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TURN8 is the GCC's integrated innovation platform for corporate venture building and strategic investment. We build over 120 ventures, deploy capital, and implement AI to scale innovation end to end.
Why Build Your Career at TURN8?
Your work touches multiple ventures, corporate partners, and capital programs at once — not a single product roadmap.
Compounding Impact
Over 120 ventures built, $500M+ deployed, and a portfolio spanning the GCC and global hubs. Your contribution compounds across every engine.
Cross-Sector Exposure
Move fluently between fintech, climate, logistics, digital health, mobility, and AI-first B2B — all within one organisation.
Blended Craft
Roles combine venture building, product, capital allocation, and operational AI. You will not be boxed into a single function.
High-Calibre, Small Team
Senior ownership from day one. Work alongside experienced founders, operators, and investors — and learn our Bold + Bounded methodology.
Vision 2030 Aligned
Our mandates connect directly to national priorities, giving your work real-world weight and policy-level visibility across KSA and GCC.
Ready to Build What Works?
Explore 12 open roles across investment, AI, product, and operations.
See Open RolesOne Platform. Four Engines.
Compounding Advantages.
TURN8 operates through four engines under one roof. The engines compound — evidence in one accelerates decisions in the others.
Growth Foundry
Builds and launches new ventures with corporate partners. Venture studio design, accelerator operations, embedded venture teams, and full process management from thesis to first customer.
Growth Capital
Designs and manages Corporate Venture Capital programs balancing strategic value with financial returns. GP-as-a-Service includes sourcing, due diligence, AI-driven deal screening, and portfolio analytics.
AI Studio
Builds native AI agents powering core products and internal operations for growth startups and SMEs. AI-driven workflows, automated customer service, and enhanced sales intelligence — delivered within weeks.
TURN8 Accelerator
Enables market entry and scaling in Saudi Arabia and the GCC. Covers market validation, rapid testing, product refinement, financial strategy, traction building, and fundraising support.
Operate For You
Full embedded team managing the program end-to-end
Operate With You
Hybrid delivery alongside your internal team
Build to Own
Full venture ownership transitioning to your balance sheet
Life at TURN8
We hire people who want to build, invest, and deploy AI. Here is what working here actually means.
Founder Mindset
We hire proactive team members who take ownership. Each role involves P&L responsibility, customer engagement, or technical leadership. Learn more about how we work at TURN8.
AI-First Operations
Our internal operations are powered by AI. New team members are trained on this from day one. See how our AI Studio works.
Regional Impact, Global Standards
Based in Riyadh, Dubai, and the wider GCC. Our team includes MBA graduates, Tier-1 consulting alumni, engineers, and successful startup founders. See our portfolio.
Continuous Learning
Mentorship is integral to our culture. Collaborate with experienced founders and investors. Read our Knowledge Hub.
Open Roles at TURN8
Filter by function, location, or seniority — or browse the full list.
Lead TURN8's CVC portfolio across KSA and the GCC. Own sourcing, diligence, execution, and portfolio integration for the Corporate Venture Capital programs we design and operate.
You will run Growth Capital's investment work end-to-end.
You will be the senior face of our CVC programs to corporate sponsors and founders.
You will set the bar for how deals get sourced, diligenced, and supported post-close.
- Source and evaluate investment opportunities aligned to corporate partner mandates across KSA, the GCC, and select global hubs.
- Lead diligence, term sheet negotiation, and Investment Committee presentations.
- Own portfolio company relationships and board-level engagement post-investment.
- Drive portfolio integration: customer access, follow-on financing, and value-creation plans with corporate partners.
- Build and mentor a high-performing investment team across Analyst, Lead, and Principal tiers.
- Represent TURN8 at major regional and global venture events.
- 6–10 years of investing experience at a top-tier VC, growth equity firm, or CVC platform.
- Demonstrated lead-investor track record: deals you sourced, led, and closed.
- Deep familiarity with the GCC venture ecosystem and the corporate partner landscape.
- Strong financial modeling, cap table, and portfolio construction skills.
- CFA, top-tier MBA, or equivalent investment credentials.
- Excellent written communication; investment memo writing as a core craft.
- Operator mindset. You partner with founders, not just observe them.
- Bold + Bounded. You commit fast when evidence supports it and hold the line when it doesn't.
- Senior presence. You can hold a room of corporate executives, an IC table, and a founder pitch with equal authority.
- AI as an amplifier. You use AI-driven deal screening and portfolio analytics as standard practice, not novelty.
- Competitive base, performance bonus, and meaningful carry across managed CVC programs.
