Merchant Acquisition Specialist

About Us Tamara is a leading fintech platform in Saudi Arabia and the GCC region with a mission to help people own their dreams built on being simple, trusted, and everywhere our customers need us. Today, more than 25 million customers and over 130,000 partner merchants depend on Tamara every day for reliable financial solutions across retail, travel, education, healthcare, and beyond. Tamara is backed by Sanabil Investments, a wholly owned company of the Public Investment Fund (PIF), and SNB Capital, among others. About the Role We are seeking a highly motivated Merchant Acquisition Specialist who will join our In-store Operations team and will be responsible for signing new businesses and inspecting our in-store marketing efforts at Tamara’s partner stores. The role involves being on the ground and visiting new and existing merchants. It’s ideal for an energetic individual who is eager to learn and grow in a dynamic start-up environment. Your Responsibilities: Active Merchant Outreach: Proactively identify and approach potential merchants in their physical store locations, introducing the company's services or products and explaining the benefits of partnership. Relationship Building: Establish and nurture strong relationships with merchants, understanding their unique needs and challenges to position the company's offerings as valuable solutions. On-Site Demonstrations: Conduct in-person product or service demonstrations and address merchant concerns to secure new partnerships. Market Intelligence Gathering: Collect and report valuable market insights, competitor activities and merchant feedback to inform company strategy and product development, including in-store materials visibility, Conversion and Onboarding: Guide interested merchants through the application and onboarding process, ensuring a smooth transition and laying the groundwork for a successful long-term partnership. Your expertise: Experience At a minimum, internship or co-op training experien

About Us Tamara is a leading fintech platform in Saudi Arabia and the GCC region with a mission to help people own their dreams built on being simple, trusted, and everywhere our customers need us. Today, more than 25 million customers and over 130,000 partner merchants depend on Tamara every day for reliable financial solutions across retail, travel, education, healthcare, and beyond. Tamara is backed by Sanabil Investments, a wholly owned company of the Public Investment Fund (PIF), and SNB Capital, among others. About the Role We are seeking a highly motivated Merchant Acquisition Specialist who will join our In-store Operations team and will be responsible for signing new businesses and inspecting our in-store marketing efforts at Tamara’s partner stores. The role involves being on the ground and visiting new and existing merchants. It’s ideal for an energetic individual who is eager to learn and grow in a dynamic start-up environment. Your Responsibilities: Active Merchant Outreach: Proactively identify and approach potential merchants in their physical store locations, introducing the company's services or products and explaining the benefits of partnership. Relationship Building: Establish and nurture strong relationships with merchants, understanding their unique needs and challenges to position the company's offerings as valuable solutions. On-Site Demonstrations: Conduct in-person product or service demonstrations and address merchant concerns to secure new partnerships. Market Intelligence Gathering: Collect and report valuable market insights, competitor activities and merchant feedback to inform company strategy and product development, including in-store materials visibility, Conversion and Onboarding: Guide interested merchants through the application and onboarding process, ensuring a smooth transition and laying the groundwork for a successful long-term partnership. Your expertise: Experience At a minimum, internship or co-op training experien

Who Are We HALA is a leading fintech player in the MENAP region that aims to redefine financial services and build the future bank of SMEs. HALA aims at empowering SMEs to start, run, and grow their businesses by providing them with cutting-edge financial and technological tools. HALA currently holds multiple entities in UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt (including HALA Payments and HALA Logistics) and offers solutions that enable merchants to digitize their payments as well as manage their sales and operations. Founded in 2017, HALA is currently licensed by the Saudi Arabian Central Bank. At HALA, main responsibility of Marketing Operations Specialist is to support the efficient execution of marketing campaigns and initiatives across HALA’s payment products and services, ensuring effective coordination, performance tracking, and compliance with internal and regulatory requirements. Job Responsibilities: Coordinate the execution of marketing campaigns, promotions, and product launches across customer and merchant segments. Manage campaign timelines, deliverables, approvals, and cross-functional dependencies. Work closely with Product, Sales, Growth, Data, and Compliance to ensure effective campaign execution. Support CRM, marketing automation, customer segmentation, and campaign targeting activities. Track and report campaign performance, including acquisition, conversion, engagement, and product adoption. Maintain marketing dashboards, campaign calendars, trackers, and related documentation. Identify opportunities to improve and automate marketing processes and workflows. Coordinate with external agencies and vendors as required. Ensure marketing activities comply with brand standards, internal policies, and applicable KSA regulatory requirements. Education Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Administration, Management Information Systems, Digital Marketing, or a related field. Equivalent years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of formal educat

