Job Title
Head of Emerging Markets
Job Description
Head of Emerging Markets
IG Singapore & Emerging Markets
Location: Singapore
Reports to: CEO, Singapore & Emerging Markets
Type: Permanent, Full-Time
Overview
We're looking for a commercial leader to own the Emerging Markets business across Asia — the
P&L, the growth, and the strategy that turns IG into a real contender in markets where the competition is well established and the operating playbook is its own discipline. This is a senior, full-ownership role: you'll defend the existing base, build the next layer of growth, and own the relationships and decisions that determine whether we win in each market.
Winning in EM is as much an internal job as an external one. The opportunity is there — what determines the outcome is whether the product, the payment rails, the onboarding flow, the commercial terms and the operational machinery are tuned for the realities of the region, alongside the market-facing work to acquire and retain clients. You'll own both sides of that equation.
Why This Role Exists
EM has historically been an under-invested part of the business. That is changing. There is a concerted effort across the group to lean into this opportunity — with the appetite, the resources and the senior attention to back it — and we are putting in place the leadership and the structure to deliver against it. This role is at the centre of that shift.
This is a P&L role with a defined growth mandate, a budget to deploy, and a portfolio of markets that each need their own commercial motion. It is not a strategy seat. It is the seat that owns delivery against the strategy — and the seat that makes sure the rest of the organisation delivers what EM needs to win.
What You'll Own
The EM P&L. Own revenue, growth and margin across the EM portfolio. Defend the established base, build the new markets, and carry the number. You will own the plan and the delivery against it.
What You'll Bring
You've built and scaled distribution in EM CFD, FX, or digital assets — at a broker, an exchange, or a fintech that has done meaningful business across Asia. You understand IB and partner networks not as a theoretical channel but as an operating reality: how they're built, paid, motivated and managed. You know the payment rails and the funding behaviours of clients in these markets,
and you've made commercial decisions that hinge on each.
You have a sharp commercial instinct and you're comfortable in a switcher game — you can pick the right battles, deploy a marketing budget against named competitors, and read the difference between channels that build brand and channels that book revenue. You're comfortable operating across the grey of EM and you have the judgment to know where the lines are and the discipline to stay left of them. You've navigated MAS or an equivalent regulator as a commercial owner, not
from a distance.
You also know how to drive change inside a large organisation. You can hold Product and Operations to a higher bar without losing them as partners. You can carry the EM perspective into rooms where it is not the default, and you can make the case for change with data, urgency and judgment. CFD or leveraged-product experience is helpful but not essential; we are equally
interested in someone from a crypto exchange or multi-product platform that has won in the same client pool.
The Fit
This is a P&L seat with real autonomy, a defined growth mandate, and a portfolio of markets to shape. It's demanding, commercially intense, and frequently ambiguous — and it offers the rare combination of an established profitable base to defend and a genuine build across new markets.
You will report directly into the regional CEO, sit at the heart of the regional leadership team, and own one of the most important growth bets the business is making. If that's the mandate you've been looking for, we should talk.
The perks
It really is more than a job. We’ll recognize your talent and make sure that you can still have a life – at work, and outside of it. Networks, committees, awards, sports and social clubs, mentorship, volunteering opportunities, extra time off… the list goes on.
Performance based incentives
Flexible working hours and work-from-home opportunities
Company contributions to insurance and medical plans
Career-focused technical and leadership training
Contribution to gym memberships and more
Option to participate and create ESG initiatives based on IG Brighter Future Fund
2 additional days off a year for voluntary work
1 additional day off to celebrate your Birthday
A state-of-the-art office with breakfast bar and more
Where you’ll work
We follow a hybrid working model; we reckon it’s the best of both worlds. This model also feeds into our secret ingredients for innovation: diversity, flexibility, and close connection. Plus, you’ll be welcomed into a diverse and inclusive workforce with a lot of creative energy.
Ask our employees what their favorite thing is about working at IG, and you’ll hear an echo of ‘our culture’! That’s because you can come to work as your authentic self. The things that make you, you – like your ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith, age, gender identity/expression or physical capacity – can bring a fresh perspective or new skill to our business.
That’s why we welcome people from various walks of life; and anyone who wants to help us realize our vision and strategy.
So, if you’re keen to connect with our values, and lead the charge on innovation, you know what to do.
Number of openings
1