Head of Software Engineering [AI - Dubai]

*This role requires relocation to Dubai*

We’re seeking an entrepreneurial and hands-on Head of Software Engineering to lead the technical vision, team, and execution of our client's venture studio. — This is a unique opportunity to build and scale a world-class engineering organization at the forefront of AI, product experimentation, and disruptive technologies.

You’ll define and drive the technology strategy, shape the engineering culture, and lead cross-functional teams in delivering high-impact, AI-powered products from the ground up. If you’re a visionary leader with a startup mindset and a passion for building bold, transformative solutions, we’d love to hear from you.

Responsible for:

• Hands-on and entrepreneurial tech leader to drive AI-first tech vision, strategy and execution of a world-class startup foundry to build and scale multiple AI-first category-defining startups
• Hire, mentor, and allocate top-tier engineers, tech leads, and venture leaders to deliver high-quality products quickly and efficiently, while building empowered, engaged, and mission-driven tech teams for each venture.
• Nurture a culture of bias for action, speed of execution, extreme ownership, rapid experimentation, learning and innovation, bold thinking with humility
• Drive an AI-first engineering culture and strategy to dramatically increase the productivity leverage per engineer, build capital-efficient startups and achieve outcomes that were impossible before AI.
• Define the common engineering best practices/processes, choice of AI/tech frameworks, workflows, tech stack, cloud, and data and AI architecture for all new ventures. Includes building reusable components (e.g. auth, billing) to reduce time to validation and market
• Continuously reduce the time to validation, time to acceleration and time to kill by partnering with the product on our playbook and building a self-learning venture engine that compounds knowledge over time
• Partner with labs leadership and founders on investment thesis, roadmaps, and resource planning.
• Own technical due diligence, code reviews, and compliance before external fundraising or onboarding co-build founders

Experience:

• 10+ years of experience building and scaling early-stage startups.
• Proven experience building -1 to 0 to 1 MVPs, ideally across multiple domains.
• Strong hands-on skills with modern tech, data and AI stacks
• Experience building and leading high-performance engineering teams and working with cross-functional teams.
• Clear, fast communicator with a bias for action.
• Startup DNA: scrappy, curious, and results-driven