Legal & Compliance Manager

The role

The Legal & Compliance Manager manages regulatory, compliance, and legal obligations for Utopia Studio and Utopia Capital. This hands-on role owns regulatory filings, compliance operations, legal administration, and governance records.

What you will do

• Own the platform's regulatory filing calendar across both entities
• Coordinate periodic regulatory returns and maintain filing records
• Own the compliance and filing cycle for the fund vehicles in Cayman and QFC
• Track deliverables and coordinate periodic reports to investors and LPs
• Run day-to-day compliance monitoring against existing policies
• Act as the internal point of contact for the outsourced MLRO and Compliance Officer
• Execute onboarding and KYC due diligence, screening, and register upkeep
• Prepare compliance reporting packs for the COO and board
• Draft, review and process standard-form agreements and manage the contract lifecycle
• Maintain the contract register and central legal repository

Required qualifications

• 4–6 years in a compliance, regulatory reporting or filings function
• A bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as accounting, finance, business or economics
• Practical familiarity with regulatory filing and compliance processes
• Meticulous and deadline-driven
• Highly organised and self-directed
• Practical and execution-minded
• Reliable, discreet, calm under deadline pressure, and comfortable holding colleagues to account

Nice to have

• A legal or compliance background
• Direct QFCRA, DFSA, FSRA or comparable exposure
• GCC experience
• Familiarity with Qatar's institutional and regulatory landscape

About the company

UTOPIA is a venture studio and fund manager platform headquartered in Doha, operating across the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Africa. The platform is regulated by the Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority (QFCRA).