Hybrid Director of Product – Growth and Customer Engagement

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About the role

  • Director of Product managing the Growth and Customer Engagement portfolio for a multi-country digital banking group. Lead product strategies to enhance customer interaction and expand market reach.

Responsibilities

  • Own the strategy, health, and evolution of the Growth and Customer Engagement portfolio as a key member of the product leadership team
  • Push the boundaries of product-led-growth — defining and executing performance strategies to grow our business and improve our customers' banking experience
  • Design and continuously improve the multi-market operating model — defining how platform capabilities built centrally are activated, adapted, and governed in each country
  • Lead the portfolio's AI and data strategy — ensuring personalisation, experimentation, and behavioural insights are embedded into every product surface, not bolted on as afterthoughts
  • Govern the portfolio's external partnerships and vendor relationships at a commercial and architectural level — including joint programme delivery with strategic financial services partners
  • Bring domain authority in growth, martech, loyalty, or customer engagement — and use it to make decisions that move faster than consensus
  • Drive the experimentation culture and growth loops — framework design, customer-facing product performance, tooling decisions, and the operating rhythm that turns hypotheses into validated learnings at pace
  • Define and own the portfolio vision, ensuring strategic coherence across pods that serve markets with different growth missions and maturity levels
  • Own the portfolio's contribution to Group-level OKRs and translate these into pod-level outcomes
  • Lead the integration of the portfolio's data science and AI/ML team into product delivery — ensuring models, experiments, and insights translate into shipped product changes
  • Lead and mentor the next generation of Product Managers and teams — providing strategic direction, removing blockers, and holding the bar on product quality and delivery rigour
  • Run portfolio-level governance — sprint reviews, pod health checks, dependency management, and escalation to the Chief Product Officer when needed
  • Manage portfolio-level resourcing — including headcount planning, attrition risk, leave cover, and onboarding of new team members (including data science and AI/ML hires)
  • Ensure delivery excellence across pods — by leading the operating rhythm, standards, and accountability structures that let pods move fast with confidence
  • Partner with Engineering leadership to make decisions about technical direction, architecture, and platform evolution — as a peer, not a requester
  • Work with UX Research and Design to identify product and segment-based growth opportunities grounded in customer evidence
  • Collaborate with Risk, Compliance, Legal, and Finance stakeholders to navigate regulatory and commercial constraints — particularly in multi-jurisdiction contexts
  • Contribute to the evolution of the broader product function — including team building, Ways of Working, recruitment processes, and performance management frameworks
  • Lead quarterly strategic planning for the portfolio — including roadmap prioritisation, capacity allocation across pods, and trade-off decisions when resources are constrained
  • Own vendor strategy for the portfolio's platform stack — engagement/martech platform, loyalty engine, analytics tooling — including commercial negotiation, architectural decisions (e.g., single vs. multi-instance), and contract review
  • Make build/buy/partner decisions with clear commercial and technical rationale, and manage the implications through to deliver

Requirements

  • 8+ years in product management, with at least 3 years in a managerial role leading a portfolio of multiple product teams (not a single product or squad)
  • Proven experience in multi-market or multi-entity product leadership — you have navigated the complexity of serving different geographies with different needs from a shared platform capability
  • Deep domain expertise in growth, engagement, lifecycle, loyalty, or personalisation — you have built and scaled at least one of these functions, not just contributed to it
  • Platform and vendor management experience — you have owned commercial relationships with martech, engagement, or loyalty platform vendors, including contract negotiation and architectural trade-offs
  • Data and analytics leadership — you have managed or closely partnered with data science / analytics teams and can govern metric definitions, experimentation frameworks, and reporting across organisational boundaries
  • External partnership experience — you have co-managed a strategic partnership or joint programme with a large external organisation at a senior level
  • Strong people leadership — you have built, mentored, and retained product teams through ambiguity, attrition, and growth
  • **Preferred:**
  • Background in fintech, digital banking, or financial services — with an understanding of regulated product environments
  • Experience working within or alongside martech, personalisation platforms and loyalty engines at an architectural level
  • Experience with AI/ML product integration — not as a technologist, but as a product leader who knows how to direct AI capabilities toward customer outcomes
  • Familiarity with multi-country operating models in emerging markets — particularly Southeast Asia or Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Comfort operating in a high-growth, high-ambiguity environment where the operating model itself is still being shaped

Benefits

  • Meal and parking allowance are covered by the company
  • Full benefits and salary rank during probation
  • Insurances as Vietnamese labor law and premium health care for you and your family without seniority compulsory
  • Performance bonus up to 2 months
  • 13th month salary pro-rata
  • 15-day annual leave+ 3-day sick leave + 1 birthday leave + 1 Christmas leave
  • SMART goals and clear career opportunities (technical seminar, conference, and career talk) – we focus on your development
  • Values-driven, international working environment, and agile culture
  • Overseas travel opportunities for training and working related
  • Internal Hackathons and company’s events (team building, coffee run, blue card…)
  • Work-life balance 40-hr per week from Mon to Fri
  • **Besides the tangible benefits, we promise you the opportunity to:**
  • Work with a best-in-class product community who are actively evolving how multi-country Product Management works — including AI-augmented delivery, cross-market operating model design, and platform governance at scale
  • Explore a career path that will stretch your capabilities as a portfolio leader — across markets, partners, and product domains that few organisations can offer in combination
  • Operate at the frontier of digital banking in emerging markets — where the products you build directly expand financial access for millions of underserved customers

Job title

Director of Product – Growth and Customer Engagement

Job type

Experience level

Lead

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Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

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