Role overview

Leantech, the leading financial infrastructure provider in the Middle East, is seeking a Talent Acquisition Manager to lead hiring across go-to-market and business functions while managing a small talent team. This is a player-coach position where you’ll drive both hiring quality and speed while acting as a strategic partner to leadership, working across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and expanding into new markets like Egypt.

Key responsibilities

Own end-to-end hiring for go-to-market and business roles, including intake, sourcing, screening, and offer closure.
Build outbound sourcing strategies including target company mapping, candidate archetypes, and direct outreach campaigns.
Lead and develop a small talent team by setting priorities and targets, providing regular coaching and feedback, and supporting their professional growth.
Partner with the CEO, CFO, Head of People, and functional leaders on headcount planning, sequencing, and compensation trade-offs.
Establish hiring standards with hiring managers before searches begin, maintain quality bars through offer stage, and embed structured interviewing practices with role-specific scorecards.
Identify process inefficiencies and build recruiting playbooks and systems that enable a small team to operate at scale, including managing the TA stack of Ashby, Granola, and AI workflow tools.
Own the internship programme, Emiratization compliance, university graduate programmes in KSA, hiring for the Cairo hub launch, and employer branding across all office locations.

Requirements

Prior talent acquisition experience at a venture-backed startup or scale-up, with at least one year in a people management capacity.
Proven track record closing senior go-to-market and leadership hires.
Ability to manage upward, advising leadership on organizational design and compensation with data-backed recommendations.
Structured assessment practices including scorecards, calibrated interview loops, and evidence-based decision making.
Strong proficiency with applicant tracking systems and process management, with Ashby experience preferred and high attention to detail.
Prior experience hiring across UAE and/or KSA markets.
Strong command of hiring metrics, reporting, and clear, concise communication skills.

What makes this role worth considering

You’ll work with a high-caliber team at a company processing billions of dollars in transactions and trusted by major regional players including Binance, Careem, and Etisalat. Leantech offers competitive salaries, private healthcare, flexible office hours, and meaningful equity stakes for all team members to ensure long-term alignment with the company’s mission of building lasting financial infrastructure across MENA.