Chief Product Technology Officer, Fintech, Dubai, Malaysia

Chief Product & Technology Officer Global Fintech Platform Dubai or Malaysia.

A globally recognised fintech group operating across prop trading and regulated brokerage is seeking a Chief Product & Technology Officer to own the end-to-end product and technology portfolio across two flagship businesses. Reporting directly to the Group CEO you will define multi-product strategy modernise execution and elevate product and engineering capabilities across multiple jurisdictions. This is a rare opportunity to shape how products are conceived built measured and governed at the intersection of growth regulation and scale. If you think in systems balance ambition with institutional rigour and lead with both strategic depth and hands-on pragmatism this is your role.

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 trading and regulated brokerage we serve a rapidly growing global user base across multiple jurisdictions.

We are now entering a phase where product and technology excellence will determine the next chapter of our scale trust and long-term defensibility.

Your Role in Our Mission

As the Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPTO) you will own the end-to-end product and technology portfolio across both businesses. Reporting directly to the Group CEO you will define the multi-product strategy modernize execution and elevate product and engineering capabilities while ensuring reliability regulatory readiness and risk controls across regions.

This role sits at the intersection of growth trust and scale. You will shape how products are conceived built measured and governed balancing speed with compliance experimentation with stability and innovation with institutional rigor.

How Youll Make an Impact

Product Strategy & Portfolio Leadership

• Define a clear differentiated product strategy tied to revenue growth retention trust and risk outcomes.
• Build and maintain a measurable prioritized 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 verification funding and engagement journeys through product-led CRM hooks.
• Institutionalize experimentation discipline through robust telemetry funnel diagnostics and A/B testing without compromising compliance or reliability.

Trust Reliability & Regulatory Readiness

• Strengthen platform stability through clear SLOs observability incident management and response frameworks.
• Embed compliance- and risk-by-design principles across product and engineering (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.

Platform Synergy & Architecture Leadership

• Establish a clear separation between platform and product to reduce duplication and increase delivery velocity.
• Build shared services workflows and foundational capabilities intentionally across both businesses.
• Steer architectural decisions with a strong understanding of scalability reliability and modern engineering practices.

Capability Building & Operating System Enhancement

• 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 engineering excellence and execution discipline across hubs.

AI-Native Execution & Future Readiness

• Drive an AI-builder mindset across product design and engineering focused on practical value-generating use cases.
• Institutionalize AI workflows to enhance discovery delivery speed operational efficiency and decision quality.

What You Bring

• 12 years of experience in brokerage trading fintech or similarly regulated industries.
• Minimum 5 years in senior product leadership roles owning multi-product portfolios.
• Proven experience leading distributed teams across multiple countries or regions.
• Deep capability in defining product strategy positioning and customer value narratives.
• 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.
• Experience creating shared platforms supporting multiple product operations.
• Ability to set enforce and elevate talent and performance standards across Product and Technology.
• Strong technical grounding with the ability to guide architecture and reliability decisions.
• Deep instinct for embedding compliance risk and auditability into product and engineering workflows.
• Ability to partner effectively with Risk & Compliance while maintaining delivery speed and clarity.

Your X-Factor

• Thinks in systems not features optimizing 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 engineers product leaders executives and regulators alike.
• Combines strategic depth with hands-on pragmatism.

Your Journey after Applying

1. Executive-level screening and alignment discussion.
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 systems that will sustain them. If you are driven to architect platforms shape product cultures and lead at the intersection of growth regulation and technology this role offers the opportunity to define the future of two global fintech businesses.