About MetisJean

MetisJean is a sovereign AI company headquartered in the UAE. We have built JEAN, the sovereign operating system for AI.

JEAN gives an organisation one place where its people and AI agents work, built on a shared institutional knowledge layer. Each client runs its own isolated instance, deployed where they choose, so their data, models and governance stay under their control. That matters most to the organisations we serve: banks, government entities, regulated businesses and the conglomerates that own them.

JEAN is now with its first customers. We sell two ways:

Jean Essentials: packaged offers for mid-market organisations, with shorter sales cycles. This is where the pipeline starts.
Jean Sovereign: larger enterprise and government deployments, with longer cycles, more stakeholders and bigger contracts.

What you will do

Your first priority is revenue: you will spend most of your time selling, and build the team as the pipeline justifies it.

Own the lead pipeline

Take over a live pipeline of leads from events, partners and inbound interest, and qualify it quickly.
Run your own outbound into banks, government entities and regulated mid-market businesses across the UAE and GCC.
Work with marketing on campaigns and events, and hold them to the quality of leads they bring in.

Own the opportunity pipeline and close

Run deals end to end: discovery, demonstration, proof of value, commercial negotiation and signature.
Close Jean Essentials deals at pace, and lead larger Jean Sovereign opportunities through multi-stakeholder buying processes and procurement.
Work alongside our solution architects on technical sessions, while owning the commercial relationship.
Keep forecasting honest: an accurate CRM, clear next steps on every deal and a weekly forecast the leadership team can rely on.

Build the sales function

Mature the sales process, qualification criteria and reporting.
Hire and develop the first account executives and business development representatives as the pipeline grows.
Build relationships with channel and go to market partners, including cloud and data centre providers, who can take JEAN to their clients.
Feed what you hear from customers back into product and pricing.

What you bring

A track record of closing enterprise technology deals in the UAE and wider GCC, with numbers you can show us.
Experience selling to banks, government, or other regulated buyers, and comfort with long, multi-stakeholder procurement.
A network across UAE financial services, government and family-owned conglomerates.
Experience as the first or an early sales hire in a growth company. You know how to build a process where none exists.
Some experience hiring and leading a small sales team, while still carrying a personal quota.
Enough technical understanding of AI, data and cloud to hold your own with a CIO or head of data, and the judgement to know when to bring in an architect.
Personal drive. Nobody will hand you a pipeline that runs itself.

Nice to have

Background selling AI, data platform, cybersecurity or cloud infrastructure.
Familiarity with UAE data protection rules and sovereignty requirements in regulated sectors.
Arabic.

What we offer

A competitive package: base salary, uncapped commission and equity.
The chance to build a sales function from the ground up and grow with it.
Direct access to the CEO and COO, and a real say in how we go to market.
A product with a clear reason to exist in a region that cares about who controls its data and AI.

Sales Director