Director, Hive Lead

Standard Chartered Bank; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A multinational financial services company is seeking a Hive Lead to drive digital asset capabilities, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities in a collaborative environment. The ideal candidate will possess over 8 years of experience in technology and business, with strong skills in product management and agile methodologies. You'll be responsible for mentoring teams, overseeing project delivery, and ensuring compliance while fostering innovation and continuous improvement across the organization.

Benefits

Opportunities for career growth

Work in a diverse and inclusive environment

Qualifications

• Experience in global diverse organization with 8+ years in building technical expertise.
• Understanding of capital market products, especially Digital Assets.
• Customer-centric mindset focused on delivering high-quality products.

Responsibilities

• Translate Group and Domain strategy into Hive outcomes.
• Mentor and coach Product Owners, improving capabilities.
• Provide transparency on delivery, measuring outcomes.

Skills

Customer-centric mindset

Agile principles and methodologies

Communication and interpersonal skills

Analytical mindset

Problem-solving skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance or related field

Tools

Product management tools

Job description

JOB SUMMARY

This role could be based in Singapore and Hong Kong. When you start the application process you will be presented with a drop down menu showing all countries, Please ensure that you select a country where the role is based.

The Hive Lead is accountable for shaping and driving the strategic direction of a Hive, ensuring multiple squads and journeys deliver cohesive outcomes that align with both Group and Domain priorities. They hold delegated authority to align backlogs, resolve cross-squad dependencies, and steer delivery governance to maximize value at scale. Their core ethos is to connect strategy to execution – making informed decisions that balance business priorities, customer value, and long-term capability uplift, while fostering collaboration and continuous improvement across the Hive.

The primary purpose of this position is to develop and transform Digital Asset (DA) product capability to provide digital channels for both clients and internal users across Private Banking and Retail Banking.

The Bank is aiming to build & grow wealth product capability through digital and self-direct channels. This Product Owner (PO) role is to drive the agile technology projects to establish a robust price discovery and execution platform. It is also required to build system interface with upstream systems (e.g. client information check) and downstream systems (e.g. booking trades into core banking platforms) to streamline operation flow and improve users (including clients) experience and frontline productivity.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Accountable for translating Group and Domain strategy into Hive outcomes by aligning product roadmaps and squad delivery to customer journey, regulatory standards and business priorities – ensuring measurable value and continuous improvement across the Hive.
• Ensure the Hive’s purpose, mission, and value contribution to Group strategy are clearly understood by Product Owners, squads, and stakeholders.
• Mentor and coach Senior Product Owners, and Product Owners, uplifting product ownership capability within the Hive.
• Drive alignment to the One Delivery model, enabling consistent customer experiences, optimized capacity, and delivery efficiency across all squads and Hive.
• Embed Hive strategy into product roadmaps and squad backlogs that map to the end-to-end customer journey and regulatory requirements, driving cohesive, compliant and value-driven delivery across the Hive.
• Shape and prioritize Hive’s backlog and drive outcomes, ensuring squad roadmaps contribute to domain strategic outcomes and organizational scorecard priorities.
• Provide transparency on Hive’s delivery, measuring and communicating outcomes against OKRs, scorecards, and benefit realization metrics.
• Align investment and strategic direction across functions, ensuring collaboration across different Domains, and different Hives.
• Oversee delivery progress across squads, resolving cross-squad dependencies and risks to enable cohesive end-to-end outcomes.
• Anticipate and address systemic organization impediments that constrain productivity, quality, or timely delivery across the Hive.
• Act as the primary point of contact for senior business leaders, technology partners, and external stakeholders on Hive’s priorities and outcomes.
• Foster culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and agile mindset across squads and stakeholders.
• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.

Product Leadership, Engagement & Strategy

• Champion the voice of the customer
• Maintains a clear, compelling “north star” for the Hive, and ensure it evolves in response to market shifts, customer insight, and internal feedback.
• Take ownership of the Hive purpose by ensuring each member fully understands and embraces the Hive’s vision & mission
• Instil a high-performance culture and true “self-organising” team by empowering the Squad, celebrate achievements, learning from review/feedback and conducting retrospective for continuous improvement.
• Drive an outcome-over-output mindset squads by encouraging squads to focus on customer value and measurable results.
• Empower Product Owner to make decision for their squad within guardrails defined by compliance, architecture, regulatory, and standards.
• Create a psychological safety, trust, and an environment where innovation and candour are valued.
• Invest in the growth of Product Owners through coaching, peer learning, and capability building so that Hive’s maturity and consistency improve over time.
• Actively build relationships with key stakeholders i.e. Domain Lead, Engineering Leads, Domain Tech Lead, Solutions Architect, UI/UX designers, Business stakeholders to influence outcomes.
• Translate Group’s and Domain’s strategy into actionable backlogs that coordinate squad effort and Hive’s trade‑off.
• Ensure that strategic investments include non‑functional priorities (security, performance, resilience), regulatory compliance, and technical health.
• Accountable for ensuring compliance and risk adherence of products and service, engage with stakeholders to ensure necessary controls are adhered to and approvals are obtained.

