APAC Marketing Director

About the Position

APAC Marketing Director

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.

Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world’s money.

For everyone, everywhere.

More about our mission and what we offer.

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Responsibilities

As the Director of Regional Marketing (APAC), you’ll lead Wise’s regional marketing strategy for Asia and Pacific, driving execution across these markets and managing a team of Regional Marketing Leads. You’ll act as the bridge between central teams and regional needs, ensuring strategies are locally relevant, impactful, and aligned with Wise’s broader mission. Reporting directly to the CMO in London, you’ll have the opportunity to shape regional marketing from the ground up and build a high-performing team to drive growth in one of the world’s most innovative fintech companies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and oversee Wise’s regional marketing strategy across the APAC (including Japan, Singapore, China, Philippines, Malaysia, India, Australia) ensuring local relevance and alignment with global goals.
• Hire, manage and support a team of Regional Marketing Leads in executing local plans, delivering impactful campaigns and driving regional growth.
• Build a team who can activate new channels, tests or activations in the market with a strong learning agenda and measurement frameworks.
• Provide functional leadership and matrix oversight to the wider marketing team in APAC, acting as the senior point of guidance and mentorship.
• Create a culture of ‘a bias to action’ to test new initiatives and activities on the ground with high speed and iteration. Finding ways to make things happen and unblocking your team in execution.
• Get to a local marketing strategy for each market including audience and segment identification, messaging and positioning, diagnosis of funnel and brand performance KPIs and a clear full-funnel marketing plans.
• Develop a playbook for regional market growth based on insights, best practices, and experiments, in line with local compliance and regulations.
• Own and optimise regional marketing budgets, ensuring efficient allocation of resources across existing activities and new initiatives.
• Act as the key bridge between central teams (media, creative, PR, growth) and regional needs, prioritising resources and streamlining communication and decision making.
• Collaborate with Product teams to ensure marketing strategies align with product roadmaps and customer insights; being a senior counterpart for our Regional Product Directors.
• Advocate for regional needs within the broader marketing organisation and report on performance to senior leadership.
• Cultivate strong relationships with local agencies and partners.
• Develop strong customer insight and understanding through direct customer feedback and partnership with our Insights and Research teams.

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Requirements

Core Skills:

• Marketing Strategy: Strong experience in setting regional/local marketing strategy and owning execution, ideally in fintech or tech industries.
• Team Leadership: Proven ability to manage teams and drive alignment across cross-functional stakeholders.
• Performance Marketing: Deep understanding of performance marketing, brand marketing, and local market dynamics.
• Data-Driven Mindset: Strong ability to analyse market performance and translate insights into actionable plans.

Experience:

• Extensive experience in growth/marketing roles, including leadership responsibilities for regional teams across several regions.

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We Offer

• Competitive salary: SGD 20,000 - SGD 35,000 per month
• Full-time position
• Opportunity to shape regional marketing from the ground up
• Build a high-performing team to drive growth in one of the world’s most innovative fintech companies

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About the Company

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.

Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world’s money.

For everyone, everywhere.

More about our mission and what we offer.

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Job Location

• Singapore
• Japan
• China
• Philippines
• Malaysia

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For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders - without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.

Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

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