Product Lead

MoneySmart Group is the leading personal financial portal in Southeast Asia, dedicated to assisting consumers in comparing loans, insurance, and credit cards. Established in 2009, MoneySmart's mission is to empower consumers to make informed financial decisions.

Mission

Lead the Marketplace product tribe of 2–3 PMs) to define the vision, drive discovery and delivery, and build a sustainable leadership pipeline. You will be accountable for the overall Marketplace product strategy, execution, and team development - mitigating concentration risk by distributing ownership and ensuring long-term continuity, while delivering a compelling, outcome-driven roadmap that accelerates Marketplace growth, enhances product execution quality and velocity, and nurtures the next generation of product leaders.

Responsibilities

• Product Strategy & Roadmapping: Translate company strategy into a 12–18‑month Marketplace plan. Lead AI-enabled market research, user‑feedback programs, and competitive analyses; convert insights into sequenced bets with clear success metrics and decision logs
• Product Discovery & Execution: Manage the end‑to‑end lifecycle—from problem framing and hypothesis validation to delivery and iteration. Uphold agile ceremonies, definitions of ready/done, quality bars, and tight scope control to land milestones predictably
• Team Leadership & Upskilling: Mentor 2–3 PMs with structured growth plans. Establish rituals for product judgment, discovery craft, measurement, and documentation quality. Build a high‑performing, continuously developing team
• Risk Mitigation & Ownership Distribution: Proactively redistribute critical responsibilities to reduce single‑owner risk and ensure resilience across workstreams
• Data & Experimentation: Raise the bar on analysis and testing. Define metric trees, design A/B tests, and track Marketplace outcomes, especially funnel conversion and engagement rates
• Design & Customer Insight: Partner with Design and Research on journey mapping, usability testing, and content clarity. Maintain ongoing customer proximity via interviews, sales feedback, events, and social channels
• Stakeholder Leadership: Align Engineering, Data, Design, Commercial, and Executive stakeholders on outcomes, trade‑offs, and resourcing; communicate with clarity and candor
• Innovation & Tools : Encourage modern tooling, including automation and AI where appropriate, to improve speed and quality without compromising evidence standards, privacy, or brand integrity

Competencies

• Strategic Product Management & Systems Thinking: Translates company strategy into a 12-18 month Marketplace roadmap, leveraging AI-enabled research and a holistic understanding of business impact
• Execution Excellence: Manages the end-to-end product lifecycle with disciplined agile methodologies, ensuring high-quality, on-time delivery of roadmap outcomes
• Team Leadership & Development: Mentors and develops Product Managers through structured growth plans, fostering a high-performing team with strong product judgment and craft
• Cross‑Functional Collaboration & Influence: Aligns diverse stakeholders across Engineering, Data, Design, Commercial, and Executive teams through clear communication and strong relationships
• Operational Agility: Prioritizes effectively across short-term and long-term initiatives, adapting to change and mitigating risks through proactive responsibility redistribution
• Analytical Rigor: Drives data-informed decisions through strong analytical literacy, experiment design, KPI definition, and meticulous tracking of Marketplace outcomes
• Communication & Product Writing: Produces clear, concise, and impactful product documentation and delivers crisp stakeholder updates with transparency and candor
• Innovation Acumen: Pragmatically applies new methods and tools, including automation and AI, to improve speed and quality without compromising evidence standards, privacy, or brand integrity

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in Product Management with proven leadership of PMs or a product tribe; Marketplace or multi‑sided platform experience is a plus
• Demonstrated delivery of roadmap outcomes at quality and speed; deep familiarity with agile cadences and backlog hygiene
• Ability to assess a problem, identify potential issues and find solutions
• Strong analytical literacy (e.g., SQL familiarity, experiment design) and comfort with instrumentation and KPI tracking
• Skilled in stakeholder management and cross‑functional alignment; excellent written and verbal communication
• Financial product domain expertise - Experience working in Fintech space and domain knowledge of banking and insurance products like loans, credit cards, insurances etc. in the APAC region
• Proficiency with standard product tooling (e.g., JIRA, Confluence) and collaboration stacks

Moneysmart culture values and tenets

The traits we admire are core intrinsic qualities we look for in someone we want on our team, and we look for people who are Hungry, Humble and Smart. We also expect all our people to uphold the following company values:

• Play to win as a team
• Solve for the customer
• Embrace a personal growth mindset
• Own it openly
• Challenge the status quo and deliver outcomes

MoneySmart Group is an equal opportunity employer. Please include only relevant details and avoid unnecessary information (e.g., photos, age) in your job application to assist us in ensuring that the interview process is devoid of bias.