Engagement Manager, Global Public Sector

Scale AI; Doha; On-site; QAR 436,839 - 655,259; Full time

Job summary

Scale AI in Doha seeking an Engagement Manager for the Global Public Sector to drive high-value government use cases and manage client relationships. You will coordinate with product, engineering, and business development to meet timelines and deliver impactful AI applications for citizens and residents.

The role requires excellent communication, empathy, and organizational skills, with a focus on long-term client health and proactive risk management across the Middle East region.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of total work experience in consulting or as a technical program manager in industry.
• Experience at a consulting firm or a leading tech company.
• Proven track record in B2B client facing roles and expanding client relationships.
• Ability to understand APIs and the ML training lifecycle and build great relationships with technical customers.
• Great cross‑functional experience and collaborative ability.
• Excellent verbal and written communications.
• A track record of structured, analytics-driven problem solving.
• A history of diligence and organization across multiple work streams.
• An action-oriented mindset that balances creative problem solving with the scrappiness to deliver results.
• Analytical, planning, and process improvement capability.

Responsibilities

• Drive the process of identifying high-value use cases for custom LLMs that Scale can build within government entities.
• Partner with clients to understand their most pressing problems and brainstorm how Scale can best help.
• Manage the long-term health of clients by identifying and preempting areas of risk or concern.
• Be the main point-of-contact for clients if they have any questions, issues, or concerns and triage accordingly.
• Collaborate with the operational and engineering execution teams to track delivery and timelines.
• Review, track and improve operational performances and be obsessed with continuous improvement.
• Brainstorm with premier research institutions building Arabic LLMs how Scale can best support and/or ideas they should consider testing.
• Have proficiency in reading, writing, and speaking in Arabic.

Skills

Client management

Arabic reading/writing

Communication

Relationship building

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Project management

APIs

ML lifecycle

Job description

Engagement Manager, Global Public Sector

About the team:

Scale is growing rapidly, and joining the Global Public Sector team is an opportunity to work on one of the most rapidly expanding teams at Scale. This team is responsible for generating, executing, and fostering Scale’s work outside of the United States. There are three core types of work involved:

• Building custom AI applications for government
• Providing high-quality training data for research institutions building LLMs from scratch
• Partnerships, upskilling, and advisory

About the role:

As the Engagement Manager, you will be responsible for establishing deep customer and prospect relationships, proactively identifying opportunities where Scale can build custom AI applications to improve lives for citizens and residents, overseeing the execution to ensure timelines are met and/or communicated effectively, interfacing with premier research institutions to discuss how Scale can best support them, and partnering with organizations who are looking to train and educate people on how to use AI, AI safety, and more.

You and your team will work closely with the business development and go-to-market team, the product and engineering execution teams, and various customers and prospects to ensure success.

The ideal candidate has a nose for value and opportunity, is highly personable and can build relationships with all types of stakeholders, is an excellent communicator, is highly organized, and has a demonstrated track record of high-achievement. They are naturally empathetic and excel at building long-term relationships through diligent problem‑solving and thoughtful, strategic discussions.

The blend of customer engagement, operations, and business development to drive our most important outcomes makes this a unique and exciting role at the heart of one of Scale's most exciting growth businesses.

In the near term, the team will be based out of the Middle East and looking to meaningfully grow its presence in the region.

You will:

• Drive the process of identifying high-value use cases for custom LLMs that Scale can build within government entities
• Partner with clients to understand their most pressing problems and brainstorm how Scale can best help
• Manage the long-term health of clients by identifying and preempting areas of risk or concern
• Be the main point-of-contact for clients if they have any questions, issues, or concerns and triage accordingly
• Collaborate with the operational and engineering execution teams to track delivery and timelines
• Review, track and improve operational performances and be obsessed with continuous improvement
• Brainstorm with premier research institutions building Arabic LLMs how Scale can best support and/or ideas they should consider testing
• Have proficiency in reading, writing, and speaking in Arabic

Ideally you'd have:

• 7+ years of total work experience, with experience in consulting or as a technical program management role in industry
• Experience at a consulting firm or a leading tech company
• A proven track record in B2B client facing roles and expanding client relationships
• Ability to understand APIs and the ML training lifecycle and build great relationships with technical customers
• Great cross‑functional experience and collaborative ability
• Excellent verbal and written communications
• A track record of structured, analytics-driven problem solving
• A history of diligence and organization across multiple work streams
• An action-oriented mindset that balances creative problem solving with the scrappiness to ultimately deliver results
• Analytical, planning, and process improvement capability

We believe that everyone should be able to bring their whole selves to work, which is why we are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability status, gender identity or Veteran status.

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