--- title: 'Fellow - Industry/Domain Expert at The Utopia Venture Platform' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/fellow-industry-domain-expert-the-utopia-venture-platform-doha-yb32s4me8av9' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-05' --- # Fellow - Industry/Domain Expert at The Utopia Venture Platform - **Company:** The Utopia Venture Platform - **Location:** Doha, Qatar - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-08-06 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/the-studio/b9f16a47-3c2a-4d2d-a917-c283b4a03b84 ## Job description Disclaimer: Applications for the current cohort are closed. We are no longer reviewing applications for this intake. You are welcome to submit your application now as we will begin processing new applications from October 2026 and will be in touch if there is a fit. ## About the Studio We’re an AI-native venture builder for the Global South. We partner with people who know their industry from the inside. You bring the problem, access, and insight. We bring product, design, engineering, and GTM support. ## About the Role This Fellowship is for operators and specialists who’ve lived the inefficiency/problem they want to fix. You’ll validate the problem, build an AI prototype with our team, test it with real users, and prepare it for venture formation. No product or technical background needed. ## What You’ll Do - Define the problem with real evidence - Validate with customers - Prototype with design and engineering - Run pilots and early commercial tests - Shape the venture case and strategy ## What You Bring - Deep domain fluency - Access to workflows, data, or customers - Credibility in your field - Clear understanding of where value leaks - A bias for action Support - 6-month structured co-build - Hybrid with key sprints in Doha - Full access to product, design, engineering, and GTM teams ## Why This Fellowship You know how your industry works. You’ve seen the gaps and failures from the inside. We help you turn that insight into an AI-native venture built for your region and ready for scale. We believe innovation should be inclusive and globally distributed. Our team is built on openness, curiosity, and collaboration — with people from across the GCC, Africa, and Southeast Asia working together to build meaningful ventures. All roles are based in Doha, Qatar, with flexible hybrid options and global travel opportunities (unless otherwise stated). We welcome talent from every background to join us in shaping the future of AI-native innovation. ## About The Utopia Venture Platform ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: The Utopia Venture Platform is an AI-native venture builder and studio that partners with domain experts to transform high-barrier problems into scalable, high-return global investments, compressing the path from concept to Series A. - **Entity Type**: Private (Venture Studio / Venture Builder) - **Headquarters**: Doha, Qatar - **Founded**: Not publicly available - **Founders**: Shamona Maharaj (Founding & Managing Partner), Roo Rogers (Founding & Managing Partner), Alina Truhina, Konstantin Behr (Chief Strategy Officer), and others; the studio operates with 13 passports across four continents. ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Venture Building / Venture Studio, Artificial Intelligence, Software - **Target customers**: Domain experts and high-agency founders with operating insight into industry bottlenecks; ventures are built for the Global South and global markets. - **Mission or purpose**: To be the best company builder in the world — transforming high-barrier problems into scalable, investable companies by surrounding operating insight with product, technology, capital, and growth support. ## Products & Services - **The Utopia Studio (Core Venture Building)**: An AI-native venture builder that co-builds AI companies with domain experts. It both builds new ventures and re-engineers existing ones for AI-driven growth, powered by UTOPIA OS — a modular, adaptive stack tailored to each venture. - **UTOPIA OS**: The studio's proprietary operating system — a modular, adaptive stack that powers each venture, compressing the path from concept to Series A to under 24 months. - **Fellows Program**: A structured program for domain experts to co-build ventures with the studio. Fellows bring their industry bottleneck and operating insight, while the studio provides product shaping, technology, capital, and growth support. - **Venture Platform & Infrastructure**: A platform that provides AI-native engineering, infrastructure, capital (funding aligned from first proof to scale), and growth support (brand, demand, and go-to-market). ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not disclosed (private venture studio) - **Key Metric**: 11 Fellows, 6 Opportunity spaces, co-building globally from Doha; 3 total employees listed on Built In, but the team page shows a larger operator team including partners, engineers, and associates. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Qatar Development Bank, Atypical Ventures, The Radical Fund; Technology Partners include Convex, Stripe, WorkOS, Vercel, Sentry, Linear, Cursor, Claude, Next.js, NVIDIA, AMD, Railway, PostHog; Ecosystem Partners also listed. - **Growth Signals**: Actively hiring for multiple roles (Founding Product Engineer, Talent Lead, Head of Venture Success & Strategic Partnerships); operating with a global team spanning 13 passports and four continents; targeting the under-served Global South market. ## Competitive Advantages - **Domain-Expert-First Model**: Unlike traditional venture studios that build around their own ideas, the studio starts with the domain expert's operating insight, translating "industry scar tissue" into product logic. - **AI-Native from Day One**: Every venture is built as an AI-native company from inception, not retrofitted. - **Compressed Time to Market**: Aims to go from concept to Series A in under 24 months. - **Full-Stack Support**: Combines product, technology, capital, and growth under one roof — "Studio and funds fuse into a single system." - **Global South Focus**: Positions itself uniquely in Doha, Qatar, with a mandate to build for and from the Global South, a large and often overlooked market. ## Strategic Focus - **Current priorities**: Scaling the Fellows program, building new ventures from operating insights, and expanding the platform infrastructure. Actively hiring for key roles to support venture success and platform development. - **Direction for growth**: To become the best company builder in the world by continuously learning from every insight, skill, fellow, and portfolio company — feeding one continuously learning machine. ## Why Work Here - **Culture highlights**: The studio emphasizes humility, empathy, challenge, and ambition. Core commitments include: "Tell the truth. Hold the trust," "We hold a view and bet the studio that way," and "We ship to operational systems. Not to the pilot graveyard." The team values soft feedback as a disservice and prioritizes honest, direct communication. - **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: In-Office — employees work from physical offices in Doha, Qatar (Ad Dawhah). The company has an OnSite workspace. - **Notable perks or engineering culture**: The engineering culture is AI-native, using cutting-edge tools (Cursor, Claude, Next.js, Convex, Stripe, Vercel, etc.). Engineers are expected to build systems that "survive messy data, regulated environments, and operators who will break anything not built properly." The team operates as "pods" that are treated as theses, not folders — backed with capital, time, and reputation. The studio prides itself on building structures that outlast meetings and coaching the room, not the deck. ## Sources 1. [utopia-studio.co (Homepage)](https://www.utopia-studio.co/) 2. [utopia-studio.co (Team)](https://www.utopia-studio.co/team) 3. [utopia-studio.co (How We Build)](https://www.utopia-studio.co/how-we-build) 4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com (Careers)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/the-studio) 5. [builtin.com (Company Profile)](http://www.builtin.com/company/utopia-studio) ## Other roles at The Utopia Venture Platform - [Chief Operating Officer](https://feeny.ai/job/chief-operating-officer-the-utopia-venture-platform-global-mxswv19xg4vb) — Global - [Expert Panel](https://feeny.ai/job/expert-panel-the-utopia-venture-platform-global-fqqn8tqty50y) — Global - [Founding Product Engineer — Venture Platform & Infrastructure](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-product-engineer-venture-platform-infrastructure-the-utopia-venture-ncaye4h6k011) — Doha, Qatar