Duration: 3 - 6 months (starting March 2024)

Instant payments? Personal finance products? Faster loan/credit applications from more accurate credit history? Buy now pay later?

Did you know you’re likely to have used Open Banking in everyday life within the above products without even realising? Once held exclusively by banks, personal financial data is now available for startups and developers to create new financial services and tools to benefit end users!

At Tarabut, we are enabling Open Banking in the MENA region, which is made up of over 550 million people! We are the first & largest Open Banking platform in MENA & already have a license in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia & Dubai where the banks are being made by regulators to expose APIs. Think how much of an impact you could have, being part of the product mission for that region...

We are seeking a dynamic and results-oriented Data Annotation Manager to lead and coordinate a small team of annotators and project resources, including independent contractors. This role is a fixed-term contract for a maternity leave cover and is integral to the success of Tarabut's Data and Insights teams, managing the annotation of financial data. The Data Annotation Manager will report to the Head of Data and be embedded within the cross-functional Insights product team.

 About the Data Team:

Financial data insights targeted to the lending space forms a core part of our roadmap, which depends heavily on our ability to make accurate predictions and inferences at scale, across countries such as UAE, Bahrain, KSA and others. Data Science is a top-class citizen here!

The Insights team is a cross functional team built-up by Backend, Frontend, Machine Learning and QA Engineers, and is actively supported by Data Annotation and Data Platform teams. We are focussed now on building scalable API services that enrich “raw” financial data across key MENA markets, that our Open Banking products can leverage. Examples of enrichment include categorisation, merchant identification, income estimation and non-discretionary spend estimation.

What you will be working on:

• Manage the end-to-end delivery and quality management plans for annotation projects

  
  

• Coordinate technical activities and project aspects, ensuring alignment with project requirements

  
  

• Manage a small internal team of annotators, driving continuous project improvements and efficiencies

  
  

• Lead procurement and manage relationships with 3rd party data annotation workforce, along with related cost reporting

  
  

• Participate in the training and mentoring of new and existing annotation team

  
  

• Communicate with all stakeholders in a timely, clear and concise manner across multiple time zones

  
  

• Collaborate with Machine Learning Engineers, Product Managers and engineers from the Insights team to define annotation approaches.

  
  

• Ensure team compliance with agreed SLAs

  
  

• Ensuring that projects are completed with high-quality and in a timely manner

  
  

• Hands-on approach, occasionally annotating data, providing feedback & improving project guidelines

  
  

• Participate in periodic planning and budget cycles by providing forecasts of resources needed to deliver data annotation pipelines

  
  

• Actively participate and contribute in daily stand-ups

  
  

 

For this role you will need:

• Experience in data annotation, data project management, or operations

  
  

• Previous direct management experience

  
  

 

You will excel in this role if you possess some of the following:

• A motivated, self-starting attitude with the ability to drive initiatives to completion

  
  

• Ability to handle ambiguity

  
  

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

  
  

• Strong organisational skills and the capability to thrive in a deadline-driven environment

  
  

• Analytical thinking paired with proactive problem-solving abilities

  
  

• Understanding of banking and merchant transactions in the GCC region

  
  

• Demonstrated ability to manage and coordinate delivery schedules

  
  

• Experience with project delivery tools (e.g., Confluence, JIRA, Office 365)

  
  

• Experience in Financial Services, Banking, Open Banking, or FinTech

  
  

• Familiarity with programming languages (e.g., SQL, Python)

  
  

• Experience working with crowdsourcing platforms

  
  

• Arabic & English language skills

  
  

• A keen interest in learning new skills and technologies

  
  

 

Join us if you want...

• To work for one of the top FinTech’s in the MENA region you will have the opportunity to work on meaningful and impactful projects that have the potential to change the financial industry

  
  

• We value collaboration and teamwork at Tarabut. You will be working with a talented and diverse team of professionals who are passionate about creating innovative solutions in the FinTech industry. You will have the opportunity to learn from your colleagues and contribute to exciting projects

  
  

• A chance to make an enormous impact and work in agile ways to achieve our goals

  
  

 

Diversity is one of our strengths...

We're a remote first company where team work and collaboration has no barriers. We embrace diversity and encourage talent who bring a range of perspectives to apply for our roles even if you do not match every requirement in the list above. Tarabut makes hiring decisions based on experience, aptitude, skill and sharing our company values. We will not discriminate with regards to any legally protected characteristics.