5 Government Ministries jobs in Qatar

About the team:

Scale is growing rapidly, and joining the International Public Sector team is an opportunity to work on one of the most rapidly expanding teams at Scale. This team is responsible for generating, executing, and fostering Scale's work outside of the United States. There are three core types of work involved:

• Building custom AI applications for government
• Providing high-quality training data for research institutions building LLMs from scratch
• Partnerships, upskilling, and advisory

About the role:

As the Engagement Manager, you will be responsible for establishing deep customer and prospect relationships, proactively identifying opportunities where Scale can build custom AI applications to improve lives for citizens and residents, overseeing the execution to ensure timelines are met and/or communicated effectively, interfacing with premier research institutions to discuss how Scale can best support them, and partnering with organizations who are looking to train and educate people on how to use AI, AI safety, and more.

You and your team will work closely with the business development and go-to-market team, the product and engineering execution teams, and various customers and prospects to ensure success.

The ideal candidate has a nose for value and opportunity, is highly personable and can build relationships with all types of stakeholders, is an excellent communicator, is highly organized, and has a demonstrated track record of high-achievement. They are naturally empathetic and excel at building long-term relationships through diligent problem-solving and thoughtful, strategic discussions.

The blend of customer engagement, operations, and business development to drive our most important outcomes makes this a unique and exciting role at the heart of one of Scale's most exciting growth businesses.

In the near term, the team will be based out of the Middle East and looking to meaningfully grow its presence in the region.

You will:

• Drive the process of identifying high-value use cases for custom LLMs that Scale can build within government entities
• Partner with clients to understand their most pressing problems and brainstorm how Scale can best help
• Manage the long-term health of clients by identifying and preempting areas of risk or concern
• Be the main point-of-contact for clients if they have any questions, issues, or concerns and triage accordingly
• Collaborate with the operational and engineering execution teams to track delivery and timelines
• Review, track and improve operational performances and be obsessed with continuous improvement
• Brainstorm with premier research institutions building Arabic LLMs how Scale can best support and/or ideas they should consider testing
• Have proficiency in reading, writing, and speaking in Arabic

Ideally you'd have:

• 4+ years of total work experience, with experience in consulting or as a technical program management role in industry
• Experience at a Big 3 Consulting Firm or a leading tech company
• A proven track record in B2B client facing roles and expanding client relationships
• Ability to understand APIs and the ML training lifecycle and build great relationships with technical customers
• Great cross-functional experience and collaborative ability
• Excellent verbal and written communications
• A track record of structured, analytics-driven problem solving
• A history of diligence and organization across multiple work streams
• An action-oriented mindset that balances creative problem solving with the scrappiness to ultimately deliver results
• Analytical, planning, and process improvement capability

PLEASE NOTE:
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.
About Us:
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, Cisco, DLA Piper, 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.
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.
We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation in the application or recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at Please see the United States Department of Labor's
Know Your Rights poster
for additional information.
We comply with the United States Department of Labor's
Pay Transparency provision
.
PLEASE NOTE:
We collect, retain and use personal data for our professional business purposes, including notifying you of job opportunities that may be of interest and sharing with our affiliates. We limit the personal data we collect to that which we believe is appropriate and necessary to manage applicants' needs, provide our services, and comply with applicable laws. Any information we collect in connection with your application will be treated in accordance with our internal policies and programs designed to protect personal data. Please see our privacy policy for additional information.

Mzad Qatar is the biggest marketplace platform in Qatar, connecting millions of users with classified listings, services, and businesses. We are expanding into government and public sector partnerships, and we're looking for a Strategic Business Development Manager who can lead this initiative and drive sustainable growth.

Role Overview

As a Strategic Business Development Manager – Public Sector, you will be responsible for driving partnerships, contracts, and revenue opportunities with government entities, ministries, and state-owned enterprises. You will lead the business development strategy, ensure compliance with procurement frameworks, and position Mzad Qatar as the preferred digital marketplace partner for the public sector.

Key Responsibilities

Develop and execute business development strategies targeting the public sector.

Identify and pursue tenders, RFPs, and government partnership opportunities.

Build and maintain strong relationships with ministries, agencies, and semi-government entities.

