Head of Business Development

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🇸🇾 Syria – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

💰 Business Development (BDR)

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NymCard

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2018

💼 Consulting

🛡️ Insurance

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Insurance • Logistics

NymCard is an innovative platform that specializes in embedded finance solutions, designed to empower fintechs, banks, and businesses with scalable financial tools for real-time payment processing. They offer a modular suite including features such as card issuing, embedded lending, and money movement, with a focus on providing developers with comprehensive APIs for seamless integration. Based in the MENA region, NymCard enables businesses to simplify operations and deliver exceptional financial experiences while ensuring compliance and security across various financial transactions.

📋 Description

• Establish NymCard's footprint in Syria as the first in-market commercial lead • Engage the Central Bank, commercial lenders, telcos, and digital banking startups • Build the pipeline from zero and craft the go-to-market strategy in an evolving regulatory environment • Own the full sales cycle from prospecting and C-suite engagement to commercial negotiation and contract close • Sequence institutions to approach and build a qualified pipeline across Syria's financial ecosystem • Establish executive relationships with decision-makers across Syria's banking sector • Partner with Compliance, Risk, and Legal to navigate sanctions-adjacent complexity, correspondent banking constraints, and AML/CFT expectations • Represent NymCard at Syria- and Levant-focused reconstruction, banking, and investment forums • Provide structured market intelligence on regulatory shifts, correspondent banking access, competitor activity, and client needs • Report to NymCard's Chief Business Officer with full pipeline transparency through CRM • Own proposals, commercials, and negotiations; coordinate MSAs, SLAs, risk allocation, and pricing schedules with Legal and Finance • Maintain accurate CRM hygiene, including stages, next steps, close dates, probabilities, and risks • Track booked versus realized gross revenue and escalate launch risks related to correspondent banking, licensing, or infrastructure gaps • Coordinate handover to Solutions and Delivery with scope, risks, and success metrics • Convert early wins into references and case studies for broader Levant expansion

🎯 Requirements

• 10–15 years of enterprise B2B sales or business development experience in payments, fintech, card schemes, or financial infrastructure • Existing network within Syria's banking sector, the Syrian diaspora financial/business community, or the broader Levant banking ecosystem • Experience operating in frontier and reconstruction markets; similarly complex, sanctions-adjacent, or post-conflict market experience is a strong advantage • Working knowledge of correspondent banking, SWIFT reconnection dynamics, and AML/CFT frameworks relevant to a FATF grey-listed jurisdiction • Strong command of payments value chains, including card schemes, issuer processing, and core banking integrations • Fluency in Arabic and English required • Experience navigating long, multi-stakeholder enterprise sales cycles under regulatory uncertainty • Comfortable operating as the first commercial hire in a lean, high-ownership environment with direct executive exposure • Commercial fluency in pricing, contracts, and deal structuring, with sound judgment on when to escalate compliance risk • Confident communicator with executive presence, calm under pressure, and strong follow-through • Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, or related field • MBA is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• First-mover advantage: Build a market essentially from zero, with direct access to decision-makers and full organizational backing • Front-line role in Syria's financial reconstruction story, working directly with banks, regulators, and international partners • Direct executive exposure • Full organizational backing • High-ownership environment with room to move fast