Other Women's Jobs // A Day in the Life and Career of Sarah Jones

NAME: Sarah Jones

AGE: 38

INSTAGRAM HANDLE: N/A

JOB TITLE: Co-Founder & CEO of RAYNE

MOVED TO THE UAE IN: 2011

Sarah Jones is a mum of five and the Co-Founder & CEO of RAYNE – a business that’s changing the way legal teams work across the Middle East. They connect in-house legal teams with experienced lawyers on an interim or fractional basis, giving companies the flexibility to scale up when they need to, and giving lawyers more control over how they work.

Sarah's background is in M&A and tech, and she's always been drawn to solving problems and building things from the ground up. With RAYNE, they're proving that legal careers don’t have to follow a traditional path to be meaningful, and that flexible, high-quality support doesn’t mean compromise.

Sarah works long hours because she loves what they're building, but she's deliberate about how she spends her time. Sarah loves working, and cares about being there for her kids. It doesn’t always run smoothly, but she wouldn’t have it any other way.

Let's discover a day in Sarah's world and career:

6AM:

We’re up at 6am and straight into the morning routine – breakfast chats, quick-fire maths questions, and the usual back-and-forth over shoes and hairbrushes. My husband and I split the school and nursery run: one of us takes the older kids to school, the other drops the twins at nursery. It’s a full on two hours, and by 8:30am I’m at my desk, coffee in hand, ready to dive in.

10AM–2PM:

Flat out. Finance, ops, clients, and a steady stream of team chats. It’s fast, collaborative, and constantly moving. We plan as we go, solve problems quickly, and keep the pace high. I might be closing out commercials, reviewing project scopes, or unblocking something somewhere in the business. Lunch usually happens mid-call – I don’t stop.

4PM:

Most afternoons I step out for school pick-up. I don’t make every single one, but I make a lot of them, and I try to hold onto that hour. It’s when I get to hear all about the snack swaps, playground drama, and what the twins painted today. It’s short, but it really matters to me.

6PM:

Dinner, stories, PJs – full house energy. The twins are usually strumming wildly on toy guitars, one of the girls is hidden in a makeshift den under their bed, and our four-year-old’s favourite game is convincing me to play hide and seek (again). It’s noisy, fun, and a little bit wild – but I love being in it. Once they’re all sleeping, I usually jump back online. Our team’s pace doesn’t slow down in the evenings – most things happen on WhatsApp, so I’m always plugged in, checking in, moving things forward.

8PM:

Evenings are a mix – sometimes I’m still working, other nights I’m out with friends or sofa bound with my lovely husband and a box set. That time outside work really matters and allows me to reset.

10PM:

In bed by ten. I need my sleep (eight hours if I’m lucky!) and then we’re up and at it all over again, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.