Head of Venture Success & Strategic Partnerships

Overview

Studio Directors

Founder Enablement & Venture Success

• Partner with the Studio Directors to deliver the end-to-end journey for EIRs - from Fellowship onboarding and POD matching through to spin-out.
• Build and maintain a strong founder pipeline across the GCC, Africa, and Southeast Asia through partnerships, scouting programs, and regional events that attract and engage high-agency talent.
• Operate the support modules that help founders accelerate (go-to-market, capital readiness, technical integration, pilot design).
• Ensure every founder has a clear success plan with milestones, progress tracking, and measurable outcomes.
• Run workshops, sprints, and mentoring sessions that translate our playbooks into real venture traction.
• Design and refine founder capability-building programs from entrepreneurial readiness to go-to-market execution ensuring consistent, scalable founder development across cohorts.
• Capture and translate founder feedback into improvements in program design, venture playbooks, and Utopia OS workflows.

Portfolio Support & Growth

• Work with leadership to ensure ventures hit key KPIs concepts developed, proofs-of-concept launched, spin-outs secured.
• Monitor venture performance and proactively identify risks or bottlenecks coordinating with product, design, and capital teams to course-correct early.
• Coordinate with our technical and design teams so ventures actually leverage Utopia OS effectively.
• Help ventures refine their business models, pilot strategies, and go-to-market plans
• Connect founders with strategic partners, customers, and investors across the GCC, Africa, and Southeast Asia.
• Facilitate and track venture introductions ensuring they lead to real outcomes such as pilots, commercial contracts, or funding opportunities.
• Collaborate with leadership to convert promising pilots into scalable partnerships and spin-out success stories.

Ecosystem & Partnership Management

• Identify, formalize, and manage strategic partnerships with corporates, universities, government programs, and investor networks that can accelerate venture validation, pilot design, and market access.
• Track and report how we deliver value across Middle East and non-Middle East ventures, surfacing learnings and partnership opportunities to Studio leadership.
• Coordinate between the Studio and our funds (A-typical Ventures and The Radical Fund) to ensure founders get aligned capital and support.
• Keep things aligned with Qatar Development Bank's strategic priorities and ecosystem goals.
• Represent The Studio at regional innovation forums, conferences, and ecosystem events to showcase venture outcomes and strengthen Utopia s regional presence.

Operations & Reporting

• Build and maintain a live, AI-enhanced venture dashboard tracking founder progress, POD milestones, and portfolio KPIs in real time.
• Integrate automated data flows between Utopia OS, venture pods, and Studio systems to generate live insights on traction, risk, and capital readiness.
• Use AI models to surface venture health signals, predict timeline slippage, and identify where intervention or support is most needed.
• Create narrative and data-driven reports venture success stories, quarterly updates, and board materials that combine human context with AI-generated insight summaries.
• Partner with the ops and platform teams to embed predictive analytics and natural language reporting into Studio and Fund dashboards ensuring leadership has continuous visibility into performance across ventures.
• Champion a data culture where every founder interaction, milestone, and learning is captured, structured, and made actionable through the Utopia OS system.