Cash Equities Product Owner(Malaysia/ China)

Job Summary

This role could be based in Malaysia and China Guangzhou. When you start the application process you will be presented with a drop down menu showing all countries; please ensure that you select a country where the role is based.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and transform Capital Markets Products & Solutions (CMPS) product capability to provide digital channels for both clients and internal users across Private Banking and Retail Banking.
• Drive the Bank’s product capability growth through digital and self‑direct channels, overseeing agile technology projects for a robust price discovery and execution platform.
• Build system interfaces with upstream and downstream systems (e.g., client information checks, booking trades into core banking platforms) to streamline operational flow and improve user and frontline productivity.
• Develop and maintain a vision for agile technology projects and communicate the vision to the scrum team; be responsible for features from concept to final implementation.
• Understand wealth management products, their processes, and relevance to clients.
• Define and own the strategic digital product vision and roadmap for the wealth management product suite.
• Align product strategy with business goals, market trends, and client needs.
• Develop a competitive product strategy across relevant asset classes such as FX, equities, fixed‑income, structured products, OTC derivatives, funds, and insurance.
• Monitor market dynamics and regulatory changes to ensure products remain competitive and compliant.
• Work with architects, business stakeholders, and development teams to ensure business, quality, and functional goals are met with each release.
• Design, usability, quality, and delivery of agile technology projects and features.
• Determine business requirements, review technology project plans from the business perspective, and embed new technological capabilities in business processes to deliver benefits.
• Ensure smooth execution on the ground and communicate delivered changes to relevant stakeholders, including front office.
• Review and understand key business policies and processes in Wealth Management, identify critical pain‑points, and articulate how technology projects will solve them.
• Specialize in digital platforms, familiar with CMPS order management/execution platforms and proper interfacing with downstream booking systems.
• Leverage strong technical know‑how to improve front office systems performance and expand product penetration according to business development.
• Make decisions on priorities and design; keep stakeholders aligned at each stage of the agile development lifecycle.
• Provide business input on requirements, prioritise “must have” items over “good to have” ones.
• Review technology plans and design specifications to ensure business requirements are met and benefits delivered.
• Identify impact on critical processes within the Bank’s operational risk framework and work with process owners to maintain robust controls.
• Develop test plans, coordinate business users for testing, and ensure final delivery meets user needs.
• Coordinate go‑live activities, develop training materials, brief stakeholders, design communication plans, gather feedback, and track benefits captured.
• Participate in project reviews, highlight issues, and work with stakeholders to resolve them early.
• Conduct periodic briefings to senior management on progress and highlight required resolutions.
• Strengthen performance culture and reinforce accountabilities in product teams, sharing technical skills and experience.
• Embed a risk culture, ensuring AML compliance, reporting suspicious activities, and providing remedial action or reporting to risk committees.
• Maintain awareness of the regulatory framework and ensure compliance with laws, regulations, guidelines, and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Lead the business to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles and resolve risk, conduct, and compliance matters collaboratively.

Key Stakeholders

• Regional and Country Wealth Management Heads and WM Product Managers
• Key markets Segment Heads, IAs, and RMs
• Market/Credit/Operational Risk, Legal, Compliance, Middle Office, and COO team

Skills and Experience

• Strong risk evaluation experience in Capital Markets / Wealth Management products
• 5 years of experience in technology and business
• Extensive knowledge of financial market products

Qualifications

• Minimum 5‑8 years of experience in wealth management, investment banking, or financial services
• Good understanding of wealth management products and asset classes (FX, equities, fixed income, structured products, OTC derivatives, funds, insurance)
• Relevant knowledge of regulatory and operational frameworks in wealth management
• Preferred: Understanding of global wealth management market trends
• Relevant degree from a reputable university
• Project Management / System Development or an equivalent background
• Regulatory and compliance knowledge across the bank is mandatory and developmental
• Proficient in English

About Standard Chartered

Standard Chartered is an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we have worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge, and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better. We celebrate your unique talents and want to hear from you. Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good, is achieved by how we live our valued behaviours.

Team Values

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well and not so well
• Be better together— we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What We Offer

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
• Time‑off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, combined to 30 days minimum
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market‑leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first‑aiders and other self‑help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning
• A part of an inclusive and values‑driven organisation that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity across teams, business functions and geographies—everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential