Technical Account Manager (TAM) – Qualcomm Datacentre Team, Riyadh, KSA

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology company is seeking a Technical Account Manager in Riyadh to oversee key customer projects and manage technical deployments. The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of experience in cloud data centres and strong project management skills. Responsibilities include leading technical relationships and ensuring project success from concept through deployment, with a focus on customer satisfaction and collaboration with engineering teams.

Benefits

Salary including housing & transport allowance

Stock (RSUs) and performance-related bonus

16 weeks fully paid Maternity Leave

6 weeks fully paid Paternity Leave

Employee stock purchase scheme

Child Education Allowance

Relocation and immigration support

Life and Medical Insurance

Live+ Well Reimbursement for health and recreational membership fees

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in a cloud data centre environment.
• 4+ years managing large-scale data centre projects.
• 3+ years programming in languages like C, C++, Java, Python.

Responsibilities

• Support sales account manager and manage technical relationships.
• Provide project management from concept to deployment.
• Drive customer issues to resolution and collaborate with engineering.

Skills

Project management

Communication skills

Problem-solving skills

Customer relationship management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science

Master's degree in Business Administration, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science

Job description

Company: Qualcomm Middle East Information Technology Company LLC

Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Applications Engineering

About Us

Qualcomm is enabling a world where everyone and everything can be intelligently connected. You interact with products and technologies made possible by Qualcomm every day, including 5G-enabled smartphones that double as pro-level cameras and gaming devices, smarter vehicles and cities, and the technology behind the smart, connected factories that manufactured your latest purchase. Qualcomm 5G and AI innovations are the power behind the connected intelligent edge. You’ll find our technologies behind and inside the innovations that deliver significant value across multiple industries and to billions of people every day.

About the Role

Qualcomm is leveraging its expertise in hardware-accelerated AI to deliver powerful, energy-efficient generative AI and computer vision workloads for data centres. As a Technical Account Manager (TAM)on the Qualcomm Data Centre team in Riyadh, you will manage key customer projects and oversee technical aspects of hardware and software deployments for deep learning inference acceleration at rack-scale. This role requires strong technical leadership, project management skills, and the ability to build trusted relationships with customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the sales account manager by leading the management of the technical relationships between the customer and Qualcomm’s Data Centre business unit
• Provide overall project management for the customer project from concept through commercial deployment
• For projects under development: drive customer issues to resolution, mitigate escalations and set expectations with the customer by collaborating with engineering on a daily basis
• For projects under evaluation: engage with the customer by organizing trainings, reviewing the design concept, gathering project requirements, and analysing the gaps & risk involved in commercial deployment
• Align customer milestones with Qualcomm’s hardware and software deliverable timeline by collaborating with product and program management
• Review the customer portfolio on a monthly basis, prioritize customer projects and provide justification for technical support resource allocation

Minimum Qualifications, Experience and Skills

• 8+ years cloud data centre experience.
• 4+ years of managing large scale data centre projects and customer relationships
• Ability to proactively manage customer expectations to influence customer relations and design decisions
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to effectively present information to a range of audiences
• Familiarity with cloud reliability requirements, SLAs, and instance qualification processes.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Program Manager, managing complex technical projects in a SW environment
• Experience leading and directing engineers that are in independent functional organizations.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science
• Preferred: Master's, Business Administration and/or Electrical Engineering, Computer Science

What’s on Offer

• Salary including housing & transport allowance
• Stock (RSU's) and performance related bonus
• 16 weeks fully paid Maternity Leave
• 6 weeks fully paid Paternity Leave
• Employee stock purchase scheme
• Child Education Allowance
• Relocation and immigration support (if needed)
• Life and Medical Insurance
• Live+ Well Reimbursement for health and recreational membership fees

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience.
• OR Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience.
• OR PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience.
• 3+ years of experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
• 3+ years of experience with debugging techniques.

References & Equal Opportunity Statement

*References to a particular number of years experience are for indicative purposes only. Applications from candidates with equivalent experience will be considered, provided that the candidate can demonstrate an ability to fulfill the principal duties of the role and possesses the required competencies.

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Contact

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