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Singapore
Hybrid
Founded in 2014, Circles is a global technology company reimagining the telco industry with its innovative SaaS platform, empowering telco operators worldwide to effortlessly launch innovative digital brands or refresh existing ones, accelerating their transformation into techcos.
Today, Circles partners with leading telco operators across multiple countries and continents, including KDDI Corporation, Etisalat Group (e&), AT&T, and Telkomsel, creating blueprints for future telco and digital experiences enjoyed by millions of consumers globally.
Besides its SaaS business, Circles operates three other distinct businesses:
Circles is backed by renowned global investors, including Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia), Warburg Pincus, Founders Fund, and EDBI (the investment arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board), with a track record of backing industry challengers.
Job title: Senior Product Strategy Manager - Subscriber Growth
Location: Singapore (on-site)
Role Summary
We are seeking a Senior Product Strategy Manager to serve as the strategic link between our global enterprise clients, market intelligence, and our platform product team. In this role, you will act as a trusted advisor to enterprise clients worldwide, helping them maximize value from our CXOS platform, while synthesizing cross-market insights to define our high-level platform strategy.
You will build a strategic view on industry trends across markets and translate market research and client needs into well-defined capability requirements, partnering with internal Platform Product Managers who lead delivery. You will also be responsible for driving global adoption of the platform across international markets and be accountable for driving subscriber growth targets for our clients.
Key Responsibilities
Client Strategy & Advisory (Client-Facing Strategy)
Strategic Roadmap Influence: Partner with executive stakeholders at enterprise clients across international markets to understand their business drivers and influence their product roadmaps using existing platform capabilities.
Platform Leverage: Guide clients on how to solve complex operational challenges by maximizing native platform features, minimizing the desire for non-scalable custom work.
Best Practice Leadership: Act as a domain expert, advising client leadership on industry trends and guide ideation on innovation in their telecom market.
Market Insights & Strategic Alignment (Market Research Partnership)
Cross-Market Synthesis: Collaborate with market research teams to monitor macro trends, regulatory changes, and competitive landscapes across operating regions.
Opportunity Identification: Analyze disparate regional data to identify common, recurring telecom industry needs that justify scalable platform investment.
Platform Strategy & Roadmap Input: Translate market intelligence into a clear, prioritized business case and capability roadmap for internal platform expansion.
Internal Alignment & Rollout Strategy (Product Partnership & Enablement)
Product Management Partnership: Collaborate with internal Platform Product Managers (who own engineering execution) to define, scope, and prioritize core capabilities needed for global scale.
Scalability Standards: Ensure strategic requirement definitions account for multi-region scalability (e.g., global compliance, regional configurations, localization).
Global Rollout & Adoption: Oversee the strategic go-to-market plan for new platform capabilities, ensuring successful enablement and adoption across global client teams.
Required Qualifications & Experience
Experience: 5+ years in Product Strategy, Corporate Strategy, or Management Consulting within a B2B SaaS environment.
Growth/ Innovation Skills: Demonstrated experience driving growth/ innovation in fast-paced consumer facing technology environments like e-commerce, payments, gaming, etc.
Global Perspective: Demonstrated experience working across international markets, navigating regional nuances, and identifying multi-market commonalities.
Executive Presence: Proven ability to influence C-suite and VP-level stakeholders at global client organizations.
Product Architecture Knowledge: Strong understanding of platform architecture, API strategies and roadmap planning to drive both global scalability and synthesizing global requirements for platform capabilities.
Market Insight Synthesis: Skilled at converting complex market research and qualitative customer feedback into prioritized strategic recommendations.
Nice-to-Haves
Circles is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, disability or age.
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