Issue #6

Welcome to issue #6. This week saw yet another round of massive layoffs 💔 We wrote about how to deal with this climate, and how to be ready for a layoff even if your job feels secure now in our Stride Newsletter. While we're all crossing fingers that the worst doesn't happen, we believe in being prepared 🤞🏽If you know anyone in APAC who has been laid off recently, and is looking for a job, please share the opportunities in the First Look newsletter with them.

We check the job post links the day we send out the newsletter to make sure they're active. However, if you're looking at this post in the archive, some of these job posts might be closed and the links might not be active.

CHIEF OF STAFF

• Chief of Staff Lark. Enterprise communication collaboration platform owned by ByteDance. ByteDance has raised $9.4B. Investors include General Atlantic, KKR, Sequoia Capital, SIG, and Softbank.📍Singapore 🇸🇬

DESIGN

• Director, Design - Platform CultureAmp. Employee experience platform. Series F. Raised $257M from investors like Blackbird Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Salesforce Ventures.📍Australia 🇦🇺, New Zealand 🇳🇿

• VP Design Opn. Specializes in one-stop online payment solutions and digital transformation solutions. Sister company is Omise, which recently rebranded to Opn Payments. Raised >$260M (including debt financing). Investors include JIC Venture Growth Investments, MUFG Bank, and Mars Growth Capital.📍Bangkok 🇹🇭

EXPANSION / STRATEGY

• Head of APAC Expansion Revolut. International payments, cards, and financial services. Series E. Total Funding: $1.7B. Investors include Softbank Vision Fund and Tiger Global.📍Singapore 🇸🇬

• Strategy Director Swift. Global member-owned cooperative (co-owned by 2400 financial institutions around the world) and leading provider of secure financial messaging services.📍Singapore 🇸🇬

• Director, Data Strategy, APAC Veeva. Cloud-computing software focused on pharmaceutical and life sciences industry applications. Listed NYSE: VEEV📍Singapore 🇸🇬

MARKETING / COMMS

• Senior Director, Growth Marketing Coda Payments. Fintech co that provides cross-border monetisation solutions for digital products and services in more than 60 markets. Series C. Total Funding: $715.3M. Investors include GIC, Insight Partners, and Smash Ventures.📍Singapore 🇸🇬

• Associate Director - Performance Marketing Emeritus. Edtech startup. Raised >$1B (including debt financing). Investors include Sequoia India and Bertelsmann India.📍India, Remote 🇮🇳

• Director, Revenue Marketing, APAC Matterport. Spatial computing platform for buildings. Listed NASDAQ: MTTR.📍Singapore 🇸🇬

• VP Growth Newton School. Edtech platform for tech careers. Raised >$30M from firms like Nexus Ventures and Steadview Capital 📍Bangalore 🇮🇳

• VP Digital Marketing, B2B Shipper. Logistics platform - provides fulfilment and delivery services through its digitally managed network of fulfilment centers, delivery partners, and retail points e-commerce businesses. Series B. Raised $131.9M from DST Global Partners, Sequoia Capital, and Lightspeed.📍Indonesia 🇮🇩

OPERATIONS

• Head of Asia Live Service FIFA Mobile Electronic Arts (EA). Leading interactive entertainment company. Listed NASDAQ: EA. 📍Singapore 🇸🇬, Shanghai 🇨🇳, Seoul 🇰🇷, Sydney 🇦🇺

• VP, Member Support Sonder. Delivers modern tech-led safety, medical and mental health support to organisations that want to reinvent their wellbeing programs. Series B. $39.9M. Backed by Blackbird Ventures, SEEK Investments, and SecondQuarter Ventures.📍Sydney 🇦🇺

PRODUCT

• Head of Product AirAsia Low-cost airline. Role will lead AirAsia's suite of digital products. Listed: AIABF 📍Kuala Lumpur 🇲🇾

• Director, Product Management Alation. B2B enterprise software company focused on data governance, analytics, and data management solutions. Raised $315M from firms like Salesforce Ventures, Dell, and Thoma Bravo.📍Bangalore 🇮🇳

• Chief Product Officer Manulife. Multinational insurance company and financial services provider. Listed NYSE: MFC 📍Makati 🇵🇭

• Director, Platform Sales, SEA Airwallex. Business banking and cross-border financial services. $800M Funding. Investors include Sequoia Capital China, Lone Pine Capital.📍London 🇬🇧, Singapore 🇸🇬

REVENUE / BD

• Director of Platform Sales, SEA Airwallex. Business banking and cross-border financial services. $800M Funding. Investors include Sequoia Capital China, Lone Pine Capital.📍Singapore 🇸🇬

• VP Sales, APAC Canonical. Publisher of Ubuntu - the modern, open source operating system on Linux. Raised $12.8M. Private equity📍APAC, Remote 🌏

• Head of Product Advocates Canva. Graphic design platform that is used to create social media graphics, presentations, posters, documents and other visual content. Funding: $572M. Investors include AirTree Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Squarepeg Capital. 📍Sydney 🇦🇺

• Vice President & Country Manager, ANZ Khorros. Digital customer engagement platform. Raised $138M from firms like Vista Equity and Openview.📍Sydney 🇦🇺

• Head of Partnerships Osome. Digital business assistant that offers online accounting services for small and medium businesses. Raised $24M from XA Network, Altair Capital, and Monk's Hill Partner Peng Ong.📍Singapore 🇸🇬

• Director, Partners & Alliances, ANZ Snowflake. Cloud computing–based data cloud company. NYSE: SNOW.📍Melbourne 🇦🇺

• Head of Partner Programs & Community Initiatives VIDA. VIDA provides a full-service verified digital identity platform. $48M in funding from firms like Monk's Hill, Alpha JWC, and Jungle Ventures 📍Singapore 🇸🇬

• Vice President, Strategic Planning and Business Development Worq. Co-working space provider. Raised $5.7M from Cradle Fund and 500 Startups📍Kuala Lumpur 🇲🇾

TALENT / ORG DEVELOPMENT

• Senior Director, People Strategy deepwatch. Cloud security platform. Raised $201M from Goldman Sachs and others. 📍Gold Coast, Remote 🇦🇺

WEB3 ROLES

• Senior Director, Market Makers & Exchanges, APAC Circle. Blockchain-focused financial services and payments company. Raised $1.1B from investors like BlackRock, Fidelity, etc📍Singapore 🇸🇬

• Country Director, Custody Binance. World's largest cryptocurrency platform - you've probably seen them a ton in the news and Twitter feed this week 📍Singapore 🇸🇬

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