Solutions Consultant, Digital Assets
Role Overview
CertiK works with banks, regulators and regulated financial institutions that adopt digital assets. We build regulatory technology for these markets, and we are hiring a solutions consultant to be CertiK's presence with clients across the Middle East. You will meet with banks, VASPs and regulators, present our products and services, learn their problems, and lead consulting-style engagements to solve them.
This is a forward-deployed role. You work from the client's side of the table, embedded with compliance and risk teams at banks, VASPs and regulators in the UAE and neighbouring markets when an engagement calls for it, owning the relationship on the ground. What you learn there sets the direction for Product and the commercial approach.
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About the role
CertiK works with banks, regulators and regulated financial institutions that adopt digital assets. We build regulatory technology for these markets, and we are hiring a solutions consultant to be CertiK's presence with clients across the Middle East. You will meet with banks, VASPs and regulators, present our products and services, learn their problems, and lead consulting-style engagements to solve them.
This is a forward-deployed role. You work from the client's side of the table, embedded with compliance and risk teams at banks, VASPs and regulators in the UAE and neighbouring markets when an engagement calls for it, owning the relationship on the ground. What you learn there sets the direction for Product and the commercial approach.
What you'll do
Spend extended periods on site with compliance, risk and innovation teams at banks, VASPs, custodians and regulators in the UAE and wider region
Run discovery with clients and prospects: understand their workflows, tools, pain points and regulatory obligations, including the reason behind each request, and document them in the client's own words
Bring findings back to Product in a form that shapes the roadmap and the sales approach
Partner with Business Development in client meetings and regulator conversations: BD owns the commercial relationship, you own the solution and the follow-up on the ground
Present CertiK's products and services clearly to senior client teams, and turn pain points into scoped proposals with clear deliverables and timelines
Deliver advisory engagements, including licensing readiness reviews, gap analyses, technical due diligence, digital asset strategy assessments, workshops and reports
Represent CertiK at industry events and regulator meetings in the region
Coordinate with CertiK teams in the US, Europe and Asia across time zones
Requirements
- 3+ years in a client-facing role such as consulting, solutions or business development, or in a compliance, risk or regulatory role at a financial institution or VASP
- Experience working with or inside banks, VASPs or other regulated financial institutions, whether in-house or through consulting or advisory engagements; you understand how a compliance or risk function runs day to day
- Available to be based at client sites for weeks at a time, with regular travel across the GCC and occasional travel beyond it
- Knowledge of bank regulatory compliance and technology
- Professional writing and presentation skills: produces client-ready reports and presents them to senior compliance, risk and executive audiences
- Operates independently: runs a client relationship and an engagement end to end with light supervision
- Location: Dubai / UAE. Frequent on-site time with clients across the region.
Bonus points
Knowledge of VARA, ADGM, DFSA or central bank licensing regimes
Experience with VASP licensing, regulatory examinations or compliance remediation
Experience with compliance, risk or surveillance software
Big 4 or financial services consulting background
Arabic language skills
Existing relationships with compliance, risk or innovation leaders across GCC banks, VASPs or regulators
Additional information
This role must be performed outside the United States. We are unable to consider candidates who will work from within the U.S.
Responsibilities
- Spend extended periods on site with compliance, risk and innovation teams at banks, VASPs, custodians and regulators in the UAE and wider region
- Run discovery with clients and prospects: understand their workflows, tools, pain points and regulatory obligations, including the reason behind each request, and document them in the client's own words
- Bring findings back to Product in a form that shapes the roadmap and the sales approach
- Partner with Business Development in client meetings and regulator conversations: BD owns the commercial relationship, you own the solution and the follow-up on the ground
- Present CertiK's products and services clearly to senior client teams, and turn pain points into scoped proposals with clear deliverables and timelines
- Deliver advisory engagements, including licensing readiness reviews, gap analyses, technical due diligence, digital asset strategy assessments, workshops and reports
- Represent CertiK at industry events and regulator meetings in the region
- Coordinate with CertiK teams in the US, Europe and Asia across time zones
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