Executive Director, API & Open Banking -Cash and Trade First Abu Dhabi Bank FAB

Product Vision & Strategic Ownership

• Define and own the API product vision and multi year roadmap aligned to Global Trade, Treasury and Tokenization strategy.

• Position APIs as core channels for payments, liquidity, escrow, trade, and digital asset enabled offerings.

• Identify and prioritize embedded finance, ecosystem led growth and tokenization driven opportunities through API and Open Banking infrastructure

• Drive consistency and scalability across product lines to deliver a cohesive enterprise API proposition.

End to End Product Lifecycle Management

• Own the full API product lifecycle from ideation and design through launch, scale and ongoing optimization.

• Ensure API products are commercially viable, reusable, secure and client centric.

• Balance speed to market with long term resilience, operational robustness and regulatory expectations.

Client, Platform & Ecosystem Enablement

• Enable and scale direct integration of bank capabilities into corporate ERP, TMS, digital platforms and partner ecosystems.

• Engage strategic clients and partners to co create and scale API led use cases

• Act as senior product representative in client, partnership and industry engagements.

Commercialization & Value Realization

• Define pricing, packaging and usage based commercial models for API products.

• Track and demonstrate value across CASA growth, fee income, client acquisition and retention.

• Leverage adoption analytics and performance insights to refine investment priorities and product strategy.

Governance, Risk & Regulatory Alignment

• Ensure API products are compliant with client money, safeguarding, operational resilience and data requirements.

• Maintain alignment with Central Bank, FSRA / ADGM and other applicable regulatory frameworks for developing fit-for-purpose propositions in these jurisdictions

• Embed risk controls, transparency and reporting by design within all API solutions.

Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Act as a trusted senior partner to GTB, Treasury, Digital Assets, Technology, Risk and Operations.

• Provide clear, commercially grounded updates to the Managing Director and senior management forums.

General Responsibilities

• Promote API reuse and standardization to reduce duplication and accelerate delivery.

• Lead cross-functional groups to align API strategy with enterprise goals.

• Maintain high standards of API documentation.

• Contribute to budget planning and resource allocation for API engineering.

• Provide training and enablement on API best practices.