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The MENA Catalysts is expanding. We're building the company into a billion-dollar powerhouse and looking for a co-founder candidate with startup experience, writing skills, and management experience.

• Take our consultancy to new heights, from the Gulf to San Francisco.
• Turn red tape into green lights with government leaders.
• Build a team of rockstars, not corporate drones.
• Architect and execute Gulf market entry for fintech, digital assets, and AI giants.
• Deliver actionable public policy reports on fintech licensing and market access in the Gulf economies.
• Build and refine operational systems for scalable growth.
• Implement robust financial and operational frameworks.

• Lead transformative projects with global impact.
• Work with top-tier clients and government leaders.
• Help scale a consultancy poised for exponential growth.
• Shape policy and strategy at the intersection of technology and governance.

Middle East Strategy Project Delivery for fintech and web3 multinationals, Proposal Development, B2B Marketing, Knowledge Management.

— Drive project implementation for 1-2 projects (ideally) and possibly 1-2 proposals.

• Formulate and test hypotheses; storyboard, and create nuanced, actionable market entry strategy for client fintech multinationals expanding in the Gulf.
• Project manage and deliver a roadmap of client Middle Eastern market expansion strategy and intelligence projects for fintech, crypto, and AI multinationals.
• Translate client priorities into digestible, easy-to-understand work scope and execution plan.
• Design and implement market entry strategy for top-tier fintech and AI clients.
• Develop public policy frameworks, licensing roadmaps, and actionable intelligence for Gulf market expansion.

— Work closely with CEO to build TMC's internal organization including building up internal knowledge base, creating process flows, and identifying activities ripe for automation.

• High stakes. Higher rewards.

• Meet some of the Middle East's biggest newsmakers, the world's most interesting people.

• Gain first-hand insights into the Middle East high-tech sector.

• Office goodies - team lunches every month.

• Build wealth while building a legacy.

• You're a dreamer. You make the complex simple.

• You've got Wall Street savvy and Silicon Valley guts.
• Driven, detail-oriented, and operationally savvy.
• Strong background in project delivery and B2B marketing.
• You'd rather create the rules than just follow them.
• Money motivates you, but so does doing things your way.
• You're allergic to BS and thrive on transparency.

• Cool under pressure. You can settle disputes with minimal noise.

• Have a "growth mindset"; embrace constructive feedback.

• Team player.

The MENA Catalysts is a strategy consulting firm for high-tech companies. The firm provides A-Z Middle East market expansion for the world's most ambitious companies reinventing the region's digital economy landscape. Clients approach The MENA Catalysts when they are frustrated by burning through work, pain, and time in their Middle East expansion efforts. They reach us when they are lost by the high ambiguity and slow pace internally of trying to enter high-growth Middle Eastern markets.

We simplify the Middle East market expansion process providing a turn-key solution for global fintech and Web3 companies to expand in the region to build up their government relations, licensing, intelligence tracking, and partnerships bigger, better, and faster.

Our 'sweet spot' resides in the realms of public policy strategy — backed by years of experience and a proven track record — opening high-growth markets for global tech companies.

The MENA Catalysts craft government relations in world-class industries – but it's the diversity of our people and ideas, inspiring the innovation that runs through everything we do.

The company is a premium-brand government relations practice for the world's most ambitious high-tech multinationals, reinventing the future of the Middle East. The firm started in 2017 as a team of three colleagues with a passion to be a part of something bigger. Together, they changed government relations, reimagining tech government relations in the Middle East in one swoop.

If in San Francisco and interested, email ...@themenacatalysts.com or ...@themenacatalysts.com

Due to the high-profile nature of the work, and the government ministers involved, we ask all candidates to eventually go through a background check because this is a position of "high trust" with publicly traded companies, international media, and heads of state.

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