Drive contract negotiations, proposals, and deal closures.

Ensure compliance with Qatari procurement laws, public tender regulations, and government frameworks.

Collaborate with internal teams (sales, legal, finance, operations) to ensure seamless execution.

Represent Mzad Qatar at government meetings, exhibitions, and industry events.

Monitor market trends, competitors, and regulatory changes in the public sector.

Report on KPIs and strategic growth progress directly to senior leadership.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Public Administration, or related field (MBA preferred).

5–7 years' proven experience in business development or sales, with at least 3 years in the public sector in Qatar.

Strong network and relationships within Qatar's government and semi-government ecosystem.

Excellent knowledge of tendering, procurement, and compliance processes.

Arabic speaker (mandatory) and fluent in English.

Strong negotiation, presentation, and communication skills.

Ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines, and handle high-value deals.

What We Offer

Competitive salary + performance-based incentives.

Opportunity to work with Qatar's #1 digital marketplace.

Fast-track career growth within a rapidly expanding company.

A collaborative and entrepreneurial work environment.

If you are a driven professional with a passion for building government partnerships and driving strategic growth, we want to hear from you

Scale's rapidly growing International Public Sector team is focused on using AI to address critical challenges facing the public sector around the world. Our core work consists of:

• Creating custom AI applications that will impact millions of citizens
• Generating high-quality training data for national LLMs
• Upskilling and advisory services to spread the impact of AI

We are hiring a Machine Learning Engineer Manager who will manage a team of high-calibre MLEs who design, train, deploy, and evaluate computer vision and/or LLMs to power custom applications we build for our public sector clients. You will guide your team towards using data-driven experiments to provide key insights around model strengths and inefficiencies in an effort to improve products.

At Scale, we're not just building AI solutions—we're enabling the public sector to transform their operations and better serve citizens through cutting-edge technology. If you're ready to shape the future of AI in the public sector and be a founding member of our team, we'd love to hear from you.

You will:

• Train state of the art models, developed both internally and from the community, in production to solve problems for our enterprise customers.
• Manage a team of ML Engineers
• Work with product and research teams to identify opportunities for ongoing and upcoming services.
• Explore approaches that integrate human feedback and assisted evaluation into existing product lines.
• Create state of the art techniques to integrate tool-calling into production-serving LLMs.
• Work closely with customers - some of the most sophisticated ML organizations in the world - to quickly prototype and build new deep learning models targeted at multi-modal content understanding problems.

Ideally you'd have:

• At least 5 years of model training, deployment and maintenance experience in a production environment
• At least 5+ years of management or tech leadership experience
• Strong skills in NLP, LLMs and deep learning
• Solid background in algorithms, data structures, and object-oriented programming
• Experience working with a cloud technology stack (eg. AWS, GCP, or Azure) and developing machine learning models in a cloud environment
• Experience building products with LLMs including knowing the ins and outs of evaluation, experimentation, and designing solutions to get the most of the models
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to operate in a cross functional team environment

Nice to haves:

• Experience in dealing with large scale AI problems, ideally in the generative-AI field
• Demonstrated expertise in large vision-language models for diverse real-world applications, e.g. classification, detection, question-answering, etc.
• Published research in areas of machine learning at major conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, EMNLP, CVPR, etc.) and/or journals
• Strong high-level programming skills (e.g., Python), frameworks and tools such as DeepSpeed, Pytorch lightning, kubeflow, TensorFlow, etc.
• Fluent in Arabic

PLEASE NOTE:
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.
About Us:
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, Cisco, DLA Piper, 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.
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.
We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation in the application or recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at Please see the United States Department of Labor's
Know Your Rights poster
for additional information.
We comply with the United States Department of Labor's
Pay Transparency provision
.
PLEASE NOTE:
We collect, retain and use personal data for our professional business purposes, including notifying you of job opportunities that may be of interest and sharing with our affiliates. We limit the personal data we collect to that which we believe is appropriate and necessary to manage applicants' needs, provide our services, and comply with applicable laws. Any information we collect in connection with your application will be treated in accordance with our internal policies and programs designed to protect personal data. Please see our privacy policy for additional information.