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Business Operations and Growth Lead, Asia

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Singapore · 10+ years experience · Posted Oct 8, 2026

At a glance

Experience
10+ years experience
Location
Singapore

About the role

  • The Business Operations and Growth Lead for Asia will own the regional business reporting, operating cadence, and cross-functional roadmap delivery.
  • This role acts as the connective tissue between country-level leads and central teams, ensuring alignment on growth levers and competitive strategy across diverse Asian markets.
  • The position is based in Singapore and requires regular travel across the region to support operations in Japan, Korea, India, and Southeast Asia.

Responsibilities

  • Own the regional business reporting structure, inputs, and cadence for regional and global stakeholders.
  • Lead the end-to-end operations and delivery of selected regional growth levers, including go-to-market, measurement, and optimization.
  • Manage the regional cross-functional roadmap across supply, product, payments, policy, brand, and growth marketing.
  • Drive accountability on delivery through cross-functional collaboration.
  • Maintain a regional competitive view for both guests and hosts and enable local capabilities for country teams.
  • Synthesize data, trends, and insights into actionable recommendations for the regional business.
  • Conduct deep dives into operational, program, or functional topics in partnership with FP&A.
  • Drive entity prioritization and lead entity setup across Asia markets in coordination with legal, tax, and finance teams.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in business operations, strategy, consulting, or program management.
  • Experience managing programs or operations across multiple countries with varying levels of maturity and across time zones.
  • Proven track record building and running business operating cadences for a distributed organization.
  • Exceptional cross-functional orchestration skills in a matrixed organization.
  • Strong operating discipline including roadmaps, launch management, business reviews, and executive reporting.
  • Analytical fluency with the ability to build analysis personally and set measurement standards.
  • Proficiency in Excel and SQL.
  • Fluent written and spoken English.
  • Ability to work in the office approximately 3 days per week.

Preferred qualifications

  • Hands-on experience with growth levers such as incentives, promotions, coupons, host-funded offers, lifecycle/CRM, or merchandising.
  • Familiarity with the business, economic, and cultural environments across Asia.
  • Japanese, Korean, or Southeast Asian language skills.

Workplace

  • Based in Singapore.
  • Requires regular travel across Asia.
  • Expected in office approximately 3 days per week.

Skills

  • Excel
  • SQL
  • Business Operations
  • Program Management
  • Cross-functional Collaboration

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