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Sr. Program Manager (UAE)
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.
ABOUT THE TEAM
Anduril is seeking a Sr. Program Manager to be one of the first on the ground for the Maneuver Dominance team in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Omen is Anduril’s hover-to-cruise autonomous air vehicle (AAV) that packs the endurance, payload, and mission flexibility of much larger airplanes into a novel runway-independent Group 3 platform. Omen can operate from ship decks, beaches, or remote island clearings, providing true runway independence and freedom of maneuver across defense and civilian domains. Omen is the first tail-sitter aircraft with a mass-production contract, with an order of 50 systems representing a decisive investment that anchors production and accelerates the development of future systems.
ABOUT THE JOB
As the UAE Sr. Program Manager you will play a critical role in balancing innovation and practical execution across the Omen program. In this position, you will be deeply intertwined in a highly complex global program, driving strategic decision making, evaluating program milestones, and managing appropriate resourcing in country. You will be required to learn technical concepts and employ them quickly. You will be expected to use your technical knowledge in conjunction with your program management skills to lead cross-functional efforts and drive major program impact.
Deploying our Maneuver Dominance capabilities requires thorough understanding of mission requirements, thoughtful orchestration between Anduril teams and external stakeholders, and meticulous planning in the face of ambiguity. You thrive in the unknown and create order out of the chaos. You will be supporting and collaborating with the Omen lead Program Manager based in Costa Mesa, HQ across Air Vehicle, Mission Systems, Support Systems, and Production Systems.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders, external clients, and industry partners to gather insights, align objectives, and secure buy-in for strategic initiatives. Act as the local liaison for UAE relationships, including subsystem suppliers, in-country test organizations, establishment of facilities, and coordination of customer engagements. Communicate internally the outputs of these efforts including cost forecasts, schedule, resource requirements, risks, and opportunities.
- Enable Cross Team Collaboration: Manage, unblock, and accelerate cross-team projects spanning multiple teams and initiatives. Collaborate closely with leads to ensure vision alignment and seamless execution through development and into production, including test operations.
- Technical Ownership: Drive technical outcomes through meticulous understanding of system performance, managing risks and opportunities with the Engineering leads, using metrics to derive insights into areas for improvement, quantifying the improvements made through investment in those areas, and maintaining a clear understanding of the state of the system that can be communicated to the customer.
- Execute Autonomously: Autonomously execute on broad and/or ambiguous requirements from external clients. Demonstrate high ownership on all pieces of work. Become a trusted partner to Anduril’s engineers.
- Shape Growth Opportunities: Support the drafting of technical proposals, ensuring that potential projects and scaling opportunities are accurately scoped, estimated, and aligned with the organization's capabilities and strategic goals.
- Strategic Planning & Execution: Translate strategic business goals into actionable project plans, setting clear milestones, and driving initiatives from conception through to successful completion, ensuring they deliver intended outcomes and add value to the business. Oversee the UAE allocation of personnel, budget, and other resources to ensure successful execution of these initiatives.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 8+ year of experience in a customer-facing program management role and/or systems engineering experience, preferably in the defense, national security, or aerospace domains
- Proven experience leading a technical team of peers to field hardware or software products to real operating environments through the product development lifecycle including test
- Proven experience leading a product and manufacturing team of peers through initial low rate production
- Solid technical aptitude and demonstrated individual contributions to technical designs, software development lifecycle, challenges and risks; ability to work closely and effectively with engineering teams
- Ability to work with internal and external stakeholders, across a wide range of technical comfort and at all levels
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Strong technical, analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations and drive decisions
- Must have the ability to work through ambiguity, roll up your sleeves attitude, and drive forward progress
- Experience working with international suppliers and customers
- Must be able to obtain a Secret Clearance
- Must be able to travel up to 50% of the time
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor of Science degree in engineering, computer science, or related field preferred
- Experience defining new facilities or manufacturing spaces
- Experience with tools like JIRA and Confluence
The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:
Benefits
At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.
