Senior Engagement Manager, Professional Services

Amazon Inc.; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Saudi Arabia is seeking a Senior Engagement Manager for Professional Services to guide customer and partner cloud adoption initiatives on site. You will lead AWS consultants, partners and client teams through high‑impact engagements aligned with business outcomes.

You will own delivery streams end‑to‑end, manage risks, and communicate with AWS teams and customer counterparts to ensure satisfaction and measurable success. Travel to client locations is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in STEM field.
• Experience delivering enterprise IT engagements.
• Knowledge of the value proposition of public cloud.
• Experience leading multiple Agile teams (e.g. Scrum Masters, Product Owners).
• Experience in leading and delivering enterprise‑level IT engagements.

Responsibilities

• Lead AWS consultants and client teams end‑to‑end.
• Own work streams and manage customer expectations.
• Proactively identifying and closing project gaps.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders and customers.

Skills

Agile leadership

Multi-team leadership

IT engagements

Public cloud

Stakeholder mgmt

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Tools

Jira

Rally

VersionOne

Taiga

Job description

Senior Engagement Manager, Professional Services

Would you like a career that gives you opportunities to help customers and partners use cloud computing web services to do big new things faster , at lower cost? Do you want to be part of history and transform businesses through cloud computing adoption? Do you like to work on‑site in a variety of business environments, leading teams through high impact projects that use the newest cloud infrastructure and platform technologies? Would you like a career path that enables you to progress with the rapid adoption of cloud computing?
At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we’re hiring a technical Engagement Manager to lead AWS consultants, partners and client teams. Engagement Managers manage and deliver AWS cloud products and services that enable our customers to realize their business objectives. These professional services engagements focus on the full platform of AWS customer solutions to help our customers and partners remove constraints and accelerate their journey to AWS.
Key job responsibilities
As Engagement Manager you will manage projects independently and also deliver as part of larger teams.
You will own work streams end to end, starting by understanding the customer required outcomes, then leading the team through delivery, managing customer expectations, proactively handling risks and following an effective governance structure, in order to deliver solutions tied to the customer business objectives. You will communicate in an effective way with AWS team members and stakeholders, as well as with customer counterparts. Achieving customer satisfaction will be a relevant driver of your work.
As an Amazonian leader you will embrace and apply the Amazon Leadership Principles, proactively engaging other teams to learn and share, and participating actively in the recruitment and onboarding of future team members.
This is a customer facing role. You will be required to travel to client locations and deliver professional services when needed.
A day in the life
AWS Professional Services engage in a wide variety of projects for customers and partners, providing collective AWS customer experience, best practices, and obsessing about strong success for the Customer. Our team collaborates across the entire AWS organization to bring access to product, service, and training teams, to deliver the right solutions and drive feature innovations for our customers across all industries. Engagement Managers help Customers make decisions to meet their technical and business objectives by providing best practices, proactively identifying and closing project gaps.
Amazon aims to be the most customer centric company on earth. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers critical applications for hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
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Work/Life Balance
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Basic Qualifications

• - 2+ years of leading multiple Agile teams (like Scrum Masters, Product Owners) concurrently or at scale experience
• - 7+ years of leading and delivering enterprise‑level IT engagements experience
• - Bachelor's degree in STEM field
• - Knowledge of the value proposition of the public cloud and cloud engagement delivery (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
• - Experience in leading multiple Agile teams (like Scrum Masters, Product Owners) concurrently or at scale
• - Experience in leading and delivering enterprise‑level IT engagements
• - Experience in delivering customer engagements in a professional services role

Preferred Qualifications

• - 7+ years of delivering customer engagements in a professional services role experience
• - active project management certification (e.g., APM, CSM, PMI-ACP, PRINCE2)
• - AWS certification
• - Experience with Agile and project management toolsets like Jira, Rally, VersionOne or Taiga
• - Experience working with and presenting to C‑level executives, IT, and lines of businesses across organizations or equivalent
• - 5+ Years of Experience as an Engagement Manager for Cloud Service Provider or Consulting firm

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