- Direct accountability for deal-level outcomes and senior visibility with capital partners.
- A platform of four engines that compound — your deals inform our ventures and AI deployments, and vice versa.
- Relocation and visa sponsorship to Riyadh as required.
Drive deal flow and investment execution across TURN8's Corporate Venture Capital programs. Work side-by-side with corporate partners and portfolio founders.
You will own end-to-end deal flow for active CVC mandates.
You will run market mapping, diligence, and portfolio support — AI-amplified at every stage.
You will be the day-to-day investment operator the Investment Director relies on.
- Own end-to-end deal flow from sourcing to closing for assigned CVC mandates.
- Run market mapping and competitive landscape analysis using AI-assisted research tools.
- Lead diligence workstreams: market, product, technical, financial, and reference.
- Draft investment memos and present to the Investment Committee.
- Support portfolio integration and value-creation initiatives with corporate sponsors.
- Mentor Analysts and Associates on the investment team.
- 3–6 years in VC, PE, CVC, or investment banking with venture exposure.
- Direct experience leading diligence workstreams from start to finish.
- Strong financial modeling and memo-writing craft.
- Comfort working across corporate stakeholders, founders, and external advisors.
- Degree from a top global university; MBA or CFA a plus.
- Evidence-led. You move on data, not narrative.
- AI-first workflow. Diligence, market mapping, and portfolio monitoring are AI-amplified by default.
- Founder-fluent. You speak the language of operators and earn their trust quickly.
- Competitive base, performance bonus, and carry participation.
- High visibility across TURN8's leadership and corporate partners.
- Clear progression to Principal and Investment Director over time.
Support the investment team across sourcing, research, and portfolio monitoring. AI-assisted research is central to this role from day one.
You will be the analytical engine behind every live deal.
You will research, screen, model, and monitor — building investment craft from the ground up.
You will work directly with Investment Leads and the Investment Director.
- Run startup screening, sector research, and competitive benchmarking on live opportunities.
- Build financial models, cap table analyses, and scenario projections.
- Draft sections of investment memos and IC materials.
- Support portfolio company reporting, milestone tracking, and quarterly updates.
- Run AI-assisted diligence workflows across deal pipeline.
- 0–2 years of experience in consulting, investment banking, VC, or operating roles at a high-growth startup.
- Degree from a top global university.
- Strong analytical foundation: market sizing, modeling, structured problem solving.
- Excellent written communication: you write fast and clearly.
- Comfort with modern AI tools as part of daily workflow.
- High ownership. You treat junior tasks as senior responsibilities.
- Sharp output. You ship clean memos, clean models, clean decks.
- Curiosity. You read theses, term sheets, and post-mortems on your own time.
- Competitive base with performance bonus.
- Direct mentorship from Investment Leads, Principals, and the Investment Director.
- Clear progression to Associate, Senior Associate, and Principal over time.
Design and deploy production-grade AI agents for portfolio companies and internal operations. Ship enterprise systems in weeks, not quarters.
You will build the AI that powers core products and internal workflows across the TURN8 portfolio.
You will turn ambiguous business problems into working agent systems, fast.
You will hold the technical bar across every AI Studio engagement.
- Architect and ship AI agent workflows for portfolio companies and internal TURN8 tools.
- Lead technical solutioning for AI Studio client engagements from scoping to delivery.
- Evaluate and integrate emerging LLM, RAG, and agent frameworks into the TURN8 stack.
- Own model selection, fine-tuning, evaluation, and production reliability.
- Set engineering standards: code review, testing, observability, security.
- Mentor engineers and shape the AI Studio's technical roadmap.
- 5+ years in ML or software engineering, including production LLM or agent systems.
- Strong Python; modern AI stack (PyTorch, Hugging Face, LangChain / LlamaIndex or equivalents).
- Hands-on experience with RAG, function calling, and agent orchestration in production.
- Cloud-native deployment experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure) with Kubernetes and IaC.
- Track record of shipping AI products under tight enterprise timelines.
- Ship in weeks. You deliver working systems inside the first sprint, not slides.
- Enterprise-grade. You build for latency, cost, and reliability — not demos.
- Evidence before scale. You measure outcomes and harden what works.
- Senior IC compensation with bonus and equity participation in selected ventures.
- Top-tier hardware and unlimited model credits.
- Direct deployment exposure across the TURN8 portfolio and corporate base.
Translate client business problems into scalable AI system designs. Bridge technical and commercial teams to deliver enterprise AI solutions with measurable ROI.
You will scope, design, and steer every major AI Studio engagement.
You will be the senior technical voice in front of corporate C-suites.
