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THE STUDIO

<div>The Studio is part of Utopia Capital&rsquo;s integrated venture platform &mdash; combining AI-native venture building, capital, and shared infrastructure to help founders build faster and smarter. Every role here directly contributes to launching and scaling AI-native companies across the Global South, from idea to Series A.<h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
About The Studio</h1>
The Studio is an AI-native venture builder for the Global South, purpose-built to transform high-barrier problems into scalable, investable companies.
Partnering with domain experts &amp; high-agency founders from concept to Series A, it both builds new ventures and re-engineers existing ones for AI-driven growth.
Powered by UTOPIA OS &mdash; a modular, adaptive stack tailored to each venture &mdash; it compresses the path from concept to Series A to under 24 months.<h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
About the Role</h1>
We're looking for a Head of Venture Success &amp; Strategic Partnerships to make sure every founder and venture working with Utopia has an exceptional experience and makes real, measurable progress.
You&rsquo;ll be the operational bridge between our Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EIRs), portfolio companies, and the Studio team &mdash; ensuring founders get what they need to build faster and smarter.
You&rsquo;ll work closely with the Studio Directors, Founder&rsquo;s Associate, Marketing, Product, Design, and Talent teams to operationalize modular programs, track outcomes, and ensure every venture moves from insight to proof of value efficiently. You&rsquo;ll mentor and guide the Founder&rsquo;s Associate to ensure venture operations and founder support are aligned with portfolio outcomes.
That makes the leadership relationship explicit
You&rsquo;ll also lead how Utopia connects with its broader ecosystem &mdash; translating partnerships, market access, and capital relationships into tangible venture outcomes.
Reports to: Studio Directors
 
Growth path: Chief Commercial Officer / Chief Revenue Officer<h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
Responsibilities</h1><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Founder Enablement &amp; Venture Success</h3><ul><li>
Partner with the Studio Directors to deliver the end-to-end journey for EIRs - from Fellowship onboarding and POD matching through to spin-out.</li><li>
Build and maintain a strong founder pipeline across the GCC, Africa, and Southeast Asia &mdash; through partnerships, scouting programs, and regional events that attract and engage high-agency talent.</li><li>
Operate the support modules that help founders accelerate (go-to-market, capital readiness, technical integration, pilot design).</li><li>
Ensure every founder has a clear success plan with milestones, progress tracking, and measurable outcomes.</li><li>
Run workshops, sprints, and mentoring sessions that translate our playbooks into real venture traction.</li><li>
Design and refine founder capability-building programs &mdash; from entrepreneurial readiness to go-to-market execution &mdash; ensuring consistent, scalable founder development across cohorts.</li><li>
Capture and translate founder feedback into improvements in program design, venture playbooks, and Utopia OS workflows.</li></ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Portfolio Support &amp; Growth</h3><ul><li>
Work with leadership to ensure ventures hit key KPIs &mdash; concepts developed, proofs-of-concept launched, spin-outs secured.</li><li>
Monitor venture performance and proactively identify risks or bottlenecks &mdash; coordinating with product, design, and capital teams to course-correct early.</li><li>
Coordinate with our technical and design teams so ventures actually leverage Utopia OS effectively.</li><li>
Help ventures refine their business models, pilot strategies, and go-to-market plans</li><li>
Connect founders with strategic partners, customers, and investors across the GCC, Africa, and Southeast Asia.</li><li>
Facilitate and track venture introductions &mdash; ensuring they lead to real outcomes such as pilots, commercial contracts, or funding opportunities.</li><li>
Collaborate with leadership to convert promising pilots into scalable partnerships and spin-out success stories.</li></ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Ecosystem &amp; Partnership Management</h3><ul><li>
Identify, formalize, and manage strategic partnerships with corporates, universities, government programs, and investor networks that can accelerate venture validation, pilot design, and market access.</li><li>
Track and report how we deliver value across Middle East and non-Middle East ventures, surfacing learnings and partnership opportunities to Studio leadership.</li><li>
Coordinate between the Studio and our funds (A-typical Ventures and The Radical Fund) to ensure founders get aligned capital and support.</li><li>
Keep things aligned with Qatar Development Bank's strategic priorities and ecosystem goals.</li><li>
Represent The Studio at regional innovation forums, conferences, and ecosystem events to showcase venture outcomes and strengthen Utopia&rsquo;s regional presence.</li></ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Operations &amp; Reporting</h3><ul><li>
Build and maintain a live, AI-enhanced venture dashboard tracking founder progress, POD milestones, and portfolio KPIs in real time.</li><li>
Integrate automated data flows between Utopia OS, venture pods, and Studio systems to generate live insights on traction, risk, and capital readiness.</li><li>
Use AI models to surface venture health signals, predict timeline slippage, and identify where intervention or support is most needed.</li><li>
Create narrative and data-driven reports &mdash; venture success stories, quarterly updates, and board materials &mdash; that combine human context with AI-generated insight summaries.</li><li>
Partner with the ops and platform teams to embed predictive analytics and natural language reporting into Studio and Fund dashboards &mdash; ensuring leadership has continuous visibility into performance across ventures.</li><li>
Champion a data culture where every founder interaction, milestone, and learning is captured, structured, and made actionable through the Utopia OS system.</li></ul><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
Experience &amp; Skills</h1><ul><li>
7&ndash;10+ years in venture building, startup operations, or portfolio management (ideally in a studio, accelerator, or VC context)</li><li>
You've designed and delivered founder-facing programs, workshops, or playbooks before</li><li>
Strong understanding of early-stage company building &mdash; from idea validation to pilot to scale</li><li>
Experience managing cross-functional teams and getting stakeholders aligned around venture outcomes</li><li>
Excellent at communication and relationship-building with founders, corporates, and government partners</li><li>
Tech-savvy and data-driven &mdash; comfortable with CRM, analytics, and workflow tools</li><li>
Deep empathy for founders, combined with an operator's mindset and focus on execution</li><li>
Familiarity with AI, digital transformation, or innovation ecosystems in the Global South is essential</li><li>
Deep understanding of emerging market ecosystems &mdash; able to build trust and communicate effectively with founders and experts from emerging and frontier markets is essential</li><li>
Proven ability to work across cultural and regional contexts, balancing empathy with results</li></ul><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
Impact &amp; Success Metrics</h1><ul><li>
Founders progress predictably from onboarding to proof-of-concept and spin-out</li><li>
Support modules deliver measurable impact (faster GTM, stronger capital readiness, improved technical adoption)</li><li>
Founder satisfaction and engagement scores improve quarter-over-quarter</li><li>
Ecosystem partnerships lead to tangible outcomes (pilots, contracts, or funding)</li><li>
Portfolio data and insights are consistently captured and used to improve future cohorts</li><li>
Establish and scale a repeatable founder and partner engagement model across priority markets within the first 6&ndash;9 months</li></ul><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
Mindset &amp; Values</h1><ul><li>
Founder-obsessed: You measure your success by how well founders succeed with your support.</li><li>
Outcome-oriented: You care about progress toward product-market fit, revenue, and defensible advantages.</li><li>
Collaborative: You work seamlessly across tech, product, and capital teams with clarity and empathy.</li><li>
AI-native: You design, operate, and learn with AI as a core collaborator &mdash; using it to uncover insights, automate venture operations, and build compounding data advantages from day one.</li><li>
Builder mentality: You thrive in ambiguity and get energized by building systems from scratch.</li></ul><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
Why This Role Exists</h1>
You'll be the operational heartbeat behind the success of founders and ventures launching from Doha. Your work ensures that every EIR and portfolio company that enters the Utopia platform &mdash; whether through our Studio Fellowship or our funds &mdash; leaves stronger, faster, and investor-ready.
This is a rare chance to play a defining role in Qatar's growing innovation landscape, helping shape an integrated venture platform designed to export AI-native innovation from the Global South to the world.
You&rsquo;ll ensure that Utopia&rsquo;s founders, ventures, and partners form a cohesive, high-performing ecosystem &mdash; one that compounds learning, capital, and talent across markets.<h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
Who This Role Isn&rsquo;t Right For</h1>
If you prefer structured corporate environments, steady-state operations, or clear-cut playbooks, this won&rsquo;t be the right fit.
We move fast, build in public, and operate with a high degree of autonomy and ambiguity.
If you&rsquo;d rather manage existing programs than design and improve them, or if coordinating across product, capital, and ecosystem partners feels overwhelming, this role will frustrate you.
If you&rsquo;re uncomfortable engaging directly with founders, solving problems on the fly, or being accountable for measurable venture outcomes, this isn&rsquo;t your environment.<h3 class="jobSectionHeader"> 
</h3><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">What You Can Expect</h1><ul><li>
Meaningful Impact: Your work directly contributes to building the core infrastructure behind a new generation of ventures - enabling equitable, AI-native innovation across the Global South.</li><li>
Collaborative Culture: We thrive on openness, curiosity, and collective intelligence. Everyone has a voice, and decisions are made transparently.</li><li>
Growth Mindset: From AI learning and use budgets to mentorship, we invest in your development and help you grow beyond your comfort zone.</li><li>
Competitive Rewards: Tax-free compensation, private health, travel insurance and flexible hybrid setup.</li><li>
Work-Life Integration: Office lunches twice a week, great snacks, and team meetups that keep energy and connection high.</li><li>
Global Exposure: Occasional travel across Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Middle East for meaningful, on-ground collaboration with venture teams.</li><li>
Inclusive by Design: We celebrate diversity and are committed to building an environment where everyone belongs.</li></ul><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
The Utopia Platform Advantage</h1>
The Studio is part of Utopia Capital&rsquo;s integrated venture platform designed to solve the biggest friction points in emerging market venture creation.
Most founders face a broken journey: they struggle to build with limited resources, chase capital across disconnected investors, and lack the infrastructure to scale across regions. We've built a different system.
The Studio co-builds ventures with domain experts using AI-native infrastructure, compressing the path from concept to product. The Radical Fund and A-typical Ventures provide fast, aligned capital from pre-seed through Series A, removing fundraising friction at every stage. And Utopia OS &mdash; our shared technical backbone &mdash; gives every venture access to the same tools, data systems, and regional networks that would normally take years and millions to build.
This means founders can focus on solving real problems while we handle the build infrastructure, capital coordination, and cross-regional expansion. It's a compounding system: each venture we build makes the next one faster, smarter, and more capital-efficient. That's the platform advantage that you will be part of and contribute to, purpose-built for the complexity of the Global South.
We believe innovation should be inclusive and globally distributed. Our team is built on openness, curiosity, and collaboration &mdash; with people from across the GCC, Africa, and Southeast Asia working together to build meaningful ventures.
All roles are based in Doha, Qatar, with flexible hybrid options and global travel opportunities. We welcome talent from every background to join us in shaping the future of AI-native innovation.
Compensation Range: $100K - $130K</div>

