Web3 Compensation Intelligence Lead — MENA Full Time NEW

Compensation data in Web3 is broken. What exists is either too global to be useful, too outdated to be trusted, or too surface-level to mean anything to someone actually negotiating an offer. Nobody has built rigorous, MENA-specific compensation intelligence for the Web3 professional market — and that gap is costing both companies and candidates real money.

Trendy Career is building it. This role owns that function entirely.

As Web3 Compensation Intelligence Lead, you will design, build, and operate the region’s most credible source of salary, token, and total compensation benchmarking for Web3 roles. You will gather data through primary research — direct interviews, employer relationships, and community access — as well as secondary sources, on-chain signals, and your own practitioner knowledge of how compensation actually works in this space. The output will be used internally, shared as thought leadership, and packaged as a premium service for employers and candidates.

This role requires someone who understands Web3 compensation not from reading reports but from having been inside the negotiation — as a candidate, a contributor, or someone who has received and evaluated token-heavy offers firsthand.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build a Web3 compensation database for the UAE/GCC market: structured by role type, seniority, company stage, protocol category, and compensation component (base, token, equity, bonus)
• Conduct primary research: structured interviews with Web3 professionals, hiring managers, and founders across the region to gather real compensation data
• Develop a methodology for tracking token compensation value over time — vesting schedules, liquidity windows, FDV context, and how to present token grants in a comparable format alongside fiat base salaries
• Produce regular compensation benchmarking reports for internal use and as an external thought leadership product
• Build and maintain a premium compensation advisory service for Web3 employers (salary benchmarking, offer structuring) and professionals (offer evaluation, negotiation preparation)
• Monitor global Web3 compensation trends — Levels.fyi crypto data, web3.career salary reports, and comparable sources — and contextualise them for the UAE/GCC market specifically
• Collaborate with the Job Board Lead and Product Lead to integrate compensation intelligence into platform listings and candidate-facing tools
• Identify and track regulatory and tax implications of token compensation in the UAE — relevant context for both employers and candidates

Requirements

Non-negotiable:

• Active, verifiable on-chain history — you have received, evaluated, or negotiated token-based compensation yourself, or you have been close enough to the process to understand it from the inside; wallets reviewed during process
• Deep, practical understanding of how Web3 compensation is structured: base salary ranges by role and seniority, token grant mechanics, vesting and cliff norms, the difference between advisor tokens and full-time contributor grants, and how total compensation compares across protocol types and company stages
• Strong quantitative and analytical capability — you can build a compensation model, structure a dataset, and produce a report that holds up to scrutiny from a CFO or a Series B founder
• Research skills: ability to design and execute primary research (interviews, surveys, structured outreach) and synthesise findings into a coherent, usable output
• Fluent, professional English — your written output will be read by senior executives, investors, and experienced practitioners who will notice immediately if it is imprecise
• 5+ years of professional experience; at least 3 years with Web3 as a sustained, central part of your financial or professional life
• Based in or relocating to Dubai from GCC

Strong advantage:

• Prior experience in compensation consulting, HR analytics, or talent intelligence — in any sector
• Personal experience negotiating or evaluating a token compensation package as a candidate or contributor
• Familiarity with UAE employment law and the specific compensation structures used by DIFC and VARA-regulated entities
• Existing relationships with Web3 CFOs, People leads, or founders in the region

What We Offer

• Base salary: AED 480,000 – 720,000 per year (approx. USD 131,000 – 196,000)
• Revenue share on premium compensation advisory service as it scales
• Full ownership of a data product that does not exist in this market
• Access to Trendy Career’s employer and candidate network as a primary research base
• Research tools, data subscriptions, and industry event budget
• Flexible working arrangement; Dubai base