Chief Product Technology Officer; CPTO Fintech 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.

We are a global fintech platform building products that empower traders and entrepreneurs to perform ough 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.

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.

• 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.

• 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.
• Institutionalise experimentation discipline through robust telemetry, funnel diagnostics, and A/B testing without compromising compliance or reliability.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Drive an AI‑builder mindset across product, design, and…