The Role: Leading AI Transformation

Reporting to the Managing Director, you own Echelon’s AI transformation business: its pipeline, its outcomes and the organisation that delivers them. With the Head of Applied AI, you run every engagement as one team; with the CRO, you shape how Echelon wins and grows its accounts.

Set the direction: Define how Echelon transforms its customers: the offer, the engagement model, the sectors where we lead, and the transformation agenda you take to customers.

Own the pipeline: Build the pipeline of AI transformation programmes with chief executives, government leaders and the CRO’s account teams, and lead the largest pursuits.

Advise at the top: Act as trusted adviser to customer chief executives and their boards: run the executive sessions, frame the business case and hold the multi-year roadmap they own.

Answer for outcomes: Own the scope and outcomes of every programme in the portfolio.

Drive adoption: Own adoption, change management and measured value after go-live, as the customer’s long-term partner in making the change hold and grow.

Grow the business: Turn first use cases into multi-year programmes. The CRO owns new customers and contracts; you own programme expansion, and you set the expansion strategy together.

Build the organisation: Hire and lead the deployment strategists and their Engagement Managers; design the operating model, the playbook, the career paths and the partners that add capacity.

Shape Echelon: Bring the field into company strategy: what to build with the Head of Applied AI, where to invest and which delivery partners to bring in.

Where We Align

AI and Technology First

Leadership record: You have 6+ years in transformation or deployment leadership, and have built and led a deployment, transformation or customer-facing technical organisation, as an executive in an AI company, a forward deployed business, or as a founder.

Trusted at the top: Chief executives, boards and government leaders seek your counsel on AI, and trust you to say what it will and will not do.

Technical command: Deep enough in LLM systems, agents, data and evaluation to challenge an architecture, judge what is ready for production and lead technical teams with credibility.

Commercial acumen: You have owned large programmes and their economics: business cases, deal structure, Scopes of Work, and the discipline to decline work that will not create value.

Adoption record: You have taken programmes past go-live to measured adoption, and can show the value they delivered.

Builder of teams: You attract senior talent, develop leaders, and build an organisation that keeps its standard as it scales from a founding team.

Strong Advantage

Sector depth: Deep experience in at least one sector where Echelon leads, such as government, energy, financial services or healthcare.

Regional experience: Programmes delivered in Saudi Arabia or the GCC, ideally with government entities or regulated industries.

Deployment background: Time as a deployment strategist or engagement lead at a forward deployed AI company.

Arabic: Professional fluency in Arabic.

Our Values

Customer first: You measure your work by customer outcomes, and prioritise accordingly.

Ownership mentality: You own outcomes end to end. When something breaks or stalls, you treat it as yours to fix.

Clear communicator: You explain complex systems simply, to operators and executives alike, and make the value of your work visible.

Comfortable with ambiguity: You make progress with incomplete information, partial data and unfamiliar environments, and you enjoy solving problems where there is no structure yet.

Long-term builder: You invest in Echelon’s long-term success, bringing field insight back into our strategy and operations.

Builds others: You measure yourself by the people you develop and the capability you build with customers.

The Seat

Location: Riyadh/London

Reports to: The Managing Director

Travel: Regular time on customer sites across the region and with partners abroad.

Package: A base salary with housing, transport and education allowances, performance bonus, medical cover, and equity through the employee equity programme. Terms are shared at offer stage.