Protecting Yourself from Recruitment Scams
Anduril is committed to maintaining the integrity of our Talent acquisition process and the security of our candidates. We've observed a rise in sophisticated phishing and fraudulent schemes where individuals impersonate Anduril representatives, luring job seekers with false interviews or job offers. These scammers often attempt to extract payment or sensitive personal information.
To ensure your safety and help you navigate your job search with confidence, please keep the following critical points in mind:
-
No Financial Requests: Anduril will never solicit payment or demand personal financial details (such as banking information, credit card numbers, or social security numbers) at any stage of our hiring process. Our legitimate recruitment is entirely free for candidates.
- Please always verify communications:
- Direct from Anduril: If you receive an email from one of our recruiters, it will only come from an
@anduril.comaddress. - Via Agency Partner: If contacted by a recruiting agency for an Anduril role, their email will clearly identify their agency. If you suspect any suspicious activity, please verify the agency's authenticity by reaching out to contact@anduril.com.
- Direct from Anduril: If you receive an email from one of our recruiters, it will only come from an
-
Exercise Caution with Unsolicited Outreach: If you receive any communication that appears suspicious, contains grammatical errors, or makes unusual requests, do not engage. Always confirm the sender's email domain is @anduril.com before providing any personal information or clicking on links.
-
What to Do If You Suspect Fraud: Should you encounter any questionable or fraudulent outreach claiming to be from Anduril, please report it immediately to contact@anduril.com. Your proactive caution is invaluable in protecting your personal information and upholding the security and trustworthiness of our recruitment efforts.
Data Privacy
To view Anduril's candidate data privacy policy, please visit https://anduril.com/applicant-privacy-notice/.
By submitting your application, you consent to Anduril Industries using a third-party service provider to conduct pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening and assessing potential risks as part of your application process. This third-party service provider provides risk-intelligence services that may include analysis of sanctions and watchlists, adverse media, public-record information, and other lawful open-source or commercial data sources. This third-party service provider does not act as a consumer reporting agency. Use of this provider helps to ensure compliance with applicable laws and protect technology, intellectual property, and organizational security.
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Sr. Program Manager (UAE)
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.
ABOUT THE TEAM
Anduril is seeking a Sr. Program Manager to be one of the first on the ground for the Maneuver Dominance team in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Omen is Anduril’s hover-to-cruise autonomous air vehicle (AAV) that packs the endurance, payload, and mission flexibility of much larger airplanes into a novel runway-independent Group 3 platform. Omen can operate from ship decks, beaches, or remote island clearings, providing true runway independence and freedom of maneuver across defense and civilian domains. Omen is the first tail-sitter aircraft with a mass-production contract, with an order of 50 systems representing a decisive investment that anchors production and accelerates the development of future systems.
ABOUT THE JOB
As the UAE Sr. Program Manager you will play a critical role in balancing innovation and practical execution across the Omen program. In this position, you will be deeply intertwined in a highly complex global program, driving strategic decision making, evaluating program milestones, and managing appropriate resourcing in country. You will be required to learn technical concepts and employ them quickly. You will be expected to use your technical knowledge in conjunction with your program management skills to lead cross-functional efforts and drive major program impact.
Deploying our Maneuver Dominance capabilities requires thorough understanding of mission requirements, thoughtful orchestration between Anduril teams and external stakeholders, and meticulous planning in the face of ambiguity. You thrive in the unknown and create order out of the chaos. You will be supporting and collaborating with the Omen lead Program Manager based in Costa Mesa, HQ across Air Vehicle, Mission Systems, Support Systems, and Production Systems.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders, external clients, and industry partners to gather insights, align objectives, and secure buy-in for strategic initiatives. Act as the local liaison for UAE relationships, including subsystem suppliers, in-country test organizations, establishment of facilities, and coordination of customer engagements. Communicate internally the outputs of these efforts including cost forecasts, schedule, resource requirements, risks, and opportunities.
- Enable Cross Team Collaboration: Manage, unblock, and accelerate cross-team projects spanning multiple teams and initiatives. Collaborate closely with leads to ensure vision alignment and seamless execution through development and into production, including test operations.
- Technical Ownership: Drive technical outcomes through meticulous understanding of system performance, managing risks and opportunities with the Engineering leads, using metrics to derive insights into areas for improvement, quantifying the improvements made through investment in those areas, and maintaining a clear understanding of the state of the system that can be communicated to the customer.
- Execute Autonomously: Autonomously execute on broad and/or ambiguous requirements from external clients. Demonstrate high ownership on all pieces of work. Become a trusted partner to Anduril’s engineers.
- Shape Growth Opportunities: Support the drafting of technical proposals, ensuring that potential projects and scaling opportunities are accurately scoped, estimated, and aligned with the organization's capabilities and strategic goals.
- Strategic Planning & Execution: Translate strategic business goals into actionable project plans, setting clear milestones, and driving initiatives from conception through to successful completion, ensuring they deliver intended outcomes and add value to the business. Oversee the UAE allocation of personnel, budget, and other resources to ensure successful execution of these initiatives.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 8+ year of experience in a customer-facing program management role and/or systems engineering experience, preferably in the defense, national security, or aerospace domains
- Proven experience leading a technical team of peers to field hardware or software products to real operating environments through the product development lifecycle including test
- Proven experience leading a product and manufacturing team of peers through initial low rate production
- Solid technical aptitude and demonstrated individual contributions to technical designs, software development lifecycle, challenges and risks; ability to work closely and effectively with engineering teams
- Ability to work with internal and external stakeholders, across a wide range of technical comfort and at all levels
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Strong technical, analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations and drive decisions
- Must have the ability to work through ambiguity, roll up your sleeves attitude, and drive forward progress
- Experience working with international suppliers and customers
- Must be able to obtain a Secret Clearance
- Must be able to travel up to 50% of the time
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor of Science degree in engineering, computer science, or related field preferred
- Experience defining new facilities or manufacturing spaces
- Experience with tools like JIRA and Confluence
The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:
Benefits
At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.
Protecting Yourself from Recruitment Scams
Anduril is committed to maintaining the integrity of our Talent acquisition process and the security of our candidates. We've observed a rise in sophisticated phishing and fraudulent schemes where individuals impersonate Anduril representatives, luring job seekers with false interviews or job offers. These scammers often attempt to extract payment or sensitive personal information.
To ensure your safety and help you navigate your job search with confidence, please keep the following critical points in mind:
-
No Financial Requests: Anduril will never solicit payment or demand personal financial details (such as banking information, credit card numbers, or social security numbers) at any stage of our hiring process. Our legitimate recruitment is entirely free for candidates.
- Please always verify communications:
- Direct from Anduril: If you receive an email from one of our recruiters, it will only come from an
@anduril.comaddress. - Via Agency Partner: If contacted by a recruiting agency for an Anduril role, their email will clearly identify their agency. If you suspect any suspicious activity, please verify the agency's authenticity by reaching out to contact@anduril.com.
- Direct from Anduril: If you receive an email from one of our recruiters, it will only come from an
-
Exercise Caution with Unsolicited Outreach: If you receive any communication that appears suspicious, contains grammatical errors, or makes unusual requests, do not engage. Always confirm the sender's email domain is @anduril.com before providing any personal information or clicking on links.
-
What to Do If You Suspect Fraud: Should you encounter any questionable or fraudulent outreach claiming to be from Anduril, please report it immediately to contact@anduril.com. Your proactive caution is invaluable in protecting your personal information and upholding the security and trustworthiness of our recruitment efforts.
Data Privacy
To view Anduril's candidate data privacy policy, please visit https://anduril.com/applicant-privacy-notice/.
By submitting your application, you consent to Anduril Industries using a third-party service provider to conduct pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening and assessing potential risks as part of your application process. This third-party service provider provides risk-intelligence services that may include analysis of sanctions and watchlists, adverse media, public-record information, and other lawful open-source or commercial data sources. This third-party service provider does not act as a consumer reporting agency. Use of this provider helps to ensure compliance with applicable laws and protect technology, intellectual property, and organizational security.
