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Client Solutions Middle East - Vice President
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iCapital’s Client Solutions EMEA team is seeking a Vice President to support and accelerate our international growth across the GCC markets. This individual will play a key commercial and strategic role in expanding iCapital’s footprint with wealth managers, private banks, independent financial advisors, and family offices.
As a member of the regional team, you will help shape the business development strategy, deepen existing client relationships, and drive new distribution partnerships. The role offers a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of private markets, wealth management, and financial technology in a fast‑growing, global organization. This position is Abu Dhabi‑based.
Responsibilities
- Support the Client Solutions EMEA team in executing the business development strategy for iCapital, covering Wealth Managers in the GCC region.
- Develop and manage a robust and sustainable pipeline of prospective Wealth Manager clients.
- Execute Wealth Manager onboarding process from start to finish, working closely with related teams.
- Nurture strong relationships with clients and prospects.
- Educate clients on Private Markets/Alternatives and articulate iCapital’s solutions and capabilities to clients and partners.
- Provide constant feedback from the field on competitive landscape, investors’ appetite, trends and share with colleagues globally.
- Build strong internal relationships within iCapital and work closely with other teams (Research & Fund Management, Product Development, Implementation Specialist group, Client Success, Marketing, Legal & Compliance, Technology & Operations, etc.) to achieve the best client outcomes and successful long-term client relationships.
- Serve as the relationship manager and deliver an exceptional client experience for our Wealth Manager clients (i.e. banks, wealth managers, multi-family office and independent financial advisors).
Candidate Profile
- Solid academic credentials in relevant field.
- 7-10+ years of solid work experience in the Asset or Wealth Management industry, with a demonstrated track record in winning and interacting with clients.
- Experience as business development professional or similar role in the asset management industry is a must.
- Strong understanding of the wealth management landscape across the GCC is a must, if possible with an established network across private banks, wealth managers, independent financial advisors, and family offices.
- In-depth experience across Private Markets asset classes, combined with a strong grasp of the Wealth Manager distribution model, is strongly preferred.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Excellent presentation and verbal/written communication skills, with a professional and positive attitude.
- Highly collaborative, and able to think strategically about business opportunities and client management.
- Language skills: Native in English and Arabic is a plus but not a must
- Ability to work independently with a strong appetite to work in a fast-growing, collaborative environment.
We believe the best ideas and innovation happen when we are together. Employees in this role will work in the office four days, with the flexibility to work remotely one day (Friday).
Benefits
iCapital offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes a total compensation program consisting of competitive salary, annual performance bonus, and equity for all full-time employees;
For additional information on iCapital please visit https://www.icapital.com/about-us X (former Twitter): @icapitalnetwork | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/icapital-network-inc
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MENA Equities Quantitative Researcher
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About Winton
Winton is a research-based investment management company with a specialist focus on statistical and mathematical inference in financial markets. The firm researches and trades quantitative investment strategies, which are implemented systematically via thousands of securities, spanning the world's major liquid asset classes. Founded in 1997 by David Harding, Winton today manages assets for some of the world’s largest institutional investors.
We employ ambitious professionals who want to work collaboratively at the leading edge of investment management.
We are seeking a highly motivated quantitative researcher to join our Investment Management & Research group, focussing on MENA Equities. You will play a key role in researching, developing and operating our equities strategies in the region, partnering with portfolio managers, researchers, and technology to build and optimise the full strategy lifecycle – from research and back testing to live trading and risk management.
You will spend an initial period of approximately 6 months working in our London office before relocating to our office in Abu Dhabi.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Conduct in-depth research to identify alpha-generating strategies in MENA equity markets
- Research and back test systematic trading signals
- Collaborate closely with portfolio managers, researchers and technologists to develop trading infrastructure and strategies
- Monitor, analyse and report on strategy performance
What we are looking for:
- 3+ years of experience working in a systematic equity trading environment
- Proficiency in data analysis and programming, preferably using Python and key libraries such as Pandas and NumPy
- Exceptional understanding of signal research and portfolio construction
- Strong communication skills with the ability to work in a distributed and collaborative research environment.
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We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics.
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Welcome to Planet. We believe in using space to help life on Earth.
Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history. This constellation delivers an unprecedented dataset of empirical information via a revolutionary cloud-based platform to authoritative figures in commercial, environmental, and humanitarian sectors. We are both a space company and data company all rolled into one.
Customers and users across the globe use Planet's data to develop new technologies, drive revenue, power research, and solve our world’s toughest obstacles.