Product Discovery and Experimentation

• Champion and integrate a culture of evidence driven decision making.
• Foster culture of safe‑to‑fail experimentation, where squads are encouraged to test, learn, and adapt without penalty.
• Encourage technical discovery studies to maximise existing investments & develop complementary, scalable and cost efficient technical solutions.
• Encourage cross‑domain learning to enrich product discovery phase.
• Establish continuous discovery and experimentation as a core Hive practice, embedding it into ways of working across squads.
• Ensure discovery insights and outcomes are translated into strategic roadmaps and shape long‑term Hive direction.
• Allocate capacity and resources for testing critical assumptions before committing large‑scale delivery investments.

Product Delivery and Execution

• Champion continuous improvement at Hive scale, leveraging retrospectives and insight to uplift delivery maturity.
• Maintain oversight of Hive backlogs, ensuring squad priorities align to strategic outcomes, resolve dependencies, and meet governance standards.
• Ensure transparency of delivery flow, surfacing risks, dependencies, and bottlenecks across squads at Hive level.
• Mandate and govern delivery standards, including engineering practices, testing consistency, and non‑functional requirements.
• Align squads on synchronized planning and delivery cadences, driving cohesion and predictability across the Hive.
• Define and track Hive‑Level delivery metrics, holding squads accountable for value delivery, quality, and timeliness.
• Safeguard compliance, risks, and architectural requirements, embedding them into delivery as non‑negotiables.
• Promote incremental, outcome‑driven delivery, encouraging smaller, testable releases that accelerate feedback and reduce risks.
• Ensure all squads embed both Change Delivery Standard (CDS) and Group’s Enterprise Software Delivery Lifecycle (eSDLC) throughout the lifecycle of the product or service.

Product Analytics and Benefit Realization

• Define and monitor Hive‑level benefit metrics and OKRs, ensuring delivery outcomes translate into measurable business and customer value.
• Establish governance for benefit realization tracking, embedding consistent methods for measuring impact across squads and initiatives.
• Ensure investments decisions are informed by data, requiring squads to demonstrate expected benefit upfront and validate them post‑delivery.
• Promote transparency of value delivery, providing senior stakeholders with clear reporting on realised benefits versus planned outcomes.
• Continuously adapt Hive strategy based on insights, using product analytics and benefit data to refine priorities, redirect investments, and maximise long‑term impact.

Technical Capabilities and Excellence

• Champion technical excellence by defining and governing Hive‑wide engineering and architectural standards, ensuring modularity, scalability, interoperability, and alignment with Group Technology strategy.
• Sponsor and protect capacity for technical debt remediation and refactoring, ensuring sustainable delivery alongside feature build.
• Establish Hive‑level mechanism to monitor technical health, using metrics such as system performance, incident occurrences, resilience, and maintainability.
• Encourage innovation under guardrails, allowing squads to pilot emerging tools and technologies while ensuring compliance and scalability.

Key Stakeholders

• Domain Leads
• Domain Tech Leads
• Engineering Leads
• Technology Chapter Area Leads
• Production Engineering Chapter Area Leads
• Solution Architects
• PO Chapter members & Leads
• UI/UX Designers
• Business Stakeholders

Domain Knowledge

• Establish a secure, institution‑grade digital asset platform with regulated access and governance.
• Provide curated, compliant access to tokenised products, digital custody and blockchain‑enabled solutions.
• Build a safe on/off‑ramp ecosystem tightly integrated with traditional portfolios and risk management.
• Strengthen surveillance, compliance & risk controls for emerging asset classes.

Our Ideal Candidate – Requirements & Skills

• Experience in global diverse organisation in building overall capability and technical expertise for 8+ years.
• Have a good understanding of capital market products and in particular Digital Assets.
• Experience in industry benchmarking for technical skills.
• Experience in identifying skill gaps and mitigate risks to deliverables.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Previous experience as a Product Owner or similar role in banking product delivery using agile framework.
• Customer‑centric mindset with a passion for delivery high‑quality products that meet or exceed customer expectations and drive business value.
• Strong understanding of Agile principles and methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, or Lean, and experience working in agile development teams.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross‑functional teams, stakeholders, and customers.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to prioritise competing demands, make data‑driven decisions, and adapt to changing requirements and priorities.
• Leadership qualities with the ability to influence and motivate team members, foster a culture of innovation and collaboration, and drive results in a fast‑paced environment.
• Knowledge of product management tools and techniques, such as user story mapping, personas, MVP, and other product roadmap development.
• Familiarity with SDLC processes and methodologies is a plus.
• Strong problem‑solving skills and a proactive approach to addressing challenges and overcoming obstacles in product development and delivery.
• Relevant certifications to demonstrate expertise and commitment to the field e.g., PSPO I, PSPO II, CSPO.
• Tech Debt, Software Product Delivery, Enterprise Change Delivery, Strong risk evaluation experience in Capital Markets / Wealth Management products.
• An ideal candidate should have 5 years of experience in technology & business.
• Extensive knowledge in financial market products.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good is achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do.
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple.