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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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Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history. This constellation delivers an unprecedented dataset of empirical information via a revolutionary cloud-based platform to authoritative figures in commercial, environmental, and humanitarian sectors. We are both a space company and data company all rolled into one.
Customers and users across the globe use Planet's data to develop new technologies, drive revenue, power research, and solve our world’s toughest obstacles.
As we control every component of hardware design, manufacturing, data processing, and software engineering, our office is a truly inspiring mix of experts from a variety of domains.
We have a people-centric approach toward culture and community and we strive to iterate in a way that puts our team members first and prepares our company for growth. Join Planet and be a part of our mission to change the way people see the world.
Planet is a global company with employees working remotely world wide and joining us from offices in San Francisco, Washington DC, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, and The Netherlands.
About the Role:
Planet’s Professional Services team helps our Defense and Intelligence (D&I) customers adopt the Planet Platform and rapidly realize return on investment in Planet data and analytics. The Professional Services Global D&I team is looking for a Solutions Architect responsible for the implementation, integration, and analysis of new software and data products that extend the Planet Platform and deliver new capabilities to our strategic D&I customers. In this role, you will be embedded with our customer to train users on Planet products, translate requirements, design workflows, and communicate with Planet’s product team on mission critical capabilities. Your work will be highly visible, directly impacting customers' ability to quickly access Planet's unprecedented datasets, as well as streamline the internal processes for adding new customers to our platform. Ideal candidates will be excited about Planet’s mission.
This is a full-time, in-office position based in one of our strategic customer locations 5 days a week, in Abu Dhabi, UAE. This position is contingent upon award.
Impact You’ll Own:
- Understand clients’ needs and deliver tailored solutions
- Break down ambiguous, high-stakes problems into clearly defined, solvable components
- Leverage analytical skills to deliver products to our D&I customers and support mission requirements
- Design workflows, defining data models, configuring integrations, and helping define tooling that aligns to the customer’s mission.
- Train users, iterate with them in real time, and ensure that Planet solutions become mission-critical to daily operations.
- Translate operational requirements into actionable product feedback for Planet’s engineering teams.
- Communicate technical capabilities back to customers in clear, mission-focused language.
- Rapidly prototype, test, and adjust workflows to match real operational needs.
- Mapping out high-level strategy with decision makers by sitting next to analysts to debug workflows.
- Work closely with customer teams to understand their workflows, pain points, and mission priorities.
What You Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software, Systems Engineering, or similar
- 4+ years of experience in supporting D&I customers, with specialized technical experience in the general areas of systems integration
- Fluent in Golang, Python, Postgresql, & React or related technologies
- Experience with cloud deployments; GCP, AWS, Azure
- Solid problem-solving and systems thinking skills
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management
- Ability to quickly learn new technical domains and tools
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous, high-pressure environments
- Deep curiosity and willingness to dive into operational details
- Fluency in translating between technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience with solving complex problems through analytical skills
- Experience scaling and maintaining production systems
What Makes You Stand Out:
- Experience working with defense and intelligence organizations in the UAE
- Systems integrations experience working with multi domain/multi-level security architectures, particularly the Defence and Intelligence.
- Working knowledge of JavaScript and its mapping libraries (OpenLayers, Leaflet, ArcGIS API for JavaScript), Google Earth Engine and it’s SDK
- Experience with RDBMS (PostgreSQL, SQL) and distributed databases (NoSQL)
- Experience in geopolitics and data science
- Ability to pick up new technologies quickly
- Experience with building analytical products from complex datasets
- Experience with geospatial technologies and data
- GEOINT experience, imagery exploitation and analysis
- Fluent in multiple languages
Application Deadline: February 20th, 2026 at 11:59PM PST
Benefits While Working at Planet:
These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy.
- Paid time off including vacation, holidays and company-wide days off
- Employee Wellness Program
- Home Office Reimbursement
- Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
- Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
- Equity
- Volunteering Paid Time Off
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Why we care so much about Belonging.
We’re dedicated to helping the whole Planet, and to do that we must strive to represent all of it within each of our offices and on all of our teams. That’s why Planet is guided by an ultimate north star of Belonging—dreaming big as we approach our ongoing work. If this job intrigues you, but you’re thinking you might not have all the qualifications, please... do apply! At Planet, we are looking for well-rounded people from around the world who can contribute to more ways than just what is listed in this job description. We don’t just fill positions, we aspire to fulfill people’s careers, most excited about folks who are motivated by our underlying humanitarian efforts. We are a few orbits around the sun before we get to where we want to be, so we hope you’re excited to come along for the ride.
EEO statement:
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