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.
Life at Nakoda AI
A place you can see yourself in.
We hire across all our 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 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.
Nothing posted today - a general application is read against this division.
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.
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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 needs held on its behalf.
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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.
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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?
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