Life at Nakoda AI
A place you can see yourself in.
We hire across eight divisions, from one office in Dubai and remotely across the GCC. Every application is read by a person.
Which team?
Not every team has a vacancy today. Pick one to see who it looks for.
Divisions
Corporate and support
Division
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.
Nothing posted today - a general application is read against this division.
Division
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.
Nothing posted today - a general application is read against this division.
Division
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.
Nothing posted today - a general application is read against this division.
Division
AI Visibility
Strategists, structured-data specialists and analysts working on how answer engines find, understand and cite a brand.
4 open roles
Division
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.
Nothing posted today - a general application is read against this division.
Division
Learning & Development
Programme designers and facilitators who can teach boards, audit committees and finance teams - and who enjoy the room.
Nothing posted today - a general application is read against this division.
Division
Community
Editorial and community people: the Brief, the newsroom, the majlis sessions and the events calendar.
Nothing posted today - a general application is read against this division.
Division
Others
Engineers and builders for custom AI work - automation, agents, integration and the data layer underneath all of it.
Nothing posted today - a general application is read against this division.
Functions
Sales and client-facing
The people who bring the work in, and the people who keep it.
- Sales and business development
- Account management
- Sales operations and enablement
- Partnerships and channel
- Marketing and brand
- Communications and public relations
- Client services and support
What each one does
- Sales and business development. Prospecting, discovery and closing across government, enterprise and professional-services buyers.
- Account management. Owning a portfolio of clients after signature - scope, expansion and renewal.
- Sales operations and enablement. Pipeline, forecasting, proposals, pricing and the tooling the sales team runs on.
- Partnerships and channel. Alliances with free zones, technology vendors, auditors and consultancies who send work our way.
- Marketing and brand. Positioning, campaigns, content, events and the brand system itself.
- Communications and public relations. Press, executive visibility, and one consistent voice across the region.
- Client services and support. First-line help for clients once they are live, and the queue behind it.
Functions
Corporate functions
What lets a firm trade, contract and be audited itself.
- Finance and accounting
- Legal and contracts
- Compliance, risk and data protection
- Internal audit and controls
- People and talent
- Procurement and vendor management
- Strategy and corporate development
- Executive office
What each one does
- Finance and accounting. Payables and receivables, VAT and corporate tax, month-end close, budgeting and forecasting.
- Legal and contracts. Client and vendor contracts, intellectual property, and the paper behind every engagement.
- Compliance, risk and data protection. UAE regulatory obligations, privacy, and the firm's own risk register.
- Internal audit and controls. Independent assurance that the firm follows the rules it sets for its clients.
- People and talent. Recruiting, onboarding, payroll, benefits, employee relations and career development.
- Procurement and vendor management. Buying software, services and equipment properly - and knowing what has already been bought.
- Strategy and corporate development. Market entry, partnerships, planning cycles and the numbers leadership decides on.
- Executive office. Board packs, cross-division priorities and the follow-through leadership cannot personally hold.
Functions
Operations and support
The systems and the people that keep every division running.
- Operations and programme management
- IT and internal systems
- Information security
- Data and business intelligence
- Government relations and PRO
- Facilities and workplace
- Administration and executive support
What each one does
- Operations and programme management. Delivery governance across engagements, resourcing and the programme office.
- IT and internal systems. Devices, identity, cloud accounts, internal tools and the help desk.
- Information security. Securing the firm's own estate, and producing the evidence clients ask us for.
- Data and business intelligence. Reporting, dashboards and the internal data model behind decisions.
- Government relations and PRO. Licences, visas, Emirates ID, free-zone and ministry paperwork, done right the first time.
- Facilities and workplace. The office itself - space, safety, supplies, events and the pool table.
- Administration and executive support. Diaries, travel, coordination and the details leaders should not be dropping.
Inside the Dubai office
Built for client work and quiet work - with a pool table and a board-game shelf for the rest.
Before you apply
Nothing open that fits?
Send a general application. It is read against the division, not a single vacancy.