r/DubaiJobs

so I have been building this thing called Layla

The original idea was pretty simple:

even dry cleaning/cafeteria businesses in UAE operate on WhatsApp

And then someone on the payroll sits there all day wasting his own time on:

“Price?”

“Are you open?”

“Do you have this?”

“Can I book tomorrow?”

“Do you accept insurance?”

“Send location”

“Hello???”

Then the lead get lost because nobody replied in that 2 min usual bracket

So I thought:

let me try to build this basic chatbot .... 6 months later

Layla.

Its NOT one of those ""hello 👋 I am🤖 your 🤖 AI 🤖 assistant 🤖"" bots the kind that gives you a cookie recipe when you ask if they're open after Friday prayer

i know you think it is but genuinely Layla can actually hold a conversation, understand what the person wants and his intentions from the chat pattern, pull information from the business knowledge base, handle voice notes, collect customer details, send short/long term reminders, follow up with people who ghosted or stopped replying and flag hot leads for the owner so he can contact them later by phone or give them a nudge to take action and it also quietly ranks who's worth calling back so he is not just spamming calls or guessing

NOTE: (BTW IT WORKS IN 5 LANGUAGES AS WELL, Arabic, English, Russian, Hindi, Urdu)

I originally built it for a dental clinic in jumeirah my friend knew a dude who worked there, where it can handle stuff like treatment questions, prices, insurance, appointment requests, reminders, and lead recovery

But I Knew the same concept works for basically any UAE business that makes its money on WhatsApp

Clinics, salons, real estate(i have HOT systems for this if anyone is interested), car dealerships, gyms, agencies, home services, whatever

The idea is basically:

A WhatsApp stops being an inbox and starts being a 24/7 5-lingual employee

And YES, I am currently in the slightly unhinged phase where I am trying to get actual businesses to let me try around with this in production without them paying for the service anything during the 1st week

So I am posting this here instead of doing the usual LinkedIn corporate NPC BS

If you run a business in the UAE where WhatsApp is a major part of sales/customer service, I’m genuinely interested in seeing whether Layla can handle your use case

Worst case: it breaks and I fix it instantly with nothing for you to lose

Best case: we accidentally replace half your front desk repetitive work and capture/score any lead in matter of seconds

thanks for reading and i am looking out for your thoughts here, anything can help 🙏

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Hi everyone! I’m a 18 year old looking for a job in Dubai. I’ve completed a couple of internships and have experience with customer interaction, sales, and general workplace/admin tasks.
I’m currently looking for opportunities in:
Social media management
Customer service
Reception/front desk
Administrative assistance
Other beginner-friendly roles
I’m responsible, willing to learn, and available to start soon. I’m looking to earn around AED 2,500 - 3,000/month.
If you know of any businesses hiring or have any leads, please DM me! I’d really appreciate it 🙏😭

Been job hunting here for a few months now and honestly, the silence between applications gets to you. I’m curious how everyone else is handling it. Not just the job search grind, but the day to day.

A few things I’m curious about:

1. What’s your daily routine like?
2. How are you managing financially?
3. What’s actually kept you sane?
4. Skilling up or job hunting full time?

Here’s my situation : Visa cancelled, grace period ends by 24 August. Selling the car, cancelled the credit card and stressing over Wasl’s three month penalty for breaking the contract early.

Just want this to be a space where we’re honest about what unemployment in the UAE actually looks like and would like to know I’m not the only one going through this.

I'm not in UAE right now but considering traveling to dubai to hunt jobs next month.

I'm a recent fresh graduate (June 2026). Looking for jobs in software engineering, web development and cybersecurity. Started coding and been in tech and startups since high school. I have done 4 internships during my bachelors. Youngest incubatee in a startup incubator during high school, learnt a lot building my own startup and helping out other startups in their tech. International freelance experience including UAE, Saudi Arabia, USA, UK, Germany, etc. Learning cybersecurity too.

Open to opportunities anywhere atp.

How is the IT job market right now? Is it worth traveling and hunting jobs in UAE for 2-3 months?

Would really appreciate any help or guidance in UAE, gulf or anywhere.

Thank you.

