The Role
Own partner acquisition, onboarding, lifecycle management, performance, and commercial negotiations across MENA. Recruit and grow IBs, affiliates, fintech partners, payment providers, and strategic alliances; structure commissions and volume agreements; improve underperforming accounts; contribute feedback to AI-enabled operational systems; mentor junior executives; and represent Deriv at industry conferences and partner events.
Summary Generated by Built In
You've already recruited partners, closed deals, and learned what a bad commission structure costs. Now you'll do it with a bigger portfolio, tougher accounts, and more say in how the deals get built — and you'll be the person newer executives turn to when a partner conversation gets hard.
Why This Matters
Deriv processes more than $700B in monthly trading volume. A significant share of that comes through partners — Introducing Brokers, affiliates, fintech partners, and payment providers who bring traders to the platform across more than 150 countries.
The Growth Partnerships function sits at the heart of that engine. When a high-value IB in MENA goes live, when an affiliate activates a corridor that's been stalled for months, when a renegotiation actually holds instead of falling apart — that's the kind of outcome a senior executive is expected to own.
Real money, real regulations, real consequences. The portfolio you carry moves the region's numbers, not just your own.
Why Deriv
We're already running AI in production — not running pilots.
- 65%+ of customer enquiries resolved by AI, with genuine judgment about when to escalate
- Multi-agent systems handling partner onboarding, lifecycle management, and operational workflows across the GP function
- 400+ internal users on our workflow orchestration platform
- Campaign pipelines producing content in hours, not weeks
These aren't tools you learn once and forget. You'll work in them daily, and you're expected to know them well enough to say when they're getting it wrong.
What You’ll Do
Partner acquisition and recruitment.
- Recruit and grow high-value IBs, affiliates, fintech partners, payment providers, and strategic alliances across your assigned MENA markets — including the harder-to-close accounts junior executives tend to hand off.
Portfolio activation and performance.
- Own the full lifecycle for a larger, more complex portfolio, from onboarding through to revenue performance. Spot underperforming accounts before the numbers make it obvious, and build the plan to fix them.
Commercial deal structuring.
- Negotiate commission structures, volume targets, and support agreements with more latitude on terms than an entry-level role carries. Know the unit economics well enough to defend a deal to your own leadership, not just to the partner.
AI-enabled operational contribution.
- Work inside AI-enabled onboarding and lifecycle systems, and flag workflow gaps to product and engineering with enough specificity that they can actually act on it.
Mentorship within the team.
- Help onboard and troubleshoot for newer Business Development Executives, sharing what you've learned about reading partners and structuring deals that hold up.
Industry representation.
- Represent Deriv at conferences and partner events — including iFX Expo, Finance Magnates, Forex Expo Dubai, and regional growth events — where you're expected to open doors, not just attend.
Who You Are
- You've spent a couple of years in business development, partnerships, or sales within online trading, FX/CFD, fintech, or a comparably performance-driven digital ecosystem, and you can point to deals you actually closed.
- You know how IB and affiliate ecosystems operate well enough to spot a bad deal structure before it costs anyone money.
- You don't just open conversations — you close them, and you can explain why a deal was structured the way it was without leaning on a script.
- You're the person a newer teammate asks when a partner conversation stalls, and you're comfortable being that resource without a formal management title.
- You use AI tools daily in your own workflow, and when something in the system doesn't fit how partners actually behave, you say so specifically instead of working around it quietly.
- Fluency in English and Arabic is required, given the role's focus on MENA. Additional languages — French, Spanish, or Portuguese — are an advantage if your remit extends further.
- You hold a relevant degree in business, economics, finance, or equivalent, and have close to five years of relevant experience.
The Honest Reality
This is demanding work. You'll be handed the accounts junior executives couldn't close, and some of them won't close for you either. You'll make commercial calls with incomplete information and live with how they play out — and you'll be expected to help train the person next to you while you're still building out your own portfolio.
What you'll get in return: real weight in the region's numbers, credibility with operators who've been doing this longer than you have, and more say in deal terms than an entry-level role would ever give you.
If you want a role where the hard accounts get handed to someone more senior, this isn't it. If you want to be the person those accounts get handed to, it might be.
Skills Required
- A couple of years of experience in business development, partnerships, or sales within online trading, FX/CFD, fintech, or a comparable performance-driven digital ecosystem
- Demonstrated ability to close business development or partnership deals
- Knowledge of IB and affiliate ecosystems and commercial deal structures
- Daily use of AI tools in work processes
- Fluency in English and Arabic
- Relevant degree in business, economics, finance, or equivalent
- Close to five years of relevant experience
- French, Spanish, or Portuguese language skills
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The Company
What We Do
Deriv is a regulated online brokerage group that connects millions of customers in more than 150 countries to global financial markets. It offers contracts for difference (CFDs) and other derivatives covering forex, stocks and indices, cryptocurrencies, commodities, and Derived Indices. The company also provides online trading platforms and tools, including mobile trading, TradingView, Deriv MT5, cTrader, Deriv Trader, and Deriv Bot.
