Country Manager – UAE

🕒 February 10

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Coins.ph

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2014

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

₿ Crypto

💰 $30M Series C on 2022-05

Finance • Fintech • Crypto

Coins. ph is the leading crypto exchange in the Philippines, providing a platform for buying, selling, and storing cryptocurrency with ease. With a user base exceeding 16 million, Coins. ph offers services such as bill payments, professional-grade trading through Coins Pro, and educational resources through Coins Academy. Licensed by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, Coins. ph is a secure and affordable gateway for individuals and corporations in the Philippines to engage in cryptocurrency trading and payments. As the official crypto partner of the Philippine Basketball Association, Coins. ph is committed to fostering innovation in both the sports and cryptocurrency sectors.

📋 Description

• Build and execute the UAE market-entry plan aligned to Coins.ph’s corridor thesis: outbound remittances from Dubai into priority markets and corridors. • Drive early partnerships that accelerate adoption and lower friction—using stablecoin rails where appropriate (mirroring Coins.ph’s corridor approach). • Translate strategy into measurable traction: transactions and volume growth across cross-border remittances and payments within the first 12–18 months. • Provide executive oversight of the compliance agenda led by the CCO, ensuring the business remains aligned with VARA expectations, effective supervision, and appropriately scaled controls as volumes grow. • Maintain senior-level engagement with VARA as required, supporting and reinforcing regulatory interactions while ensuring leadership credibility and sound judgment in regulator-facing matters. • Establish credibility with VARA early; preference for leaders with prior UAE regulatory engagement—an existing relationship materially de-risks the set-up. • Act as connective tissue between Dubai market realities and Coins.ph leadership, keeping the build aligned to international expansion priorities. • Builder mentality: hands-on, comfortable with ambiguity, able to create momentum fast from a standing start. • Commercial + compliance maturity: move fast, but never at the expense of regulatory credibility and control integrity.

🎯 Requirements

• Must be based in UAE. • Senior fintech / payments / remittances leader already in the UAE with demonstrated ability to build a new market presence and convert partnerships into volume. • Strong understanding of crypto and stablecoins, with practical familiarity of how stablecoin rails enable remittance economics. • Prior experience engaging UAE regulators (VARA ideal), with the gravitas to represent the firm credibly.