Senior Payments Partnerships Lead – Riyadh

Checkout.com; Riyadh; Hybrid; SAR 279,000 - 424,000; Full time

Job summary

Checkout.com in Riyadh seeks a Senior Financial Partnerships Specialist to drive growth with acquiring banks, APMs, and card networks in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. You will manage projects remotely and collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver market-leading payment solutions for merchants.

The role requires hands-on experience with payments, strong Arabic communication, and a track record of ownership across complex partnerships.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years experience in payments.
• Direct experience in payment processing, acquiring, or managing payment partnerships.
• Proficient in payments knowledge, with the ability to problem solve or identify potential blockers within the payment flow and communicate these problems effectively to the wider teams.
• Experience working with card networks or PSPs for acquiring payment transactions is a strong plus.
• A mix of operations, project management, and relationship management skill set.
• A strong sense of ownership to deliver business results with a focus on managing partner relationships.
• Arabic speaking is MANDATORY for this role due to the relationships with local partners
• Strong collaborator and communicator with the ability to influence stakeholders across organizations internally and externally.
• Data‑driven, analytical and strategic in problem solving issues and identifying opportunities to drive growth and efficiency.
• Comfortable working across time zones and cultures in a globally distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Manage commercial relationships with Acquiring Banks, APMs and grow Card Networks (including MADA) to develop and deliver market leading payment solutions for our merchants.
• Drive expansion projects as required across geographies and payment methods in collaboration with a wider team.
• Negotiate the most favorable operational and commercial outcomes for Checkout.com while balancing internal and external stakeholders
• Ensure existing processes are followed and deliverables are met by both sides in a partnership. Design and develop new processes to scale those partnerships for growth, efficiency and performance improvement.
• Collaborate effectively with various functions in the partner organization such as relationship management, business development, risk, compliance, product and operations across all levels.
• Develop and execute a best-in-class partnership management model. Be the single point of contact internally and externally for assigned partnerships.
• Use payments industry knowledge and experience to develop and execute strategies to support our growth with new products, services and market segments through partnerships.
• Craft and implement win‑win commercial agreements and go‑to‑market strategies with payment partners.
• Leverage knowledge about the payments industry and partners’ capabilities to act as subject matter experts for internal teams.

Skills

Payments knowledge

Partnerships management

Negotiation

Cross-functional collaboration

Arabic language

Job description

Checkout.com in Riyadh seeks a Senior Financial Partnerships Specialist to drive growth with acquiring banks, APMs, and card networks in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. You will manage projects remotely and collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver market-leading payment solutions for merchants.

The role requires hands-on experience with payments, strong Arabic communication, and a track record of ownership across complex partnerships.