Deputy Director jobs in United Arab Emirates

You dream of a new challenge, being able to optimize, structure, make a company scale while knowing your work has a real impact.

Wait a minute.

Deep down, you're not just looking for a job but an adventure that offers:

• 🗽Freedom : free to work remotely, high trust, ownership
• 🔥Ambition : surrounded by sharp minds building something iconic and meaningful
• 😍Impact : transforming lives at scale, and seeing your contribution clearly

You recognize yourself if you are:

• Pragmatic, problem solver, and execution-driven
• Service-oriented, with extreme attention to detail
• Obsessed with learning and improvement without needing constant praise
• You Love to build systems, automate, and eliminate friction
• From a top tier Business or Engineering school or have worked closely with a startup founder

📍 Full-time role — remote-first, unless you live in Lisbon or Dubai.

We believe self-help is broken.
Most learning platforms fail : generic theories, short-term motivation, little real change.

At Paradox, we believe people deserve more

They deserve a system that knows them, one that adapts, challenges, and grows with them through AI personalization, lean experimentation, and deep psychological understanding.

Personal development shouldn’t just make you feel motivated for a day, it should change how you think, create and live.

At Paradox, we want to re-invent how people grow.

We do not build another course or coaching app but the Operating System for Greatness.

Founded by David Laroche, followed by over 2M+ people and known for his interviews with icons like Tony Parker, Mike Horn, Richard Branson, and Gad Elmaleh, Paradox aims to build something that will live beyond any individual (including its founder), for decades to come.

Our ambition is to compete with players like Mindvalley (150M ARR), but with a sharper vision, grounded protocols for achievers, people who want more for their life, refusing mediocrity.

To do that, we bring together designers, tech, coaches, and filmmakers to create learning experiences that are cinematic, precise, and effective.

We move fast, aim high, and hold ourselves to the standards of Apple, Spotify, and MasterClass. No fluff, focused on meaningful impact.

While others hide their numbers, we want to let our results speak loudly for us.

Get obsessed with transforming our clients’ lives and let those transformations be our marketing.

And that's where you come in.

🎯 Your mission is to remove the CEO from everything that shouldn’t require his presence, while building systems that work without him.

Important note: The responsibilities are broad by design. That is intentional. You will not do everything at once. You will sequence, systemize, delegate, and eliminate.

• Own the founder’s operating system: inbox, calendar, priorities, and follow-through
• Manage personal admin : banking, leases, visas, real estate, payments
• Coordinate travel and podcast logistics
• Investing & Real estate management

Outcomes

• CEO is no longer required for follow-ups, coordination, problem solving
• Decisions reach the founder prepared, with options, trade-offs, and recommendations

• Negotiate with: banks, vendors, service providers
• Build credible BATNAs
• Benchmark pricing, terms, timelines, and market standards
• Design leverage and pressure points

Outcomes

• Faster deals, better terms, minimal CEO involvement.

• Own complex projects end-to-end (business and personal)
• Coordinate legal, technical, financial experts
• Understand enough technically to ask the right questions, detect evasive answers, expose weak assumptions

Outcomes

• Projects move. Decisions are documented. No drift.

• Own execution cadence (priorities, OKRs, follow-through)
• Build scalable operating systems (processes, tools, AI, knowledge base)
• Turn Paradox Philosophy Guides David is writing into rituals and operating behaviors
• Run post-mortems, and reflection rituals.

Outcomes

• Strategy turns into execution.

• Source, screen, and interview top talent
• Identify misfits early
• Secure top-tier service providers

Outcomes

• Right people. Right seats. No compromise.

• Multi-country admin (France, Portugal, Spain, UAE)
• Ensure all financial data is complete, accurate, and decision-ready
• Continuous cost and tool audits

Outcomes

• Clean numbers. Controlled spend.

Must have :

• Strong analytical background, demonstrated through either:
  • graduation from a top-tier business or engineering school or
  • at least 2 years operating as the backbone of a successful startup founder, with direct exposure to decisions, trade-offs, and execution under pressure.
• Driven & Problem Solver: this position requires a strong commitment, perseverance & a doer mentality
• Thrive in Chaos, you don’t have to always be told what to do, Must be flexible and able to quickly react to last-minute changes
• A strong sense of service: you love to make life easier for others, you anticipate needs
• ⭐️ AI & Digital savvy (We are quite obsessed with Notion, AI Automation, and new digital tools)
• High level of attention to detail
• Communication Skill
• Confidentiality

• Growth over Ego : You are eager to learn, and receive hard feedback to grow. You let others speak and seek to understand their viewpoints.
• Availability and discretion, respect for confidentiality.
• Strong Desire to create Wow

• Project management skills
• Worked in a fast pace environment

Language : Fluent English

✈️ Travel to Dubai or Paris 2–3 times per year (especially early on) to connect with the CEO in person

This role blends business operations and personal operations. The founder’s life is fast-paced and unpredictable. Opportunities arise last-minute. Decisions sometimes require evenings or weekends. This role requires flexibility, discretion, and excellence.

• ❌ you need clarity before chaos → wrong place.
• ❌ you prefer balance over intensity → wrong season.
• ❌ you avoid confrontation → wrong fit
• ❌ you want a purely strategic or advisory role → wrong job
• ❌ Big corporation CoS or junior EAs usually don’t work out

This is not a 9–5 role, and it is not compartmentalized.

For the wrong person : exhausting

For the right person : deeply meaningful.

This is an insane opportunity to learn and grow on many topics and skills, and have a real impact.

You will play a crucial role in the development of a company whose content and products are enjoyed by millions of people. Currently, our videos have been viewed over 100 million times.

1 - Growth & Ambition

• 🏅Being surrounded by A-players who strive to perform whilst being in a good mood
• 🏋️♀️No more bosses, but ongoing conversations to support your growth
• ⚡️Being part of an ambitious company synonymous with opportunities for evolution!

2 - Competitive Salary

But you don’t just want a competitive paycheck, you also want…

3 - Impact & Meaning

• 🦄Playing a crucial role in the development of a company whose content and products are enjoyed by millions of people
• 🤩Waking up in the morning feeling like you are making a difference is something!
• 🧸We receive messages every day from clients who have successfully lost weight, quit smoking, reach a milestone in their business, built better relationships, and made positive changes in their lives.
• ❤️ Possibility to take 5 paid days to contribute to our non-profit : The Paradox Foundation, dedicated to inspire and empower teenagers

4 - Freedom & Well Being 🗽

• 😎A company culture based on autonomy & accountability
• 🗽Flexible working hours
• 🌎A remote culture from day one with the freedom to work from wherever you want
• 🏤Magnificent office in Dubai, Paris, Lisbon - it feels like home :)
• 🧍♀️Standing desks paid by the company if you live far from our offices
• 💻Work on Mac, for us it counts :)
• 🏀350€ per year paid by the company to take care of yourself ( for your gym, or dance class or whatever make you feel great)
• 📚150€ of books or education - At Paradox, we are learner lovers and we want to support you in that
• 🔥6 1:1coachings - A Paradox Coach supporting you on anything personal or professional, we want you to live your best life
• ✈️Annual team building / Team retreats to get together - you receive your plane ticket to join us by the pool and have a good time together, or brainstorm the next crazy challenge.

* those benefits are only for full-time employees

❌ Any copy-pasted and non-personalized application goes directly to the trash can.

⚠️ To complete the recruitment process, each candidate must organize calls with his or her previous managers. If you are not comfortable with this : do not apply ⚠️

If all this sounds good to you, come and write the next chapter with us 🚀🚀🚀🚀

Welcome to Paradox.

Let’s build the Operating System for Greatness.