Capital Raising & Investor Relations Manager

Role overview

Employment and compensation

• The role is full-time and pays AED 15,000–AED 50,000 per month.
• Compensation includes a competitive base salary, performance-based incentives, and an annual performance bonus.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and execute a structured global capital-raising strategy.
• Identify, research, qualify, and approach potential investors through networks, referrals, conferences, and professional channels.
• Build and manage an investor pipeline and lead investor meetings, presentations, calls, and selected roadshows.
• Present the business model, growth strategy, market opportunity, and investment proposition.
• Prepare pitch decks, investment proposals, financial summaries, and investor communications.
• Manage investor communication and follow-up throughout fundraising.
• Coordinate due diligence with management, finance, and legal teams.
• Support valuation, investment structure, and commercial-term discussions.
• Develop relationships that may provide capital, partnerships, market access, and international expansion opportunities.
• Maintain CRM records and report outreach, meetings, feedback, pipeline value, and fundraising progress to senior management.

Required experience and skills

• Candidates need 5–10+ years of experience in capital raising, fundraising, investor relations, investment banking, private equity, venture capital, asset management, private banking, wealth management, family offices, or corporate finance.
• Candidates must have personally sourced, originated, or closed investment or capital-raising transactions.
• An established and verifiable network of qualified investors is required.
• Strong knowledge of investor qualification, fundraising, due diligence, negotiations, and transaction processes is required.
• Experience preparing and presenting investment proposals, pitch decks, financial information, and business cases is required.
• Strong presentation, communication, persuasion, negotiation, commercial, financial, analytical, networking, CRM, and relationship-management skills are required.
• Fluent spoken and written English is required.
• Cross-border fundraising experience is highly desirable, while UAE or GCC investor relationships are advantageous but not required.
• A bachelor’s degree in a related discipline is preferred; an MBA, CFA, or relevant professional qualification is advantageous.

Ideal candidate profile

• The ideal candidate is a proven capital raiser and investor-relations professional with an active investor network.
• Candidates should demonstrate previous capital raised or investment transactions originated, including their approximate size and nature.
• Candidates should demonstrate investor introductions, credibility with qualified investors and senior business leaders, commercial judgment, discretion, and an entrepreneurial approach.
• General sales, telesales, immigration sales, or conventional business development without a capital-raising or investment track record is unlikely to be suitable.

Workplace and location

• The listed work location is in person in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
• Remote or hybrid work may be considered for exceptional candidates with strong, verifiable investor networks.

Additional offering

• The employer offers full UAE work visa and residency sponsorship, relocation support to Dubai, international investor and strategic-partner exposure, career growth, and international market exposure.