Head of Venture Success & Strategic Partnerships

<div>The Studio is part of Utopia Capital&rsquo;s integrated venture platform &mdash; combining AI-native venture building, capital, and shared infrastructure to help founders build faster and smarter. Every role here directly contributes to launching and scaling AI-native companies across the Global South, from idea to Series A.<h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
About The Studio</h1>
The Studio is an AI-native venture builder for the Global South, purpose-built to transform high-barrier problems into scalable, investable companies.
Partnering with domain experts &amp; high-agency founders from concept to Series A, it both builds new ventures and re-engineers existing ones for AI-driven growth.
Powered by UTOPIA OS &mdash; a modular, adaptive stack tailored to each venture &mdash; it compresses the path from concept to Series A to under 24 months.<h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
About the Role</h1>
We're hiring a Marketing &amp; Communications Lead to own the Studio's brand narrative and ecosystem presence &mdash; across content, communications, events, and storytelling.
You'll define how Utopia Studio and the broader platform show up in the world &mdash; from founder stories and media coverage to ecosystem partnerships and events. You're part brand architect, part storyteller, and part community builder.
This is a strategic and hands-on role. You'll focus on what&rsquo;s essential to build credibility and visibility while working with trusted agencies and freelancers for PR, design, and production.
Reports to: Studio Directors (with a dotted line to the Managing Partner on fund and platform-related communications)
 
