Chief Product & Technology Officer-Global Fintech Platform

Emerald Zebra; Dubai; On-site; AED 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Emerald Zebra seeks a Chief Product & Technology Officer to own end-to-end product and technology across flagship businesses, spanning Dubai and Malaysia. You will define multi-product strategy, modernise execution, and elevate capabilities while ensuring regulatory readiness and risk controls across regions.

You will lead with strategic depth and hands-on pragmatism, shaping how products are conceived, built, measured and governed at scale, balancing growth with compliance and reliability.

Qualifications

• 12 years in brokerage, trading fintech or similarly regulated industries.
• 5+ years in senior product leadership roles owning multi-product portfolios.
• Proven experience leading distributed teams across multiple countries or regions.
• Strong capability in defining product strategy, positioning and customer value narratives.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Architect the brokerage growth engine across activation, retention, trading frequency, deposits and revenue.
• Embed compliance and risk-by-design principles across product and engineering (auditability, access controls, data governance).
• Establish and enforce product governance models across regulated and non-regulated surfaces.
• Drive platform synergy and architecture leadership to improve delivery velocity and reduce duplication.
• Implement a modern product development operating system enabling high-agency problem solving within squads.
• Institutionalise AI workflows to enhance discovery, delivery speed and decision quality.

Skills

Product strategy

Multi-product leadership

Distributed teams

Data-driven decisions

Architecture guidance

AI integration

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder management

Job description

Emerald Zebra seeks a Chief Product & Technology Officer to own end-to-end product and technology across flagship businesses, spanning Dubai and Malaysia. You will define multi-product strategy, modernise execution, and elevate capabilities while ensuring regulatory readiness and risk controls across regions.

You will lead with strategic depth and hands-on pragmatism, shaping how products are conceived, built, measured and governed at scale, balancing growth with compliance and reliability.