Chief Product Officer, Brokerage
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About the Role
Chief Product Officer Global Fintech Platform, Dubai or Malaysia. MUST READ BEFORE APPLYING. This is a pure Chief Product Officer role for a global fintech group operating acros.
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Responsibilities
- Define a clear, differentiated product strategy tied to revenue growth, retention, trust, and risk outcomes
- Build and maintain a measurable, prioritised roadmap across both businesses and platform capabilities
- Architect the brokerage growth engine across the full lifecycle: activation, retention, trading frequency, deposits, commission revenue
- Strengthen onboarding, KYC, verification, funding, and engagement journeys through product led CRM hooks
- Institutionalise experimentation discipline through robust telemetry, funnel diagnostics, and A/B testing
- Own the trader experience across MT4, MT5, cTrader, proprietary web and mobile front ends, copy trading, social trading, and prop firm challenge journeys
- Implement a modern product development operating system that enables high agency problem solving within squads
- Mature Product Management practices across discovery, domain ownership, decision making, and delivery
- Embed compliance and risk by design principles across product workflows
- Drive an AI builder mindset across product and design focused on practical, value generating use cases
Requirements
- 12+ years of direct product leadership experience inside a regulated retail FX/CFD broker, prop trading firm, or multi asset online brokerage
- Minimum 5 years at C suite or direct report to CEO level, owning multi product portfolios
- Demonstrable ownership of the trader lifecycle: acquisition, onboarding, KYC, first deposit, first trade, retention, reactivation, churn
- Proven experience leading distributed product teams across multiple countries or regions
- Deep capability in defining product strategy, positioning, and customer value narratives in regulated trading environments
- Strong discovery discipline: able to derive truth from data and user insight
- Comfort operating across multiple products with distinct metrics, risks, and constraints
- Demonstrated success in building scalable product development operating systems
- Strong instinct for embedding compliance, risk, and auditability into product workflows
- Ability to partner effectively with Risk & Compliance, and with an engineering counterpart (CTO)
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Role Overview
- Chief Product Officer Global Fintech Platform, Dubai or Malaysia.
- This is a pure Chief Product Officer role for a global fintech group operating across prop trading and regulated retail FX/CFD brokerage.
- We are only considering candidates with deep, direct, hands on product leadership experience inside a regulated retail FX/CFD broker, prop trading firm, or multi asset online brokerage.
Who We Are
- We are a global fintech platform building products that empower traders and entrepreneurs to perform at scale.
- Through our flagship businesses spanning performance based prop trading and regulated retail brokerage, we serve a rapidly growing global user base across multiple jurisdictions.
- We are now entering a phase where product excellence will determine the next chapter of our scale, trust, and long term defensibility.
Your Role in Our Mission
- As Chief Product Officer (CPO), you will own the end to end product portfolio across both businesses.
- Reporting directly to the Group CEO, you will define multi product strategy, build a measurable roadmap tied to revenue, retention, and trust outcomes, and elevate product management capability across regions.
- This role sits at the intersection of growth and regulation.
- You will shape how products are conceived, prioritised, measured, and governed, balancing speed with compliance and experimentation with stability.
How You'll Make an Impact
- Product Strategy & Portfolio Leadership: Define a clear, differentiated product strategy tied to revenue growth, retention, trust, and risk outcomes.
- Brokerage & Growth Engine Development: Architect the brokerage growth engine across the full lifecycle.
- Capability Building & Product Operating System: Implement a modern product development operating system.
- Regulatory Readiness & Trust by Design: Embed compliance and risk by design principles across product workflows.
- AI Native Product Execution: Drive an AI builder mindset across product and design.
What You Bring (Non Negotiable)
- 12+ years of direct product leadership experience inside a regulated retail FX/CFD broker, prop trading firm, or multi asset online brokerage.
- Minimum 5 years at C suite or direct report to CEO level, owning multi product portfolios across trading platforms, deposits/funding, CRM, copy trading, social trading, prop firm challenges, or similar.
- Demonstrable ownership of the trader lifecycle: acquisition, onboarding, KYC, first deposit, first trade, retention, reactivation, churn.
- Proven experience leading distributed product teams across multiple countries or regions, ideally across MEA, APAC, and EMEA.
- Deep capability in defining product strategy, positioning, and customer value narratives in regulated trading environments.
- Strong discovery discipline: able to derive truth from data and user insight rather than opinion.
- Comfort operating across multiple products with distinct metrics, risks, and constraints.
- Demonstrated success in building scalable product development operating systems.
- Strong instinct for embedding compliance, risk, and auditability into product workflows.
- Ability to partner effectively with Risk & Compliance, and with an engineering counterpart (CTO), maintaining delivery speed and clarity.
What Will NOT Be Considered
- Career experience predominantly in general fintech, payments, acquiring, card processing, EMI, neo banking, or wallet platforms.
- Career experience predominantly in banking IT, enterprise architecture, core banking, treasury platforms, or wholesale transaction banking.
- Career experience predominantly in retail e commerce, marketplaces, telco, insurance, education, mobility, or general consumer SaaS.
- Advisory, consulting, interim, or fractional product leadership careers without permanent broker operator tenure.
- Pure UX/design leadership careers without product P&L and roadmap ownership.
- Blockchain protocol or Web3 product leadership careers without retail FX/CFD broker tenure.
Your X Factor
- Thinks in systems, not features.
- Optimises for long term leverage, not short term wins.
- Balances growth ambition with institutional responsibility.
- Makes hard trade offs decisively and communicates them clearly.
- Builds trust with product leaders, engineers, executives, and regulators alike.
- Combines strategic depth with hands on pragmatism inside the trading product domain.
Your Journey after Applying
- Executive level screening and alignment discussion with Emerald Zebra.
- Strategic deep dive sessions with Group Leadership.
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