Market Expansion Lead - Financial Partnerships (Fintech)

Location: Based in Singapore or Hong Kong; office attendance expected four days per week. Travel of approximately 20–30% is required.

Company

hirify.global provides payment infrastructure across Southeast Asia and is expanding into Greater China and LATAM through APIs, eCommerce integrations, KYC solutions, fraud prevention, and financial services infrastructure.

What you will do

• Screen and rank potential markets by market size, regulatory openness, payment rails, competition, and merchant demand.
• Build cost, revenue, margin, and breakeven models and present go/no-go investment decisions to leadership.
• Define build, buy, or partner licensing strategies and maintain a coherent licensing roadmap.
• Drive entity incorporation, licence applications, bank account opening, and access to payment schemes and rails.
• Manage one timeline, budget, and risk register per market while coordinating Legal, Compliance, Risk, Corporate Secretarial, Treasury, Product, and Finance.
• Create reusable market-entry playbooks and hand over licensed, funded, connected markets to country commercial leads.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience delivering complex cross-functional programmes to committed dates.
• Working knowledge of payment regulation, banking, and payment infrastructure.
• Strong commercial and financial judgment, including financial modeling and assumption analysis.
• Exceptional written communication for materials read by CEOs, boards, and regulators.
• Ability to build relationships and engage regulators across different cultures and markets.
• Bachelor’s degree in an analytically rigorous discipline.

Nice to have

• Background in top-tier management consulting, corporate development, strategy, payments, banking, fintech, or programme leadership.
• Experience building reusable templates, models, stage gates, and operational playbooks.
• Comfort with ambiguity, high accountability, direct feedback, and influencing without formal authority.

Culture & Benefits

• Own the full market-entry sequence from market screening through licensing, banking, payment rails, and handover.
• Work in a fast-paced environment with direct exposure to the CRO and CEO.
• Collaborate closely across business, legal, compliance, finance, treasury, product, and risk functions.
• Travel to target markets, regulators, banks, and partners, weighted toward entries in progress.