vice president of talent acquisition

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Job Overview Our Group is seeking a dynamic and experienced Recruitment Manager to lead our talent acquisition efforts within the Food &amp; Beverage and Hospitality sectors. As a world-class global company committed to hiring and developing the most efficient and dynamic people, we are looking for a professional who can identify and attract top-tier talent to support our continued growth. The successful candidate will be responsible for the entire recruitment lifecycle, ensuring we secure skilled professionals who align with our company's values and high standards. This is a crucial role based in our Riyadh office, dedicated to building the teams that drive our success in the F&amp;B and Hospitality industries. Responsibilities * Develop and implement comprehensive recruitment strategies tailored to the F&amp;B and Hospitality sectors. * Manage the end-to-end recruitment process, from sourcing and screening to interviewing, offer negotiation, and onboarding. * Collaborate closely with hiring managers to understand their specific staffing needs and define clear job requirements. * Utilise various sourcing channels, including job boards, professional networks, social media, and industry contacts, to attract a diverse pool of qualified candidates. * Build and maintain a robust talent pipeline for current and future hiring needs. * Conduct thorough interviews and assessments to evaluate candidates' skills, experience, and cultural fit. * Ensure a positive and professional candidate experience throughout the entire recruitment journey. * Stay informed on market trends, competitor activities, and best practices in talent acquisition. * Track, analyse, and report on key recruitment metrics to measure success and identify areas for improvement. Qualifications * Proven experience as a Recruitment Manager, Talent Acquisition Specialist, or in a similar senior recruitment role. * Demonstrable experience and a strong track record of recruiting specifically within the Food &amp; Beverage (F&amp;B) and/or Hospitality industry is essential. * In-depth knowledge of the full recruitment lifecycle and various sourcing techniques. * Excellent interpersonal, communication, and negotiation skills. * Strong organisational and time-management abilities, with the capacity to manage multiple vacancies simultaneously. * Proficiency with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and other recruitment software. * A bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field is preferred. * Experience recruiting within the Saudi Arabian or wider GCC market would be a significant advantage. &nbsp;

Recruitment Manager (F&B/ Hospitality)

Qureos

Head of Growth, Qureos&nbsp;About Qureos &nbsp;We’re on a mission to transform how the world hires, from a 60-day painful process to 12 days with the power of AI.If you believe hiring should be fast, fair, and feel like magic, welcome to Qureos.We’re well-funded, growing fast, and building game-changing tech that helps companies hire talent 10x faster while giving job seekers the coaching and tools they deserve.And now, we’re looking for a Head of Growth who gets excited (borderline emotional) about CAC dropping and inbound leads exploding. &nbsp;The Role &nbsp;We want someone who can build, scale, and lead acquisition on both sides of our marketplace:<ul><li>B2C - bringing job seekers into the ecosystem</li><li>B2B - generating qualified inbound leads from companies hiring</li></ul>You’ll lead our growth team from day 1, redesign funnels, break things, fix things, run experiments, track everything, and basically treat growth like a sport.If dashboards excite you more than brunch, read on. &nbsp;What You’ll Do &nbsp;<ul><li>Own end-to-end acquisition for both job seekers and hiring companies</li><li>Build and scale omni-channel growth strategies across paid, organic, partnerships, product-led loops, and automation</li><li>Lead a multi-functional growth team (performance marketing, content, SEO, automation) from day 1</li><li>Build and optimize funnels for: Job seeker activation B2B inbound (MQL → SQL → Demo → Revenue)</li><li>Run experiments weekly: landing pages, ads, onboarding flows, messaging, pricing — everything is testable</li><li>Implement automation across acquisition, nurturing, and conversion funnels</li><li>Drive deep tracking &amp; analytics (you must love data more than comfortable amounts)</li><li>Collaborate closely with Product, Sales, and Leadership to turn insights → experiments → wins</li><li>Build scalable playbooks for international growth</li><li>Reduce CAC like it’s your personal vendetta</li><li>Increase revenue, conversion rates, and growth flywheels that compound over time</li><li>Bring energy, speed, ownership, creativity, and a “let’s build big” attitude every day</li></ul>&nbsp;Your KPIs &nbsp;<ul><li>CAC (Candidates)</li><li>CAC (Clients)</li><li>Inbound lead volume &amp; quality</li><li>MQL → SQL → Demo conversion</li><li>Revenue growth</li><li>Organic traffic growth &nbsp;</li></ul>If these scare you, this isn’t your role.If these excite you, you’re our person. &nbsp;Who You Are &nbsp;<ul><li>5–10 years in growth, performance marketing, user acquisition, or marketplace growth</li><li>Have built and scaled acquisition funnels in high-growth digital platforms</li><li>Proven experience reducing CAC, increasing revenue, and experimenting relentlessly</li><li>Strong understanding of B2B funnels and conversion optimization</li><li>Have led or trained teams in fast-paced, KPI-driven environments</li><li>Expert at multi-channel growth: paid, SEO, content, automation, email, social, community, partnerships</li><li>Obsessed with numbers, experiments, hypotheses, insights, dashboards</li><li>Action-oriented, fast-moving, and comfortable making decisions with imperfect data</li><li>Thinks like an owner. Moves like a founder.</li><li>Bonus: experience in marketplaces or HR-tech &nbsp;</li></ul>Tools You’ll Likely Use (examples) &nbsp;<ul><li>You don’t need to know all, but you should know many.</li><li>Zoho, HubSpot, GA4, Looker, Mixpanel</li><li>Meta Ads, LinkedIn Ads, Google AdsZapier, Make, Clearbit, Apollo, Lemlist, SEO tools (Ahrefs, SEMrush), Webflow, Hotjar</li><li>Marketing automation tools &amp; analytics stacks &nbsp;</li></ul>Why Join Qureos &nbsp;<ul><li>You’ll help build the future of hiring, genuinely!</li><li>Work with founders who care deeply about building something iconic</li><li>Backed by global &amp; regional tier-1 investors</li><li>Relocation &amp; visa sponsorship to Dubai</li><li>High ownership, fast execution environment</li><li>Real autonomy to build, experiment, scale</li><li>A mission that actually changes lives for job seekers worldwide</li></ul>&nbsp;If You’re Still Reading…You’re probably our kind of person.Apply. Let’s build something huge together.&nbsp;

