Our Regional Marketing team ensures we deliver on our mission to make international money transfers instant, affordable, and transparent for everyone, everywhere. The Regional Marketing team plays a pivotal role in driving Wise’s mission across international markets, ensuring millions of people and businesses save money on cross-border payments. By crafting tailored, data-driven, and locally relevant strategies, this team ensures Wise’s messaging resonates with diverse audiences — adapting to unique market dynamics, cultural insights, and competitive landscapes. Beyond driving user acquisition and growth, the regional marketing leads execute impactful, market-specific campaigns while working in close collaboration with central teams across media, creative, PR, and Product. Together, they ensure Wise’s global presence remains powerful, agile, and authentically connected to local audiences, fueling sustainable growth and reinforcing Wise’s position as a leader in international finance. We’re looking for a Director of Regional Marketing (APAC) to join us and do things differently. 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. If you're ready to make a lasting impact on the future of international money transfers, Wise is the place to do it. What you’ll do. 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.