APAC Performance Media Leader: Growth & Optimization

starcom media worldwide; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

starcom media worldwide seeks a senior leader to define and drive APAC biddable and performance media strategy across Search, Social, and Programmatic. You will align with client priorities, translate growth objectives into channel-specific plans, and guide commerce strategy to hit revenue KPIs.

You will lead regional performance initiatives, establish standards, and build playbooks with platform partners while partnering with local markets to ensure governance, transparency, and learning.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience leading performance media and biddable activation across Search, Social, and Programmatic.
• Proven success managing multi-market performance strategy and execution at a regional or global level.
• Deep understanding of activation processes, optimization frameworks, and measurement systems.
• Strong experience integrating data, analytics, and audience strategies into performance media execution.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills.
• Track record of driving innovation, capability building, and operational excellence at scale.

Responsibilities

• Define, communicate, and implement the APAC biddable and performance media vision in alignment with client's business priorities.
• Translate client's growth objectives into clear, channel-specific performance strategies across Search, Social, and Programmatic.
• Guide and inform the commerce strategy to ensure client revenue generating KPIs are achieved.
• Support and guide market teams ensuring best practices, innovation, and learnings are consistently cascaded across markets.
• Own the regional performance media strategy - balancing efficiency, effectiveness, and brand growth.
• Define and embed optimization frameworks, performance KPIs, and measurement principles across all biddable channels.
• Translate insights from dashboards, testing, and reporting into actionable recommendations that inform planning, targeting, creative optimization, and investment decisions.
• Partner with Measurement & Analytics teams to ensure reporting accuracy, automation, and transparency.
• Support monthly, quarterly and annual performance reviews, ensuring learnings inform future campaign and budget planning.
• Oversee the quality, consistency, and effectiveness of all biddable campaign activation across APAC markets.
• Establish and enforce standards for campaign setup, pacing, optimization, tagging, naming conventions, and reporting accuracy.
• Ensure activation excellence through training, playbooks, and alignment across regional hubs, offshore teams, and local markets.
• Partner closely with the APAC Operations team to ensure workflows, tools, automation, and governance frameworks are consistently applied.
• Establish and lead a structured regional test-and-learn agenda to advance clients' performance maturity.
• Build strong partnerships with platform partners (Meta, Google, TikTok, Naver, etc.) to unlock innovation opportunities, pilots, and early-access initiatives.
• Develop playbooks and best practices that promote consistency, learning, and knowledge sharing across markets.
• Work hand-in-hand with local market teams to align performance ambition with operational excellence, governance, and compliance.
• Ensure biddable and performance workflows align with broader regional operating models and automation initiatives.
• Identify systemic gaps or inefficiencies and collaborate cross-functionally to resolve them.
• Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across the region.
• Represent performance and biddable excellence in strategic client discussions, reviews, and innovation forums.
• Proactively identify and present opportunities that drive incremental growth, efficiency, and effectiveness.
• Ensure transparency and clarity with regional and local stakeholders on performance outcomes priorities, and capability evolution.
• Lead and inspire the biddable and performance community across APAC.
• Set clear objectives and expectations, ensuring consistently high delivery standards.
• Drive capability building through training, certification programs, and structured learning pathways.
• Foster a culture of curiosity, collaboration, experimentation, and continuous improvement.
• Act as a senior mentor and subject matter expert for biddable and performance teams across APAC.

Skills

Performance media leadership

Stakeholder management

Strategy development

Cross-functional leadership

Analytics integration

Leadership & mentoring

Job description

starcom media worldwide seeks a senior leader to define and drive APAC biddable and performance media strategy across Search, Social, and Programmatic. You will align with client priorities, translate growth objectives into channel-specific plans, and guide commerce strategy to hit revenue KPIs.

You will lead regional performance initiatives, establish standards, and build playbooks with platform partners while partnering with local markets to ensure governance, transparency, and learning.