Investment Director- AI

Tandem Search; Dubai; On-site; AED 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Tandem Search in the UAE is seeking an AI Strategy Director for a leading investment organization. This is a business-focused AI role, not hands-on engineering, requiring deep knowledge of AI applications and a track record in transforming portfolios.

You will identify practical AI opportunities, build business cases with costs and ROI, and help portfolio companies adopt AI solutions while influencing senior executives and portfolio leaders.

Qualifications

• Approximately 10 to 12 years of business and technology experience.
• Background in MBB, Big Four or a leading Tier 2 consultancy, with experience in private equity, capital markets or portfolio value creation, and a strong specialization in AI-led transformation.
• Strong knowledge of AI capabilities and business applications.
• Experience identifying, assessing and enabling AI use cases.
• Ability to build business cases with clear costs, benefits and returns.
• Confidence working with senior executives and portfolio-company leaders.
• Strong stakeholder, vendor and change-management skills.
• Comfortable connecting business requirements with technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Identify AI opportunities across the investment portfolio and internal teams.
• Improve productivity and reduce costs using AI.
• Develop AI-enabled products and revenue opportunities.
• Build business cases for AI investments.
• Help portfolio companies adopt practical AI solutions.
• Measure the financial and operational impact.

Skills

Strategy consulting

AI transformation

Stakeholder mgmt

Vendor management

Change management

Business case development

Private equity exposure

Capital markets experience

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA preferred

Job description

We are hiring an AI Strategy Director for a leading investment organization in the UAE.

This is a business-focused AI role, not a hands-on engineering or coding position.

The Director will identify practical AI opportunities across a diverse portfolio of companies and within the investment team.

The mandate

• Improve productivity and reduce costs using AI
• Develop AI-enabled products and revenue opportunities
• Build business cases for AI investments
• Help portfolio companies adopt practical AI solutions
• Measure the financial and operational impact

What we are looking for

• Approximately 10 to 12 years of business and technology experience
• Background in MBB, Big Four or a leading Tier 2 consultancy, with experience in private equity, capital markets or portfolio value creation, and a strong specialization in AI-led transformation.
• Strong knowledge of AI capabilities and business applications
• Experience identifying, assessing and enabling AI use cases
• Ability to build business cases with clear costs, benefits and returns
• Confidence working with senior executives and portfolio-company leaders
• Strong stakeholder, vendor and change-management skills
• Comfortable connecting business requirements with technical teams

Education

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, technology or a related field
• MBA or master's degree in technology or AI is an advantage

Important

This role does not require someone to personally build AI systems.

The successful candidate must understand AI well enough to:

• Identify where it can create measurable value
• Challenge technical teams and vendors
• Assess commercial feasibility
• Hold stakeholders accountable for results