Who Are We HALA is a leading fintech player in the MENAP region that aims to redefine financial services and build the future bank of SMEs. HALA aims at empowering SMEs to start, run, and grow their businesses by providing them with cutting-edge financial and technological tools. HALA currently holds multiple entities in UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt (including HALA Payments and HALA Logistics) and offers solutions that enable merchants to digitize their payments as well as manage their sales and operations. Founded in 2017, HALA is currently licensed by the Saudi Arabian Central Bank. At HALA, Digital Marketing Manager lead HALA’s digital marketing and performance acquisition activities to drive customer and merchant growth across payment products and services. The role owns digital channel strategy, campaign performance, acquisition funnels, and budget optimization to maximize conversion, ROI, and sustainable growth. Responsibilities: Develop and lead the digital marketing and paid acquisition strategy across SEM, paid social, display, and other relevant channels. Own digital acquisition performance across the funnel, from awareness and lead generation through conversion and activation. Manage digital marketing budgets and optimize channel allocation based on CAC, conversion, ROI, and business performance. Lead campaign planning, audience targeting, retargeting, and A/B testing to continuously improve performance. Oversee landing-page and conversion-funnel optimization in collaboration with Product, Creative, and Technology teams. Establish and monitor digital marketing KPIs, attribution, dashboards, and performance reporting. Partner with Product, Sales, Data, Creative, Marketing Operations, and Compliance to support product launches and growth initiatives. Identify new digital channels, technologies, and growth opportunities relevant to HALA’s customer and merchant segments. Ensure digital campaigns comply with HALA’s brand standards, internal policies, and applic

About Us Tamara is a leading fintech platform in Saudi Arabia and the GCC region with a mission to help people own their dreams built on being simple, trusted, and everywhere our customers need us. Today, more than 25 million customers and over 130,000 partner merchants depend on Tamara every day for reliable financial solutions across retail, travel, education, healthcare, and beyond. Tamara is backed by Sanabil Investments, a wholly owned company of the Public Investment Fund (PIF), and SNB Capital, among others. About Your Role: It is a comprehensive and hands-on experience designed to accelerate your growth within the dynamic realm of Product. You will work with an executive mentor to help tackle company-wide initiatives with key stakeholders and gain professional development while handling live business challenges, making a mark from day one. Key Responsibilities: Create high quality requirements and user stories that accurately capture the user’s pain point Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, and marketing to deliver high quality products on time Work with squad members to gather feedback and incorporate it into the product development process. Support product policies and procedures, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements Support the team in defining and prioritizing Partner Self-Serve initiatives across the Partner Portal, Partner/Business mobile app, and merchant help centers. Coordinate with Engineering, Design, Partner Care, and other stakeholders to manage the backlog, document requirements and acceptance criteria, and follow initiatives from discovery through launch. Analyze partner contacts, journey data, and operational insights to identify friction and help turn support-heavy processes into simple in-app self-serve workflows. Help build tooling and surveys that systematically collect partner insights and feedback, using the findings to improve processes and measure the support experience pro

About Us Tamara is a leading fintech platform in Saudi Arabia and the GCC region with a mission to help people own their dreams built on being simple, trusted, and everywhere our customers need us. Today, more than 25 million customers and over 130,000 partner merchants depend on Tamara every day for reliable financial solutions across retail, travel, education, healthcare, and beyond. Tamara is backed by Sanabil Investments, a wholly owned company of the Public Investment Fund (PIF), and SNB Capital, among others. Your Role As a Trust & Safety Quality Analyst , you will be responsible for the end-to-end quality assurance (QA) framework within the Trust & Safety department. You will evaluate the work of Fraud Investigators to ensure they meet our rigorous standards for accuracy, regulatory compliance, and customer experience. Responsibilities QA Framework Design: Develop and refine the Quality Assurance scorecard and evaluation methodology for both Consumer and Merchant fraud investigations. Operational Calibration: Lead weekly "Deep-Dive" sessions with Team Leads and Investigators to align on decision-making logic. You are responsible for ensuring there is zero "quality variance" across different shifts and locations. Feedback & Coaching: Deliver constructive, data-driven feedback to Investigators and Team Leads. You will facilitate "calibration sessions" to ensure all team members are aligned on what "high quality" looks like. Root Cause Analysis: When a fraud loss occurs, you lead the "Operational Post-Mortem." You identify if the failure was a human error, a training gap, or a tool malfunction, and you drive the immediate fix. Process & Product Improvement: Partner with Product and Engineering teams to advocate for tool enhancements. Use quality data to suggest product features that reduce manual work, improve detection accuracy, and automate repetitive verification steps. High-Risk Decision Support: Provide guidance on complex, high-stakes inves