ABOUT THE ROLE / ABOUT THE JOB
This position is a pivotal role within a Saudi-born, sovereign technology company renowned for delivering leading global AI technologies to the Kingdom and beyond. You will work directly with the business leader, effectively acting as a chief of staff and business operations lead. Your primary responsibilities will include preparing decisions, managing operational rhythms, representing leadership across various forums, and ensuring that agreed actions are executed successfully.
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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Prepare decisions: Frame issues requiring decisions, gather facts and options, and provide briefings ahead of meetings.
- Run the rhythm: Manage business reviews and maintain the pipeline and forecast cadence, tracking all actions to closure.
- Track performance: Own dashboards that reflect pipeline, revenue, and accounts, highlighting areas needing attention.
- Drive priorities: Oversee cross-team initiatives from conception to execution, collaborating with sales, delivery, partnerships, and finance.
- Represent: Act on behalf of the leader in meetings and with stakeholders, exercising discretion and sound judgment.
- Advise: Provide independent perspectives on business decisions by evaluating options, identifying trade-offs and risks, and recommending actionable paths.
- Prepare forums: Prepare the leader for management forums, group committees, and board sessions by developing materials and aligning positions with stakeholders to convert outcomes into actions.
- Connect business lines: Coordinate alignment between the business line and other functions, resolving dependencies and ensuring the leader is informed of any developments.
WHERE WE ALIGN
OPERATIONS AND JUDGEMENT FIRST
- Analytical: Comfortable working with data, models, and dashboards, converting numbers into clear recommendations.
- Organised: Capable of managing multiple workstreams concurrently with structure, follow-through, and attention to detail.
- Trusted: Possess the maturity to handle sensitive information and represent senior leadership effectively.
OUR VALUES
- Customer first: Measure your contributions by customer outcomes, prioritizing accordingly.
- Ownership mentality: Take full responsibility for outcomes and address issues directly.
- Clear communicator: Simplify complex concepts for diverse audiences, showcasing the value of your work.
- Comfortable with ambiguity: Progress effectively in uncertain environments and tackle challenging problems without predefined structures.
- Long-term builder: Focus on the sustained success of the company, integrating field insights into strategic operations.
THE SEAT
- Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Package: Includes a base salary plus housing, transport, and education allowances, medical coverage, and equity through the employee equity program. Specific terms will be disclosed at the offer stage.
HOW WE WORK
You will approach decision-making with clarity and an organized plan, prioritizing effective execution and speed.
- Curiosity: Understand each team's operational dynamics and what the business requires.
- Speed: Quickly turn requests into actionable trackers, briefs, or processes.
- Rigour: Validate data accuracy prior to dissemination, and explain the origin of each data point.
- Confidence & humility: Embrace both giving and receiving challenges, adjusting perspectives based on evidence.
- Autonomy: Make informed decisions independently and organize work based on those outcomes.
- Resourcefulness: Navigate obstacles such as incomplete data or competing priorities effectively.
- Situational leadership: Identify when to lead or follow based on the best course of action.
- A force multiplier: Your efficiency in preparing briefs and trackers accelerates the entire leadership team's productivity.
- AI-native depth: Utilize AI tools in analysis, documentation, and automation, having developed valuable applications with them.
- Experience: Ideally, you have several years in consulting, strategy, operations, or a chief of staff role, and possess strong numerical and discreet competencies, with a willingness to learn.
