Job description

The Manager – Legal Affairs at Dubai Future Foundation (DFF) is responsible for supporting the Chief of Legal Affairs in delivering strategic, commercially focused legal services across the organization and its affiliated entities in Dubai, UAE. The role involves ensuring that all contracts, agreements, frameworks, policies, and operational structures comply with applicable UAE laws and regulatory requirements while enabling innovation-driven initiatives. The position supports full contract lifecycle management including drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and executing complex commercial contracts and ancillary legal documents in coordination with internal stakeholders across departments. The role requires conducting legal and regulatory research, assessing risks, and escalating critical legal matters to senior leadership. It includes responsibility for policy development, SOP drafting, compliance monitoring, and legal operational support across multiple future-focused initiatives such as AI, innovation governance, and emerging technologies. The role also involves managing relationships with external counsel, regulators, government authorities, and third-party vendors. A key aspect of the position is balancing legal risk management with DFF’s mandate to enable innovation, ensuring commercially practical legal advice that supports strategic objectives. The role requires familiarity with corporate and commercial law, IT contracts, intellectual property, data privacy regulations, and artificial intelligence governance frameworks, including automated decision-making and AI-generated outputs within the UAE regulatory landscape.