Director of Compliance

We are preparing the company for listing on Boursa Kuwait. The compliance function you build here will be the one that takes us public — and remains the foundation of everything after.

This role exists because we are moving from a high-growth private company to a regulated public entity, and we want the person who designs that transition to own it permanently.

What the role actually involvesYou will work directly with the Board, and our IPO advisors to close the gap between where we are and where a listed company is required to be. That means leading the governance gap assessment, building the regulatory engagement model with CMA Kuwait and Boursa Kuwait, establishing board-level compliance reporting, and embedding compliance culture across a multi-country operation spanning Kuwait, KSA, and the UAE.Your work will be visible at board level from day one.

Who will thrive hereYou have done this before — either inside a listed company where you owned the compliance function, or in a Big-4 advisory role where you led governance mandates for listed or pre-IPO clients in Kuwait or the GCC. You understand CMA Kuwait's corporate governance rules and Boursa Kuwait's listing requirements from the inside, not from a manual.

You can move between regulatory language and operational reality without needing a translator.

Just as important: you are not looking for a quiet maintenance role. You want to build something that carries your name.

Why this is worth your attentionThere are very few moments in a compliance career where you are handed a blank page at a company of this scale, with direct access to the Board, and asked to define what good looks like. This is one of them.

After listing, this function — and the person leading it — becomes a permanent fixture of the public company structure. The role does not end at IPO. It evolves.

Background we expect to seeCompliance or governance leadership inside a Boursa Kuwait listed company, or senior advisory experience on listed-company or IPO-track mandates in Kuwait. Legal, risk, or internal controls backgrounds are equally welcome if the governance and listed-company experience is genuine.

Kuwait-based. Fluent in Arabic and English.