Sales Director, Orion

Job Summary

SC Ventures is Standard Chartered’s innovation, fintech investment and ventures arm. We were established to reinvent banking, as the significant technological disruptions to the industry was impacting its ability to serve clients and customers, in the ways they needed to be served.

We are a unique ecosystem of innovators, banking experts, business builders and partners who are focused on rewiring the DNA in banking and bringing breakthrough ideas to scale, together.

We are building ecosystems around four high conviction themes:
Online Economy & Lifestyle, SMEs & World Trade, Digital Assets, and Sustainability & Inclusion.

We are a global team of “Members” (excluding individual ventures), including dedicated colleagues from the Group’s support functions, based in Singapore, Hong Kong, London, and the United Arab Emirates.

We are seeking a highly driven and experienced Sales Director to lead the commercial growth of software products across multiple SC Ventures portfolio companies. This role requires a dynamic sales leader with deep enterprise‑software experience within financial services who can represent multiple ventures, drive new business across regions, and consistently meet ambitious revenue targets.

The Sales Director will serve as a cross‑venture commercial lead, translating customer needs into value propositions, coordinating with venture teams, and accelerating adoption of innovative fintech solutions.

• Own and deliver annual sales targets across a portfolio of venture software products.
• Develop and execute multi‑venture sales strategies tailored to banking, financial institutions, and enterprise clients.
• Build and manage a robust sales pipeline; forecast accurately and report performance regularly.

• Identify, pursue, and close enterprise‑level opportunities globally.
• Act as the primary commercial face of multiple ventures to key decision‑makers (C‑suite, technology leadership, innovation teams).
• Strengthen long‑term relationships with clients, partners, and industry stakeholders.

• Collaborate with individual venture CEOs, product leads, and technical teams to refine offerings and ensure commercial readiness.
• Consolidate sales insights across ventures to support product positioning and market‑fit improvements.
• Navigate varying product maturity levels and tailor go‑to‑market approaches for each, and combine venture offerings where appropriate.

• Provide market intelligence, competitive insights, and recommendations for pricing, packaging, and commercialization.
• Represent SC Ventures and its portfolio companies at conferences, client events, and industry forums.
• Help shape and refine multi‑venture commercial operating models.

• Maintain accurate sales data and sales documentation.
• Adhere to compliance, contractual, and governance standards across multiple jurisdictions.
• Meet additional company KPIs such as pipeline velocity, customer engagement metrics, bank‑wide conduct and training requirements, and collaboration requirements.

• Global Head, SC Ventures
• SCV Leadership Team
• Venture Leadership Team(s)
• Group COEs
• SCV functional teams

• 15+ years of enterprise‑software sales experience; strong preference for fintech, SaaS, or banking technology.
• Proven track record of meeting or exceeding multimillion‑dollar sales targets.
• Experience selling into banks, financial institutions, or regulated industries.
• Ability to manage complex sales cycles across multiple product lines and stakeholders.
• Strong executive presence, negotiation skills, and relationship‑building capabilities.
• Comfortable operating in fast‑moving venture environments with early‑stage products.
• Global or regional sales experience across Asia, Middle East, Africa, or Europe is a strong plus.

• Account Management
• Sales Systems
• Client Relationship Management
• Cross‑Selling

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