Growth path: Head of Brand &amp; Ecosystem / Chief Marketing Officer<h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
Responsibilities</h1><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Brand &amp; Communications Strategy</h3><ul><li>
Develop and evolve The Studio and Utopia brands, keeping them consistent across ventures, partners, and media</li><li>
Lead our overall communications strategy &mdash; focusing on high-impact narratives, ecosystem storytelling, and founder visibility</li><li>
Translate complex AI, product, and venture ideas into human, compelling stories</li><li>
Manage agencies and freelancers for design, PR, and content execution</li><li>
Ensure every message reinforces our mission of making Doha the launchpad for AI-native innovation</li></ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Content Creation &amp; Storytelling</h3><ul><li>
Ghostwrite and edit founder stories, venture updates, and thought leadership pieces for investors, founders, and partners</li><li>
Oversee Intersections &mdash; The Studio&rsquo;s content journal and podcast &mdash; documenting people, ideas, and breakthroughs shaping AI-native innovation</li><li>
Create a cohesive multi-format content rhythm (articles, short videos, newsletters, digital campaigns) to drive awareness and inbound interest</li><li>
Employ AI-powered asset generation (text, video, audio) and automated campaign variants to power high-velocity storytelling across ventures and regions.</li><li>
Optimise Utopia&rsquo;s content for generative AI platforms (LLMs, chat bots, voice assistants) so our brand and venture stories are surfaced in AI-driven discovery paths.</li></ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Events, PR &amp; Ecosystem Engagement</h3><ul><li>
Lead Utopia&rsquo;s presence at major ecosystem events (Web Summit Qatar, LEAP, regional innovation forums)</li><li>
Coordinate Studio-hosted events like founder salons, and ecosystem showcases - supported by event partners and agencies</li><li>
Build relationships with journalists, ecosystem enablers, and thought leaders to secure meaningful coverage</li><li>
Partner with QDB and other key stakeholders on joint campaigns that highlight the region&rsquo;s innovation stories</li></ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Platform &amp; Community Marketing</h3><ul><li>
Support communication alignment across Utopia&rsquo;s pillars &mdash; Funds, OS, and Studio</li><li>
Ensure a cohesive narrative that connects venture success, platform growth, and regional positioning</li><li>
Design scalable community initiatives (newsletters, collaborations, online communities) that keep the ecosystem engaged</li><li>
Build and execute a &ldquo;segment-of-one&rdquo; content strategy: using AI models to personalise outreach, community prompts and engagement for individual founders, partners, and investors.</li><li>
Use automated listening and social intelligence tools (AI-powered) to monitor ecosystem sentiment, detect opportunities/trends, and feed insights into venture positioning.</li></ul><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
Impact &amp; Success Metrics</h1><ul><li>
Intersections and Utopia storytelling gain recognition across the GCC, Southeast Asia, and Africa</li><li>
Studio and platform milestones achieve consistent coverage and inbound traction (EIRs, partners, investors)</li><li>
Doha&rsquo;s positioning as a hub for AI-native founders and innovation is recognized regionally</li><li>
PR and media placements reinforce Studio credibility and thought leadership</li><li>
Balanced strategic vs. executional delivery through effective use of agency support</li><li>
Measurable lift in brand-visibility within AI-driven discovery environments (LLMs, chat engines) and increased inbound founder/partner interest via AI-optimised content.</li></ul><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
Experience &amp; Skills</h1><ul><li>
5+ years in marketing, brand, communications, or ecosystem roles (preferably in startups, venture, or innovation ecosystems)</li><li>
Strong experience shaping and executing integrated brand and communications strategies</li><li>
Skilled writer and editor &mdash; able to translate complex or technical ideas into clear narratives</li><li>
Experience collaborating with agencies (PR, design, events) and managing multiple stakeholders</li><li>
Strategic yet hands-on &mdash; you can plan campaigns and roll up your sleeves to execute when needed</li><li>
Familiarity with AI tools for content, design, and analytics is a plus</li><li>
Experience implementing GEO (generative engine optimisation) strategies &mdash; optimising brand content for AI/LLM-driven discovery and citation.</li><li>
Proven ability to deploy AI-powered marketing tools for scalable content creation (e.g., AIGC video generation, automated social posts, variant testing).</li><li>
Data-driven marketer: strong comfort setting up and interpreting real-time dashboards, lead scoring, behavioural segmentation, and rapid campaign iteration.</li></ul><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
Mindset &amp; Values</h1><ul><li>
Story-first operator: You turn insight and proof into compelling presence.</li><li>
Ecosystem builder: You see marketing as a way to connect communities, not just promote ventures.</li><li>
AI-native communicator: You use AI tools to enhance storytelling, speed, and brand agility.</li><li>
Collaborator: You align brand, growth, and venture outcomes through clear, cross-functional communication.</li><li>
Regional advocate: You believe the Global South can lead in innovation and storytelling.</li><li>
AI-native marketer: You think of your stack, channels and community as systems &mdash; not just campaigns &mdash; and use AI to amplify your reach, not replace your voice.</li></ul><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
Why This Role Exists</h1>
You&rsquo;ll define how The Studio and the broader Utopia platform communicate their mission to the world &mdash; crafting the stories, events, and partnerships that make Doha synonymous with AI-native innovation.
Your work will shape perception, build trust, and connect founders, investors, and partners in the Utopia ecosystem.<h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
Who This Role Isn&rsquo;t Right For</h1>
If you prefer large teams, narrow scopes, or rigid processes, this isn&rsquo;t the role for you.
We move fast, operate lean, and balance strategy with execution &mdash; often switching between storytelling, production, and ecosystem building in the same week.<h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
What You Can Expect</h1><ul><li>
Meaningful Impact: Your work directly contributes to building the core infrastructure behind a new generation of ventures - enabling equitable, AI-native innovation across the Global South.</li><li>
Collaborative Culture: We thrive on openness, curiosity, and collective intelligence. Everyone has a voice, and decisions are made transparently.</li><li>
Growth Mindset: From AI learning and use budgets to mentorship, we invest in your development and help you grow beyond your comfort zone.</li><li>
Competitive Rewards: Tax-free compensation, private health, travel insurance and flexible hybrid setup.</li><li>
Work-Life Integration: Office lunches twice a week, great snacks, and team meetups that keep energy and connection high.</li><li>
Global Exposure: Occasional travel across Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Middle East for meaningful, on-ground collaboration with venture teams.</li><li>
Inclusive by Design: We celebrate diversity and are committed to building an environment where everyone belongs.</li><li>
Early experimentation and learning budget for AI-martech tools: you&rsquo;ll pilot next-gen content systems (video generation, GEO tooling, community AI bots) as part of your role.</li></ul><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
The Utopia Platform Advantage</h1>
The Studio is part of Utopia Capital&rsquo;s integrated venture platform designed to solve the biggest friction points in emerging market venture creation.
Most founders face a broken journey: they struggle to build with limited resources, chase capital across disconnected investors, and lack the infrastructure to scale across regions. We've built a different system.
The Studio co-builds ventures with domain experts using AI-native infrastructure, compressing the path from concept to product. The Radical Fund and A-typical Ventures provide fast, aligned capital from pre-seed through Series A, removing fundraising friction at every stage. And Utopia OS &mdash; our shared technical backbone &mdash; gives every venture access to the same tools, data systems, and regional networks that would normally take years and millions to build.
This means founders can focus on solving real problems while we handle the build infrastructure, capital coordination, and cross-regional expansion. It's a compounding system: each venture we build makes the next one faster, smarter, and more capital-efficient. That's the platform advantage that you will be part of and contribute to, purpose-built for the complexity of the Global South.
We believe innovation should be inclusive and globally distributed. Our team is built on openness, curiosity, and collaboration &mdash; with people from across the GCC, Africa, and Southeast Asia working together to build meaningful ventures.
All roles are based in Doha, Qatar, with flexible hybrid options and global travel opportunities. We welcome talent from every background to join us in shaping the future of AI-native innovation.
Compensation Range: $60K - $90K</div>

