Chief of Staff / Strategy & AI Associate Abu Dhabi | Leading Global Investment Firm
We are hiring an exceptional Chief of Staff / Strategy & AI Associate to join a leading Abu Dhabi-based investment platform operating across venture capital, private equity, private credit and real assets.
This is a highly entrepreneurial role for someone who is extremely smart, commercially minded, technology-native and genuinely advanced in the use of AI. The successful candidate will work closely with senior leadership across strategic initiatives, investment-related projects, internal operations and special situations.
The firm has approximately $1.5bn in assets under management and 100+ portfolio companies, with an increasing focus on artificial intelligence and frontier technologies. Its AI strategy includes a $200m global AI investment platform, with exposure to areas including agentic AI, reasoning systems, enterprise AI infrastructure, robotics and sovereign AI.
The Role
The position could be titled Chief of Staff, Strategy Associate, or Strategy & AI Associate, depending on the experience of the successful candidate.
You will act as a highly versatile resource to senior leadership, working across:
Strategic projects and special initiatives across the investment platform Supporting senior leadership with research, analysis and decision-making Preparing high-quality presentations, investment materials, strategic papers and internal analyses Driving cross-functional projects from initial concept through execution Conducting market, company and competitive analysis Supporting selected investment, portfolio and value-creation initiatives Improving internal processes and identifying opportunities for greater automation and efficiency Using AI tools extensively to accelerate research, analysis, workflow automation, knowledge management and decision-making Evaluating new AI tools, platforms and workflows that could improve the firm's productivity Working across investment, strategy, operations and portfolio teams as required
Candidate Profile
We are deliberately keeping the background broad and will prioritise intellectual calibre, judgement and execution ability over a particular career path.
Candidates could come from:
Top-tier strategy consulting Investment banking / investing High-growth technology companies Venture capital or technology investing Founder / entrepreneurial backgrounds Strategy, CEO Office or Chief of Staff positions
We are looking for someone who is:
Exceptionally bright, analytical and intellectually curious Commercially sophisticated with excellent judgement Able to understand complex topics extremely quickly Highly structured, but equally comfortable operating with ambiguity Entrepreneurial and willing to take ownership rather than wait for instructions An outstanding communicator with very strong written and presentation skills Comfortable interacting directly with Partners, founders and senior executives Very technologically savvy A genuine power user of AI, rather than someone who occasionally uses Chat GPT
AI & Technology
We would expect candidates to already be using tools such as Chat GPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, AI coding/automation tools, agents or workflow platforms extensively in their day-to-day work.
The ideal candidate should instinctively think:
“How can AI make this research, analysis, workflow or decision 5–10x faster or better?”Coding experience is not essential, but the ability to understand technology, experiment with new tools and build AI-enabled workflows would be highly attractive.
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Candidates must either already be based in Abu Dhabi/UAE or be genuinely willing to relocate and work from Abu Dhabi.
Compensation
Up to approximately AED 20,000 per month, depending on experience. Given the compensation level, we are particularly interested in high-potential candidates relatively early in their careers who demonstrate unusually strong intellectual ability, maturity and technological sophistication.
This is not a traditional administrative Chief of Staff position. It is designed for someone who wants to sit close to senior decision-makers, work across a rapidly developing investment platform and use technology and AI as a core part of how they operate.