Director Structuring & Origination

About Zamanat

The Role

Director, Structuring & Originatio

What You Will Do

• Lead end-to-end structuring on live mandates across receivables financing, private credit, fund tokenisation and asset-backed structures
• Originate new mandates alongside the CEO and BD lead, primarily across MENA, GCC, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
• Codify Zamanat's structuring playbooks. The 12-month KPI is three named playbooks in production use
• Build AI-assisted structuring tooling and templates: use AI to fast-track documentation, term-sheet drafting, scenario modelling, Sharia structure checks, and deal pattern recognition across the playbook library
• Own commercial term-sheet design, fee structures and economic alignment with sponsors and partners
• Run Sharia structuring decisions in close coordination with appointed Sharia advisors. Murabaha, Wakala, Sukuk, Ijara, Musharaka and hybrid structures as relevant
• Oversee post-issuance servicing on SME and receivables programmes including servicing, reporting, performance monitoring and remediation triggers
• Work with regulatory counsel and partner licence-holders on jurisdictional execution (ADGM, DIFC, DFSA, FSRA, and selected emerging-market regulators)
• Manage the deal-team relationship with fund administrators, custodians, tokenisation tech partners and Sharia advisors
• Build and lead the structuring team as pipeline conversion supports it.

Candidate Profile

Required Experience

• 10 to 14 years in structured finance, capital markets, sukuk, Islamic finance, private credit, securitisation, receivables financing or specialist arranging
• Demonstrable Sharia-structured execution on live deals. Murabaha, Wakala, Sukuk or Ijara applied in production, not theoretical.
• Capital markets experience including debt capital markets, sukuk issuance, structured notes or asset-backed transactions
• Receivables financing, factoring, supply-chain finance or working-capital programme experience.
• Strong commercial judgement on term sheets, fee structures and sponsor economics.
• Experience working across ADGM, DIFC, DFSA, FSRA or comparable GCC and MENA regulatory environments.
• Ability to manage external counsel, fund administrators, custodians and partner licence-holders.
• Willingness to learn and embed AI tools in day-to-day structuring work. Comfortable using AI for documentation, scenario testing, term-sheet drafting, structure comparison and pattern recognition across deal libraries.

Preferred Experience

• Private markets experience including private credit funds, real-estate funds, infrastructure or alternatives
• Tokenisation, digital assets or blockchain-based issuance exposure
• Direct relationships with mid-market issuers, sponsors, asset managers and private credit originators across MENA, GCC, South Asia or Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Prior experience codifying structuring playbooks, templates or repeat-issuance frameworks.
• Existing exposure to AI tools applied to financial work (deal review, documentation drafting, model build, research synthesis).
• Team build and leadership experience.
• Comfort operating without a large platform underneath, in an early-stage operating company

What Success Looks Like

What We Offer

• Competitive fixed compensation.
• Performance-linked bonus tied to closed mandates, structuring fee revenue and playbook delivery.
• Equity or carry participation aligned to long-term value creation
• Clear trajectory to Senior Director or MD as pipeline, AUM and team scale.
• Direct exposure to the CEO, partners, sponsors and Sharia governance.
• A foundational role in building a Sharia-aligned tokenisation platform from the structuring layer up, with AI tooling embedded into the workflow from inception.