We're looking for a Talent Specialist to join our team at the company in Dubai. This is a hands-on, full-cycle recruiting role: you'll own your pipelines from first outreach to accepted offer, working with teams across the business. You'll run outbound-first searches in competitive markets, with AI tooling built into every step of the process. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who thrives in a growing startup environment, brings strong talent acquisition and operational excellence, and is energized by contributing to a modern, forward-thinking talent function.
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Responsibilities
- Run end-to-end recruiting for assigned roles, from intake to accepted offer, with a consistent, high-quality process across every team you hire for
- Deliver a candidate experience we're proud of at every stage
- Partner with hiring managers to understand what their team actually needs and turn it into a clear, realistic role profile
- Help hiring managers and interviewers evaluate well: clear scorecards, useful feedback, calibrated decisions
- Contribute to recommendations for senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders
- Track your pipeline metrics, notice what is not working, and improve your own hiring outcomes based on data
- Keep recruiting systems accurate and up to date (ATS, automations, workflows), and propose solutions when issues are identified
- Manage job boards, agencies, and other external recruitment partners day to day, tracking their performance
- Bring ideas on employer brand, candidate experience, and overall hiring strategies, even for roles outside your own
Requirements
- 3+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including in a startup environment
- Strong sourcing skills, comfortable with outbound as the main channel
- Proficiency in using data and analytics tools to drive insights and decisions
- Understanding of various TA systems, with experience in process optimization, ATS management, and recruitment automation tools
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product, and operations, to align recruitment strategy with business priorities
- Detail-oriented mindset with the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-moving, cross-functional environment
- Proven ability to significantly contribute to a Talent Acquisition function from the ground up, establishing processes, playbooks, and scalable systems
What Would Amaze Us
- Experience closing senior or niche roles through outbound sourcing in markets where inbound doesn't work
- Familiarity with AI tools as part of daily sourcing and screening work, with the ability to distinguish areas for human judgment
- Have built a dashboard, report, or process improvement that the team has adopted and continues to use
- A proactive ownership attitude: when something blocks your work, you fix it or find the person who can, without waiting to be asked
