Riyadh ALtayib
Digital Transformation | Gamification | Think Tanks | Startup Builder | Innovation Labs | R&D Expert
Saudi Arabia
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2018
Independent Consultant
2018
Offering business, services, & products design coaching and consultancy to some of the young promising tech startups in Saudi Arabia and the worldwide, aiding them from ideas validation research, surveys, final products design & development either software or hardware, commercialization, and running their business right. As well as offering gamification consultancy, user experience & engagement auditing services for existing softwares, products, startups and businesses workflows.
2022 - 2022
Interim Chief Technology Officer
2022 - 2022
Fare Focus is a startup focused on developing travel-tech solutions. Working as a B2B & B2G travel wholesaler offering 360° service covering all travel agencies, corporates, and government travel needs. Fare Focus is committed to facilitating the digital travel and tourism ecosystem, and offering a one-stop-shop solution through a simple, reliable, and user-friendly digital presence. The aim is to help more travel businesses to start and accelerate in MENA. Riyadh was asked to kick-start the digital and information technology department in overseeing and regulating technology design & development procedures, and its supporting activities.
2022 - 2022
Senior Digital Transformation Consultant
2022 - 2022
Working with a public company owned venture builder that aims to develop innovative ventures and investment opportunities with high growth potential in the Mobility industry. Riyadh was responsible for the change management and transitional phase of products built for them and offering insights and consultancy to its stakeholders and the assigned venture owners/CEOs over their ventures’ MVP and digital products. The ventures were catered to transportation and mobility industries on a wide scale of solutions for public transportation, supply chains, and logistics.
2020 - 2021
CIO
2020 - 2021
Technical Transformation Solutions company is the first non-profit organisation in the digital technology industry in Saudi Arabia with its vision to craft a digitally active social sector in Saudi Arabia and the MENA region. Riyadh is recruited with a responsibility to build the IT and digital department bottom-up and developing the internal digital and human capacities working on shifting the company's business model from being dependent on third-parties to become a true digital agency acting as a think-tank for socially-driven digital Products.
2019 - 2020
Digital Products and Services Senior Consultant
2019 - 2020
Agency: Government-Owned Company. Worked with the planning, products, & partnership department and the strategic partnership unit as a senior consultant for digital transformation delivering evidence-based decision-making analysis, reports, and recommendations to improve the strategic positioning of the organization as a leading innovation think-tank in Saudi Arabia and the MENA region.
2011 - 2018
Co-Founder, Board of Directors member
2011 - 2018
Solutions by 42, previously (Innosoft). At a young age while working with enthusiast partners, a creative digital think-tank and software company was founded focusing at the human interactions than just a quality of code. As I held many positions from tech to business that had secured me to build a profound pool of knowledge and experience preparing myself to take on challenges on a national level.
Regional Manager
2017 - 2018
Being responsible to expanding the business in Riyadh region focusing on establishing the first branch for Innosoft™ and build a strong relationship as a B2G software and data-mining services provider and establishing the first branch of Innosoft™ and acting as the government sector projects and quality assurance manager.
Innosoft™ Ventures Managing Director
2017 - 2018
As a young startup, it is usually found that the top management team are holding most of the action to steer their business in the right trajectory, and for this year’s responsibilities were to improve the company’s: (a) Manpower and internal capabilities; (b) Marketing and sales; (c) income streams via SAAS products. And support entrapreneurship mind-set within the organization's employees to come up with ideas or solutions to reduce a specific cost factor within, increase productivity, or create new revenue streams for Innosoft™.
Projects Management Officer
2015 - 2017
Through the accumulation of tech knowledge and deep understanding of the business I held multiple positions simultaneously over almost a three years period, in-order to build a strong base for each operational sector of Innosoft™ fulfilling the core of business which is considered to be those projects that Innosoft™ undertakes and deliver holding a position of PMO.
Chief Marketing Officer
2015 - 2017
Taking on a challenge to increment the expansion of Innosoft™ business in approaching larger markets and building a brand equity for the startup through targeted community building and social exposure in the eastern province market as well as the central region through a simple yet powerful strategies.
Lead UX and Customer Satisfaction
2015 - 2017
Innosoft™ has been recognized as one of the Saudi leading startups in the field of designing and implementing user experience & gamification services to both government and private sectors. All of the research, requirements & business validations, UX, gamification, user testing sessions, feedback, and services enhancements were managed by myself as the Lead UX and Customer Satisfaction.
Business Opportunities Estimation and Proposals Officer
2015 - 2017
In-charge of all commercial and contractual agreements with businesses and government sectors conducting business with Innosoft™ from opportunity study, evaluation to cost structuring.
Acting HR and Training Manager
2015 - 2017
Hiring process has always been the hidden challenge of any startup, even enterprises struggle at it, luckily we discovered a secret recipe to solve this and build one of the strongest teams at their field as I were assigned responsible at addressing this challenge systematically.
Quality Assurance Manager
2014 - 2014
During this one-year assignment the company had its utmost focus on improving internal business-cases, procedures and workflows by the integration between all the internal entities to assure offering high quality of work in the shortest possible time and speed up work needed. Though the job title has ended, it’s responsibilities were merged under future job roles as PMO.
Virtual Team Leader
2011 - 2014
Managing the responsibility of clients’ accounts and service satisfaction as well as offering the needed technical development, and quality assurance of delivered work while coordinating and aiding multiple team members in different specialties to offer tech-support, online-presence, web design and development services for businesses.
2006 - 2011
Freelance Web Designer/Developer
2006 - 2011
At the early days of internet introduction in Saudi Arabia, Riyadh was a strong promoter for the opportunities that lay within such technologies from his schools to commercial businesses Riyadh had designed and developed multiple websites, forums, business portfolios, and presentations.