Posted Nov 12, 2025
That makes the leadership relationship explicit
You’ll also lead how Utopia connects with its broader ecosystem — translating partnerships, market access, and capital relationships into tangible venture outcomes. Reports to: Studio Directors Growth path: Chief Commercial Officer / Chief Revenue Officer
Partner with the Studio Directors to deliver the end-to-end journey for EIRs - from Fellowship onboarding and POD matching through to spin-out. - Build and maintain a strong founder pipeline across the GCC, Africa, and Southeast Asia — through partnerships, scouting programs, and regional events that attract and engage high-agency talent. - Operate the support modules that help founders accelerate (go-to-market, capital readiness, technical integration, pilot design). - Ensure every founder has a clear success plan with milestones, progress tracking, and measurable outcomes. - Run workshops, sprints, and mentoring sessions that translate our playbooks into real venture traction. - Design and refine founder capability-building programs — from entrepreneurial readiness to go-to-market execution — ensuring consistent, scalable founder development across cohorts. - Capture and translate founder feedback into improvements in program design, venture playbooks, and Utopia OS workflows. ### Portfolio Support & Growth
Work with leadership to ensure ventures hit key KPIs — concepts developed, proofs-of-concept launched, spin-outs secured. - Monitor venture performance and proactively identify risks or bottlenecks — coordinating with product, design, and capital teams to course-correct early. - Coordinate with our technical and design teams so ventures actually leverage Utopia OS effectively. - Help ventures refine their business models, pilot strategies, and go-to-market plans
Connect founders with strategic partners, customers, and investors across the GCC, Africa, and Southeast Asia. - Facilitate and track venture introductions — ensuring they lead to real outcomes such as pilots, commercial contracts, or funding opportunities. - Collaborate with leadership to convert promising pilots into scalable partnerships and spin-out success stories. ### Ecosystem & Partnership Management
Identify, formalize, and manage strategic partnerships with corporates, universities, government programs, and investor networks that can accelerate venture validation, pilot design, and market access. - Track and report how we deliver value across Middle East and non-Middle East ventures, surfacing learnings and partnership opportunities to Studio leadership. - Coordinate between the Studio and our funds (A-typical Ventures and The Radical Fund) to ensure founders get aligned capital and support. - Keep things aligned with Qatar Development Bank's strategic priorities and ecosystem goals. - Represent The Studio at regional innovation forums, conferences, and ecosystem events to showcase venture outcomes and strengthen Utopia’s regional presence. ### Operations & Reporting
Build and maintain a live, AI-enhanced venture dashboard tracking founder progress, POD milestones, and portfolio KPIs in real time. - Integrate automated data flows between Utopia OS, venture pods, and Studio systems to generate live insights on traction, risk, and capital readiness. - Use AI models to surface venture health signals, predict timeline slippage, and identify where intervention or support is most needed. - Create narrative and data-driven reports — venture success stories, quarterly updates, and board materials — that combine human context with AI-generated insight summaries. - Partner with the ops and platform teams to embed predictive analytics and natural language reporting into Studio and Fund dashboards — ensuring leadership has continuous visibility into performance across ventures. - Champion a data culture where every founder interaction, milestone, and learning is captured, structured, and made actionable through the Utopia OS system. # Experience & Skills
7–10+ years in venture building, startup operations, or portfolio management (ideally in a studio, accelerator, or VC context)
You've designed and delivered founder-facing programs, workshops, or playbooks before
Strong understanding of early-stage company building — from idea validation to pilot to scale
Experience managing cross-functional teams and getting stakeholders aligned around venture outcomes
Excellent at communication and relationship-building with founders, corporates, and government partners
Tech-savvy and data-driven — comfortable with CRM, analytics, and workflow tools
Deep empathy for founders, combined with an operator's mindset and focus on execution
Familiarity with AI, digital transformation, or innovation ecosystems in the Global South is essential
Deep understanding of emerging market ecosystems — able to build trust and communicate effectively with founders and experts from emerging and frontier markets is essential
Proven ability to work across cultural and regional contexts, balancing empathy with results
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 — whether through our Studio Fellowship or our funds — 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’ll ensure that Utopia’s founders, ventures, and partners form a cohesive, high-performing ecosystem — one that compounds learning, capital, and talent across markets. # Who This Role Isn’t Right For
If you prefer structured corporate environments, steady-state operations, or clear-cut playbooks, this won’t be the right fit. We move fast, build in public, and operate with a high degree of autonomy and ambiguity. If you’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’re uncomfortable engaging directly with founders, solving problems on the fly, or being accountable for measurable venture outcomes, this isn’t your environment. ###
The Studio is part of Utopia Capital’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 — our shared technical backbone — 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 — 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.
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