Marketing & Comms Lead — Brand & Ecosystem

<div>The Studio is part of Utopia Capital&rsquo;s integrated venture platform &mdash; combining AI-native venture building, capital, and shared infrastructure to help founders build faster and smarter. Every role here directly contributes to launching and scaling AI-native companies across the Global South, from idea to Series A.<h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
About The Studio</h1>
Utopia Studio is an AI-native venture builder for the Global South, backed by Qatar Development Bank. We work with domain experts across the GCC, Southeast Asia, and Africa to accelerate venture creation through AI-driven execution and shared infrastructure.
At the core is Utopia OS &mdash; a modular platform that automates what's repeatable, embeds AI agents across workflows, and lets learning compound across ventures.<h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
About the Role</h1>
We're looking for a founding product engineer to build the platform and infrastructure side of Utopia OS. You&rsquo;ll design, develop, and scale the shared systems, data pipelines, and full-stack applications that power dozens of AI-native ventures launching from Doha for the Global South.
You&rsquo;ll combine deep backend expertise with the ability to deliver seamless, data-driven web experiences that make AI-native venture building faster and smarter.
You will work as part of a product trio with the Design Lead and the Rapid Prototyping Engineer, making joint decisions on discovery, scope, and technical approach.
Reports to: Studio Director 
Growth path: Head of AI Platform / CTO track<h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
Responsibilities</h1><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Platform Engineering &amp; Infrastructure</h3><ul><li>
Architect, build, and maintain Utopia OS infrastructure: auth, data systems, deployment, monitoring, analytics</li><li>
Develop full-stack web apps and plugins for studio-wide decisioning and analytics</li><li>
Build and maintain data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and deployment across all ventures</li><li>
Develop and maintain robust backend systems and APIs, integrating modern databases (Postgres, Supabase, PlanetScale) and data architectures (Iceberg, Delta Lake).</li><li>
Implement data pipelines and transformation workflows (Dagster, Airflow) to enable real-time analytics across ventures.</li><li>
Create clear, reusable documentation and internal tooling to standardize engineering practices across the platform.</li><li>
Take early-stage products and harden them for scale, reliability, and compliance.</li><li>
Collaborate with design and product teams to translate data and infrastructure capabilities into intuitive user experiences and venture-facing tools.</li><li>
Implement CI/CD, observability, and security frameworks across the portfolio</li><li>
Design deployment templates for multi-tenant environments and enterprise integrations</li></ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Collaboration &amp; Engineering Excellence</h3><ul><li>
Work closely with venture teams to integrate AI workflows and shared infrastructure</li><li>
Improve developer experience through modern, intuitive tool design</li><li>
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers and fellows &mdash; fostering a culture of learning, experimentation, and shared standards across the Studio.</li><li>
Document architecture, standards, and playbooks so they can be reused across the studio</li><li>
Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both engineering and non-technical stakeholders &mdash; turning systems thinking into shared understanding.</li><li>
Stay current with advances in generative AI, data infrastructure, and modern web engineering</li><li>
Work in a tight loop with the Design Lead on design system needs and with the Rapid Prototyping Engineer to productionize validated prototypes into secure, scalable services.</li><li>
Co-own technical discovery with the product trio: define evaluation plans, success metrics, and risks before committing to builds.</li><li>
You&rsquo;ll also help the team build shared capabilities typically owned by dedicated functions &mdash; like LLMOps, Data Engineering, and Security &mdash; but in a lean, integrated way.</li><li>
That means establishing lightweight evaluation pipelines, data ingestion templates, and security practices that can scale across multiple ventures without extra overhead.</li><li>
These foundations will later evolve into formalized systems as Utopia grows.</li><li>
We operate as a compact, AI-native core team &mdash; covering product, design, and engineering end-to-end.</li><li>
Each of us contributes to early foundations in areas like evaluation, data, research, and security, ensuring the platform scales responsibly without added layers or headcount.</li></ul><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
Experience &amp; Skills</h1><ul><li>
Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field</li><li>
4&ndash;8 years in full-stack and backend development (startup or AI context preferred)</li><li>
Strong with modern frameworks (React, Vue, Angular, Next.js, SvelteKit) and backend systems (Postgres, Supabase, PlanetScale)</li><li>
Experience with data pipelines (Dagster, Airflow) and modern data lakes (Iceberg, Delta Lake)</li><li>
Experience designing data-driven applications &mdash; integrating analytics and visualization into user-facing tools.</li><li>
Comfortable with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines</li><li>
Strong documentation and communication skills &mdash; you can explain complex systems clearly</li></ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Technical Foundations</h3><ul><li>
Strong in full-stack development, with expertise in at least one modern front-end framework (React, Svelte, Vue, Angular, or Next.js)</li><li>
Experienced with backend systems, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure (Postgres, Supabase, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes)</li><li>
Comfortable developing and deploying in hybrid environments, with CI/CD, monitoring, and observability best practices</li><li>
Familiar with data lake architectures (Delta Lake, Iceberg) and workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster)</li></ul><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
Impact &amp; Success Metrics</h1><ul><li>
Accelerate venture build cycles through reusable systems and faster deployment</li><li>
Improve infrastructure reliability and security across ventures</li><li>
Reduce duplication and increase code reuse across the Studio platform</li><li>
Enable measurable improvements in venture launch speed, uptime, and developer experience</li></ul><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
Mindset &amp; Values</h1><ul><li>
Systems + Empathy: You balance deep backend expertise with product intuition and user empathy.</li><li>
AI as collaborator: You build infrastructure that learns, adapts, and improves through automation and AI augmentation.</li><li>
Outcome focus: You optimize for speed, reliability, and measurable business value across all ventures.</li><li>
Continuous learning: You're always exploring new frameworks, architectures, and AI tools that make engineering smarter and more efficient.</li></ul><h1 class="jobSectionHeader"> 
</h1><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">What You Can Expect</h1><ul><li>
Meaningful Impact: Your work directly contributes to building the core infrastructure behind a new generation of ventures - enabling equitable, AI-native innovation across the Global South.</li><li>
Collaborative Culture: We thrive on openness, curiosity, and collective intelligence. Everyone has a voice, and decisions are made transparently.</li><li>
Growth Mindset: From AI learning and use budgets to mentorship, we invest in your development and help you grow beyond your comfort zone.</li><li>
Competitive Rewards: Tax-free compensation, private health and travel insurance, and a benefits package designed for both security and flexibility.</li><li>
Wellbeing First: Generous PTO, flexible hybrid setup, and wellness programs to help you stay balanced.</li><li>
Work-Life Integration: Office lunches twice a week, great snacks, and team meetups that keep energy and connection high.</li><li>
Global Exposure: Occasional travel across Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Middle East for meaningful, on-ground collaboration with venture teams.</li><li>
Inclusive by Design: We celebrate diversity and are committed to building an environment where everyone belongs.</li></ul><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
Why This Role Matters</h1>
You'll be building the operating system for AI-native venture creation &mdash; the foundation that founders across the Global South will use to build the next generation of companies.
Your work will power Utopia OS and enable innovation aligned with Qatar's Vision 2030 for a digital, knowledge-based economy.
Your work will accelerate venture build time and reduce technical duplication across the Studio &mdash; measurable through faster deployment cycles, improved reliability, and reusable systems.<h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
Who This Role Isn&rsquo;t Right For</h1>
If you prefer working in rigid environments, or need fully defined specs before shipping, this may not be the right fit.
We move fast, operate with high trust, and expect engineers to take ownership from architecture through to production.<h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
The Utopia Platform Advantage</h1>
The Studio is part of Utopia Capital&rsquo;s integrated venture platform designed to solve the biggest friction points in emerging market venture creation.
Most founders face a broken journey: they struggle to build with limited resources, chase capital across disconnected investors, and lack the infrastructure to scale across regions. We've built a different system.
The Studio co-builds ventures with domain experts using AI-native infrastructure, compressing the path from concept to product. The Radical Fund and A-typical Ventures provide fast, aligned capital from pre-seed through Series A, removing fundraising friction at every stage. And Utopia OS &mdash; our shared technical backbone &mdash; gives every venture access to the same tools, data systems, and regional networks that would normally take years and millions to build.
This means founders can focus on solving real problems while we handle the build infrastructure, capital coordination, and cross-regional expansion. It's a compounding system: each venture we build makes the next one faster, smarter, and more capital-efficient. That's the platform advantage that you will be part of and contribute to, purpose-built for the complexity of the Global South.
We believe innovation should be inclusive and globally distributed. Our team is built on openness, curiosity, and collaboration &mdash; with people from across the GCC, Africa, and Southeast Asia working together to build meaningful ventures.
All roles are based in Doha, Qatar, with flexible hybrid options and global travel opportunities. We welcome talent from every background to join us in shaping the future of AI-native innovation.
Compensation Range: $80K - $120K</div>

