Founding Growth & Strategy Intern (Full-Time Track)
Sayal
Role:About Sayal
Sayal (sayal.qa) is a next-generation fintech and mobile trading platform built from the ground up to modernize how a new generation accesses financial markets in Qatar and across the region. Having launched on iOS and Android and secured regulatory Sandbox access with the Qatar Central Bank, we are moving from product foundation to rapid user acquisition.
We aren't looking for someone to follow a corporate marketing playbook or schedule generic social media posts. We are looking for an entrepreneurial, outside-the-box thinker to take the reins of our growth engine and help scale Sayal to our first several thousand active users.
The Role & The Opportunity
You will work directly alongside the Founder/CEO to design, test, and execute high-leverage growth experiments. This role starts as a remote internship and is explicitly structured as a proving ground to convert into a full-time leadership role (with competitive salary and equity upside) as we hit our next growth and funding milestones.
What You Will Do
Architect Viral & Community Loops: Design referral systems, waitlist mechanics, campus ambassador programs, and community-led campaigns that turn early users into vocal advocates.
Apply Market Psychology: Analyze what drives financial curiosity, trust, and action among young professionals and university students in Qatar/MENA—and build campaigns around those behavioral triggers.
Run Unconventional Experiments: Go beyond traditional ads. Whether it is guerrilla campus activations, creator partnerships, short-form video trends, or strategic local partnerships, you will test ideas rapidly and double down on what converts.
Bridge Product & Growth: Work directly with the product team to analyze onboarding drop-offs, user feedback, and activation metrics—translating user psychology into UI/UX and feature improvements.
Who You Are
Education: Currently pursuing or recently completed a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Economics, Marketing, Psychology, Computer Science, or a related field (Required).
Psychological Intuition: You naturally understand why people share things, what makes a brand feel high-status yet accessible, and how to capture attention in a noisy feed without sounding corporate.
High Agency & Bias for Action: You don't wait for a step-by-step checklist. You can take a rough goal ("Let's get 500 signups from university students this month"), figure out the channels, execute the test, and measure the results.
Bonus (Not Required): Previous experience at an early-stage startup, fintech company, venture club, or scaling a personal project, creator page, or student organization from scratch.
Compensation & Progression
Flexible Remote Culture: Work asynchronously from anywhere, with regular strategy syncs directly with the founder.
Compensation & Full-Time Conversion: Compensation structure (stipend, performance incentives, and early-stage equity pathways) will be tailored and discussed privately with shortlisted candidates based on experience and commitment level, with a prioritized track to a full-time compensated role upon milestone and funding completion.