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About the Role:
Role Overview
The Senior Account Manager is responsible for the day-to-day on the ground project coordination to help deliver a long-term large scale digital project.
This role will be embedded with the client team and act as a primary on-the-ground point of coordination in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The Senior Account Manager will work closely with our client’s internal departments and teams to gather feedback to communicate with the rest of the Journey team. The Senior Account Manager is responsible for delivering large and small scale projects according to brief, timeline and budget alongside developing strong relationships with the client team.
Due to the nature of the work, the ideal candidate has experience supporting capital projects within cultural institutions and understands how creative work integrates into longer construction and institutional timelines.
The Project
This giga-project is a landmark destination city built around the philosophy of the “Power of Play,” integrating entertainment, sports, and culture at unprecedented scale within a livable urban environment. Spanning a wide range of districts and planned to support 500,000 residents, it brings together world-class attractions, major global events, and diversified leisure offerings while contributing to broader national transformation ambitions.
This Next-Gen Visualisation programme supports this vision by establishing a scalable digital production ecosystem—including a continuously updatable Unreal Engine “Marketing Twin”—that enables consistent, high-quality storytelling across multiple stakeholders. This platform integrates asset governance, real-time workflows, and creative guidelines to ensure the digital representation of the city evolves in parallel with its physical development and can be used reliably by internal and external partners.
Key Responsibilities
The essential functions include, but are not limited to:
Project Co-ordination & Delivery
- Manage day-to-day delivery of multiple phases of a large project, ensuring alignment with approved scope, schedule, and budget
- Act as a central coordination point between client teams, internal studio teams, and external partners
- Translate client discussions and decisions into clear actions, timelines, and responsibilities
- Track milestones, dependencies, and approval across all workstreams
- Responsible for project budget of £10m+
- Develop and maintain project schedules aligned with capital project phases and client milestones
- Proactively identify, assess, and manage risks related to schedule, budget, scope, and coordination
Client & Stakeholder Management
- Liaise directly with client stakeholders to drive discussions to resolution
- Serve as a consistent point of contact for designated projects
- Attend and support client meetings, workshops, and site walks
- Build trusted relationships through clarity, reliability, and proactive communication
Candidate Qualifications & Skills:
Required
- Arabic speaking
- 5+ years experience in an account management role within a creative, cultural, architectural, or production environment
- Experience managing complex and high-profile projects
- Strong understanding of schedules, budgets, and dependency management
- Experience working alongside or supporting capital projects or long-term institutional initiatives
- Experience with project management tools / software
- Strong verbal and written communication skills (Arabic and English)
- Organized and efficient
- Experience with Google Suite
- Advanced Microsoft Office Suite
- Willingness to travel
Desirable
- Experience working with clients in the museums, cultural institutions, theme park, public-facing capital projects
- Saudi National
- Familiarity with digital or interactive software development
- PMP or PRINCE2 but not essential
Contract Type: Full time, Fixed Term Contract - 6 months
Location: this role is based in Riyadh, working remotely with the wider Journey Studios
About Journey
The Multidimensional Experience Agency
Journey is a global design and innovation agency shaping the future through multidimensional experiences (MDX) that connect people, brands, and culture.
Our layered MDX approach crafts story-driven, sensory-rich engagement across physical, immersive, digital, and virtual spaces—fuelled by creative and technological innovation.
Born from a legacy of pioneering studios, Journey blends strategic thinking with deep creative expertise to deliver solutions across industries.
Journey’s MDX approach fuels growth and forges lasting value for audiences and partners, by creating cultural connections that resonate with impact.
Start your journey here www.journey.world
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Nebius is leading a new era in cloud computing to serve the global AI economy. We create the tools and resources our customers need to solve real-world challenges and transform industries, without massive infrastructure costs or the need to build large in-house AI/ML teams. Our employees work at the cutting edge of AI cloud infrastructure alongside some of the most experienced and innovative leaders and engineers in the field.
