The MENAT Strategic Initiatives team drives cross-region programs in the Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey that accelerate cloud adoption, deepen customer engagement, and create measurable market impact. In alignment with Saudi Vision 2030's goals for economic diversification, digital transformation, and local talent development, we are expanding our presence in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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We are looking for a Program Manager who is hands-on, comfortable with ambiguity, and can operate independently across multiple workstreams. This role requires daily interaction with senior leadership (Directors, VPs) and external stakeholders (C-suite customers, government officials, partners), positioning you at the center of execution.
Key Responsibilities
- Define program scope, milestones, success metrics, and delivery timelines for cross-region initiatives with a focus on KSA market priorities.
- Build and maintain program plans and governance frameworks that keep complex programs on track.
- Drive end-to-end delivery from ideation through launch, iteration, and scale.
- Proactively identify risks and blockers, escalate early, and propose mitigation paths.
- Engage with senior internal leaders (Directors, GMs, VPs) and external executives—including Saudi government officials and C-suite customers—to drive alignment on priorities and resources.
- Facilitate leadership reporting by producing crisp, data-driven status updates, dashboards, and narrative documents.
- Establish scalable mechanisms such as cadences, templates, tooling, and reporting frameworks that increase team velocity.
- Coordinate multi-stakeholder events, conferences, and campaigns from planning through post-event analysis, with emphasis on KSA-based activations.
A Day in the Life
Your focus is keeping strategic programs moving. You're the person everyone relies on to know where things stand and what's coming next. On any given day, you might be running a kick-off for a cross-regional initiative, updating timelines after a scope change, triaging incoming requests, facilitating a business review with senior leadership, or aligning with a government stakeholder on an upcoming engagement. You'll work closely with sales leaders, solutions architects, partner managers, marketing, and public sector teams.
Work Conditions
You'll navigate a multicultural environment and work across time zones with regional and global teams.
