Secretary-General of the Digital Cooperation Organization since November 27, 2020, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

She has been a founder of the WomenSpark Initiative since 2013, a Commissioner of the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development since January 2024, and a co-leader of the Edison Alliance for Digital Inclusion since November 2023, and a representative member of the Arab region on the High-Level Panel on Freedom of Transit for Landlocked Developing Countries (HLP-FoT) since October 2026.

She is considered the first Saudi woman to hold the position of Secretary-General of an international organization.

She is a member of the Board of Directors of:

• Saudi National Bank effective May 15, 2024.
• Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property since January 25, 2022.
• Saudi Federation for Cybersecurity, Programming and Drones since 2018.
• Saudi Artificial Intelligence Company "Sky" since 2022.

She has also been a member of the Venture Capital and Private Equity Association since 2020.

Previous memberships include:

• Board of Directors of Riyadh Financial Company between 2023 and 2024.
• Board of Directors of the King Abdullah Institute for Research and Consulting Studies from 2020 to 2023.
• Board Member of the Global Entrepreneurship Network from 2019 to 2023.
• The World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on the Digital Economy and Society, 2018-2020.

She founded ALMTD Consulting, a specialized firm that provides consulting services on digital innovation strategies, and served as a managing partner between 2019 and 2020. Al-Yahya also played a pivotal role in launching the Saudi Code initiative, which has trained more than 1.2 million beneficiaries in 190 Saudi cities.

She served as Chairwoman of Misk Innovation Company and Secretary-General of the National Digital Transformation Committee at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology from 2016 to 2017. She was also Acting CEO of the Digital Transformation Unit at the same ministry, Deputy Executive Director of Digital Innovation at Microsoft from 2010 to 2016, and Director of Electronic Services at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2009 to 2010.

She also worked as an E-Business Development Supervisor and an Internal and External Transactions Development Manager at the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul), a Senior Software Engineer for Electronic Services at the same market, and a Software Engineer for Electronic Services at Samba Financial Group between 2002 and 2004.

She has over 13 years of experience in the field of digital marketing.

She holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Information Systems from King Saud University . She has completed several graduate programs in executive education, business development, international business management, and financial management from INSEAD, in addition to completing the Leadership and Culture of Innovation and Disruptive Innovation: Strategies for Action program at Harvard Business School.