Chief Product Officer, (CPO) Brokerage, Dubai or Malaysia
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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 across prop trading and regulated retail FX/CFD brokerage.
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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 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.
About the client:
A globally recognised fintech group operating across prop trading and regulated retail FX/CFD brokerage is hiring a Chief Product Officer to own multi-product strategy, lifecycle, and growth across two flagship businesses.
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.
We are looking for a Product leader who has lived inside a broker, knows the trader journey end-to-end, and can build a measurable growth engine.
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.
***Product Strategy & Portfolio Leadership***
- 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.
- Establish a strong narrative around customer value, product bets, and long-term platform evolution.
***Brokerage & Growth Engine Development***
- 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.
***Capability Building & Product Operating System***
- 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.
- Set and uphold high standards for product craft and execution discipline across hubs.
- ***Regulatory Readiness & Trust by Design***
- Embed compliance and risk-by-design principles across product workflows (auditability, access controls, data governance).
- Establish and enforce marketing and claims governance in collaboration with Risk & Compliance.
- Define and operate clear product governance models across regulated and non-regulated surfaces.
- ***AI-Native Product Execution***
- Drive an AI-builder mindset across product and design focused on practical, value-generating use cases.
- Institutionalise AI workflows to enhance discovery, delivery speed, operational efficiency, and decision quality.
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
1.
Executive-level screening and alignment discussion with Emerald Zebra.
2.
Strategic deep-dive sessions with Group Leadership.
3.
Final conversation with the Group CEO.
Why Join Us?
We are at an inflection point.
We have scale, market presence, and ambition.
Now we are building the product systems that will sustain them.
If you are driven to architect product strategy, shape product cultures, and lead at the intersection of growth, regulation, and trading technology, this role offers the opportunity to define the future of two global fintech businesses.
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