Technical Account Manager

The role

Ridango is the software operating system of choice for public transportation providers globally, specialising in automated fare collection, real-time passenger information, vehicle location and tracking, employee apps, school transport, and data intelligence for local authorities, operators and passengers.

We're hiring a Technical Account Manager to represent our technology on the ground for one of our customers in Abu Dhabi, covering everything from acceptance and transition through warranty and into post-warranty operations and maintenance.

You'll be the technical focal point for the client authority, the transport operators, and local stakeholders on the ground, and the person accountable for service delivery, escalation ownership, and technical continuity once the system is live.

This is a hands-on, resident position. You'll be based in the region for the full duration, working across engineering, support, infrastructure, and local partners to keep the system running and the customer happy.

What the job actually involves:

• Acting as the single technical point of contact for the client, the operators, and local stakeholders on all technical matters within your system's scope.
• Owning service-level attainment and being accountable for it, not just reporting on it.
• Taking ownership of escalations and driving them through to resolution.
• Working with the Support & Configuration team, escalating to Engineering when issues need deeper technical help.
• Coordinating the resolution of critical and escalated tickets, and translating technical detail into language the customer can actually use.
• Collaborating with Support on customer satisfaction and SLA delivery, including ticket responses, updates, and resolutions within SLA.
• Working with Infrastructure to keep alerting and monitoring coverage complete, and proposing system improvements where you spot the opportunity.
• Delivering the agreed SLA to the customer, full stop.
• Managing local vendor relationships where a third party handles first-line, on-site support: giving them direction, checking their quality, and coordinating anything that needs a physical presence.

What we're looking for:

• Someone comfortable being the accountable name on technical service delivery, not just a contributor to it.
• Strong technical background in ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) or closely comparable transit technology, enough to hold your own with engineering and speak plainly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience owning escalations and SLAs, ideally in a customer-facing or transit-operations environment.
• Comfort managing third-party/vendor relationships and holding them to a standard.
• Willingness to relocate to and live in the region for the full duration of the role, with the ability to obtain local residency and labour permits.
• The steadiness to run continuity through acceptance, warranty, and into ongoing operations and maintenance. This isn't a short project, it's a resident post.
• Fluent English.

Good to have:

• Arabic language skills are a big plus.
• Prior experience in Abu Dhabi.
• Experience working within a prime-and-subcontractor delivery structure.
• ITIL-aligned service management background.

Ready to transform public transport with us? Apply now and let’s build the future together!