Project Manager, Bank Programmes

Tarabut; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 220,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

Tarabut, the Middle East's regulated open banking platform, is hiring a Project Manager to run our bank programmes in Saudi Arabia. You’ll lead two to three programmes simultaneously, partnering with tier-1 Saudi banks to bring products to market quickly and manage client relationships end-to-end.

Based in Riyadh and reporting to the Chief Strategy Officer, the role involves regular travel to Jeddah and Bahrain, collaborating with our product and commercial teams, and coordinating across

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years in project or programme management, with at least 4 years delivering for banks or financial institutions in Saudi Arabia.
• Proven senior client relationship experience and ability to grow accounts.
• Hands-on leader who can move stalled workstreams and drive cadence.
• Strong cadence across internal and client teams that others follow.
• Knowledge of core systems, APIs and integration delivery to spot slippage early.
• Arabic required; fluent English preferred.
• Based in Riyadh or willing to relocate.

Responsibilities

• Own programme plans with milestones, dependencies and risks in one shared place.
• Own bank relationships and be the go-to contact for counterparty questions.
• Run weekly working groups, steering committees, minutes and actions to close.
• Investigate slips in detail and drive resolution with visibility.
• Identify expansion opportunities and scope follow-on work.
• Manage approval milestones and go-live gates with compliance.
• Surface risk early and present actionable options.

Skills

Project management

Banking sector experience

Stakeholder management

Arabic language

Fluent English

Go-live delivery

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 Riyadh, reports to the Chief Strategy Officer, and involves regular travel to Jeddah 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 Riyadh 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.