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CertiK is a Web3 security company founded from research at Columbia and Yale, providing end-to-end security solutions including smart contract audits, penetration testing, on-chain monitoring, incident response, and compliance services. The company is backed by Coatue, Goldman Sachs, Insight Partners, and Sequoia Capital.
You will serve as CertiK's forward-deployed presence in the Middle East, working with banks, VASPs (Virtual Asset Service Providers), and regulators adopting digital assets. This is a client-embedded role where you spend extended periods on-site with compliance and risk teams across the UAE and neighboring markets, owning the relationship on the ground.
Key responsibilities:
- Spend weeks on-site with compliance, risk, and innovation teams at banks, VASPs, custodians, and regulators in the UAE and wider GCC region
- Conduct discovery engagements to understand client workflows, tools, pain points, and regulatory obligations
- Document findings and bring insights back to Product to shape roadmap and commercial strategy
- Partner with Business Development in client and regulator meetings, owning the solution and ground-level follow-up
- Present CertiK's products and services to senior client teams; translate pain points into scoped proposals with clear deliverables and timelines
- Deliver advisory engagements including licensing readiness reviews, gap analyses, technical due diligence, digital asset strategy assessments, workshops, and reports
- Represent CertiK at industry events and regulator meetings across the region
- Coordinate across CertiK teams in the US, Europe, and Asia across time zones
Requirements:
- 3+ years in a client-facing role (consulting, solutions, business development) or in compliance, risk, or regulatory roles at financial institutions or VASPs
- Demonstrated experience working with or inside banks, VASPs, or regulated financial institutions; understanding of how compliance and risk functions operate day-to-day
- Available to be based at client sites for weeks at a time with regular travel across the GCC and occasional travel beyond
- Knowledge of bank regulatory compliance and technology
- Professional writing and presentation skills; ability to produce client-ready reports and present to senior compliance, risk, and executive audiences
- Ability to operate independently, running client relationships and engagements end-to-end with light supervision
- Must be based in Dubai/UAE with frequent on-site time with clients across the region; cannot work from within the United States
Bonus qualifications: Knowledge of VARA, ADGM, DFSA or central bank licensing regimes; experience with VASP licensing, regulatory examinations, or compliance remediation; experience with compliance, risk, or surveillance software; Big 4 or financial services consulting background; Arabic language skills; existing relationships with compliance, risk, or innovation leaders across GCC banks, VASPs, or regulators.
