Founder in Residence: Build & Launch Ventures

Birg; Dubai; Remote; AED 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Birg is seeking an Entrepreneur in Residence to lead a venture from early build to standalone business. You’ll work with product, growth, sales and engineering, test quickly with real customers, form the company, and hand it to a long-term CEO once ready to raise.

You are the single accountable operator, hands-on and data-driven, pushing forward when evidence supports the venture and stopping early when it doesn’t. This is a contractor-style, fully remote role with USD compensation.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in startup operations or venture building.
• Hands-on experience taking a product from zero to launch with ownership.
• Strong knowledge of AI tools and agentic workflows.
• Experience designing or operating a structured process for de-risking new initiatives.
• Hands-on experience managing execution across multiple work streams.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Independent contractor mindset with compensation aligned to scope and impact.

Responsibilities

• Take a validated concept and start executing from week one.
• Lead the product build with a small cross-functional team.
• Use AI and no-code tools to ship product, research and assets quickly.
• Set clear owners, deadlines and weekly milestones for every workstream.
• Launch an MVP and measure real behaviour: usage, conversion, payment, retention.
• Run short test-and-learn cycles and drop what the data doesn’t support.
• Build the evidence case for continued investment.
• Recommend stopping the venture early if traction isn’t there.
• Lead conversations with partners, early customers, suppliers and service providers.
• Drive early business development and first commercial deals.
• Manage contractors and specialists who don’t report to you directly.
• Keep leadership and investors informed with regular updates.
• Set up the legal entity, payments and core operating systems.
• Put basic finance, legal and reporting processes in place.
• Recruit the venture's first hires.
• Document decisions, systems and metrics so the business can run without you.
• Help recruit the venture's long-term CEO.
• Hand over the business cleanly and on schedule.
• Flag risks early to studio leadership before they cost time or money.
• Share lessons learned to improve how the studio builds future ventures.

Skills

Startup operations

Hands-on founder experience

AI tools proficiency

Venture process design

Multi-project management

Communication

Tools

AI tools

No-code tools

Job description

Birg is seeking an Entrepreneur in Residence to lead a venture from early build to standalone business. You’ll work with product, growth, sales and engineering, test quickly with real customers, form the company, and hand it to a long-term CEO once ready to raise.

You are the single accountable operator, hands-on and data-driven, pushing forward when evidence supports the venture and stopping early when it doesn’t. This is a contractor-style, fully remote role with USD compensation.