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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.\nWhy This Matters\nDeriv 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.\nThe 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.\nReal money, real regulations, real consequences. The portfolio you carry moves the region's numbers, not just your own.\nWhy Deriv\nWe're already running AI in production - not running pilots.\n65%+ of customer enquiries resolved by AI, with genuine judgment about when to escalate\nMulti-agent systems handling partner onboarding, lifecycle management, and operational workflows across the GP function\n400+ internal users on our workflow orchestration platform\nCampaign pipelines producing content in hours, not weeks\nThese aren't tools you learn once and forget. 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Know the unit economics well enough to defend a deal to your own leadership, not just to the partner.\nAI-enabled operational contribution.\n\nWork 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.\nMentorship within the team.\n\nHelp onboard and troubleshoot for newer Business Development Executives, sharing what you've learned about reading partners and structuring deals that hold up.\nIndustry representation.\n\nRepresent 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.\nWho You Are\nYou'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.\nYou know how IB and affiliate ecosystems operate well enough to spot a bad deal structure before it costs anyone money.\nYou 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.\nYou're the person a newer teammate asks when a partner conversation stalls, and you're comfortable being that resource without a formal management title.\nYou 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.\nFluency in English and Arabic is required, given the role's focus on MENA. 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