Founding Product Engineer — Venture Platform & Infrastructure

Link x Talent

<div>
 
 We are representing a leading global investment and real-estate development platform focused on large-scale, mixed-use projects linked to sports, entertainment, and lifestyle destinations.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Job Title: Head of Business Development &ndash; MENA
 
 
 
 
 Location:
 
 MENA (preferred base: Doha, Riyadh, Dubai or Abu Dhabi)
 
 
 
 Reports to:
 
 Founder
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Function:
 
 Senior leadership role responsible for driving growth, partnerships, capital formation, and entity establishment across the MENA region for a global investment and real-estate development platform focused on large-scale, mixed-use projects linked to sports, entertainment, and lifestyle destinations.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Role Purpose
 
 
 
 The Head of Business Development &ndash; MENA will lead the regional expansion strategy, overseeing commercial origination, capital raising, and the establishment of a new MENA entity. This executive will identify, structure, and secure landmark development and investment opportunities while also building the regional business infrastructure &mdash; from licensing and governance setup to strategic partnerships and capital syndication. The ideal candidate will combine deep regional market knowledge with proven experience in corporate formation, deal origination, and sovereign-capital relationships.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Key Responsibilities
 
 
 
 
 Strategic &amp; Commercial Leadership
 
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 Define and implement the MENA business development and growth strategy aligned with global investment priorities.
 </li>
 <li>
 Identify, originate, and structure large-scale mixed-use and sports/entertainment-related real-estate developments across the region.
 </li>
 <li>
 Build and maintain relationships with key regional stakeholders &mdash; governments, sovereign wealth funds, institutional investors, developers, and venue operators.
 </li>
 <li>
 Negotiate and structure high-value commercial agreements, joint ventures, PPPs, and master-planning partnerships.
 </li>
 <li>
 Lead cross-functional collaboration with internal investment, legal, finance, and development teams to ensure deal integrity and execution.
 </li>
 <li>
 Anticipate and interpret macroeconomic, political, and sectoral trends to guide strategic decisions.
 </li>
 <li>
 Represent the organization at senior-level meetings, investment forums, and regional conferences.
 </li>
 </ul>
 
 
 
 
 
 Capital Raising &amp; Investor Relations
 
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 Lead capital-formation efforts across MENA, raising funds from sovereign wealth funds, institutional investors, family offices, and government-related entities.
 </li>
 <li>
 Develop and deliver targeted investment propositions aligned with the mandates of regional sovereign funds (e.g., PIF, QIA, ADIA, Mubadala, Mumtalakat).
 </li>
 <li>
 Build long-term relationships with sovereign and institutional investors to secure recurring capital participation.
 </li>
 <li>
 Collaborate with global finance and investment teams to structure co-investments, fund vehicles, and joint ventures.
 </li>
 <li>
 Oversee the preparation of detailed investor materials, financial models, and term sheets.
 </li>
 <li>
 Manage the entire investor-relations lifecycle &mdash; from initial engagement to post-close reporting and partnership management.
 </li>
 <li>
 Support ongoing governance and transparency standards to maintain institutional credibility.
 </li>
 </ul>
 
 
 
 
 
 Entity Creation &amp; Regional Setup
 
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 Lead the full establishment of the MENA regional entity, including strategy, licensing, corporate structure, and operational framework.
 </li>
 <li>
 Oversee all regulatory and legal filings required to register and operationalize the entity in compliance with local jurisdictional requirements (e.g., QFC, DIFC, ADGM, or national company laws).
 </li>
 <li>
 Design and implement the organizational structure, governance framework, and financial systems for the regional entity.
 </li>
 <li>
 Manage the appointment and coordination of legal, financial, and administrative advisors to ensure efficient setup.
 </li>
 <li>
 Develop local operational policies, compliance protocols, and reporting structures in alignment with global standards.
 </li>
 <li>
 Lead the hiring and onboarding of key personnel, ensuring the entity has the talent, resources, and capabilities to execute its strategic plan.
 </li>
 <li>
 Establish local banking relationships, investor onboarding procedures, and capital flow mechanisms.
 </li>
 <li>
 Prepare the long-term business plan and P&amp;L projections for the new entity, including revenue, cost, and capital targets.
 </li>
 <li>
 Serve as the authorized representative for regional authorities, partners, and investors during the establishment and initial operating phase.
 </li>
 </ul>
 
 
 
 
 
 Pipeline Development &amp; Execution
 
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 Build and manage a high-value regional pipeline of investment and development opportunities.
 </li>
 <li>
 Oversee due diligence, feasibility, and financial assessment processes to ensure quality deal flow.
 </li>
 <li>
 Ensure deals are structured to meet internal risk-return thresholds and compliance requirements.
 </li>
 <li>
 Deliver transparent pipeline reporting, tracking key metrics such as project value, stage, capital requirement, and IRR targets.
 </li>
 <li>
 Coordinate with global and regional teams to align local projects with the company&rsquo;s strategic investment themes.
 </li>
 </ul>
 
 
 
 
 
 Leadership &amp; Collaboration
 
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 Recruit, mentor, and lead a regional business-development and capital-formation team.
 </li>
 <li>
 Foster a culture of integrity, accountability, innovation, and high performance.
 </li>
 <li>
 Build strong alignment and knowledge sharing between the MENA region and global corporate offices.
 </li>
 <li>
 Maintain productive partnerships with consultants, advisors, and regulatory bodies.
 </li>
 <li>
 Act as a regional ambassador, representing the organization&rsquo;s brand and strategic mission across MENA.
 </li>
 </ul>
 
 
 
 
 
 Experience
 
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 10&ndash;15 years of progressive experience in business development, investment origination, or capital markets within real estate, infrastructure, or private equity sectors.
 </li>
 <li>
 Proven track record in establishing new entities or regional offices, including managing legal registration, licensing, and operational readiness.
 </li>
 <li>
 Demonstrated success in raising institutional and sovereign capital, with deal values exceeding USD 500 million.
 </li>
 <li>
 Deep network across MENA governments, sovereign funds, institutional investors, and developers.
 </li>
 <li>
 Proven ability to manage complex negotiations, structure high-value transactions, and oversee cross-border execution.
 </li>
 <li>
 Strong understanding of regional business environments, including QFC, DIFC, ADGM, and KSA regulatory frameworks.
 </li>
 <li>
 Strong commercial and financial acumen with understanding of IRR, NPV, and deal modeling fundamentals.
 </li>
 <li>
 Exceptional stakeholder management and C-suite engagement capabilities.
 </li>
 <li>
 Strategic thinker with an entrepreneurial and execution-driven mindset.
 </li>
 <li>
 Effective communicator with outstanding presentation and negotiation skills.
 </li>
 <li>
 Fluent in English; Arabic proficiency strongly preferred.
 </li>
 <li>
 High level of integrity, discretion, and political sensitivity.
 </li>
 <li>
 Bachelor&rsquo;s degree in Business, Real Estate, Finance, or related discipline; MBA or advanced qualification preferred.
 </li>
 <li>
 Willingness to travel extensively across the region and internationally.
 </li>
 <li>
 Comfortable leading both strategic initiatives and hands-on execution in a growth-stage environment.
 </li>
 </ul>
 
