Chief Product Officer, (CPO) Brokerage, Dubai or Malaysia
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About the Role
Global fintech group seeks a Chief Product Officer to own multi-product strategy, lifecycle, and growth across prop trading and regulated retail FX/CFD brokerage.
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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
- Make transparent trade offs across multiple product lines with differing constraints, metrics, and regulatory requirements
- 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 without compromising compliance or reliability
- 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
- Introduce Product Operations to support multi product and multi jurisdiction complexity
- Embed compliance and risk by design principles across product workflows (auditability, access controls, data governance)
- 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 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
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Role Overview
- Chief Product Officer role for a global fintech group operating across prop trading and regulated retail FX/CFD brokerage.
- Reporting directly to the Group CEO/CSO, you will define product strategy, modernise product operations, and elevate product management discipline across multiple jurisdictions.
- This is a Product led role: engineering execution will be owned by a counterpart CTO.
How You'll Make an Impact
- 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.
- Make transparent trade offs across multiple product lines with differing constraints, metrics, and regulatory requirements.
- 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.
- Introduce Product Operations to support multi product and multi jurisdiction complexity.
- 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.
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.
About the Client
- A globally recognised fintech group operating across prop trading and regulated retail FX/CFD brokerage.
- We are a global fintech platform building products that empower traders and entrepreneurs to perform at scale.
- We serve a rapidly growing global user base across multiple jurisdictions.
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