Hey everyone! I (f20) am studying for my cfa level 1. I have experience in real estate (direct with developers) for over a year. I’m not looking to get back into real estate but rather an entry level role in finance. Preferably something paid lol. Thank you for your help!

LangChain. RAG. Vector databases. Agents. Python.

That’s my skills section. It’s also everyone else’s.
So instead of adding another skill, I contributed to the libraries those teams already run in production:

**•**	LangChain — PR #39668 (merged)  
**•**	LlamaIndex — PR #22520  
**•**	Qdrant client — PRs #1293, #1333(merged and shipped version) 

A merged PR isn’t a claim. It’s a receipt.

I’m an AI engineer in Dubai building RAG systems and LLM agents shipped to production, not notebooks.

Recent work: a property-search agent for Dubai real estate, and Eventopic, an events platform built end to end.

Open to AI / GenAI Engineer roles : Dubai or remote, full-time or contract.
DM me and I’ll send my portfolio, GitHub, and CV.

Job hunting too? What’s actually gotten you responses here , open source, referrals, cold DMs?

Job boards clearly aren’t working. {EASY APPLY 😒}

Has anyone out here made it to the role?? everything about it seems sooo sus and it happens to be one of the very few roles that talks about the salary package so flamboyantly??

i mean 20-25k AED/month with 10% bonus based on performance is just mind blowing?? and for being a mattress company? it really doesn’t add up

Just graduated this year with a BSc in Business Economics from a UK university and have now moved back to the Middle East. I’m a US citizen and have lived in the region for several years.

My experience so far includes working at a boutique consulting/finance firm, managing a student consulting project, and working as a data analyst for a university research organisation. I wasn’t able to secure a graduate role in the UK, partly due to the current job market and being an international student.

I’m now looking at Dubai/UAE for my first proper full-time role. I’m open to finance, consulting, analytics, etc., but I’m not really sure which direction to take. Audit/accounting doesn’t particularly interest me, although I’m open to it.

I’ve been advised to prioritise getting into a major reputable company, Big 4, major bank, or established financial firm to build a stronger CV and potentially specialise or move internationally later.

For those who have broken into the UAE job market as a fresh graduate, what would you recommend focusing on? Is getting a recognisable company on your CV the priority, or should I be more selective about the type of role?

Any advice on finding graduate/junior opportunities in Dubai would be greatly appreciated.

I am looking for someone part time to do a school run for both my kids - the school transport doesn’t take them at the time we would prefer for their activities preschool.

We are in Al barsha - around 6a and back around 1/2p depending on the day. Car can be provided if required or you can bring your own car. Two kids - one near dubai mall and another in Nad Al Shaba 3.

Thanks

Hi I have a part time job for someone who is really good at excel, understands a bit of investing and can spare an hour per day in the evenings.

Preferably someone residing in Karama or Bur Dubai.

Please know that the pay is very basic like AED 100 per week and is only meant for someone who can dedicate an hour a day consistently.

Please DM me.

I have to get into a degree soon and was doubting between accounting and civil engineering and tbh I dont know which one to choose

Im also from india if that makes any diffrence

I joined an agency seven years ago when there was no sales function and built it up from nothing. Cold outreach, pitching, running the accounts afterwards, holding things together when a project fell apart. Somewhere in there I became the person who wrote the tender and RFP responses for the big institutional clients, the long unglamorous documents nobody else wanted to touch.

I was good at it. That is not me boasting, it is the only thing keeping me steady right now, because everything else about this move has gone differently than I planned.

I arrive next week on a visit visa. I need an employer to sponsor me. I have about sixty days, and I have done the arithmetic on what I have left more times than is useful. There are people at home who are counting on this, and I have started keeping my calls with them shorter than I used to, because I do not want them to hear anything in my voice.

Every conversation so far ends the same way. New to Dubai, budget is 5k. I have been saying I cannot go below 8, and each time I say it I sound more certain than I feel. What has been hardest is not the number itself. It is sitting on a call being told, politely, that seven years does not count for very much here, and then getting off the call and having no idea whether they are right.

Maybe they are. That is genuinely why I am posting.

