Life at Nakoda AI
Eight divisions. We hire across all of them.
Nakoda AI is Dubai's integrated AI advisory and ecosystem platform — AI strategy, governance, audit, visibility, business setup, learning and development, community and bespoke build. The roles listed below are the ones open right now; we read general applications for every division.
OPEN ROLES
AEO/GEO Strategist
Full-time · Dubai
Owns the strategy behind how a brand gets structured and cited across AI answer engines - from audit to execution.
Content & Structured Data Specialist
Full-time · Dubai
Turns marketing prose into content and schema that AI models can parse and quote cleanly.
AI Search Analyst
Full-time · Remote (GCC)
Runs the standardized citation panels across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI Mode, and tracks the results over time.
Client Success Lead
Full-time · Dubai
Owns the client relationship post-signature - reporting, scope changes and renewal.
WHERE WE HIRE
The disciplines we recruit into
Not every one of these has a vacancy at any given moment. Apply anyway — the form asks which division you are aiming at, and applications are held against the divisions rather than a single posting.
01 AI Strategy
Consultants who can sit with a board, hold a readiness assessment together, and write a business case a finance committee will not send back.
02 AI Governance
Framework and policy people, ideally with ISACA credentials or regulatory experience, who treat AI risk as a control problem with owners and evidence.
03 AI Audit
Auditors in both directions - people who can audit an AI system, and people who can put AI to work inside an audit function.
04 AI Visibility
Strategists, structured-data specialists and analysts working on how answer engines find, understand and cite a brand.
05 Business Setup
Advisors who know the free zones, licence categories and government programmes here well enough to map them to what a business is actually trying to do.
06 Learning & Development
Programme designers and facilitators who can teach boards, audit committees and finance teams - and who enjoy the room.
07 Community
Editorial and community people: the Brief, the newsroom, the majlis sessions and the events calendar.
08 Others
Engineers and builders for custom AI work - automation, agents, integration and the data layer underneath all of it.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Based in Dubai
Most roles are Dubai-based, some are remote across the GCC, and each posting says which. Employment visa and the standard UAE package are sponsored for full-time hires relocating here.
The first ninety days
You are on live client work inside the first month, with one accountable lead beside you. The first quarter is deliberately narrow - one division, a small number of engagements, seen through end to end.
How the process runs
An application, a conversation about what you have actually done, a working session on a real problem rather than a puzzle, and a decision. Every application gets a reply either way within two weeks.
HOW WE WORK
Evidence over opinion
Claims about AI visibility are tested against live model queries, not assumed.
Direct communication
Clients and colleagues get a straight answer, not marketing language.
Ownership
Each engagement has one accountable lead from audit to results.
APPLY
Submit an application.
Every application is reviewed by a real person. There is a reply either way within two weeks.