Executive Assistant / Strategy & AI Associate - Venture Capital

Executive Assistant / Strategy & AI Associate Abu Dhabi | Leading Investment Firm - Venture Capital We are hiring an exceptional Executive Assistant / Strategy & AI Associate to support senior leadership at a leading Abu Dhabi-based investment platform operating across venture capital, private equity, private credit and real assets. This is not a traditional Executive Assistant position. We are looking for someone who can provide outstanding day-to-day support to senior leadership while also contributing to strategic projects, research, internal initiatives and AI-enabled workflows. The successful candidate will be highly organised, intellectually strong, commercially minded, technology-native and genuinely advanced in the use of AI. You will work closely with senior decision-makers, helping them manage priorities, prepare for important meetings, coordinate initiatives and execute across a broad range of business and investment-related activities. 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 role combines high-level Executive Assistant responsibilities with strategic, analytical and project-based work. You will act as a trusted and highly versatile resource to senior leadership, working across: • Managing senior leadership priorities, schedules, meetings and follow-ups • Coordinating internal and external meetings with investors, founders, portfolio companies and senior stakeholders • Preparing briefing notes, meeting materials, presentations and strategic papers • Supporting senior leadership with research, analysis and decision-making • Tracking key actions, priorities and projects to ensure effective execution • Coordinating cross-functional initiatives across investment, strategy, operations and portfolio teams • Conducting market, company and competitive research where required • 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, preparation, workflow automation, knowledge management and decision-making • Evaluating new AI tools, platforms and workflows that could improve the firm's productivity • Handling ad hoc projects and special initiatives on behalf of senior leadership Candidate Profile We are deliberately keeping the background broad and will prioritise intellectual calibre, judgement, organisation and execution ability over a particular career path. Candidates could come from: • Executive Assistant roles supporting senior executives, founders or investors • CEO Office or Chief of Staff positions • Top-tier strategy consulting • Investment banking / investing • High-growth technology companies • Venture capital or technology investing • Founder / entrepreneurial backgrounds • Strategy or business operations roles We are looking for someone who is: • Exceptionally organised, reliable and detail-oriented • Exceptionally bright, analytical and intellectually curious • Commercially sophisticated with excellent judgement • Able to understand complex topics extremely quickly • Highly proactive and able to anticipate what senior leadership will need • Comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment • 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, investors and senior executives • Discreet and trusted when handling confidential information • Very technologically savvy • A genuine power user of AI, rather than someone who occasionally uses ChatGPT AI & Technology We would expect candidates to already be using tools such as ChatGPT, 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 task, research, preparation or workflow 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. 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, organisation and technological sophistication. This is an opportunity for someone who wants to operate very close to senior decision-makers, become deeply involved in the running of a rapidly developing investment platform, and combine first-class executive support with strategic exposure and advanced use of AI. 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We are deliberately keeping the background broad and will prioritise intellectual calibre, judgement, organisation and execution ability over a particular career path. Candidate could come from executive assistant roles supporting senior executives, CEO/Chief of Staff, top-tier strategy consulting, investment banking/investing, high-growth technology companies, venture capital or technology investing, founder backgrounds, strategy or business operations roles. Must be based in Abu Dhabi/UAE or willing to relocate and work from Abu Dhabi. Coding experience is not essential, but understanding technology and building AI-enabled workflows is highly attractive.

Managing senior leadership priorities, schedules, meetings and follow-ups; coordinating internal and external meetings with investors, founders, portfolio companies and senior stakeholders; preparing briefing notes, meeting materials, presentations and strategic papers; supporting senior leadership with research, analysis and decision-making; tracking key actions, priorities and projects to ensure effective execution; coordinating cross-functional initiatives across investment, strategy, operations and portfolio teams; conducting market, company and competitive research; 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, preparation, workflow automation, knowledge management and decision-making; evaluating new AI tools, platforms and workflows that could improve the firm’s productivity; handling ad hoc projects and special initiatives on behalf of senior leadership.