You will turn vague ambition into shippable architecture.
- Own technical scoping and architecture for AI Studio client engagements.
- Work with engineering and commercial teams to define delivery roadmaps and success metrics.
- Present technical proposals to C-suite stakeholders at enterprise clients.
- Define reference architectures and reusable patterns across the AI Studio.
- Run discovery workshops and ship working prototypes within the first 4–6 weeks.
- Partner with the AI Engineer team on hardening prototypes into production.
- 7+ years across applied AI, solution architecture, or enterprise AI delivery.
- Strong technical depth in modern LLM, RAG, and agent stacks.
- Proven track record shipping AI into regulated enterprise environments.
- Senior consulting or pre-sales experience; comfort selling to executive buyers.
- Excellent written communication; ability to explain complex systems to non-technical stakeholders.
- Bilingual. You move fluently between engineering rooms and boardrooms.
- Outcome-driven. You tie every architecture decision to measurable ROI.
- Pace. You scope on Monday and prototype by Friday.
- Senior compensation with bonus and platform-level equity participation.
- Direct relationships with the most consequential enterprise clients in the region.
- Influence over the AI Studio's product, platform, and partner strategy.
Own product roadmaps for AI Studio engagements and TURN8 internal platforms. Translate user insight into AI product increments deployed in weeks.
You will be the product owner across multiple AI Studio engagements simultaneously.
You will set priorities, ship increments, and hold the line on outcomes.
You will turn enterprise messiness into a clear product roadmap.
- Define, prioritise, and ship product increments for AI Studio deployments.
- Work across engineering, design, and client teams to align on outcomes and timelines.
- Set and track product KPIs; report to senior leadership monthly.
- Run customer discovery and translate findings into clear product decisions.
- Define MVPs under Bold + Bounded gates and harden product-market fit through customer iteration.
- Contribute to AI Studio's internal product playbooks.
- 5+ years in product management, including B2B SaaS or enterprise software.
- Direct experience shipping AI-powered products to enterprise customers.
- Strong customer discovery and prioritisation craft.
- Comfort working across multiple engagements in parallel without losing depth.
- Excellent written communication.
- Outcome over output. You measure shipped value, not story points.
- AI-fluent. You understand the strengths and limits of modern LLM systems.
- Calm under load. You hold three engagements in your head without dropping any.
- Senior product compensation with bonus.
- Remote-first within the GCC, with regular travel to Riyadh and Dubai.
- Visibility across the TURN8 portfolio and direct access to founders, operators, and investors.
Own TURN8's operational backbone — financial governance, legal compliance, cross-engine coordination, and board-ready reporting infrastructure.
You will be the operating spine across all four engines.
You will turn ambition into rhythm: planning, reporting, governance, decision cadence.
You will be the senior operator the leadership team relies on every week.
- Lead operational planning and reporting across Growth Foundry, Growth Capital, AI Studio, and the TURN8 Accelerator.
- Own quarterly OKR cycles and performance dashboards for executive leadership.
- Drive process improvement and automation initiatives using AI tooling.
- Oversee financial governance, legal compliance, and corporate governance.
- Build the reporting infrastructure that gives leadership and partners real-time visibility.
- Manage relationships with external counsel, auditors, and service providers.
- 8+ years in operations leadership at a venture firm, venture studio, or scaling tech business.
- Track record building operating systems for multi-engine or multi-business organisations.
- Strong financial, legal, and governance fluency.
- Familiarity with GCC regulatory environments and Saudization frameworks.
- Excellent written communication.
- Operational truth. You surface what's actually happening, not what looks good on a slide.
- AI as default. You automate before you scale headcount.
- Senior judgement. You earn a seat at the leadership table from week one.
- Senior leadership compensation with bonus and equity participation.
- Direct seat at TURN8's leadership table.
- Relocation and visa sponsorship to Riyadh as required.
Support cross-engine operational workflows, reporting, and project coordination. High ownership, direct exposure to senior leadership and portfolio companies.
You will keep the operating system running across four engines.
You will track, report, coordinate, and improve.
You will get a closer look at how a venture platform actually runs than most analysts ever do.
- Coordinate across teams to track project milestones and flag blockers.
- Build and maintain reporting dashboards for internal and client use.
- Drive administrative and process efficiency improvements using AI tools.
- Support OKR cycles, leadership reviews, and partner reporting.
- Run ad hoc analyses for the Director of Operations and senior leadership.
- 0–3 years of experience in operations, chief-of-staff, consulting, or analyst roles.
- Strong written communication and project management instincts.
