Head of Fintech Product & Data — AI, API & Compliance

PeopleLAKE Group; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

PeopleLAKE Group in Malaysia is seeking a hands-on Senior Product Leader to own the strategy and execution for our consumer, business, and API data products. The GM will set the roadmap, drive delivery, and build the product team while ensuring compliance with Malaysia's regulated financial ecosystem.

You will collaborate with Engineering, Data, Sales, and Compliance to ship on time, define metrics, and align cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Senior leadership experience in product, shipping across multiple segments.
• Experience in fintech, data, or other regulated domains.
• Strong data and commercial judgement for B2C and B2B.
• Practical understanding of AI value in products.
• Hands-on, able to build structure from scratch.
• Clear communicator to align teams and craft strategy.
• Familiarity with Malaysian financial ecosystem is a plus.
• Experience taking API/platform products to market.
• Experience across consumer, commercial, and enterprise product lines.
• Experience scaling a product function.

Responsibilities

• Own the product roadmap across market segments: consumer, commercial, and enterprise.
• Set product strategy across all product lines and decide where the portfolio invests.
• Drive the roadmap end to end: discovery, prioritisation, delivery.
• Work within regulatory and compliance requirements (eKYC, consent, PDPA,BNM) as a core part of product decisions.
• Set the direction for how AI is applied across the products.
• Ensure products share data, identity, and consent so the portfolio works asone system.
• Partner with Engineering, Data, Sales, and Compliance to ship on time.
• Build and manage the product team, including the Lead Product Manager.
• Define the metrics for each segment and hold the team to outcomes.

Skills

Senior product leadership

Fintech / regulated domain

Data-driven decision making

AI product strategy

Cross-functional leadership

Clear communicator

Job description

PeopleLAKE Group in Malaysia is seeking a hands-on Senior Product Leader to own the strategy and execution for our consumer, business, and API data products. The GM will set the roadmap, drive delivery, and build the product team while ensuring compliance with Malaysia's regulated financial ecosystem.

You will collaborate with Engineering, Data, Sales, and Compliance to ship on time, define metrics, and align cross-functional teams.