Field Marketing Manager - APAC

Job description

ABOUT FLAGRIGHT Flagright is an AI operating system for financial crime compliance used globally by Fortune 500 companies, large banks, fintechs, and fast-growing financial technology companies. Flagright enables real-time risk detection, automated investigations, and intelligent decisioning, helping compliance teams operate at their full potential in the fight against financial crime. We operate as a lean, high-performance team with high individual ownership and direct access to leadership. ROLE OVERVIEW Our Marketing team drives our brand presence across target markets. From customer engagements to integrated campaigns, they champion Flagright’s story, drive pipeline acceleration, and help customers discover our value through strategic, impactful programs. We are hiring a Field Marketing Manager to help scale Flagright’s marketing efforts in APAC. You will own field-level strategy and execution to drive awareness, engagement, and sales pipeline growth within key markets. You will partners closely with the Sales team to design and deliver programs that accelerate pipeline velocity, expand market reach, and enhance brand positioning. Field Marketing Managers at Flagright are strategic and hands-on. You will be required to travel, plan and execute high-impact initiatives, measure results, and continuously optimize for performance. People who thrive at Flagright - Have been knocked down before and gotten back up - Are resourceful — figure it out with whatever tools exist - Have strong opinions, defend them, and drop them when proven wrong - Would rather own targets than a task list - Run toward ambiguity, not away from it - Want to work with no-BS people People who struggle here - Confuse ambitious goals with unreasonable ones - Want 9-to-6 and a predictable week - Need priorities to hold still for a quarter - Take blunt feedback or lost deals personally - Say — or think — “that’s not my job” KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Event Marketing - Own the APAC events calendar across executive dinners, customer roundtables, partner events, selective conferences, webinars, and regional activations. - Develop and execute APAC event plans aligned to target segments, priority accounts, regional sales goals, and enterprise pipeline objectives. - Plan, manage, and execute executive dinners, roundtables, sponsored industry gatherings, and private customer/prospect engagements. - Partner with Sales and ABM to define target accounts, invite lists, priority personas, outreach plans, and post-event follow-up motions. - Coordinate tightly with Sales, GTM, ABM, Content, and Marketing Ops on who gets invited, why they are being invited, and what should happen after each event. - Ensure every major event has a clear pre-event plan, during-event execution plan, and post-event progression plan. - Own local vendor relationships, venue sourcing, event logistics, timelines, run-of-show documents, speaker coordination, and guest experience. - Keep event execution polished while staying commercially disciplined about what is worth repeating. - Build repeatable APAC event playbooks that reduce dependency on senior leadership and make regional execution easier to scale. - Travel across APAC where needed to support high-priority events and regional programs. Marketing & Campaign Execution - Support localized event campaigns focused on regional and vertical audiences, especially enterprise financial institutions, fintechs, payments companies, and compliance leaders. - Coordinate event-related email, social, and account-based promotion in partnership with Social, Content, ABM, and Sales. - Create event briefs, internal prep docs, attendee lists, speaker notes, follow-up trackers, and post-event summaries. - Work with Design and Content to ensure event assets, collateral, landing pages, and follow-up materials are high-quality and on-brand. - Track and report APAC event performance, including target-account attendance, meetings booked, event-sourced opportunities, influenced pipeline, follow-up completion, and budget usage. - Feed regional buyer, partner, competitor, and market insights back into campaign planning, content needs, and leadership discussions. - Maintain a clean APAC event operating system: event calendar, vendor list, venue list, budget tracker, campaign folders, and reporting documentation. Brand & Ecosystem Engagement - Build relationships with relevant APAC ecosystem partners, associations, fintech communities, banking/compliance networks, and event organizers. - Identify event and partnership opportunities that improve access to enterprise buyers, not just general brand visibility. - Support customer advocacy moments, client stories, references, and proof generation through events where relevant. - Help elevate Flagright’s presence in strategic APAC accounts and target industries. - Recommend which APAC events should be repeated, scaled, changed, or cut based on commercial value. WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR - 3+ years of B2B events, field marketing, demand marketing, or regional marketing experience, ideally in SaaS, fintech, compliance, payments, banking, risk, or enterprise technology. - Strong project management capability with experience running events and field programs end-to-end. - Experience planning and executing executive dinners, roundtables, customer/prospect events, sponsored gatherings, webinars, or partner activations. - Commercially minded operator who understands that events are measured by account engagement, meetings, pipeline, and deal progression, not just attendance. - Strong communicator who can coordinate across Sales, Marketing, GTM, Content, Design, vendors, partners, and leadership. - Comfortable pushing for clarity on invite lists, target accounts, follow-up ownership, and event success metrics. - Polished enough to represent Flagright in front of customers, prospects, partners, and senior stakeholders. - Detail-oriented without being slow or bureaucratic. - Comfortable operating independently in a fast-moving environment with limited hand-holding. - Based in Singapore with the right to work in Singapore. - Willing and able to travel across APAC as needed. What we offer: - Get equity from day 1 at a Y Combinator startup - Work alongside a highly competent, top-tier team, including professionals from Y Combinator, ex AWS, and Palantir - Enjoy a low-bureaucracy environment, minimal meetings, and an asynchronous communications culture - Great career development opportunities in a fast-growing company - You’ll be paid at the top of your market level - 30 days of paid leave per year - Fast moving, challenging, and unique business problems - Do something meaningful, help stop human trafficking, money laundering, child labor; be a part of enabling the future of fintech startups