Vice President, Firm Operations

Ladd & Co.; Dubai; Remote; AED 400,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

Ladd & Co. in Dubai seeks a Vice President to lead Operations across one or more offices. The role covers operational leadership, compliance oversight, vendor management, and the design and maintenance of the firm's execution infrastructure.

The ideal candidate will bring substantive professional services operations experience, the ability to influence firm principals on strategic and operational decisions, and cross-border fluency to coordinate across jurisdictions.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years' relevant experience in professional services operations
• Established credibility with clients, counterparties, and counsel
• Track record of independent execution on complex matters
• Cross-border fluency expected

Responsibilities

• Lead Operations across one or more offices
• Oversee compliance and risk management
• Manage vendors and external service providers
• Design and maintain the firm's execution infrastructure

Skills

Operations leadership

Compliance oversight

Vendor management

Execution infrastructure

Job description

The firm is recruiting a Vice President to lead Operations across one or more of the firm's offices. The role covers operational leadership, compliance oversight, vendor management, and the design and maintenance of the firm's execution infrastructure.

The role is suited to candidates with substantive prior experience in professional services operations, at a law firm, advisory firm, or family office, who can operate as a senior partner to the firm's principals on operational and infrastructure decisions.

The Firm

Ladd & Co. is a private advisory and investment firm acting for principals, families, and private institutions across M&A, capital placement, structuring, and related mandates. The firm is family owned, operates across nine cities, and does not advertise its work. Clients come to us on a name, and they stay for generations.

Requirements

• 6–10 years' relevant experience, including substantive transaction or mandate leadership
• Established credibility with clients, counterparties, and counsel
• Track record of independent execution on complex matters
• Cross-border fluency expected
• Right to work in the relevant jurisdiction

Bring your judgement, curiosity and sense of responsibility. Work with colleagues across jurisdictions on matters that shape businesses, ownership and families.

A firm built on trust asks people to take ownership of their work. It also gives them a team and a platform to carry it through.

Freedom with accountability

Work is organised around outcomes and client commitments. There are no timesheets. Agree what needs to happen, keep people informed and deliver it well.

One firm, across borders

The firm works remotely across nine cities. Colleagues coordinate across time zones, bringing different experience to the same client relationship.

The firm behind your work

Firm identity, shared systems, relevant relationships and execution support give people a common foundation for their work.

Support for the whole person

• A shared foundation for people working with the firm, with room for different lives and local needs.
• A flexible allowance towards health cover, fitness and wellbeing, with access to confidential support when it is needed.
• An annual learning budget for relevant courses, professional qualifications and memberships, alongside development through the work itself.

Your working environment

• Support for a reliable workspace, suitable equipment and connectivity, so working remotely has a practical foundation.

Time to recharge

• Planned time away with coordinated cover and clear handovers. Time-off arrangements that recognise the need for sustained work and a life beyond it.

Family & life support

• Confidential guidance and practical resources through family changes, caring responsibilities and the unexpected demands of life.

Financial wellbeing

• Independent education and planning resources to help people make informed decisions about their finances and longer-term goals.