Shamma AlZaabi

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Founder & CEO at Cobalt Cloud | ex-Wix

Cobalt Cloud
Muscat, Oman · GST (UTC+4)
10+ years experience
London Business School Dubai
English, Arabic
Hiring
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Overview

Founder of Cobalt Cloud (consumer finance). 10 years of building before that. Signed 375 paying customers, 8 of them enterprises. Before that: Wix and Careem. Travel slowly, usually by train.

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  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Early customers and design partners
  • Working sessions on growth
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  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Paid accelerator offers
  • Fundraising consultants

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills
growthcomplianceconsumer fintechlending
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Cobalt Cloud is hiring 2 account executives in Muscat

Role
Account executive
Level
Mid
Type
Contract
Work mode
On-site
Compensation
$172k-$202k
Team
Founding team, 8 people
Start
Within a month
Must have
A record of closing B2B deals Experience selling to the buyers we sell to Good judgment about what not to build
Process
Two interviews and a paid trial day

Comp AED 40k-57k a month. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Muscat, Oman · remote OKlendinggrowthconsumer fintech
Open

Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    Sep 2024 - Present
    Cobalt Cloud · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Muscat, Oman
    • Previously built and sold a small consumer finance company.
    • Took Cobalt Cloud from zero to $4 million ARR.
    • Signed 353 paying customers, 18 of them enterprises.
  2. Partnerships Manager
    Sep 2021 - Jun 2024
    Wix · 2 yr 9 mo · Contract · Muscat, Oman
    • Closed 216% of quota two years running.
  3. Account Executive
    Dec 2019 - Sep 2021
    Careem · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Muscat, Oman
    • Opened 3 new logos over $2 million ACV in the region.
    • Signed 30 channel partners that now source 33% of pipeline.
  4. Sales Manager
    Apr 2017 - Dec 2019
    Monday.com · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Muscat, Oman
    • Shortened the public sector sales cycle from 10 months to 4.
    • Signed 27 channel partners that now source 33% of pipeline.

Projects

Open-source growth toolkit
2026

A small library for consumer finance that 746 developers star on GitHub.

Write-up: consumer finance in practice
2025

A long-form guide to consumer finance for people starting out.

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Education

  1. London Business School Dubai
    EMBA, Business Administration
    2020 - 2022
  2. American University in Cairo
    BA, Engineering
    2012 - 2016

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