Director of Product Management, APAC

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* Location:

** Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, Japan, India, Australia or New Zealand
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* Reports to:

** EVP & Chief Product Officer (Global Product Organisation)  
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** Managing Director, APAC
** Shape the Future of AI-Powered Legal Technology Across APAC
** Lexis Nexis Legal & Professional is a global leader in legal, regulatory and business information and analytics. As part of RELX, we combine trusted content, deep domain expertise and advanced technology to help legal, corporate and government professionals make better decisions every day.

We are at the forefront of applying Generative AI, Agentic AI and advanced analytics to transform how professionals access insights, conduct research and solve complex business challenges.

As we continue to accelerate our AI-first product strategy, we are seeking a
** Director of Product Management, APAC
** to lead product innovation across one of our most dynamic regions. This is a highly visible leadership role that combines customer intimacy, technical product leadership and AI product development to shape the next generation of products serving legal and professional markets across Asia Pacific.

As a member of the APAC Senior Leadership Team, you will play a critical role in balancing regional customer needs with global platform strategy, ensuring AI investments deliver measurable customer and business outcomes.
** About the Role
** The Director of Product Management, APAC is a technical product leader who owns APAC product outcomes, customer signal and AI-first product development.

This role is responsible for translating regional customer problems and emerging market opportunities into scalable AI-enabled products and platform capabilities. Working in close partnership with Engineering, Data Science, UX, Architecture and Global Product teams, this role leads the discovery, design and delivery of technical product solutions that accelerate innovation across the APAC portfolio.

The successful candidate will combine strong commercial judgement with deep technical product expertise to shape product roadmaps, validate AI use cases and ensure solutions are technically feasible, commercially viable and customer-centric.

You will champion modern product development practices, including agile delivery, experimentation, AI model evaluation and data-driven decision making.

The Director leads a regional team of Product Managers while acting as the primary technical product partner for Engineering and AI development teams across APAC.
** Key Responsibilities
**** Customer Focus
** You will:
* Interact regularly with customers and develop a deep understanding of their businesses, workflows and use cases.
* Build a comprehensive understanding of competitor products, strategies and market dynamics.
* Balance customer needs with organisational priorities to shape strategic product direction.
* Anticipate emerging trends within customer segments and markets.
* Understand how value is defined and perceived across different customer segments.
* Engage with peer organisations, industry leaders and start-ups to identify innovation opportunities.
** Technical Product Leadership
** You will:
* Lead product development from opportunity identification through production deployment and continuous optimisation.
* Translate customer and business problems into detailed product requirements, AI use cases and technical product roadmaps.
* Partner with Engineering teams to define scalable platform capabilities and reusable AI services.
* Drive product decisions that balance customer value, technical complexity, speed-to-market and commercial impact.
* Champion modern Product Discovery techniques including rapid experimentation, customer validation and iterative delivery.
** AI Product Development
** You will:
* Identify opportunities where Generative AI, Agentic AI, Machine Learning and automation can create differentiated customer value.
* Define AI product requirements including model selection, evaluation criteria, governance frameworks, guardrails and responsible AI principles.
* Establish success metrics for AI-enabled products covering customer outcomes, adoption, model effectiveness and business impact.
* Ensure AI capabilities are integrated into broader product experiences rather than deployed as standalone technology initiatives.
** Engineering Partnership
** You will:
* Act as the primary Product counterpart to APAC Engineering leadership for technical strategy, platform evolution and AI roadmap execution.
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