Executive Director, API & Open Banking -Cash and Trade
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About the Role
Define and own API product vision, manage lifecycle, ensure compliance, and drive commercialization while enabling client integration and collaboration.
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Product Vision & Strategic Ownership
- Define and own the API product vision and multi year roadmap aligned to Global Trade, Treasury and Tokenization strategy.
- Position APIs as core channels for payments, liquidity, escrow, trade, and digital asset enabled offerings.
- Identify and prioritize embedded finance, ecosystem led growth and tokenization driven opportunities through API and Open Banking infrastructure
- Drive consistency and scalability across product lines to deliver a cohesive enterprise API proposition.
End To End Product Lifecycle Management
- Own the full API product lifecycle from ideation and design through launch, scale and ongoing optimization.
- Ensure API products are commercially viable, reusable, secure and client centric.
- Balance speed to market with long term resilience, operational robustness and regulatory expectations.
Client, Platform & Ecosystem Enablement
- Enable and scale direct integration of bank capabilities into corporate ERP, TMS, digital platforms and partner ecosystems.
- Engage strategic clients and partners to co create and scale API led use cases
- Act as senior product representative in client, partnership and industry engagements.
Commercialization & Value Realization
- Define pricing, packaging and usage based commercial models for API products.
- Track and demonstrate value across CASA growth, fee income, client acquisition and retention.
- Leverage adoption analytics and performance insights to refine investment priorities and product strategy.
Governance, Risk & Regulatory Alignment
- Ensure API products are compliant with client money, safeguarding, operational resilience and data requirements.
- Maintain alignment with Central Bank, FSRA / ADGM and other applicable regulatory frameworks for developing fit-for-purpose propositions in these jurisdictions
- Embed risk controls, transparency and reporting by design within all API solutions.
Leadership & Stakeholder Management
- Act as a trusted senior partner to GTB, Treasury, Digital Assets, Technology, Risk and Operations.
- Provide clear, commercially grounded updates to the Managing Director and senior management forums.
General Responsibilities
- Promote API reuse and standardization to reduce duplication and accelerate delivery.
- Lead cross-functional groups to align API strategy with enterprise goals.
- Maintain high standards of API documentation.
- Contribute to budget planning and resource allocation for API engineering.
- Provide training and enablement on API best practices.
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