Building the intelligence layer for GCC capital allocation

This is the highest-signal role at GCI. If you have spent four or more years producing investment research that capital allocators read, challenged deal assumptions in an IC, and developed genuine views on GCC private market dynamics, this was written for you.

You will lead conviction analysis for family office and PE clients evaluating real transactions across UAE and KSA. You are not reviewing AI output after the fact. You are the layer between the AI-generated analytical foundation and the final product that reaches the client. That distinction matters commercially and professionally.

• Review and enhance AI-generated conviction reports across all ten analytical sections before client delivery
• Develop GCI's proprietary market intelligence on sector saturation, competitive dynamics, and regulatory risk across UAE and KSA
• Maintain and improve the analytical frameworks that underpin each of GCI's six agent domains
• Brief senior client contacts at family offices and PE firms on conviction report conclusions
• Build out sector-specific intelligence libraries for healthcare, real estate, logistics, and private credit

• Analysts and associates at Dubai or Abu Dhabi family offices with 4+ years GCC market coverage
• PE or VC associates who have led or supported due diligence on 3+ GCC transactions
• Investment banking associates with 4+ years GCC-focused M&A or capital markets experience
• Strategy consultants from tier-1 firms with a GCC practice focus and a desire to move into principal work

• Formatting decks for partners who present your work as theirs
• Eighteen-month queues before you see a live deal
• Management layers between you and the final client output

AED 500,000 to 800,000 total annual package, comprising base salary, housing allowance, transport allowance, and annual flight. Discretionary bonus based on client output volume and quality. DIFC employment contract.

You are one to three years into a career in GCC financial services and you produce research that your principals actually use to make decisions. You understand the difference between what a macroeconomic headline says and what it means for a specific investment in a specific sector in a specific emirate.

At GCI, you will build your analytical practice on live client briefs from day one. The research is not hypothetical. Every brief maps to a real allocation decision being made by a family office, PE fund, or institutional investor in real time.

• Conduct sector and market analysis for GCC investment conviction reports across healthcare, real estate, logistics, F&B, and technology
• Monitor regulatory developments across UAE, KSA, and broader GCC for impact on investor ownership structures and returns
• Support senior analysts on due diligence briefs for PE and family office clients
• Build and maintain sector intelligence databases covering competitive density and market saturation signals

• Junior analysts at UAE family offices, investment banks, or PE firms with 1-3 years GCC market coverage
• Research associates at regional asset managers or financial advisory firms based in Dubai or Abu Dhabi

AED 160,000 to 260,000 total annual package including base, housing, transport, and annual flight. DIFC employment contract.

KSA-based research role covering Saudi Vision 2030 sectors and regional private markets. You will produce sector intelligence specifically for cross-border investors evaluating KSA entry, including healthcare privatisation, logistics infrastructure, and technology ecosystem development under Vision 2030.

If you are based in Riyadh and you understand how the local regulatory environment, licensing structure, and capital market conditions differ from the broader GCC, this role was built around that knowledge.

• Produce KSA-specific investment intelligence for conviction reports on Vision 2030 aligned sectors
• Track regulatory and licensing developments from SAMA, CMA, MISA, REGA, and sector-specific authorities
• Support due diligence briefs for cross-border investors evaluating KSA market entry
• Monitor capital flow and FDI signals specific to KSA market dynamics

SAR 180,000 to 300,000 total annual package. Saudi employment contract with GOSI compliance.

A hybrid research and intelligence role for early to mid-career investment professionals who have deep GCC market knowledge and want to apply it in a structured analytical platform rather than a traditional advisory context.

You will own specific sector and geography domains within the GCI intelligence architecture. When a client brief comes in for your sector, your research forms the basis of the conviction report. This is not support work. It is the principal analytical layer.

• Associates at Dubai or Abu Dhabi family offices or PE firms covering specific GCC sectors
• Research analysts at regional investment banks or asset managers with 2-4 years GCC market coverage
• Consultants from strategy firms with GCC-focused financial services experience

AED 220,000 to 360,000 total annual package. DIFC or Abu Dhabi employment contract depending on base location.

This role is for PE and VC professionals who have sat in due diligence processes on GCC transactions and know what information actually changes the investment decision. The documents that get ignored, the questions that surface the real risks, the benchmarks that calibrate the financial model.

At GCI, you will build the due diligence intelligence layer that sits between the investor brief and the conviction report. You know what a 2-year-horizon investor in Dubai aesthetics needs to verify before signing. You know what a UK PE fund evaluating a KSA logistics acquisition is actually afraid of. You translate that knowledge into the analytical frameworks that run every time a client submits a brief.

