Affiliate Partnerships Specialist

The Role

Ziina's affiliate channel has grown organically and is already proving itself as a high-performing acquisition engine. We're now at an inflection point -with the expansion into consumer and growing complexity across merchant partnerships, it's time to bring in a dedicated owner to take what's been built and scale it into a structured, repeatable, and automated growth channel.

As an Affiliate Partnerships Specialist at Ziina, you'll inherit strong traction and real validation, but the next phase -tiered incentive structures, fraud controls, consumer experimentation, and operational automation -needs focused leadership to unlock.

As a/an XX at Ziina you will:

• Take full ownership of the affiliate channel and scale it from a high-performing initiative into a predictable, compounding acquisition engine
• Recruit, onboard, and activate an expanding network of affiliate partners -including agency owners, SaaS founders, influencers, consultants, and ecosystem operators
• Design structured incentive tiers and negotiate bespoke commission arrangements that reward performance and drive the right behaviours
• Build and maintain reporting infrastructure and introduce automation across commission calculations, partner tracking, and performance workflows
• Lead Ziina's consumer affiliate expansion -running structured experiments, measuring impact, and iterating based on results
• Implement fraud detection and risk controls that protect channel integrity as volume scales
• Work closely with Business Development, Marketing, and Finance to ensure the channel grows profitably and in alignment with company goals
• Own your numbers -TPV, CPAM, LTV/CAC, and contribution margin -and use them to drive decisions

To succeed in this role, you likely:

• Have 2–5 years of experience in affiliate marketing, performance partnerships, or growth marketing
• Have a solid grasp of affiliate programme mechanics -tracking, attribution, commission structures, and incentive design
• Are highly data-driven and comfortable translating performance insights into concrete action
• Have experience managing external partner relationships and negotiating commercial terms
• Are operationally strong -you build scalable systems, not just manage day-to-day execution
• Are comfortable in fast-moving, ambiguous environments where the playbook is still being written
• Have hands-on experience with affiliate platforms such as Impact, PartnerStack, or similar tools
• Communicate clearly and work well across functions -you can align stakeholders without needing to escalate

What would amaze us

• You've built or significantly scaled an affiliate programme from the ground up, not just inherited one
• You've run affiliate motions across both B2B and B2C segments simultaneously
• You have experience in the MENA fintech or consumer apps ecosystem
• You've introduced automation or tooling that meaningfully reduced operational overhead and improved programme accuracy
• You've managed complex, tiered partner structures with a clear focus on profitability and LTV -not just top-line volume

About Ziina

Ziina’s mission is to bring financial freedom to every person in the Middle East. We are building MENA’s consumer and SMB financial platform, starting with a peer-to-peer and merchant wallet. Our team have backgrounds from Apple, Uber, Stripe, Klarna, Revolut, Yandex, and Nubank. Ziina’s payments volumes have grown by 10x YoY for the last two years. The team have built a product that is beloved by the UAE and is the recipient of 8 international design awards, including the Red Dot Award and the UX Design Award. Our last round was a $22 million Series A from top-tier investors globally including Altos Ventures, Fintech Collective, Activant, Long Journey Ventures and Y Combinator. Our angel investors include early employees and executives at Revolut, Stripe, Venmo, Brex, Checkout.com, Notion, and Deel.

Join us in shaping the future of financial freedom. Every role here is an opportunity to make a real impact. Let’s build something that matters together.