 
</div>

Head of Business Development - MENA

Management Solutions International (MSI)

<div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Location</div></div>
<div><div>Doha, Qatar</div></div>
</div></div></div><div></div><div><div><div><div><div>Experience</div></div>
<div><div>5-10</div></div>
</div></div></div><div></div><div><div><div><div><div>Job Type</div></div>
<div><div>Recruitment</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
 <div><div><div>Job Description
</div></div><div>Job Title: Finance Consultant
Mandatory: Experience within the oil and gas, energy, or petrochemical industry 

Key Responsibilities:
<ul><li>Conduct comprehensive financial analysis for ongoing and new oil &amp; gas projects, including feasibility studies, ROI, and sensitivity analyses.</li></ul>
<ul><li>Support capital budgeting, project financing, and investment appraisals aligned with the company&rsquo;s strategic goals.</li></ul>
<ul><li>Develop and maintain detailed financial models for exploration, production, and infrastructure projects.</li></ul>
<ul><li>Monitor and report on financial performance, budget variances, and cost efficiency across departments.</li></ul>
<ul><li>Advise on risk mitigation strategies, taxation implications, and financial controls specific to the energy industry.</li></ul>
<ul><li>Evaluate joint ventures, partnerships, and M&amp;A opportunities, providing detailed financial due diligence.</li></ul>
<ul><li>Assist in preparing management reports, board presentations, and financial forecasts.</li></ul>
<ul><li>Ensure compliance with Qatar&rsquo;s tax laws, energy regulations, and IFRS standards.</li></ul>
<ul><li>Collaborate with internal audit, procurement, and operations teams to align financial processes with corporate strategy.</li></ul>
<ul><li>Provide insights on commodity price trends, currency fluctuations, and macroeconomic factors impacting profitability.</li></ul>
________________________________________
Qualifications &amp; Skills:
Education:
<ul><li>Bachelor&rsquo;s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or Business Administration.</li></ul>
<ul><li>Master&rsquo;s degree or MBA in Finance is preferred.</li></ul>
<ul><li>Professional certifications such as CPA, CMA, CFA, or ACCA are highly desirable.</li></ul>
Experience:
<ul><li>Minimum 5&ndash;10 years of experience in corporate finance, management consulting, or financial planning within the oil and gas, energy, or petrochemical sectors.</li></ul>
<ul><li>Strong knowledge of project finance, joint venture accounting, and cost allocation models.</li></ul>
<ul><li>Experience in financial modeling, investment analysis, and ERP/BI tools (SAP, Oracle, Power BI).</li></ul>
Technical Skills:
<ul><li>Proficiency in advanced Excel modeling and financial analytics.</li></ul>
<ul><li>Working knowledge of IFRS and Qatar&rsquo;s financial and tax regulations.</li></ul>
<ul><li>Familiarity with upstream/downstream operations, production sharing agreements (PSA), and cost recovery mechanisms.</li></ul>
Soft Skills:
<ul><li>Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills.</li></ul>
<ul><li>Excellent communication and presentation abilities.</li></ul>
<ul><li>Ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and senior management.</li></ul>
<ul><li>High integrity, attention to detail, and results-oriented mindset.</li></ul>
________________________________________
Key Competencies:
<ul><li>Strategic Financial Planning</li></ul>
<ul><li>Project Evaluation &amp; Investment Appraisal</li></ul>
<ul><li>Cost Control &amp; Performance Management</li></ul>
<ul><li>Risk &amp; Compliance Management</li></ul>
<ul><li>Energy Market Awareness</li></ul></div></div>

