will help you reach your full potential.

Inclusion, Diversity and Social Responsibility. We truly believe our employees’ diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives are a powerful contributor to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive and reach their maximum potential while adding value to both our organization and our clients. We warmly welcome candidates of diverse origin, background, ability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and personality. Another fundamental value at State Street is active engagement with our communities around the world, both as a partner and a leader. You will have tools to help balance your professional and personal life, paid volunteer days, matching gift programs and access to employee networks that help you stay connected to what matters to you.

State Street is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

Discover more at StateStreet.com/careers

Title                                                    Product Regional Director
Desired Location                               Singapore / China

Hybrid – Remote

The world of payment processing is rapidly evolving, and businesses are looking for loyal and strategic partners, to help them grow.

WE ARE NUVEI.  Nuvei (Nasdaq: NVEI) (TSX: NVEI) is the Canadian fintech company accelerating the business of clients around the world. Nuvei’s modular, flexible and scalable technology allows leading companies to accept next-gen payments, offer all payout options and benefit from card issuing, banking, risk and fraud management services. Connecting businesses to their customers in more than 200 markets, with local acquiring in 45+ markets, 150 currencies and more than 600 alternative payment methods, Nuvei provides the technology and insights for customers and partners to succeed locally and globally with one integration.

At Nuvei, we live our core values, and we thrive on solving complex problems. We’re dedicated to continually improving our product and providing relentless customer service.   We are always looking for exceptional talent to join us on the journey!

Your Mission 

We are looking for a Product Regional Director to join our fast-growing Product Readiness team. Reporting to our SVP Global Products, you will be supporting the team on business growth in Asia Pacific.

You will have a key focus on understanding customer drivers of demand / need. Assess localization need for products, solutions. Support market expansion in new markets, e.g., Thailand and Vietnam. Support client success with our strategic customers, and engage with domestic and global customers in the region. The role also requires engaging internally with a broad cross-functional team including business development, product, operations, engineering and risk to name a few.

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

-       You have an intellectual, problem-solver and logical mind with the ability to synthesize data, insights, and feedback from multiple sources. You are comfortable in translating abstract ideas and information into concrete short-term and long-term product bets that support Nuvei’s growth.

-       You are a “roll up your sleeves” leader who can work with product, development and customer teams to define what is required to deliver the product commercially.

-       You are known by internal and external stakeholders as collaborative and inspirational. You foster strong relationships and alignment across different stakeholders within and outside the organization

You will be a high-impact individual contributor whose responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

-       Make use of our payments infrastructure to improve the performance of existing product suite, while evaluating any new products, platforms that prove to have incremental value (bias towards significant differentiation)

-       Seek out innovation in the merchants services domain by considering consumer’s needs, relevant regulatory and technological trends that could influence Nuvei’s approach to payments in the short-term vs. the long-term (social gaming, x-border transfers)

-       Build a framework for what is commercially ready – beyond development to be ready for market. 

Qualifications include, but are not limited to:

-       5+ years of experience in Product Management (B2B or B2C)

-       Knowledge of payments technologies (e.g. network tokens, PINless, Faster Payments, ACH, etc.) is a plus

-       Highly analytical with the ability to use data to make decisions

-       Strong verbal and written communication skills

-       Impeccable judgment and integrity

-       Ability to juggle multiple critical tasks simultaneously

-       Bachelor's degree, MBA a plus

-       Willingness to travel as needed, globally

Nuvei is an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates collaboration and innovation and is committed to developing a diverse and inclusive workplace. The team at Nuvei is comprised of a wealth of talent, skill, and ambition. We believe that employees are happiest when they’re empowered to be their true, authentic selves. So, please come as you are. We can’t wait to meet you. 

Benefits

·       Long Term Incentive Plan that creates an opportunity for all employees to financial benefit from Nuvei’s growth

·       2.5 additional days of annual leave a quarter, if company hit quarterly targets

·       Private Medical Insurance 

Working Language

·       English (written and spoken) is the language used most of the time, as work colleagues, clients, and strategic suppliers are geographically dispersed.

Team Summary

In the Asia Pacific region there has seen a surge in the adoption of payments using QR code. This growth is driven by multiple factors such as - the widespread use of smartphones, increasing penetration of internet services and, adoption of QR by the real-time payment networks and fintech. This growth in QR code payments in not isolated in the Asia Pacific region. It is picking pace globally and, the trend is expected to continue in the coming years.

Visa is establishing it’s Centre of Excellence in Singapore which will spearhead Visa’s QR participation in this growing trend. A dedicated team will provide strategic direction, thought leadership, product and execution support, best practices, and oversight for QR based payment for Visa. While Asia Pacific region will be its operating and learning ground, the remit of this Center of Excellence will be global. This team will templatize its learning in the region and help shape market responses globally. The person in this Director - QR Product Management position is one of the team members of this CoE and, will be responsible to managing Visa’s QR product and report to the lead of Center of Excellence based in Singapore. 

What does a Director – QR Product Management does at Visa:

In your Product Management role, you will be is responsible for guiding the success of a QR product. This is a techno-commercial role spanning many types of activities, from strategic to tactical. The key expectations for the role are:

• You will be the subject matter expert on QR product. On a proactive basis you will often play the role of training and mentoring staff and, on a reactive basis you would be their go-to person for QR related questions or, problem solving.
• You will also be the advocate for Visa’s QR solutions, conducting sales pitches, workshop and training with varied players in the ecosystem including clients, merchants, regulators, and Visa’s various functional units.
• You will directly collaborate with key clients in the region and participate in their QR deployment journey. To drive adoption of QR code, you will provide them with user experience best practices, identifying right balance between convenience and security, onboarding processing or, help identify how Visa’s solution fit in their existing architecture.
• You will be expected to develop and maintain accurate, high-quality content for Sales pitches, implementation guides for Clients, internal implementation processes and, product marketing material.
• In this role you will closely monitor market trends, identify emerging opportunities, conduct periodic consumer and merchant research to remain current at all times. These activities will guide the QR product development roadmap for which you would be responsible.
• As you work with market team, clients and partners, you will also gather requirements for enhancing Visa’s QR offering. To translate these requirements into new capabilities, you will work with our internal new product development teams.
• Visa has a strong focus on growing value-added services. You will identify and commercialize different value-added services overlaying the QR payment transaction.   
• You will manage the on-going components of product management such as publishing road map, billing and reporting, maintaining documentation and handling exceptions.

Why this is important to Visa

The QR is one of the key initiatives for maintaining Visa’s payment leadership position in everyday spend. This role will be Visa’s subject matter expert on QR based payment over Visa’s network. The person in this role would not only be handful few subject matter experts in the company but will shape Visa’s QR solution and commercial success in this area.

Projects you will be a part of:

In this role, you will gain understanding of payment landscape not only within Asia Pacific as well as globally. As Visa’s subject matter expert for QR code payment you will understand the current market situations and, also get to shape the future of QR payments for the industry through Visa.