Welcome back to CMO Ladder - this week (and once every month), we review thousands of employer career sites, scouring them for the cream of senior marketing jobs in Asia and share them with you. We showcase only the freshest picks.

Our value is in dissecting the posting. What’s going on in the company? Why does marketing matter? Why are they hiring now? And what is this JD really telling us?

Every job in this week's briefing is a confession disguised as “help wanted”.

Stripe needs to convince Southeast Asian merchants that a Silicon Valley giant can move money as nimbly as a local Grab driver - and prove it to sales teams who trust nothing but pipeline.

On needs to persuade Chinese runners that Swiss precision can be a genuine partner in their personal bests, and more importantly persuade people to apply after (the listing has languished online since May).

Razer Gold must convince the world that a glowing-green-mouse company deserves a seat at the adult fintech table, while fending off platform giants, regulators, and scammers.

Coloplast must guide Chinese patients through dignity-shattering medical events without ever sounding like a corporation mining their trauma.

These are commercial diplomacy gigs…marketing as cultural translation, revenue accountability, and, in one case, actual human compassion. Let's get into it.

Stripe is making quite a lot of noise about Asia. Its PR frames the region as a launchpad for companies selling to the world: 54% of Stripe users in Asia already sell internationally and cross-border payments are growing more than 30% in hubs like Singapore. Stripe has a major engineering base there, runs its annual Southeast Asian customer event there and is pushing locally relevant payments alongside stablecoins and AI. Add the hiring-manager posts around this vacancy and it looks less like routine backfill and more like somebody wants Southeast Asia marketing to start producing harder.

Stripe has also, this week, just agreed to spend more than $7 billion buying OpenRouter, the AI marketplace that allows developers to seamlessly switch betwixt Gemini, Claude, Kimi, Deepseek and hundreds of other models. Stripe was already handling OpenRouter’s billing, tax and fraud infrastructure; owning it now puts Stripe closer to real AI consumption, which is a very interesting perch. Stripe’s grand but easy to comprehend vision is being the economic infrastructure for AI.

Who are the people on deck?

Paul Harapin leads Asia Pacific & Japan. Sarita Singh runs Southeast Asia, India and Greater China. Earlier this year Stripe appointed former Twitter India MD Manish Maheshwari to lead revenue and growth in India. And Abhi Tiwari, who leads Stripe’s global product team, has permanently relocated to Singapore to get closer to customers in the region.

In this role you own regional marketing across Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines and… I guess because ‘Trump can reimagine maps, why can’t we?’ – also famous SEA location: Korea.

Despite the title, this is not a leisurely regional brand stewardship job. Stripe wants an 8+ year B2B operator with at least 5 years in Southeast Asia and a track record across field marketing, demand gen, ABM. You will work closely with Sales, SDRs and Solutions Architects and be expected to prove revenue impact to a large collective of global stakeholders.

Stripe will supply the brand, product range and central machinery. The successful hire has to translate all of that into qualified pipeline across six very different markets, AND persuade Sales that marketing is producing revenue (not just holding breakfasts)

If Taligence had been retained, I’d start with Airwallex and Adyen. Both give you senior B2B fintech marketers in Singapore who already understand enterprise payments, regional GTM, demand generation, ABM and the regulatory fragmentation Stripe has to navigate. It’s almost copy-paste.

For the contrarian hire, I’d go back to my old workplace, Grab. Specifically GrabFin, merchant or B2B growth. Less fluent perhaps in SaaS marketing language, but potentially much better at understanding Southeast Asia market by market.

So who is actually doing the hiring?

Miranda Lu looks very likely to be the hiring manager, or at minimum the direct leader of the team. Peter Di Pietrantonio, Stripe’s Head of APAC Marketing, posted the vacancy as a chance to join “Miranda’s awesome team.” Sunny Lo in TA then said she was “partnering with Miranda Lu on this critical hire.”

That sounds like priority.

SGD 346K to turn Stripe’s increasingly enormous ambitions into actual Southeast Asian customers. Not too shabby.

And props to Stripe for posting the comp (55% of US marketing postings carry comp data, much higher in coastal NY and SF/LA).

The title undersells it badly. This person leads the entire Greater China marketing team, including brand, product, social, PR, retail, partnerships and events, manages a team of 30+, and they want 20+ years’ experience. That is basically a China CMO wearing a Director badge.

And it’s a job opening that we won’t feature again: We covered it back in May in our global edition - and our policy is generally not to feature vacancies more than 30 days old (so you know you get fresh picks). Three months later, though, its repeat appearance caught our attention. We’ve written to On’s CMO and APAC GM to ask whether they’re still searching. Watch this space.

I thought Razer was the company that gave me the cool mouse with the glowing green side details that I was once fond of and never replaced as it started too many conversations about my secret gaming life at work. 

Turns out it also runs a global payments business. Like… STRIPE???!

No. Razer Gold is basically PayPal crossed with an Apple gift card and an airline loyalty scheme, built for gamers. Players load money into a wallet and use it to buy games, subscriptions, skins and other virtual stuff. Spend enough and you earn Razer Silver, which works like loyalty points.