Finance Consultant

<div>The Studio is part of Utopia Capital&rsquo;s integrated venture platform &mdash; combining AI-native venture building, capital, and shared infrastructure to help founders build faster and smarter. Every role here directly contributes to launching and scaling AI-native companies across the Global South, from idea to Series A.<h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
About The Studio</h1>
The Studio is an AI-native venture builder for the Global South, purpose-built to transform high-barrier problems into scalable, investable companies.
Partnering with domain experts &amp; high-agency founders from concept to Series A, it both builds new ventures and re-engineers existing ones for AI-driven growth.
Powered by UTOPIA OS &mdash; a modular, adaptive stack tailored to each venture &mdash; it compresses the path from concept to Series A to under 24 months.<h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
About the Role</h3>
We're looking for an AI-native product engineer who can bridge engineering, product, and design. You&rsquo;ll take a domain expert&rsquo;s insight and turn it into working AI solutions that people actually want to use.
You&rsquo;ll own the early build cycle: prototype fast, test with real users, and iterate quickly. You&rsquo;ll be building with AI, not just using it &mdash; orchestrating agents, automation, and smart workflows to create real value in days instead of months.
This is a founding role, working directly in venture pods to shape how we build the next generation of AI companies from Doha to the Global South.
You will operate as part of a product trio with the Design Lead and the Platform &amp; Infrastructure Engineer, aligning on user insights, prototype scope, and technical feasibility.
Reports to: Studio Directors 
Growth path: Head of Product / CTO track<h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
Responsibilities</h1><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Rapid Prototyping &amp; Product Engineering</h3><ul><li>
Design, build, and ship end-to-end AI prototypes using modern tools (Python, FastAPI, LangChain, vector databases, Next.js, etc.)</li><li>
Integrate AI systems &mdash; LLMs, autonomous agents, workflow automation &mdash; to make things faster, smarter, and more useful</li><li>
Take messy real-world workflows and turn them into clean data models and automated processes</li><li>
Work directly with our Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EIRs) to turn their pain points into working pilots</li><li>
Test continuously with users, gather feedback, and improve based on what actually matters</li><li>
Collaborate with design, growth, and product teams to build things that are both powerful and easy to use</li><li>
Share what you learn and build reusable components for Utopia OS so future ventures can move even faster</li><li>
Pair with the Design Lead for rapid user tests and with the Platform &amp; Infrastructure Engineer to harden successful prototypes into reusable Utopia OS components.</li><li>
Beyond core prototyping, you&rsquo;ll also contribute to early foundations in areas like AI evaluation, lightweight data pipelines, and experimentation metrics &mdash; functions that would later mature into dedicated LLMOps or DataOps tracks.</li><li>
You&rsquo;ll keep things pragmatic: integrating feedback loops, telemetry, and simple eval metrics into prototypes so learning compounds across ventures.</li></ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Collaboration &amp; Continuous Learning</h3><ul><li>
Partner closely with founders, engineers, and designers in multi-disciplinary pods</li><li>
Document prototypes and learnings to improve speed and quality across ventures</li><li>
Stay current with advances in AI frameworks, agent systems, and workflow automation</li><li>
Contribute to building the studio&rsquo;s shared prototyping frameworks, making each new venture faster than the last</li><li>
We operate as a compact, AI-native core team &mdash; covering product, design, and engineering end-to-end.</li><li>
Each of us contributes to early foundations in areas like evaluation, data, research, and security, ensuring the platform scales responsibly without added layers or headcount.</li></ul><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
Impact &amp; Success Metrics</h1><ul><li>
Prototypes that convert into signed pilots or letters of intent</li><li>
Shorter validation cycles &mdash; measurable reduction in time from idea to proof of value</li><li>
Reusable components and frameworks integrated into Utopia OS</li><li>
Founders and EIRs equipped with practical tools and repeatable prototyping processes</li></ul><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
Mindset &amp; Values</h1><ul><li>
Outcome-driven: You focus on solving problems and creating user value, not feature lists.</li><li>
AI as amplifier: You use AI to boost creativity and speed, not replace thinking.</li><li>
Cross-disciplinary: You move easily between code, UX, and product thinking, balancing speed with empathy.</li><li>
Continuous learner: You evolve as AI evolves, experimenting with new models, agents, and frameworks.</li></ul><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
What Success Looks Like</h1><ul><li>
Prototypes that turn into signed pilots or letters of intent</li><li>
A repeatable prototyping process that works across multiple ventures</li><li>
Faster validation cycles &mdash; measurable reduction in the time from idea to proof of value</li><li>
Founders and EIRs equipped with frameworks they can actually use to build AI-native products</li></ul><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
Experience &amp; Skills</h1><ul><li>
5+ years in software or product engineering (startup, SaaS, or applied AI experience preferred)</li><li>
You've shipped AI-native products end-to-end &mdash; backend, frontend, UX, the whole thing</li><li>
Experience building with LLMs, embeddings, agentic frameworks, or autonomous AI systems</li><li>
Strong Python skills and comfortable with a modern JS framework (React, Next.js, SvelteKit, etc.)</li><li>
Familiarity with vector databases, semantic search, and data orchestration</li><li>
Collaborative mindset &mdash; you work well with non-technical founders and industry experts</li><li>
Pragmatic and outcome-oriented. You learn fast, adapt quickly, and ship often.</li></ul><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
Why This Role Matters</h1>
This is a rare chance to help define what AI-native product engineering means &mdash; where builders use AI as a creative partner to shape, test, and evolve real ventures.
You&rsquo;ll build actual products with industry insiders, watch your code turn into funded companies, and help shape the future of AI-driven innovation coming out of Doha.
Your work aligns with Qatar&rsquo;s Vision 2030 to build a knowledge-based, innovation-led economy with global reach.<h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
Who This Role Isn&rsquo;t Right For</h1>
If you prefer defined specs or rigid processes, this may not be the right fit.
We move fast, experiment constantly, and expect engineers to own the product from prototype to pilot.<h3 class="jobSectionHeader"> 
</h3><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">What You Can Expect</h1><ul><li>
Meaningful Impact: Your work directly contributes to building the core infrastructure behind a new generation of ventures - enabling equitable, AI-native innovation across the Global South.</li><li>
Collaborative Culture: We thrive on openness, curiosity, and collective intelligence. Everyone has a voice, and decisions are made transparently.</li><li>
Growth Mindset: From AI learning and use budgets to mentorship, we invest in your development and help you grow beyond your comfort zone.</li><li>
Competitive Rewards: Tax-free compensation, private health, travel insurance and flexible hybrid setup.</li><li>
Work-Life Integration: Office lunches twice a week, great snacks, and team meetups that keep energy and connection high.</li><li>
Global Exposure: Occasional travel across Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Middle East for meaningful, on-ground collaboration with venture teams.</li><li>
Inclusive by Design: We celebrate diversity and are committed to building an environment where everyone belongs.</li></ul><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
The Utopia Platform Advantage</h1>
The Studio is part of Utopia Capital&rsquo;s integrated venture platform designed to solve the biggest friction points in emerging market venture creation.
Most founders face a broken journey: they struggle to build with limited resources, chase capital across disconnected investors, and lack the infrastructure to scale across regions. We've built a different system.
The Studio co-builds ventures with domain experts using AI-native infrastructure, compressing the path from concept to product. The Radical Fund and A-typical Ventures provide fast, aligned capital from pre-seed through Series A, removing fundraising friction at every stage. And Utopia OS &mdash; our shared technical backbone &mdash; gives every venture access to the same tools, data systems, and regional networks that would normally take years and millions to build.
This means founders can focus on solving real problems while we handle the build infrastructure, capital coordination, and cross-regional expansion. It's a compounding system: each venture we build makes the next one faster, smarter, and more capital-efficient. That's the platform advantage that you will be part of and contribute to, purpose-built for the complexity of the Global South.
We believe innovation should be inclusive and globally distributed. Our team is built on openness, curiosity, and collaboration &mdash; with people from across the GCC, Africa, and Southeast Asia working together to build meaningful ventures.
All roles are based in Doha, Qatar, with flexible hybrid options and global travel opportunities. We welcome talent from every background to join us in shaping the future of AI-native innovation.
Compensation Range: $80K - $120K</div>

