Technical Project Manager

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Riyadh
Senior level
Payments
The Role
The Technical Project Manager role at Thunes involves leading the integration of partners into the Thunes Cross-Border Payment platform, coordinating with sales and delivery teams, and managing the entire project lifecycle from analysis to post-delivery monitoring. Key responsibilities include scoping technical solutions, securing commitments from customer technical resources, and supporting existing partners.
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About Thunes

Thunes is the Smart Superhighway for money movement around the world. Thunes’ proprietary Direct Global Network allows Members to make payments in real-time in over 130 countries and more than 80 currencies. Thunes’ Network connects directly to over 7 billion mobile wallets and bank accounts worldwide, via more than 350 different payment methods, such as GCash, M-Pesa, Airtel, MTN, Orange, JazzCash, Easypaisa, AliPay, WeChat Pay and many more.

 

Members of Thunes’ Direct Global Network include gig economy giants like Uber and Deliveroo, super-apps like Grab and WeChat, MTOs, fintechs, PSPs and banks. Thunes’ Direct Global Network differentiates itself through its worldwide reach, in-house Smart Treasury Management Platform and Fortress Compliance Infrastructure, ensuring Members of the Network receive unrivalled speed, control, visibility, protection and cost efficiencies when making real-time payments globally. Headquartered in Singapore, Thunes has offices in 12 locations, including Barcelona, Beijing, Dubai, London, Manila, Nairobi, Paris, Riyadh, San Francisco, Sao Paulo and Shanghai. 

 

For more information, visit:  https://www.thunes.com/

 

Context of the role

We’re looking for a Technical Project Manager to be an integral part of our Solutions Delivery Team.

As part of the Solution Delivery team, this role will bring you great opportunities to work on various projects, collaborating with a diverse range of partners and teams.

The Solution Delivery team is responsible for supporting the integration of partners within the Thunes Cross-Border Payment platform. Processing millions of transactions per month and interconnecting hundreds of partners from all around the world, Thunes is continuously growing its coverage and footprint in the industry. A career with Thunes provides invaluable experience in an exciting and rapidly expanding market and an opportunity to be part of a truly global company with various offices worldwide and a workforce that includes dozens of different nationalities.

Qualities you would find in our Payment Integration Team

  • Strong Team Spirit - Ability to learn lots of things and happy to help and each other
  • Empowerment - Initiatives to build tools and propose solutions that adds value to the business
  • Ownership - End to end ownership of project management in continuous integration from concept to deployment 

Responsibilities:

We’re looking for a highly driven, self-motivated, technically hands-on person who is truly excited about having a meaningful impact within the company and for our partners.

In this role, you will combine a startup mindset with the scale of an industry leader. Working with different types of partners you must remain agile and always adapt your process and mindset to the partner you are dealing with. 

In this role you will:

  • Proactively scope the technical solution required to address customer requirements, assesses customers’ met and unmet needs, and recommends solutions that optimize value for both the customer and Thunes.
  • Coordinates closely with sales, sales support, and delivery teams to align solution design with customers’ business requirements
  • Secure from customer technical resource commitments needed to ensure a deal’s “technical close.”
  • Lead and drive the partner integration from the analysis phase though the integration design until go live and post-delivery monitoring
  • Support existing partners that are already integrated to the platform with their daily challenges and expansion plans
  • Provide solutions and contribute to proof of concepts outside of the box for some special projects
  • Drive improvements for internal monitoring, reporting and operational tools and processes
  • Provides training to the sales team in order to enhance their product knowledge, technical acumen, and technical sales skills

To stand out you will:

  • Be customer facing – you will have a close relationship with our partners and business development teams to expand our coverage and services
  • Work closely with different internal teams to understand and support operational processes and new solutions
  • Always keep a solution mindset and look for improvements that you can bring to the organization
  • Work with an agile and expanding team, offering mentoring, training and possibly management to junior members
  • Participate in continuous integration, managing updates from concept to deployment
  • Opportunistically pursues additional business development opportunities within customer firms

Skills & Qualifications:

  • Prior & proven min. ~3 years of experience in a technical project management (API / Integrations) or solutions delivery role with external stakeholders
  • Experience in a B2B company supporting partners on a technical solution or service
  • Experience working and strong interest in the Fintech and/or Payment Industry and market innovations
  • Experience working and integrating with APIs over IP (REST,  Json XML, Web Services, …)
  • Experience working in an Agile environment – Jira management is a plus
  • Demonstrate motivation to learn new skills and technologies
  • Ability to work effectively, multi-task, agile and take responsibility in challenging situations
  • Strong customer focused and result oriented mindset
  • Independent and proactive - willing to get things done
  • Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, be creative, friendly and solution-oriented with customers and colleagues
  • Fluency in English and Arabic.

Package & Benefits

  • Great compensation package, including performance & company bonus
  • Private Health insurance for you and your family
  • Learning & Development budget
  • Work-life balance (flexibility and hybrid working policy)
  • Our team is global, you will work with 40+ different nationalities spread across 5 continents
  • In addition to your annual leave allowance, you also receive 2 Thunes Out Days + 2 Community days

Sound like you? Apply now!

The Company
129 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

Thunes is a B2B cross-border payments network for emerging markets. Our global platform provides seamless transfer of funds between payment systems in more than 100 countries and 60 currencies. We enable mobile wallet providers, technology companies, PSPs, money transfer operators and banks to make financial services accessible worldwide.
We offer four key payment solutions:
•Remittance processing, which fosters worldwide financial inclusion
•Mass payouts, which support globalisation and the sharing economy •Virtual Accounts, which help corporates around the world boost their revenue
•Business payments, which enable businesses to trade easily across borders Since Thunes was established in 2016, we’ve processed real-time transactions for millions of people across the world.
Thunes is headquartered in Singapore with regional offices in London, Shanghai and New York.

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