Employment and visas for your UAE e-commerce team, fully managed.
Auxilium sponsors work visas and employs your e-commerce and D2C staff across the UAE, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and the wider GCC, as your Employer of Record. We handle residency visas, compliant contracts, WPS payroll and HR. Whether or not you hold a UAE entity, we handle the employment so you can put a team on the ground in the region quickly, without building a back office for it.
Moving into the GCC market means people on the ground, fast.
For a consumer brand entering the UAE, the opportunity moves quickly: a marketplace partnership, a paid-social push, a regional launch window. What slows it down is the people side, you need a country manager, a performance-marketing lead or a local operations hire employed and visa-ready before the moment passes, and establishing an entity to do that takes months you may not have.
That's what an Employer of Record provides. Auxilium becomes the legal employer of your UAE staff and manages residency visas, compliant contracts, WPS payroll and HR. Brands that already hold a UAE entity use us to take that workload off a lean team; those without one use us to employ in the region without forming a company first. You run the brand; we carry the employment.
We run the employment for you
You have a presence here, but would rather not run visas, payroll and HR with a lean commercial team.
- Employ your UAE team under Auxilium
- Work-visa sponsorship, Emirates ID, renewals
- WPS payroll, gratuity, ongoing HR
- Your team stays focused on growth, not admin
Hire in the region without one
You want a team in the UAE to capture the market, without establishing a company to do it.
- Hire under Auxilium's entity
- No formation, bank account or licence
- Compliant contracts, live in days
- Establish your own entity later if you choose
Capture the market window
Get a country manager or marketing lead employed and visa-ready in days, so a launch or partnership isn't gated by company formation.
No back office to build
D2C teams run lean. We carry the visa, payroll and HR workload so headcount doesn't mean headcount in operations.
Convert informal hires
Paying a UAE-based marketer or ops hire as an offshore contractor carries misclassification and visa risk. We move them onto compliant employment.
A consumer brand entering the UAE usually needs a small, senior team fast, a country manager, a performance-marketing lead, an operations or supply-chain hire. Free-zone employment (through zones such as Dubai CommerCity, DMCC or Meydan) is typically quicker and cheaper to process; mainland employment via MOHRE gives broader access to sell and operate across the UAE. Which fits depends on how the brand trades.
For a senior country lead, the UAE Golden Visa can apply where basic salary meets the executive threshold, helpful for anchoring the person running your regional market.
The mistake we correct most often: a brand pays a UAE-based marketer or ops hire as an offshore contractor to move quickly, which carries real misclassification and visa risk for someone genuinely resident and full-time. As your Employer of Record, we put them on a compliant work visa from the start.
Whether you already hold a UAE entity or not, we run the visas, WPS payroll and HR, so a lean D2C team stays focused on growth rather than employment administration.
The UAE is one of the fastest-growing e-commerce markets in the region, and speed to a local team is the differentiator.
Marketplace partnerships, paid-social launches and regional expansion windows move quickly, and the brands that capture them are the ones with a country manager and marketing lead already employed and visa-ready, not waiting months on company formation.
Because D2C teams run lean, the visa-and-payroll workload is disproportionately heavy relative to headcount. Employing through an EOR lets a small team move at market speed without building a back office for it.
Reflects UAE e-commerce market conditions and UAE Golden Visa provisions as of 2026. Thresholds and eligibility should be confirmed at point of hire.
In e-commerce the first UAE hire is almost always a country manager or a performance lead, and the window to capture the market is short. The brands that move fastest are the ones that do not wait for their own entity before putting a person on the ground.
Four steps, fully managed
Tell us the hire
Role, salary, start date. We confirm the visa route.
We issue the offer
A UAE-compliant employment contract.
Visa & onboarding
Residency visa, Emirates ID, medical, handled.
You manage, we run it
Payroll, WPS, gratuity and HR, managed by us.
What brand operators ask first.
Do we need a UAE entity to hire a team here?
How fast can you onboard a regional hire?
Can you convert our existing UAE contractor to an employee?
Can you employ across the wider GCC, not just the UAE?
Employment and visas for your e-commerce team, handled.
Book a discovery call and we'll map the visa route, timeline and cost for your next regional hire.