Partner Success Specialist

The Role Ziina is hiring a Senior Partner Success Specialist to scale our relationship-led merchant experience. You’ll own white-glove engagement for our users building context fast, navigating complexity, resolving escalations with confidence, and feeding high-quality signals back to product to shape what we build next. This is a hands-on role for someone who thrives where there’s no script: edge cases, ambiguity, and high expectations. Our operating model is AI-assisted but human-led. This hire is critical to scaling Partner Success without losing the trust, continuity and care that define the experience today. We’re looking for someone with a track record across relationship management, automation-first thinking, and data-driven execution in a product-led environment. At your core, you combine: High-stakes customer engagement with strong communication and ownership Operational sharpness - systems, workflows, and automation that scale outcomes As a Partner Success Specialist at Ziina, you will: Own merchant relationships delivering white-glove support with speed, clarity and care Lead complex problem-solving and escalations - managing sensitive cases end-to-end Build automated workflows tied to the user journey to nurture and grow the segment Turn repeatable workflows into reliable playbooks, templates, and AI-assisted operations Run recurring success workflows including onboarding check-ins, feature education, adoption nudges and targeted engagement Spot churn signals early, intervene thoughtfully, and partner with internal teams to resolve root causes Translate customer feedback into product insights, surfacing trends and opportunities for Ziina’s voice-of-customer program Build and maintain dashboards that track merchant health, support performance and identify high impact growth opportunities Partner cross-functionally with Product, Risk, Ops, and Engineering to unblock merchants and improve outcomes Support Arabic-speaking merchants with culturally fluent communication Raise the bar on Partner Success by contributing to a high-performance culture rooted in quality, ownership, and customer care To succeed in this role, you likely: Have 4+ years in Customer Success or Account Management, ideally in a fast-paced tech or fintech environment Have a strong track record managing high-value customers through complexity, sensitivity, and escalations Combine a customer-first mindset with commercial awareness — you understand retention, adoption, and why partner success is a growth lever Naturally build structure around you: OKRs, workflows, automations, and measurable outcomes Are data-fluent and use dashboards and metrics to prioritize high-impact work, spot risks, and improve retention Have a bias for action — you move fast, learn quickly, and iterate without waiting for perfect clarity Know when to automate and when to stay hands-on, balancing high-touch support with scalable systems Are fluent in Arabic (spoken and written) with excellent English communication skills What would amaze us You have experience with product-led growth motions and know how to use in-product signals to drive proactive engagement You've worked directly with a voice-of-customer or product feedback program and can show how your insights shaped roadmap decisions You bring a point of view on how AI tools should (and shouldn't) be used in customer-facing workflows 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 Seri ... (truncated, view full listing at source)