Talent Lead Culture

Job Description

Talent Lead – The Studio, Doha, Qatar

Salary: QAR 120,000 – QAR 360,000 per year (annually). Job posted today.

The Studio is part of Utopia Capital’s integrated venture platform, focused on building AI‑native companies across the Global South. In this role you will design and scale people systems that support founders, venture teams, and the Studio itself.

• Lead end-to-end recruitment across the Studio, hiring world‑class engineers, operators, and entrepreneurs.
• Design and run recruitment processes for EIRs, venture teams, and platform hires.
• Build and manage a founder talent pipeline aligned with the EIR model, Fellowship, and PODs system.
• Partner with leadership to define roles, evaluate candidates, and ensure cultural fit.
• Create hiring playbooks and interview frameworks that reflect an AI‑native, founder‑centric approach.
• Leverage analytics and AI tools to improve sourcing, candidate assessment, and hiring efficiency.
• Prototype and pilot AI‑native talent processes such as automated screening, culture‑fit evaluation models, and adaptive job design.
• Embed Utopia’s AI‑native culture across the Studio, fostering curiosity, speed, and collaboration.
• Champion a one‑team culture, ensuring cohesion across Studio, Funds, and Platform teams.
• Lead onboarding and internal learning programs for all team members and founders.
• Organize rituals, workshops, and events that build belonging and psychological safety.
• Coach team leads and founders on people leadership, feedback, and performance practices.
• Implement performance frameworks that balance accountability with learning.
• Support leaders in designing incentive and retention models aligned with venture outcomes.
• Experiment with AI‑enabled learning systems, internal mobility tracking, and real‑time feedback tools.
• Collaborate with design and engineering to create people dashboards aligned with venture KPIs.
• Pilot early experiments with AI copilots and HR assistants to enhance candidate experience and onboarding.
• Provide HR advisory and culture‑building support to founders within Studio ventures.
• Help early‑stage companies design hiring systems, onboarding processes, and talent development plans.
• Build a network of advisors, coaches, and specialists to support founders’ leadership challenges.
• Develop people playbooks that help ventures scale while maintaining strong culture.
• Coach founders on org design for AI‑native teams, balancing technical depth, creative autonomy, and operational focus.
• Help early‑stage teams structure roles, OKRs, and collaboration patterns.
• Design simple toolkits that help founders run effective feedback and learning cycles without heavy HR infrastructure.
• Set up and manage foundational HR systems for the Studio (payroll, contracts, policies, compliance).
• Use AI‑native HR tools (People
  
  GPT, Deel, Ashby, Notion AI) to automate workflows.
• Maintain studio and venture talent data, ensuring compliance with QFC and Qatar regulations.
• Track and report studio‑level talent KPIs to leadership.
• Implement lightweight people analytics across ventures.
• Use insights to refine studio‑wide hiring, onboarding, and team development practices.

• 5+ years in People Operations, Talent, or HR, ideally in venture, startup, or innovation contexts.
• Designed and implemented hiring and culture systems in fast‑moving environments.
• Familiar with early‑stage company building and founder challenges.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with an empathetic, coaching mindset.
• Experience building inclusive teams cross‑culturally.
• Tech‑savvy; comfortable using AI tools for HR, data analysis, and automation.
• Strategic thinker who balances structure with speed.
• Experience working across the Global South and understanding regional talent dynamics.
• Strong grounding in talent analytics, workforce design, or AI‑driven HR processes.
• Proven ability to apply AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, People
  
  GPT, Ashby AI) in recruiting, onboarding, or performance management.
• Experience collaborating directly with product and engineering teams.

• Founder‑first:
  Measure success by enabling others to thrive.
• System‑builder:
  Turn chaos into clarity through scalable…