Chief of Staff / Executive Assistant / Strategy & AI Associate

Tanqeeb; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 190,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Tanqeeb in Abu Dhabi seeks a Chief of Staff / Strategy & AI Associate to work with senior leadership on strategic initiatives, AI-driven research and portfolio acceleration. The role blends executive support with hands-on analysis, presentation materials and cross-functional project leadership.

You will design AI-enabled workflows, evaluate new tools, and drive efficiency across investment and strategy teams.

Qualifications

• Exceptional intellectually capable candidate with strong judgment and execution ability.
• Background in top-tier strategy consulting, investment banking, or tech investing preferred.
• Able to understand complex topics quickly and operate with ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Support senior leadership on strategic initiatives and investment-related projects.
• Prepare high-quality presentations, investment materials and internal analyses.
• Drive cross-functional projects from concept to execution.
• Conduct market, company and competitive analysis.
• Improve internal processes and automate workflows with AI tools.
• Evaluate new AI tools and platforms to boost productivity.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Executive communication

AI tooling proficiency

Research & analysis

Presentation skills

Strategy development

Ambiguity tolerance

Technology-savvy

Ownership & initiative

Tools

ChatGPT

Claude

Gemini

Perplexity

AI workflows

Job description

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.