Zainab Al Alshaikh زينب آل الشيخ

Leading Mobility and Immigration for Saudi Arabia, with end-to-end accountability across advisory, compliance, and operational delivery. Responsible for shaping and executing mobility strategy in a highly dynamic regulatory environment, ensuring alignment with local requirements while enabling business growth. Driving governance, risk management, and process optimization across immigration and mobility operations, while acting as the primary escalation point for complex and business-critical cases. Partnering closely with HR, Legal, and business leadership, as well as external vendors, to deliver compliant, efficient, and scalable mobility solutions.

Led Amazon Saudi Arabia’s immigration function, driving the transformation of immigration operations, compliance, and government engagement across multiple entities in the Kingdom. Redesigned end-to-end mobility processes, reducing overall case SLA by over 50% while maintaining 100% customer satisfaction for more than 90% of the reporting period. Partnered closely with government authorities and internal stakeholders to navigate complex regulatory changes, resolve operational blockers, and support large-scale workforce mobility initiatives. Strengthened compliance frameworks, improved vendor performance and accountability, and successfully insourced key immigration workstreams, delivering significant cost savings while enhancing service quality and operational control. Supported Amazon’s rapid growth in Saudi Arabia through scalable immigration strategies, workforce planning, policy alignment, and the relocation of global talent into the Kingdom.

* Assisted staff with Mayor’s initiative city projects such as Youth Career Path Expo * Scheduled up to ten appointments daily through phone calls * Created draft letters and proclamations dealing with matters of great importance whether nationally like Martin Luther King Junior Day or locally like Go Cincinnati Day * Listened to constituent concerns and addressed them such as local residents complaining that their trash was not collected * Gained deeper familiarity with local political issues

Graduated April 2018

November 2018