If you had sixty days, where would you actually put your hours. Recruiters, or direct to founders, or something else entirely. Does that newcomer number move once you are physically in the room, or is it fixed until you have local experience on paper. Does a visit visa kill applications outright, or only at the companies that were never going to move fast. And would you take freelance or project work first to buy some time, or does that make you look unserious.

I am aiming at independent agencies and production houses rather than the networks. Smaller places, closer to the work.

If anyone in advertising or production is up for a coffee, I would be glad of the company as much as the advice, and I will come to wherever you are.

Mostly I would just like someone who has stood where I am standing to tell me what they wish they had known. Thanks for reading this far.

So yea... I got laid off. 💔

And after spending a week crying, I figured I might as well put my free time to good use. Preferably somewhere with more fur and fewer Teams calls!

My name is Sam 31F. I work (well... used to work) in tech, and I have 2 adorable cats!

So, while I'm job hunting, I'm opening up some spots for furry clients around Dubai Marina, JBR, JLT, DMCC!
🐾 PET VISITS
🐶 DOG WALKING - small to medium sized dogs
🌜 OVERNIGHT PET SITTING

If you're working long hours, travelling, or just need someone to give your pet some company, I'm more than happy to help.

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Hiring now in a female only Pilates studio. Very comfortable easy going work environment located in downtown Dubai.

Compensation/ Salary
Pay ranges from 4000-6000 AED depending on experience. With heath benefits and bonus commision pay.

Job description :
Front desk to greet customers making sure you can book them in and are comfortable using computer. Very friendly environment. Fluent in English is necessary.

Monday to Friday 1pm -8 pm and Saturday (Working Hours)

DM me with your CV

Would you undermine a fresh grad with a degree from a fully accredited US computer science degree (and attested by MOHESR) but was taken fully online?

And let’s say they have a bit of experience from an internship or two working in the UAE and developing good skills while doing the degree online?

Would you have a stigma towards it or is all that matters is the fact that the degree is accredited and that they have decent experience in the UAE (internships)?

Hi everyone. This is my second time posting this post as I am really helpless and out of work for 8 months now.

I am a 24F, born and raised in the UAE with 2.5YoE in copy/content/editorial and social media, and I worked for an agency in India before coming to the UAE to stay with my family and look for active openings. Initially, everyone said the market is low due to Ramadan, then the war, and now they say hiring isn't active. I have been trying to apply for mid-level roles since January this year, to roles in Media & Comms and I already know being an Indian, the racial profiling is high so my chances are already low and on top of that I get reality checks saying I am STILL a fresher in UAE so I am now considering even entry-level roles or internships as long as it pays.

I understand staying at home means I don't have to contribute to the rent, groceries, etc but both my brother and I are looking for roles, and only my dad works, so I would really love to lessen the burden for him by taking up at least my & my bro's small expenses.

Anyone who has any tips or legit leads to in-house brands or agencies, kindly comment or DM. If I am getting anything wrong in the Media & Comms industry too in Dubai, please let me know.

Hi everyone, I just wanted to ask how the job market is so far. Is it getting a little better now? I’m a bit worried that I might lose my job, and I don’t have much savings.

What are my chances of getting employed? please help me out guys.

Recently graduated from a Russell Group University, completed an internship, and currently searching for entry level/graduate mechanical engineering roles in UAE

Assume I am not desperate to accept anything as soon as possible, have unlimited time to search for the right role and company, and have a golden visa.

What would be the fair market rate salary for someone in my position and self-worth? Last time I heard, it was in the range of 7-12k.

My fines are building up day by day and it's becoming hectic without finding a job yet. For those who haven't seen my previous posts I'm looking for live out housemaid job, cleaning and any guest related jobs also appreciated. At this point, I need food, rent, transport for tarmacking and it's becoming really stressful

Part time jobs are also welcome to help me get by. I'm very good at my job, attentive to detail, vibrant, I keep a positive attitude and professionalism. I'm fluent in English, both in speech and writing. I'm honestly losing it and I don't know what to do next if this doesn't work out. I'm Kenyan.

I no longer talk with my family because I don't know what to tell them. I feel stuck. I'm reaching out to any well wishers and those that have the grace to help with genuine opportunities. Thankyou for reading.