• PE associates or senior analysts who have led or co-led due diligence on 2+ GCC private market transactions
• VC investment professionals with deal experience in GCC technology, healthcare, or consumer sectors
• M&A analysts with GCC transaction experience from a bank or advisory firm

You will not be summarising public news, producing slide decks for partners, or waiting 12 months before seeing a live deal. From week one you are reviewing live due diligence screens of real GCC deals as they run through the engine.

AED 260,000 to 420,000 total annual package. DIFC employment contract.

KSA-based due diligence role for PE and VC professionals with direct KSA transaction experience. The Saudi market has specific ownership structures, licensing requirements, Saudization dynamics, and Vision 2030-linked sectoral opportunities that require on-the-ground understanding. This role owns that domain within GCI's intelligence architecture.

SAR 260,000 to 420,000 total annual package. Saudi employment contract.

Private credit and structured finance is the fastest-growing segment of GCC alternative investments in 2025 and 2026. Investors entering this space need intelligence on counterparty risk, covenant structures, regional legal enforcement, and debt capital market conditions that is specific to the GCC framework.

This role builds and maintains the private credit intelligence layer within GCI, covering mezzanine and senior debt instruments, sukuk structures, regional collateral enforcement, and the specific risk profile of GCC credit transactions.

• Credit analysts from regional or international banks with GCC-focused loan books
• Private credit or structured finance professionals with 2-4 years GCC deal experience
• Fixed income or sukuk specialists looking to apply credit expertise in a broader investment intelligence context

AED 240,000 to 380,000 total annual package. DIFC or mainland employment contract.

Real estate is the single most common entry point for cross-border capital into the UAE. It is also the sector with the widest gap between what investors think they know and what they need to know before committing. This role owns real estate intelligence at GCI, covering residential and commercial transactions, HNWI and family office allocation patterns, RERA regulations, and the DLD transaction data that calibrates every price and yield claim a seller makes.

• Real estate analysts from UAE or regional property investment firms, REITs, or advisory platforms
• HNWI or family office professionals managing real estate portfolios across UAE and GCC
• Investment analysts at UAE real estate developers or commercial property advisors

AED 200,000 to 340,000 total annual package. DIFC or mainland employment contract.

Healthcare and consumer sectors are among the most active for cross-border investment in the GCC, and among the most likely to produce expensive regulatory surprises for investors who do not understand the DHA, MOHAP, or SFDA licensing frameworks. This role owns healthcare and consumer intelligence at GCI.

You understand why 5,800 licensed healthcare facilities in Dubai create a very different investment decision for an aesthetics clinic versus a specialist hospital. You know the patient acquisition cycle, the margin compression in mid-market aesthetics, and what it costs to achieve DHA-compliant staffing levels before opening day.

AED 200,000 to 320,000 total annual package. Location flexible between Dubai and Riyadh.

GCC technology and venture investment is growing faster than any sector in the region, and the intelligence gap for cross-border investors is proportionally large. What is the real TAM for a SaaS product in a market where enterprise procurement moves slowly and SME digitisation is uneven? What does a seed round valuation in Dubai imply about the exit path? This role owns tech and venture intelligence at GCI.

• VC investment professionals with GCC portfolio coverage
• Technology sector analysts from investment banks or PE funds with a GCC focus
• Operators from GCC technology companies who have moved into an investment or advisory function

AED 200,000 to 340,000 total annual package. DIFC employment contract.

You have two to four years in financial services in Dubai or the broader GCC, you understand how family offices and HNWI principals make decisions, and you have built relationships with at least some of the relevant contacts in that world. You are not a cold-call sales person. You are someone who can walk into a family office meeting, speak credibly about GCC market conditions, and explain why GCI's conviction reports solve a real problem they have right now.

You will own client outreach and relationship development for GCI's family office and HNWI segment across the UAE and GCC. Your pipeline is the platform's growth.

AED 260,000 to 420,000 base package plus performance component tied to subscription revenue. DIFC employment contract.

This role exists only if you have a real book of relationships with decision-makers at GCC family offices, PE firms, or sovereign-adjacent investment vehicles, and if you can walk those relationships into a GCI subscription conversation with credibility. We are not hiring for potential here. We are hiring for relationships that exist today and can be converted.

If you are a director or VP at a wealth management firm, an investment bank, or a financial advisory firm, and have spent six or more years building the GCC institutional investor network, this role offers a platform, a product that solves a real client problem, and an economics structure that reflects the revenue you bring in.

AED 600,000 to 950,000 base package plus revenue-linked commission. Structure negotiated individually based on existing book. DIFC employment contract.