--- title: 'AI Deployment Lead at Sarj.ai' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/ai-deployment-lead-sarj-ai-riyadh-9cbm7xbenhyq' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-06' --- # AI Deployment Lead at Sarj.ai - **Company:** Sarj.ai - **Location:** Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-09-01 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sarjai/17622787-8e89-4293-90a7-fa1d3e728e02 ## Job description ## About Us Built with πŸ’œ in KSA and leveraging Silicon Valley expertise, we’re creating innovative solutions in the realm of Voice AI and AI agents. As we continue our rapid growth trajectory in an exciting and dynamic market, we’re looking for A-players to join our team. ## Role Overview As an AI deployment lead , you'll sit at the intersection of our customers, product, and engineering teams, owning the delivery of solutions from initial requirements through deployment. You’ll work closely with customers to understand their needs, translate them into clear technical requirements, and ensure our teams deliver outstanding results. This role is about more than just keeping projects on track, it’s about managing expectations, solving problems, and exercising sound judgment under pressure. ## Key Responsibilities - Work with customers to identify high-impact problems and define AI-driven product features to address them. - Convert customer requirements into clear technical specifications and use cases for internal teams. - Oversee sprints and project timelines, ensuring timely and high-quality solution delivery. - Serve as the bridge between customers and internal teams including data scientists, engineers, and product leads. - Build trusted relationships and ensure the long-term success of deployed solutions. Own customer delivery as the primary point of contact throughout implementation, ensuring expectations, timelines, and outcomes are clearly managed. - Manage difficult conversations with demanding stakeholders, especially when requirements, timelines, or expectations need to be challenged. ## Requirements - 3+ years of experience in a customer-facing role involving technical delivery, implementation, consulting, solutions engineering, technical account management, or a similar function. - Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts, data workflows, and model deployment processes. - Ability to discuss and assess technical trade-offs with engineering teams. - Strong experience working directly with customers and managing stakeholder relationships. - Comfortable working with demanding customers and maintaining composure under pressure. - Demonstrated delivery and project management skills with a high level of ownership. - Excellent attention to detail while managing multiple moving parts. - Strong communication and negotiation skills, including resetting expectations when necessary. - Good judgment: knowing when to push, when to compromise, and when to say no. - Willingness to challenge both customers and internal teams constructively. - Highly organized, proactive, and comfortable operating in ambiguous and fast-changing environments. Why Join Us? - Opportunity to be part of a high-growth, innovative tech start-up - Collaborative, mission-driven culture - Hands-on experience working on impactful AI products ## About Sarj.ai ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Sarj AI provides an Arabic-optimized voice and chat AI platform that automates customer support, sales, debt collection, and scheduling for enterprises in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East. - **Entity Type**: Private (Unfunded / Bootstrapped) - **Headquarters**: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - **Founded**: 2023 - **Founders**: Not publicly available ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Enterprise AI / Conversational AI / Voice Automation - **Target customers**: B2B Enterprise (banks, hospitals, insurance companies, government agencies, real estate firms, retailers, hospitality) - **Mission or purpose statement**: To eliminate call centers, paperwork, and system duct-tape with Arabic-optimized AI that increases revenue, cuts costs, and scales operations. ## Products & Services - **Conversational AI (Voice & Chat)**: Inbound and outbound AI agents that handle calls, support, sales, debt collection, reminders, and scheduling in natural Arabic and English. Includes an in-app SDK for mobile embedding. - **Data & Document Intelligence**: Extracts and structures data from calls, documents, forms, transactions, and behavioral signals β€” including handwritten and digital Arabic/English content β€” in real time. - **Workflow Automation & System Integration**: Triggers actions (transfers, approvals, bookings, claims) across existing CRMs, core banking, EHR, billing, and messaging platforms without rip-and-replace. - **Decision Engine**: Uses full 360Β° customer context (transactions, app usage, call history) to route, recommend, and act autonomously. - **On-premise Deployment**: Available for secure infrastructure control. Also offers a forward-deployed team for localized support. - **Enterprise Support & SLAs**: Guaranteed uptime and dedicated support. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (unfunded/bootstrapped) - **Key Metric**: No public funding raised; operates as an unfunded bootstrapped company with 16 employees reported (schema data). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available; company claims to have worked with "leading banks, hospitals, and government agencies." - **Growth Signals**: Active hiring (engineering roles listed on Ashby careers page); targets regulated industries with SAMA-ready status and NCA/SDAIA compliance; serves financial services, healthcare, insurance, real estate, retail, and hospitality sectors. ## Competitive Advantages - **Arabic-first optimization**: Designed for natural Arabic dialects and accents, with understanding of regional business contexts β€” a significant moat vs. global competitors optimized primarily for English. - **Enterprise compliance**: SAMA-ready (Saudi Central Bank), and compliant with NCA & SDAIA frameworks with ECC & CCC audits available β€” a critical requirement for banking and government clients. - **Full-stack automation**: Combines voice AI, document intelligence, and workflow automation in one platform, not just a chatbot overlay. - **On-premise + forward-deployed**: Offers deployment options that satisfy strict data sovereignty and control requirements of Middle Eastern enterprises and government entities. ## Strategic Focus - Deepening vertical-specific solutions for financial services, insurance, healthcare, real estate, retail, and hospitality in Saudi Arabia and the broader Middle East. - Building on regulatory compliance (SAMA, NCA, SDAIA) to win government and banking contracts. - Growing the engineering team to scale product capabilities and maintain on-premise deployment quality. ## Why Work Here - **Engineering culture**: A global engineering team building AI tools from scratch, with a focus on Arabic NLP and enterprise-grade systems. - **Impactful mission**: Work on technology that directly replaces legacy call centers and manual processes in a rapidly digitizing region. - **Early-stage environment**: As an unfunded, bootstrapped company with 16 employees, team members likely enjoy high ownership, fast iteration, and broad scope of responsibility. - **Office/remote policy**: Not explicitly stated; headquarters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The blog references a "global engineering team," suggesting potential remote or hybrid flexibility. - **Notable perks**: Opportunity to work on SAMA/regulatory-grade systems, forward-deployed client engagements, and on-premise infrastructure β€” unusual depth for a startup of this size. ## Sources 1. [sarj.ai](https://www.sarj.ai/) 2. [sarj.ai/en](https://www.sarj.ai/en/) 3. [Sarj AI Jobs (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sarjai) 4. [Sarj AI Blog](https://blog.sarj.ai/) 5. 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