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Vice President - International Delivery
Inception42
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Full Time
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About the Role
Inception, a G42 company, seeks a VP of International Delivery to lead the execution of complex AI product and platform deployments across global customer environments.
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International Delivery ManagementProgram ManagementAI SystemsCloud InfrastructureData PipelinesEnterprise SaaS
Responsibilities
- Own international delivery across a portfolio of AI products, platforms, and strategic customer programs, from planning through deployment, stabilization, adoption, and operational handover
- Build and scale delivery governance across markets, including milestones, scope, technical dependencies, risks, resourcing, change control, and executive level reporting
- Partner with product and engineering leaders to translate product roadmaps, architecture decisions, and customer requirements into practical delivery plans
- Lead delivery execution in complex environments involving AI systems, cloud and infrastructure platforms, data pipelines, security requirements, integrations, vendors, and customer operating models
- Work directly with international customers and partners to align delivery outcomes, manage expectations, resolve blockers, and maintain trust through high stakes implementation cycles
- Establish operating rhythms for portfolio reviews, delivery health, decision making, escalation paths, and cross functional alignment across regions
- Improve reliability and predictability across deployments by strengthening service readiness, incident management, change management, SLA governance, and post launch support models
- Bring technical judgment into delivery decisions, including architecture trade offs, implementation risk, deployment sequencing, integration complexity, and operational readiness
- Lead delivery teams and external partners with a high bar for execution quality, technical credibility, customer outcomes, and ownership
- Identify systemic delivery risks early and build practical mechanisms to resolve blockers before they affect production commitments
- Create repeatable international delivery practices that allow Inception to move faster across markets without losing control over quality, security, reliability, or stakeholder confidence
Requirements
- Strong experience leading international delivery, program management, implementation, or professional services for complex technology products in production environments
- Previous hands on technical experience in software engineering, systems engineering, solution architecture, infrastructure, data, AI, or another technical delivery discipline
- Proven ability to manage a portfolio of high stakes customer programs across product, engineering, infrastructure, commercial, customer, and partner teams
- Strong understanding of software, AI, data, cloud, or infrastructure delivery, with enough technical depth to engage credibly on architecture, dependencies, risks, and trade offs
- Experience delivering enterprise grade systems across multiple geographies, customer environments, regulatory contexts, or partner ecosystems
- Ability and willingness to travel frequently for international customer engagements, delivery governance, escalation management, and on the ground execution
- Experience building delivery governance, operating models, escalation mechanisms, and executive reporting that improve execution quality
- Strong systems thinking, with the ability to connect product intent, technical constraints, operational readiness, customer outcomes, and market specific delivery realities
- Clear judgment under ambiguity, especially when scope, timelines, technical risk, travel constraints, or stakeholder expectations need to be reconciled
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to align senior stakeholders, technical teams, customers, and vendors around decisions and delivery commitments
- High ownership mindset, strong execution discipline, and the ability to build teams and delivery practices that scale across international deployments
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Overview
- Inception, a G42 company, is the region’s leading innovator of AI powered domain specific as well as industry agnostic products.
- We are looking for a VP of International Delivery to lead the execution of complex AI product and platform deployments across global customer environments.
- This role exists to make sure Inception can take technically ambitious products into international markets with disciplined delivery, strong customer alignment, and reliable production outcomes.
- You will work closely with product, engineering, infrastructure, commercial and regional stakeholders to turn customer commitments into executable delivery plans.
- This is a hands on leadership role for someone who has built technology before and understands what it takes to deliver it in real customer environments.
- Frequent international travel is required to work directly with customers, partners, and delivery teams.
Responsibilities
- Own international delivery across a portfolio of AI products, platforms, and strategic customer programs, from planning through deployment, stabilization, adoption, and operational handover.
- Build and scale delivery governance across markets, including milestones, scope, technical dependencies, risks, resourcing, change control, and executive level reporting.
- Partner with product and engineering leaders to translate product roadmaps, architecture decisions, and customer requirements into practical delivery plans.
- Lead delivery execution in complex environments involving AI systems, cloud and infrastructure platforms, data pipelines, security requirements, integrations, vendors, and customer operating models.
- Work directly with international customers and partners to align delivery outcomes, manage expectations, resolve blockers, and maintain trust through high stakes implementation cycles.
- Establish operating rhythms for portfolio reviews, delivery health, decision making, escalation paths, and cross functional alignment across regions.
- Improve reliability and predictability across deployments by strengthening service readiness, incident management, change management, SLA governance, and post launch support models.
- Bring technical judgment into delivery decisions, including architecture trade offs, implementation risk, deployment sequencing, integration complexity, and operational readiness.
- Lead delivery teams and external partners with a high bar for execution quality, technical credibility, customer outcomes, and ownership.
- Identify systemic delivery risks early and build practical mechanisms to resolve blockers before they affect production commitments.
- Create repeatable international delivery practices that allow Inception to move faster across markets without losing control over quality, security, reliability, or stakeholder confidence.
What We’re Looking For
- Strong experience leading international delivery, program management, implementation, or professional services for complex technology products in production environments.
- Previous hands on technical experience in software engineering, systems engineering, solution architecture, infrastructure, data, AI, or another technical delivery discipline.
- Proven ability to manage a portfolio of high stakes customer programs across product, engineering, infrastructure, commercial, customer, and partner teams.
- Strong understanding of software, AI, data, cloud, or infrastructure delivery, with enough technical depth to engage credibly on architecture, dependencies, risks, and trade offs.
- Experience delivering enterprise grade systems across multiple geographies, customer environments, regulatory contexts, or partner ecosystems.
- Ability and willingness to travel frequently for international customer engagements, delivery governance, escalation management, and on the ground execution.
- Experience building delivery governance, operating models, escalation mechanisms, and executive reporting that improve execution quality.
- Strong systems thinking, with the ability to connect product intent, technical constraints, operational readiness, customer outcomes, and market specific delivery realities.
- Clear judgment under ambiguity, especially when scope, timelines, technical risk, travel constraints, or stakeholder expectations need to be reconciled.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to align senior stakeholders, technical teams, customers, and vendors around decisions and delivery commitments.
- High ownership mindset, strong execution discipline, and the ability to build teams and delivery practices that scale across international deployments.
Nice to Have
- Experience delivering AI, data platform, ML infrastructure, or enterprise SaaS products across international markets.
- Exposure to production support models, ITSM processes, incident management, change management, observability, and SLA governance.
- Experience operating in regulated, national scale, or enterprise environments where reliability, security, and stakeholder confidence matter.
- Familiarity with cloud native infrastructure, Kubernetes/OpenShift, APIs, integration architecture, or large scale deployment environments.
- Experience building or scaling delivery organizations across multiple regions.
What Working At Inception Offers
- Culture: An open, diverse and inclusive environment with a global vision that encourages personal growth and focuses on ground breaking, industry first innovations.
- Career: Outstanding learning, development & growth opportunities via structured training programs and innovative, high tech projects.
- Rewards: A competitive remuneration package with a host of perks including healthcare, education support, leave benefits and more.
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