The more interesting bit sits behind the gamer-facing layer. Razer Gold also gives game publishers a way to collect money from players across markets where cards, wallets and local payment methods vary wildly. Which is where this stops being a story about glowing mice and imaginary swords.

Razer is hiring a Global Head of Marketing for Razer Gold in Singapore to grow that business worldwide.

The reason this job matters is that Razer has already built most of the plumbing. Gold now spans 200+ payment methods, 25 currencies and millions of physical touchpoints, and last year secured a Major Payment Institution license in Singapore. The next job is getting more money to flow through it. The new global marketing head owns user acquisition, revenue growth, marketing ROI, publisher co-marketing and loyalty - sitting directly inside the real economics of the business. This is marketing as distribution: persuade more gamers to pay through Gold, more publishers to plug into it, and ideally make each side more valuable to the other.

There are headwinds though. What if PlayStation, Tencent, Xbox or a super-app like Grab goes all-in on gaming wallets with lower fees? What if KYC/AML requirements become more trouble than the economics justify market by market? What if Razer Gold becomes associated with scams? If you’re interviewing for the job, be sure to ask: “What happens if hardware stumbles - is the parent company willing to fund this fintech play through cycles?”

If Taligence had the brief, I’d start at Sea Group and Grab. Sea is ridiculously well matched: ShopeePay/SeaMoney brings payments, wallets plus loyalty, while sibling Garena brings gaming. Grab gives you the two-sided marketplace and a marketer who understands Southeast Asia deep, country by country. For a more contrarian talent option - I’d raid Airwallex for someone stronger on regulated payments and cross-border infrastructure who could help Razer Gold transition from gamer wallet into a more grown-up payments business.

If I wanted to know more about what the real job is, I’d be Linkedin-Stalking Jia Liang Voon on the business side who has a banner that reminds me of my old mouse. He is Singapore-based, clearly senior within the Razer Gold/Services world, and in 2026 he is publicly fronting Gold’s pitch around global payment monetization, local marketing, offline retail payments and publisher partnerships. On the HR/TA side a good starting point is Hamizah Aqilah Abdullah. She is actively recruiting Razer marketing and commercial roles into Singapore right now including PR, channel marketing, MarTech and ecommerce.

When you get hired to do this, it’s a properly commercial job. Get more gamers using Gold. Get more publishers integrated. Make Silver valuable enough to keep people inside the ecosystem. Grow revenue without giving regulators, scammers or the giant gaming platforms a reason to ruin your week!

Somewhere along the way, the company that made my unnecessarily conspicuous green mouse, has built a global payments network.

Now it needs a marketer to make sure the money keeps flowing through it.

Speaking of flow….Coloplast is hiring a Head of Consumer Marketing in Beijing to grow a category nobody wants to be in.

The company sells ostomy and continence-care products. Which makes some of the language in the JD wonderfully brutal. You will own consumer acquisition, conversion, loyalty, retention, pricing, attribution and patient ambassadors.

“Customer acquisition” hits differently when the funnel begins with a life-changing medical event. Ideally, this is also one of the few marketing jobs where nobody should be cheering for explosive TAM growth.

The assignment is serious, though. When somebody suddenly needs these products, brand trust, education, availability and dignity really matter. Coloplast need somebody who can turn an intensely private healthcare need into something approaching a modern consumer journey: help people find the right product, understand it, trust it and stay with it.

There is even a slightly surreal political footnote. During the 2024 campaign, Trump supporters turned up at rallies in diapers, holding “Real Men Wear Diapers” signs after his former lawyer Michael Cohen dubbed him “Von ShitzInPantz.” America somehow made continence products culture-war adjacent. Coloplast would presumably prefer the category to remain rather less performative…

The China role is more commercial than the title suggests. This person owns omnichannel acquisition, attribution, consumer data, pricing, patient organizations and ROI, and is expected to build a high-performing team around it.

If Taligence had the brief, I’d start at Haleon and Kenvue. Both give you senior China marketers who already understand consumer brand building, healthcare credibility, ecommerce and regulation. For the outsider pick - I’d raid L’Oréal Dermatological Beauty. Somebody from CeraVe or SkinCeuticals would bring world-class China consumer acquisition and digital instincts.

If I were an interested candidate, I would target two people. WeiWei Jiang in Shanghai joined in early 2026 as GM, Vice President Chronic Care Greater China (she is a likely senior sponsor rather than necessarily the day-to-day HM). On HR/TA Paolo has a global role and is likely one-step-away from the right person to talk to.

This job requires a sensitive and measured marketing talent who can sell more without forgetting that every “consumer” in the dashboard is somebody dealing with something they probably never wanted to discuss.

We will be back in exactly a month from now with more of our top (fresh picks) of top Asia Marketing jobs. Interest in this region is back at a peak. As proof, this Sunday we are meeting Bloomberg, Reuters, AP, and Russia Today in person to talk about Hainan economics, immigration, and recruiting in the region. We might write about that too. Stay tuned to the Asia CMO Ladder for updates.

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