- Comfort with modern operating tools (Notion, Linear, Slack, AI assistants).
- Degree from a top global university.
- High curiosity and obvious ownership instinct.
- Reliable. Things you own get done, on time, without reminders.
- Resourceful. You find the AI-amplified way to do work others would do manually.
- Direct. You ask the hard question in the meeting.
- Competitive base with performance bonus.
- Direct mentorship from the Director of Operations and exposure to TURN8 leadership.
- Clear progression into Operations Lead and senior platform roles.
Build and lead TURN8's people function — talent acquisition, culture, learning, and HR infrastructure — as we scale across the GCC.
You will own how TURN8 attracts, develops, and keeps the best operators in the region.
You will turn culture from intent into operating practice.
You will be the senior people voice on the leadership team.
- Own talent acquisition strategy and employer brand across Riyadh and Dubai.
- Design and run L&D programs aligned to TURN8's AI-first methodology.
- Build HR infrastructure, compensation frameworks, and culture playbooks.
- Run a talent-as-a-service offering for selected portfolio companies.
- Lead performance review cycles, leveling, and senior succession planning.
- Manage the people operations team across geographies.
- 7+ years in HR or People leadership at high-growth tech firms, VC platforms, or top-tier professional services.
- Track record building recruiting and people functions from scratch.
- Strong executive search instincts; comfort closing senior leaders.
- Deep familiarity with GCC labour markets, visa frameworks, and Saudization requirements.
- Excellent written and verbal communication in English; Arabic strongly preferred.
- Operator, not administrator. You build systems that scale, not policies that bottleneck.
- Senior closer. You personally win the most important hires.
- Culture in practice. You turn values into rituals, not posters.
- Senior leadership compensation with bonus and equity participation.
- Direct seat at the leadership table.
- Influence over TURN8's culture, hiring bar, and growth trajectory.
Drive strategic planning and growth initiatives across TURN8's four engines. Own market entry analyses, corporate partner strategy, and cross-engine growth mandates.
You will be the senior strategist on the platform.
You will translate market signal into TURN8 strategy and corporate partner strategy.
You will partner directly with leadership on the most important growth decisions.
- Lead strategic projects for TURN8 and its corporate partners.
- Run market sizing, competitive analysis, and entry strategy across new sectors and geographies.
- Support new engine and product line development end-to-end.
- Build AI-amplified research and analysis pipelines across the platform.
- Translate strategy into delivery: hand off cleanly to Growth Foundry, Growth Capital, or AI Studio.
- Develop reusable strategy frameworks and playbooks for the TURN8 platform.
- 5–7 years at MBB or Tier-1 strategy consultancy, corporate innovation, or VC platform team.
- Demonstrated ownership of multi-month strategy engagements with senior executive clients.
- Strong analytical foundation: market sizing, competitive analysis, financial modeling.
- Excellent communication: sharp memos and sharp decks.
- MBA from a top-tier school preferred.
- Sharp. You produce one-page memos that change decisions.
- AI-amplified. You use AI research tools as standard practice, not novelty.
- Operator-fluent. Your strategy survives contact with reality.
- Senior strategist compensation with bonus.
- Exposure across multiple sectors and mandates simultaneously.
- Clear path to Director-level partnership roles within TURN8.
Work as an embedded operator on active venture builds. Contribute across discovery, validation, and launch under the Bold + Bounded methodology.
You will operate inside live ventures from day one.
You will run discovery, build MVPs, and own the work that turns a thesis into traction.
You will learn venture building by doing it.
- Lead customer discovery and market validation for new venture concepts.
- Build and test MVPs in collaboration with design and engineering teams.
- Manage relationships with corporate partner stakeholders and founders.
- Run Bold + Bounded gating: evidence-based go / hold / stop decisions at each milestone.
- Support founder-CEOs and EIRs as ventures move from thesis to first revenue.
- Contribute to Growth Foundry playbooks across discovery, validation, and launch.
- 0–3 years of experience in consulting, banking, product, or operating roles at a startup.
- Degree from a top global university.
- Strong customer discovery and analytical foundations.
- Excellent written communication; you write fast and clearly.
- Comfort with modern AI tools as part of daily workflow.
- Operator from day one. You ship customer interviews and prototypes, not just decks.
- Founder mindset. You take ownership of the venture, not just the task.
- Evidence before scale. You hold the discipline of Bold + Bounded under pressure.
- Competitive base with performance bonus and venture-level equity participation where applicable.
- Direct mentorship from EIRs, venture architects, and Growth Foundry leadership.
- A faster route into founder, product, or investment roles than any traditional path.