Where we work
Headquartered in Amsterdam and listed on Nasdaq, Nebius has a global footprint with R&D hubs across Europe, North America, and Israel. The team of over 1400 employees includes more than 400 highly skilled engineers with deep expertise across hardware and software engineering, as well as an in-house AI R&D team.
The role
We are seeking a Channel Partner Manger to lead engagement and growth with our most strategic partners in the Systems Integrator (SI), Managed Service Provider (MSP) and Value-Added Reseller (VAR) segments. This senior-level role will work hand-in-hand with the Head of Channel and Head of the Region to develop and execute strategies that position Nebius as the partner of choice for these key segments.
The ideal candidate will bring extensive experience managing and scaling relationships with SIs, MSPs, and VARs, a strategic mindset and the ability to drive impactful partner enablement programs. This is a high-impact role, offering the opportunity to shape Nebius’ partner ecosystem and contribute to the company’s long-term growth.
You are welcome to work remotely anywhere in Dubai or Abu Dhabi
Your responsibilities will include:
- Strategic partner engagement: Build and deepen relationships with top SIs, MSPs and VARs, ensuring alignment with Nebius’ strategic goals and objectives.
- Partner enablement: Design, develop and execute partner enablement programs that equip partners to successfully position and sell Nebius’ GPU IaaS solutions.
- Collaboration with leadership: Work closely with Head of Channel and Head of the Region to align on strategic priorities, partner initiatives and business growth opportunities.
- Contract negotiation and execution: Partner with team members to negotiate agreements, finalize contracts and ensure smooth implementation of sales enablement initiatives.
- Business development: Identify new partnership opportunities within the SI, MSP and VAR segments, driving incremental revenue growth.
- Sales alignment: Collaborate with sales teams to ensure seamless integration of partner activities into the broader sales strategy, tracking progress against key metrics.
- Performance analysis: Monitor and analyze partner performance, providing actionable insights to refine programs and maximize impact.
- Travel: within MEA: up to 25%, outside MEA: 5-10%. Weekly to monthly, with more frequent travel if the role supports a large geographic region or high-touch partners.
We expect you to have:
- A minimum of 7-10 years of channel management experience, with a proven track record of working with enterprise-level partners in the SI, MSP, and VAR sectors. Experience working with enterprise customers to scale and drive adoption of cloud-based solutions is essential.
- Strong, existing relationships with key SIs, ISVs, and MSPs who have a track record of serving enterprise customers. You should be able to leverage this network to accelerate the growth of Nebius' partner ecosystem.
- Strong technical knowledge of cloud-based solutions, with experience enabling partners to sell complex products (preferably GPU IaaS or similar cloud infrastructure solutions) to enterprise customers.
- Demonstrated experience in working with enterprise sales teams and marketing functions to co-create sales strategies, develop marketing materials, and execute joint initiatives that resonate with large-scale enterprise customers.
- Ability to develop high-level strategic plans for enterprise channel growth while also diving into the tactical aspects of partner enablement, contract negotiations, and performance tracking.
- Experience selling, enabling, and supporting enterprise solutions, particularly in cloud, IaaS, and GPU-based offerings. Comfort in understanding and articulating the technical value of solutions to both technical and business stakeholders within enterprise accounts.
- Demonstrated success in driving revenue growth and scaling partner ecosystems in an enterprise context.
- Ability to present Nebius effectively on presentations, with senior leadership, technical teams, and enterprise partners, ensuring clear and actionable messaging around Nebius’ offerings.
What we offer:
- Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
- Opportunities for professional growth within Nebius.
- Flexible working arrangements.
- A dynamic and collaborative work environment that values initiative and innovation.
We’re growing and expanding our products every day. If you’re up to the challenge and are excited about AI and ML as much as we are, join us!
Equal Opportunity Statement:
Nebius is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace and to providing equal employment opportunities in all aspects of employment. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the country in which they apply, and will be required to provide proof of employment eligibility as a condition of hire.
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