Business Development Manager, APAC (Payments)

Location: Singapore, Central Singapore, Singapore; hybrid with an in-office expectation of at least 50% of the time monthly

Company

hirify.global provides secure, simple, and reliable financial services for customers sending and managing money across borders.

What you will do

• Jointly develop the APAC regional strategy and lead initiatives with strategic banks, payment processors, aggregators, mobile wallets, and other payment providers.
• Drive partnership metrics including cost efficiency, transaction speed, quality, working capital efficiency, and new product enablement.
• Negotiate renewals, amendments, commercial terms, and expanded product footprints.
• Advocate for joint product roadmaps and partnership growth initiatives.
• Oversee agreement mechanics, negotiations, contract execution, and successful partner launches with product, engineering, legal, marketing, operations, finance, and regulatory teams.
• Monitor regulatory, market, competitor, and customer developments, reporting on strategic initiative performance and adapting plans as needed.

Requirements

• 10+ years of strategic partnerships or business development experience, including 3–5 years in payments.
• Strong understanding of consumer payments and cross-border money movement in Asia.
• Experience collaborating with commercial, product, legal, compliance, finance, operations, and engineering teams.
• Strong communication, influencing, negotiation, interpersonal, and relationship-building skills.
• Strategic, action-oriented leadership with the ability to structure opportunities and anticipate market, business, and product challenges.
• BS/BA degree required; MBA highly desirable. Willingness and ability to travel, potentially extensively.

Culture & Benefits

• Connected Work Culture with regular in-person collaboration and at least 50% monthly office attendance for corporate team members.
• Health, dental, and vision benefits.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Mental health and family-forming benefits.
• Continuing education support.