Support TURN8's AI Studio and internal AI tooling through applied research, benchmarking, and prototype development. Work directly with senior engineers and product leads.
You will track what's shipping at the frontier of AI and bring it into TURN8.
You will benchmark, prototype, and document — turning research into deployable capability.
You will build the foundation for a long career in applied AI.
- Research and evaluate emerging LLM and AI agent frameworks.
- Build proof-of-concept tools for internal and client use cases.
- Document AI deployment playbooks and technical findings.
- Benchmark model performance across cost, latency, accuracy, and reasoning quality.
- Support AI Engineers and Solutions Architects on live engagements.
- 0–2 years of experience or strong academic background in CS, ML, or related field.
- Hands-on familiarity with modern LLM stacks (PyTorch, Hugging Face, LangChain or equivalents).
- Strong Python.
- Excellent written communication; ability to translate research into clear playbooks.
- Genuine curiosity about the frontier — you read papers and ship code in the same week.
- Builder, not spectator. You prototype the paper you just read.
- Rigorous. Your benchmarks are honest, reproducible, and actionable.
- Fast to ship. You deliver working POCs, not perfect ones.
- Competitive base with performance bonus.
- Direct mentorship from senior AI engineers and the AI Solutions Architect.
- Hardware, model credits, and a clear path into AI Engineer and Solutions Architect roles.
Opportunities With TURN8
Portfolio & Partners
In addition to internal roles, we support our portfolio and ecosystem companies in hiring across regions.
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Commercial Director
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Science & Regulatory Lead
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Careers in VC & Startups:
TURN8 Insights
We share insights on venture building, corporate innovation, and building a career in VC and startups. Read more on our Knowledge Hub.
Start With the Problem, Not the Role Title
The best VC and venture building careers are built around a specific problem you want to solve, not a title you want to hold.
Operators Make the Best Investors
The most impactful CVC and VC professionals have built something. Hands-on experience with P&L, customer acquisition, or product gives you an irreplaceable edge.
Regional Context Is a Superpower
Understanding Vision 2030 mechanics, GCC corporate culture, and the nuance of Saudi market entry is genuinely rare. Develop it deliberately — it compounds.
AI Literacy Is Now Table Stakes
You do not need to be an ML engineer. But understanding how LLMs, agents, and AI workflows change business models is now non-negotiable in venture and growth roles.
Networks Are Built in the Work, Not Before It
The founders and investors you will work with in 10 years are the ones you build alongside today.
Write and Communicate Precisely
Investment memos, board updates, and strategy docs are how decisions get made. Clear, precise writing is the highest-leverage skill in any innovation-adjacent career.
Ready to Build
What Works?
Browse the 12 open roles above and submit your application below. We respond to every serious application within two weeks.
Your Questions About TURN8 Careers
Everything you need to know before applying for a role at TURN8 across Saudi Arabia, UAE, and the GCC.
Send your CV, a short note of 200–300 words explaining why this role and why TURN8, and a link to your LinkedIn profile or portfolio to careers@turn8.co. You can also use the application form above. We respond to every serious application within two weeks.
We have 12 open roles across investment, AI engineering, product management, operations, strategy, and people & culture. Positions are based in Riyadh, Dubai, and select remote-GCC arrangements. Browse the full list in the Open Roles section above and filter by function, location, or seniority.
Yes. While most roles are based in Riyadh and Dubai, we welcome applications from international candidates who are open to relocation or who can operate effectively within GCC time zones. Some AI and product roles support remote-GCC arrangements. Visa sponsorship is considered for strong candidates.
Bold + Bounded is TURN8's proprietary venture building framework. It combines ambitious innovation goals with disciplined operational constraints — time-boxed discovery phases, resource boundaries, and milestone-driven decision gates. Every team member learns and applies this methodology from day one. Read more about our approach here.
Absolutely. We maintain an active talent bench across all functions. Send your CV and a short note explaining your background and the kind of mandate you are looking for to careers@turn8.co. We will reach out when the right opportunity arises.
Our investment and venture building activity spans fintech, climate tech, digital health, logistics, mobility, AI-first B2B, and enterprise software — with a primary focus on Saudi Arabia, UAE, and the broader GCC aligned with Vision 2030. See full sector coverage on the Growth Capital and Growth Foundry pages.
Yes. In addition to internal TURN8 roles, we support hiring across our portfolio and partner ecosystem — covering AI, data, finance, and commercial leadership positions. Company names are withheld at the screening stage. Apply via the Portfolio & Partners section above and our talent team will match strong candidates to active mandates under NDA.