As we control every component of hardware design, manufacturing, data processing, and software engineering, our office is a truly inspiring mix of experts from a variety of domains.
We have a people-centric approach toward culture and community and we strive to iterate in a way that puts our team members first and prepares our company for growth. Join Planet and be a part of our mission to change the way people see the world.
Planet is a global company with employees working remotely world wide and joining us from offices in San Francisco, Washington DC, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, and The Netherlands.
About the Role:
Planet’s Professional Services team helps our Defense and Intelligence (D&I) customers adopt the Planet Platform and rapidly realize return on investment in Planet data and analytics. The Professional Services Global D&I team is looking for a Solutions Architect responsible for the implementation, integration, and analysis of new software and data products that extend the Planet Platform and deliver new capabilities to our strategic D&I customers. In this role, you will be embedded with our customer to train users on Planet products, translate requirements, design workflows, and communicate with Planet’s product team on mission critical capabilities. Your work will be highly visible, directly impacting customers' ability to quickly access Planet's unprecedented datasets, as well as streamline the internal processes for adding new customers to our platform. Ideal candidates will be excited about Planet’s mission.
This is a full-time, in-office position based in one of our strategic customer locations 5 days a week, in Abu Dhabi, UAE. This position is contingent upon award.
Impact You’ll Own:
- Understand clients’ needs and deliver tailored solutions
- Break down ambiguous, high-stakes problems into clearly defined, solvable components
- Leverage analytical skills to deliver products to our D&I customers and support mission requirements
- Design workflows, defining data models, configuring integrations, and helping define tooling that aligns to the customer’s mission.
- Train users, iterate with them in real time, and ensure that Planet solutions become mission-critical to daily operations.
- Translate operational requirements into actionable product feedback for Planet’s engineering teams.
- Communicate technical capabilities back to customers in clear, mission-focused language.
- Rapidly prototype, test, and adjust workflows to match real operational needs.
- Mapping out high-level strategy with decision makers by sitting next to analysts to debug workflows.
- Work closely with customer teams to understand their workflows, pain points, and mission priorities.
What You Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software, Systems Engineering, or similar
- 4+ years of experience in supporting D&I customers, with specialized technical experience in the general areas of systems integration
- Fluent in Golang, Python, Postgresql, & React or related technologies
- Experience with cloud deployments; GCP, AWS, Azure
- Solid problem-solving and systems thinking skills
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management
- Ability to quickly learn new technical domains and tools
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous, high-pressure environments
- Deep curiosity and willingness to dive into operational details
- Fluency in translating between technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience with solving complex problems through analytical skills
- Experience scaling and maintaining production systems
What Makes You Stand Out:
- Experience working with defense and intelligence organizations in the UAE
- Systems integrations experience working with multi domain/multi-level security architectures, particularly the Defence and Intelligence.
- Working knowledge of JavaScript and its mapping libraries (OpenLayers, Leaflet, ArcGIS API for JavaScript), Google Earth Engine and it’s SDK
- Experience with RDBMS (PostgreSQL, SQL) and distributed databases (NoSQL)
- Experience in geopolitics and data science
- Ability to pick up new technologies quickly
- Experience with building analytical products from complex datasets
- Experience with geospatial technologies and data
- GEOINT experience, imagery exploitation and analysis
- Fluent in multiple languages
Application Deadline: February 20th, 2026 at 11:59PM PST
Benefits While Working at Planet:
These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy.
- Paid time off including vacation, holidays and company-wide days off
- Employee Wellness Program
- Home Office Reimbursement
- Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
- Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
- Equity
- Volunteering Paid Time Off
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We’re dedicated to helping the whole Planet, and to do that we must strive to represent all of it within each of our offices and on all of our teams. That’s why Planet is guided by an ultimate north star of Belonging—dreaming big as we approach our ongoing work. If this job intrigues you, but you’re thinking you might not have all the qualifications, please... do apply! At Planet, we are looking for well-rounded people from around the world who can contribute to more ways than just what is listed in this job description. We don’t just fill positions, we aspire to fulfill people’s careers, most excited about folks who are motivated by our underlying humanitarian efforts. We are a few orbits around the sun before we get to where we want to be, so we hope you’re excited to come along for the ride.
EEO statement:
Planet is committed to building a community where everyone belongs and we invite people from all backgrounds to apply. Planet is an equal opportunity employer, and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Know Your Rights.
Accommodations:
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