
Managing Director, Global Banking Partnerships
at OKX
Posted 14 hours ago
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- Singapore
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**Manage Global Banking Partnerships as a Director** - Lead cross-functional teams to drive strategic banking partnerships worldwide - Required skills: deep banking industry knowledge, proven stakeholder management, strategic thinking, and strong commercial acumen - Necessary experience: 15+ years in banking or relevant industry, with at least 5 years in a senior management role - Key responsibilities: develop and execute partnership strategy, foster strong relationships with C-level executives, manage deal negotiation and closure, and ensure portfolio growth
Who We Are
About The Opportunity
What You’ll Be Doing
- Own the global bank relationship book as a portfolio.
- Execute relationship strategy account by account across G-SIBs, and regional banks for the full operating and custody bank stack across all OKX regions.
- Sequence partnership asks, manage escalations, source new partners, and own the executive ladder at each institution.
- Serve as HQ's senior banking voice.
- When the founder, Singapore C-Suite, or Global Head of Strategic Partnerships and his Financial Institutions Business Development Team needs a read on a counterparty — credit posture, risk appetite, partnership readiness, blockers, operationalization status and timeline — you are the call.
- Host visiting bank executives, and you draft the narrative when OKX briefs local executives, the board, risk, payment product, or internal audit on the banking book.
- Build the cultural bridge between bank and exchange.
- The hardest part of being a G-SIB's chosen crypto counterparty is building and balancing the trust and business relationships between your internal and external stakeholders.
- Translate structural and cultural differences in risk appetite, escalation culture, compliance, control, product, and operational reliance — Actively unblock issues before they become incidents.
- Drive strategic banking workstreams.
- Coordinate strategic banking and commercial partnerships with banks, working alongside the product and regional teams responsible for each initiative.
What We Look For In You
- 15–20 years inside a tier-1 global bank, with deep experience across two or more of the following:
- Transaction and Commercial Banking / Cash Management / Correspondent Banking — The operating-account world: USD clearing, FX, wires, intraday liquidity, global T+0 rebalancing.
- Coverage / Financial Institutions Group / Senior Relationship Management — Sector strategy, account planning, executive escalation. The senior-banker register.
- Prime Brokerage / Securities Services / Triparty Custody — Financing, securities lending, security interest, triparty mechanics.
- Digital Assets / Institutional Crypto Banking — A tier-1 bank's institutional digital-asset desk or equivalent. Already speaks both languages.
- Operational and strategic understanding of:
- How to establish long-term trust with G-SIBs as a crypto exchange counterparty;
- Bank KYC and onboarding committee decision-making;
- Counterparty credit treatment of a crypto exchange;
- Triparty custody mechanics and security-interest structures;
- Settlement, reconciliation, and intraday flow differences between bank and crypto ops;
- Media hit handling and reputational risk;
- Sanctions screening and AML interface between bank and exchange.
- Meaningful experience in building credibility and fluency across Crypto and TradFi spaces.
- Executive presence and communication range — You can cover UK / US East Coast / Singapore time zones. Regular international travel may be required.
Perks & Benefits
- Competitive total compensation package
- L&D programs and education subsidy for employees' growth and development
- Various team building programs and company events
- Wellness and meal allowances
- Comprehensive healthcare schemes for employees and dependants
- More that we love to tell you along the process!
