Adobe MENA
Project Director, Professional Services
- Permanent
- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Experience 10 - 15 yrs
Job overview
Date posted
15/04/2025
Location
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Salary
SAR 60,000 - 100,000 per month
Compensation
Experience
10 - 15 yrs
Seniority
Director
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
30/05/2025
Job description
Based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the Project Director role is a unique opportunity to lead customer relationships and drive services engagements with our customers. Lead a diverse team to develop and expand solutions that enhance business impact. The Project Director will oversee the execution and completion of technology solutions, full-service engagements, and strategic projects. This involves extensive interaction with sales, systems engineering, product development, and other teams with diverse functions. You will strictly manage schedules, budgets, and roadmaps, monitor progress, and ensure flawless execution and delivery
Required skills
project management
digital marketing
technology project management
software development processes
agile project management
governance
forecasting
roadmap planning
consulting services
solution development
risk mitigation
customer engagement
value realization
saas concepts
web content management
social analytics
ad targeting
content personalization
Key responsibilities
- Drive mutual understanding of Adobeās industry-leading capabilities and evangelise how those capabilities build long-term value for the customer across various customer business units and organisations
- Develop and maintain a roadmap with the customer to drive value realization and growth in the adoption of Adobe solutions
- Build and use relationships within Adobe to solve very complex customer problems, including working with product teams to improve solutions
- Apply situational awareness of engagement challenges, trends, and opportunities and communicate accordingly
- Coordinate customer engagements involving various project teams daily, manage project plans, and ensure delivery alignment
- Serve as the main contact for the customer from presales through engagement, interacting at all levels within Adobe and the customer organization
- Help customers understand Adobeās capabilities and the transformative power of digitization across their own customerās lifecycle
- Partner with customers to understand their business objectives and requirements and deliver in the context of a statement of work
- Elevate and encourage your team through caring, effective leadership
- Ensure strong governance, communication, and collaboration with customer teams and internal Adobe teams, including the alignment with the Adobe Governance Framework, ensuring resourcing, forecasting, backlog, and reporting are consistent
- Continually manage customer expectations, manage scope, and identify/mitigate risks
- Apply Adobeās services methodology, apprentice others in the methodology, and drive continuous improvements in our ways of working
- Achieve customer happiness through successful delivery of defined scope and successful realization of key business objectives and metrics
Experience & skills
- 10+ years of experience leading projects in a consulting and/or technology professional services organization
- Experience providing consulting services to high-tech customers is desirable
- Engaging people leader with demonstrable ability to lead and encourage teams
- Strong executive presence, including the ability to partner with and effectively influence client managers, directors, VPs, CMOs, and CXOs
- Proven organizational skills to plan and coordinate complex projects
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- High degree of intellectual curiosity and ability to absorb new concepts quickly
- High level of energy and personal drive
- Experience with one or more of the following preferred: digital marketing (e.g., web content management, rich internet applications, web and social analytics, online ad targeting, content personalization), technology/software/SAAS concepts, custom software development processes and methodologies (including managing Agile projects), technology project management, and governance
- Familiarity with local regulations and business practices in the UK
- Fluency in English