Founding Product Engineer — Rapid Prototyping

<div>The Studio is part of Utopia Capital&rsquo;s integrated venture platform &mdash; combining AI-native venture building, capital, and shared infrastructure to help founders build faster and smarter. Every role here directly contributes to launching and scaling AI-native companies across the Global South, from idea to Series A.<h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
About The Studio</h1>
The Studio is an AI-native venture builder for the Global South, purpose-built to transform high-barrier problems into scalable, investable companies.
Partnering with domain experts &amp; high-agency founders from concept to Series A, it both builds new ventures and re-engineers existing ones for AI-driven growth.
Powered by UTOPIA OS &mdash; a modular, adaptive stack tailored to each venture &mdash; it compresses the path from concept to Series A to under 24 months.<h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
About the Role</h1>
You'll be Utopia's first Design Lead &mdash; a hands-on product design leader who's AI-native but human-centered. You'll create the design practices and principles that power the Utopia OS platform and help our Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EIRs) and ventures turn insider insight into usable, trustworthy AI products.
You'll balance AI tools (for speed), AI fluency (designing for probabilistic and agentic systems), and human advantage (taste, judgment, narrative) to deliver products that users actually adopt and investors believe in.
You will form a product trio with the Rapid Prototyping Engineer and the Platform &amp; Infrastructure Engineer to drive continuous discovery and delivery.
Reports to: Studio Directors 
Growth path: Head of Design / Chief Design Officer<h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
Responsibilities</h1><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Venture Design &amp; Founder Collaboration</h3><ul><li>
Partner with EIR pods from problem framing through to pilot: research, journey mapping, information architecture, flows, wireframes, high-fidelity UX</li><li>
Design for AI interactions (retrieval, agents, evaluations, fail-safes), turning uncertain model behavior into clear, reliable UX</li><li>
Run rapid testing loops with real users and translate findings into product decisions that accelerate pilots and spin-outs</li><li>
Use analytics and behavioral data to validate design choices and guide iteration</li></ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Design System: Utopia OS</h3><ul><li>
Build the Utopia OS Design System &mdash; components, patterns, tokens, and AI-UX guidelines (prompt patterns, agent handoffs, uncertainty states) that all ventures can use</li><li>
Create reusable UI modules for common Studio needs: auth, dashboards, data explorers, workflow builders. This cuts build time across ventures</li></ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
AI-Native Craft &amp; Design Operations</h3><ul><li>
Establish an AI-augmented design workflow (research synthesis, wireframing, content, asset generation) while keeping human judgment in the loop</li><li>
Leverage the latest AI-native tools (Cursor, Figma MCP, rapid prototyping environments) to design, iterate, and ship efficiently</li><li>
Coach founders and product engineers on prompt-as-design, evaluation thinking, and responsible AI UX patterns</li><li>
Set lightweight design QA, accessibility, and privacy standards suitable for enterprise pilots in our regions</li><li>
As part of a small, high-trust team, you&rsquo;ll also help lay early foundations for ResearchOps and Design System governance &mdash; coordinating user sessions, keeping insights reusable across ventures, and ensuring design components evolve with each product cycle.</li><li>
These systems will start scrappy and manual, but are meant to scale as Utopia&rsquo;s venture portfolio grows.</li></ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Collaboration across the Utopia Platform&rsquo;s teams</h3><ul><li>
Work with the Marketing Lead on venture launch assets and product narratives when design credibility is critical (screens, visuals, product shots)</li><li>
Support the creation of marketing and brand assets to ensure design coherence across product and communication touchpoints</li><li>
Partner with leadership to prioritize design resources across co-build and value-add tracks, and codify learnings back into Utopia OS</li><li>
Co-lead discovery rituals with the product trio (weekly user sessions, prototype reviews, and decision records) to keep design, engineering, and venture goals aligned.</li><li>
We operate as a compact, AI-native core team &mdash; covering product, design, and engineering end-to-end.</li><li>
Each of us contributes to early foundations in areas like evaluation, data, research, and security, ensuring the platform scales responsibly without added layers or headcount.</li></ul><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
Impact &amp; Success Metrics</h1><ul><li>
Faster venture cycles: Your design system and patterns reduce time from concept to pilot, contributing to our KPIs on concepts developed and proofs-of-concept.</li><li>
Higher spin-out quality: Pilots ship with clear, credible UX and safety patterns &mdash; raising conversion to spin-outs.</li><li>
Scalable value-add: Reusable UX modules help both Middle East and non-Middle East companies receiving value-added services achieve adoption more quickly.</li><li>
You raise the design bar: Your work becomes a benchmark for high-craft, AI-native design across ventures.</li></ul><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
Experience &amp; Skills</h1><ul><li>
5+ years in product/UX design with early-stage companies (start-ups or scale-ups). Strong portfolio of shipped features and end-to-end ownership. Comfortable running user research &mdash; from planning and interviews to synthesis and insight generation.</li><li>
You've designed with LLMs/agents (prompt strategies, guardrails, evaluation loops) and understand probabilistic UX</li><li>
You can build design systems, interaction patterns, and deliver visual polish</li><li>
You are comfortable working with engineers on data-heavy products. You understand analytics and experimentation</li><li>
You can turn complexity into clear narratives for users, founders, and partners</li><li>
You&rsquo;ve shipped complex, high-quality software products across platforms, web, mobile, and AI-first interfaces.</li><li>
You balance speed with precision, knowing when to move fast and when to refine.</li><li>
You understand engineering well enough to prototype ideas using Cursor, Figma MCP, or lightweight code tools.</li><li>
You have strong taste, an eye for clarity, flow, and finish that shows in your work.</li><li>
You operate with ownership and autonomy, seeing what needs to be done and doing it.</li></ul><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
Mindset &amp; Values</h1><ul><li>
Outcome over output: You measure design by adoption, pilot success, and learning velocity.</li><li>
Human-in-the-loop: AI accelerates you, but taste and judgment remain the moat.</li><li>
Builder's bias: You thrive with small teams, high agency, and shipping fast with responsible guardrails.</li><li>
Regional empathy: You're curious about ventures, innovation and nuances across the GCC, Southeast Asia, and Africa.</li></ul><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
Why This Role Exists</h1>
You'll define how AI-native products feel across an entire venture platform &mdash; shaping the design language of companies built on Utopia OS and helping Doha become a launchpad for globally relevant innovation. We really care about design and see it becoming a core differentiator, especially from companies in the Global South.
This role exists because as building with AI gets easier, the real differentiation lies in the last 25%. We need someone who raises the bar on interaction and visual design, brings precision and creativity, and drives execution excellence. This is a hands-on product design role for someone who builds, experiments, and ships, not just strategizes.<h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
What You Can Expect</h1><ul><li>
Meaningful Impact: Your work directly contributes to building the core infrastructure behind a new generation of ventures - enabling equitable, AI-native innovation across the Global South.</li><li>
Collaborative Culture: We thrive on openness, curiosity, and collective intelligence. Everyone has a voice, and decisions are made transparently.</li><li>
Growth Mindset: From AI learning and use budgets to mentorship, we invest in your development and help you grow beyond your comfort zone.</li><li>
Competitive Rewards: Tax-free compensation, private health, travel insurance and flexible hybrid setup.</li><li>
Work-Life Integration: Office lunches twice a week, great snacks, and team meetups that keep energy and connection high.</li><li>
Global Exposure: Occasional travel across Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Middle East for meaningful, on-ground collaboration with venture teams.</li><li>
Inclusive by Design: We celebrate diversity and are committed to building an environment where everyone belongs.</li></ul><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
Who This Role Isn&rsquo;t Right For</h1>
If you prefer strategy or research over building, or rely on heavy structure, this isn&rsquo;t the right fit. We move fast, work hands-on, and expect a deep level of craft in everything shipped.
If you prefer working on just 1 product or 1 project, this isn&rsquo;t the right fit for you. We are building a platform called Utopia OS, that is looking to help founders then build companies on top of, so you will be building with the founders too.
If you are not open to the use of AI in design and development, we care about human taste and judgement but at the same time are looking to make that element scalable.<h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
The Utopia Platform Advantage</h1>
The Studio is part of Utopia Capital&rsquo;s integrated venture platform designed to solve the biggest friction points in emerging market venture creation.
Most founders face a broken journey: they struggle to build with limited resources, chase capital across disconnected investors, and lack the infrastructure to scale across regions. We've built a different system.
The Studio co-builds ventures with domain experts using AI-native infrastructure, compressing the path from concept to product. The Radical Fund and A-typical Ventures provide fast, aligned capital from pre-seed through Series A, removing fundraising friction at every stage. And Utopia OS &mdash; our shared technical backbone &mdash; gives every venture access to the same tools, data systems, and regional networks that would normally take years and millions to build.
This means founders can focus on solving real problems while we handle the build infrastructure, capital coordination, and cross-regional expansion. It's a compounding system: each venture we build makes the next one faster, smarter, and more capital-efficient. That's the platform advantage that you will be part of and contribute to, purpose-built for the complexity of the Global South.
We believe innovation should be inclusive and globally distributed. Our team is built on openness, curiosity, and collaboration &mdash; with people from across the GCC, Africa, and Southeast Asia working together to build meaningful ventures.
All roles are based in Doha, Qatar, with flexible hybrid options and global travel opportunities. We welcome talent from every background to join us in shaping the future of AI-native innovation.
Compensation Range: $70K - $100K</div>

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