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Marketing Operations Specialist

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About The Job

The Marketing Operations Specialist will oversee the logistics and execution of company-hosted events and conferences, managing vendor relationships and ensuring alignment with branding and business goals. This role also includes supporting Arabic content creation and localization for various formats, as well as managing CRM marketing operations to set up, execute, and track the performance of marketing campaigns. The specialist will play a key role in enhancing marketing effectiveness and driving engagement within our target audiences.

Who Are We

Lean enables companies to seamlessly connect to their users’ bank accounts to initiate real-time payments and retrieve their account information. Our products have garnered the trust of leading companies and enabled them to deliver powerful experiences when connected with a user’s bank account, allowing users to perform prudent financial planning, get better rates on loans, transfer money to friends, and more, without compromising on privacy or security.

Some of Lean’s clients include the likes of Tabby, Nayifat, Tamam, Circlys, and many more, making it the region’s most valuable Open Banking platform. The company has now processed over a billion dollars, and its products are also connected with hundreds of thousands of accounts. Lean envisions a fully inclusive financial ecosystem that serves everyone, no matter where they bank or live in the MENA region.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee the logistics, branding, and execution of all company-hosted events, including networking dinners and conferences. This includes managing vendor relationships, coordinating with external partners, and ensuring smooth event operations.
  • Manage the organization of conferences the company attends or sponsors, ensuring alignment with company branding and business goals, from pre-event setup to execution and coordination during events to post-event analysis.
  • Support Arabic content creation and translation needs across a variety of formats, including social media, blogs, and marketing campaigns.
  • Adapt and localize content for the KSA market, ensuring cultural relevance and message clarity for Arabic-speaking audiences.
  • Support the Growth and Content Marketing teams by managing the CRM marketing operations in setting up, executing, and tracking the performance of our marketing campaigns.
  • Balance event management with content and growth marketing-related tasks across the year.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Degree in Marketing, Communications, Event Management, or a related field.
  • Experience working in a Saas or Fintech company.
  • Native proficiency in Arabic, with strong written and verbal communication skills in both Arabic and English.
  • Proven ability to write and edit compelling Arabic content (and translations from English), simplifying technical or complex topics for various audiences.
  • Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, balancing event planning with content creation and copywriting tasks.
  • Strong attention to detail in both event logistics and content creation, ensuring high standards of execution in all areas.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in managing corporate events and conferences
  • Experience managing budgets and working with external vendors for both events and content projects

NB. While we think the above experience could be important, we’re keen to hear from people that believe they have valuable experience to bring to the role. If you identify with the team and mission, but not all of our requirements, then please still apply!!

Why Join us?

Our products have received resoundingly positive feedback from developers and customers alike, with Sequoia leading its $33 million Series A round, marking its first in the GCC. Yet, this is just the beginning. We’re working tirelessly to expand our coverage across the region while further deepening the value we provide to our stakeholders. To that end, we’re always on the lookout for talented, driven, and entrepreneurial candidates to join us in our mission of enabling the next generation of financial innovation. If you’re motivated by solving hard problems and leaving a lasting legacy while you’re at it, Lean’s where you need to be.

Not only do we offer competitive salaries, private healthcare, and flexible office hours, but we also insist that every member of the team hold a meaningful equity stake in the business to ensure long-term alignment. We’d love you to join us for this journey!

Lean is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

When applying for a job at Lean Technologies, we will need to collect, use and share Personal Data about you with different members of our team during the application process. This may mean transferring your data to members of the team in one of our office locations worldwide outside of the country you are in. Please refer to our Privacy Notice on our website for more information about how we may use and store your Personal Data

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