Project Manager, Bank Programmes

Tarabut; Jeddah; On-site; SAR 400,000 - 650,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical cover

Job summary

Tarabut, a regulated open banking platform, seeks a seasoned Project Manager to run bank programmes in Saudi Arabia from Jeddah. You will manage multiple programmes, own client relationships, and collaborate with product and commercial teams to accelerate time-to-market with tier-1 banks across the region.

You’ll report to the Chief Strategy Officer and travel regularly to Riyadh and Bahrain, coordinating with cross-functional teams and driving delivery cadence in a fast-growing market.

Qualifications

• Six years in project or programme management, with at least four years delivering with banks in Saudi Arabia.
• Senior client relationships and growing accounts beyond plan.
• Hands-on, proactive leadership to move stalled workstreams.
• Ability to align internal and client teams with cadence that works.
• Understand core systems, APIs and integration well enough to test estimates.
• Arabic is a must; fluent English is strongly preferred.
• Based in Jeddah or willing to relocate.

Responsibilities

• Own the plan for each programme: milestones, dependencies, decisions and risks.
• Own the relationship: be the first point of contact for the bank.
• Run weekly cadences with bank counterparties and document actions.
• Dive into detail when issues arise and drive resolution.
• Spot expansion inside live programmes for follow-on work.
• Manage go-live milestones with our compliance team and approvals.
• Surface risk early and present actionable options.

Skills

Project management

Banking industry experience

Client relationship management

Arabic language

English communication

Job description

Job Description

Tarabut is the Middle East's regulated open banking platform, licensed by SAMA in Saudi Arabia, the CBUAE in the UAE and the CBB in Bahrain. We connect banks, lenders and fintechs to financial data and payments infrastructure, and we're building embedded finance distribution across the region, including our SME lending business in Saudi Arabia.

We're hiring a Project Manager to run our bank programmes in the Kingdom. You'll run two to three of our most important programmes at once, partnering with tier-1 Saudi banks to get products to market quickly. You'll work across stakeholders from the C-suite to integration managers, own the client relationships, and work with our product and commercial teams to grow those accounts.

This role is based in Jeddah, reports to the Chief Strategy Officer, and involves regular travel to Riyadh and Bahrain.

What you'll do

• Own the plan for each programme: milestones, dependencies, decisions and risks, in one place people actually use
• Own the relationship: be the person the bank calls first
• Run the weekly rhythm with bank counterparties: working groups, steercos, minutes, and actions that close
• Get into the detail when things slip, and stay with it until it moves
• Spot expansion inside live programmes and turn it into scoped follow-on work
• Manage approval-linked milestones and go-live gates with our compliance team
• Surface risk early and arrive with options

Your first 90 days

• One programme plan and weekly cadence live and adopted by every counterparty
• The first bank milestone you inherit delivered on its date
• A RAID log both sides trust more than their inbox

Requirements

Essential

• You have at least 6 years in project or programme management, including at least 4 years delivering with banks or financial institutions in Saudi Arabia
• You have held senior client relationships and grown an account, not just administered a plan
• You are proactive to the point of hands-on, and when a workstream stalls you get into the detail and move it, whatever the org chart says
• You bring people with you, and internal and client teams follow your cadence because it works, not because it is mandated
• You understand core systems, APIs and integration delivery well enough to test an estimate and spot slippage a month before it lands
• Arabic is a must, and fluent English is strongly preferred
• You are based in Jeddah or ready to relocate

Nice to have

• Delivery experience with banks elsewhere in the GCC
• Open banking, lending or payments domain experience
• Relationships inside GCC banks that you built and kept
• You are fluent with AI tooling and current on what the latest LLMs can and cannot do, using them to run programmes faster while knowing when output needs a human pass
• Experience taking a regulated product through go-live with SAMA or CBB supervised institutions

Benefits

A competitive package set to the Saudi market, medical cover and the benefits you'd expect, and work with real weight behind it, funded programs and a platform in active growth.