Opportunities in Doha, Qatar ; Dubai, UAE; Riyadh, Saudia Arabia; Doha, Qatar, Qatar

Official role information

<p>We are seeking a Head of Solutions Engineering to lead and grow our technical pre-sales function across the EMEA region. You’ll define how we bring our AI services to customers - from the first discovery conversation to pilot, deployment, and production success.</p> <p>As the regional leader, you’ll hire, mentor, and scale a team of world-class Solutions Engineers &amp; Solution Architects who partner closely with Sales, Product, and Engineering. You’ll set the standard for how we demonstrate technical value, architect customer solutions, and operationalize go-to-market excellence across diverse markets in EMEA.</p> <p>This is a strategic, hands-on leadership role - part player-coach, part builder, and part visionary. You’ll balance tactical deal support with the long-term mission of building a scalable, high-impact GTM organization.</p> <h4>What You’ll Do</h4> <ul> <li>Partner with Sales and regional leadership to drive technical strategy, qualification, and execution for complex deals.</li> <li>Define and operationalize repeatable pre-sales processes, tools, and playbooks to accelerate customer success.</li> <li>Build and lead a world-class Solutions Engineering organization across EMEA — recruiting, mentoring, and enabling a distributed team.</li> <li>Lead the technical discovery, demo, and proof-of-concept lifecycle, ensuring pilots translate into production wins.</li> <li>Represent Scale’s platform and technology capabilities to executives, technical stakeholders, and partners.</li> <li>Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to bring customer insights back into roadmap discussions and feature design.</li> <li>Develop regional enablement programs to ensure consistent technical excellence across the team.</li> <li>Drive key metrics: pilot-to-production conversion, team utilization, revenue influence, and customer adoption.</li> <li>Champion a culture of curiosity, innovation, and accountability, fostering deep AI understanding and go-to-market discipline.</li> <li>Act as a thought leader in the region — representing Scale at industry events, executive briefings, and ecosystem forums.</li> </ul> <h4>What We’re Looking For</h4> <ul> <li>10+ years of experience in Solutions Engineering, Sales Engineering, or Technical Consulting, with 4+ years in a leadership capacity.</li> <li>Proven experience building and scaling technical pre-sales or customer engineering teams across multiple markets.</li> <li>Strong foundation in cloud architecture, enterprise infrastructure, and API-driven products</li> <li>Hands-on technical ability — comfortable both building prototypes and guiding your team</li> <li>Familiarity with AI/ML technologies, data platforms, and modern model deployment practices</li> <li>Demonstrated executive presence and credibility with both technical and business leaders.</li> <li>Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills, aligning Sales, Product, and Services toward shared outcomes.</li> <li>Commercial and strategic mindset — able to connect technical work to business value and regional go-to-market goals.</li> <li>Experience navigating diverse, fast-evolving markets and driving impact in ambiguous, high-growth environments.</li> <li>Willingness to travel frequently across EMEA to support customers and team members.</li> </ul> <h4>Nice to Have</h4> <ul> <li>Background in AI infrastructure, ML operations, or applied data science.</li> <li>Experience working across enterprise, government, and startup ecosystems.</li> <li>Strong understanding of regional AI, data, and privacy regulations.</li> <li>Prior experience launching new markets or scaling teams during rapid growth.</li> <li>Track record of developing enablement content, demos, and GTM playbooks for technical teams.</li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong><em>PLEASE NOTE:&nbsp;</em></strong><em>Our policy requires a 90-day waiting period before reconsidering candidates for the same role. This allows us to ensure a fair and thorough evaluation of all applicants.</em></p> <p><strong>About Us:</strong></p> <p><em>At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions. Our products provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. We work closely with industry leaders like Meta, </em><em>Ernst</em><em> </em><em>&amp;</em><em> Young, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force. We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.</em></p> <p><em>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.&nbsp;</em></p> <p><em>We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.…

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