Director of Brands
YOUGotaGift is the leading digital gift card marketplace in
the Middle East. We offer a seamless gifting experience by aggregating top
regional and international brands, enabling users to send digital gift cards
instantly. Our platform powers both consumer and corporate gifting needs across
the GCC.
Role Overview
We are looking for a commercially driven Director of Brand
Partnerships to manage and strengthen YOUGotaGift’s brand portfolio. Reporting
to the CBO, the role will own brand relationships, commercial terms, discounts,
margins, and new gift card propositions.
Key Responsibilities
- Own
brand commercials, including discounts, margins, rebates, coupon codes,
payment terms, and promotional support.
- Build
strong senior relationships with brands, retailers, marketplaces, and
merchant groups.
- Negotiate
improved commercial terms and create differentiated offers for corporate,
loyalty, and consumer channels.
- Identify
and onboard relevant brands based on customer demand, category gaps, and
business requirements.
- Develop
new gift card, coupon, discount, and promotional use cases with existing
and new partners.
- Understand
gift card processing and operational flows, including activation,
redemption, reconciliation, settlement, refunds, and expiry.
- Work
closely with Product, Processing, Finance, Legal, Operations, Sales, and
Marketing to launch and manage partners effectively.
Requirements
- 8+
years of experience in brand or merchant partnerships, category
management, commercials, or business development within gift cards,
retail, e-commerce, fintech, payments, or loyalty.
- Strong
commercial negotiation, relationship management, and partner development
experience.
- Good
understanding of gift cards, vouchers, coupon codes, discounts,
promotional constructs, and merchant-funded offers.
- Working
knowledge of gift card integrations, processing, reconciliation, and
settlement flows.
- Relevant
experience from companies such as Paytm, Pine Labs / Qwikcilver, GyFTR,
Woohoo, Amazon Pay, Flipkart, BigBasket, Arvind Fashions, large retailers,
or similar businesses.
- Bachelor’s
degree in Business, Marketing, Finance, or a related field.
- Candidate should
be either based in UAE or must be willing to relocate to Dubai from any
country
Benefits
Why Join Us?
- Manage
leading regional and international brand relationships.
- Drive
stronger commercials, better offers, and new gift card propositions.
- Work
across gifting, rewards, loyalty, retail, and digital commerce.