Head of Growth

Head of Recruitment Operations&nbsp;About Qureos &nbsp;Hiring is broken, slow, expensive, inconsistent, and painful for candidates and companies. Qureos is fixing that.We're building the future of hiring: faster, fairer, and powered by AI + beautifully structured processes.We help companies hire in days, not months, while delivering a world-class candidate experience at scale.If you love solving hard operational problems, designing smooth hiring journeys, and running high-volume recruitment like a win-machine, you’re going to feel at home here. &nbsp;The Role &nbsp;We’re looking for a Head of Recruitment Operations who can own and scale the entire delivery engine of Qureos across sourcing, screening, assessments, shortlisting, and candidate experience.You will manage an existing team from day 1, optimize what works, rebuild what doesn’t, and design operations that can scale from 100 → 300+ hires per month across UAE, GCC, and global markets.Think of this role as part strategist, part operator, part “I can fix this in two days” leader.A balanced mix of fun startup energy + serious operational rigor. &nbsp;What You’ll Do &nbsp;Own the full recruitment delivery cycle<ul><li>Oversee sourcing, screening, assessments, and shortlisting across mixed seniority roles</li><li>Maintain exceptional candidate experience throughout the hiring journey</li><li>Ensure every shortlist delivered to clients feels fast, accurate, and high-quality</li></ul>Scale high-volume hiring operations<ul><li>Manage and expand the operations team based on performance and demand</li><li>Build SOPs, workflows, and QC processes that ensure consistent output</li><li>Handle 100–300+ hiring volume per month across multiple markets</li></ul>Be deeply data-driven<ul><li>Track sourcing channel performance and optimize for CAC</li><li>Build dashboards for visibility across each stage of the funnel</li><li>Prioritize channels and processes based on performance, not hunches</li></ul>Improve speed &amp; efficiency<ul><li>Ruthlessly reduce time-to-hire and fix bottlenecks across the pipeline</li><li>Improve conversion rates between every step of the recruitment process</li><li>Ensure SLA adherence across all client mandates</li></ul>Manual first → then automation<ul><li>Operate manually to validate what actually works</li><li>Then collaborate with product and engineering to automate smartly</li><li>Move toward a tech-enabled recruitment engine that compounds over time</li></ul>Own experience for candidates &amp; clients<ul><li>Deliver an end-to-end hiring process that candidates love</li><li>Ensure shortlist quality stays consistently high</li><li>Elevate client satisfaction, repeat business, and trust in Qureos delivery</li></ul>&nbsp;Your KPIs &nbsp;You’ll drive and be measured on:<ul><li>Time to hire</li><li>Sourcing channel performance &amp; CAC</li><li>Candidate experience (NPS/CSAT)</li><li>Quality of shortlist &amp; accuracy of matching</li><li>SLA adherence</li><li>Stage-by-stage conversion rates</li><li>Offer acceptance rate</li><li>Client satisfaction &amp; repeat business</li><li>If these KPIs make you excited rather than nervous, you’re our person. &nbsp;</li></ul>Who You Are &nbsp;<ul><li>5–7 years in recruitment operations, talent acquisition, or high-volume hiring</li><li>Strong background in sourcing, screening, assessments, and candidate engagement</li><li>Numbers-obsessed, you prioritize sourcing channels like a growth analyst</li><li>Hyper-focused on reducing time-to-hire and improving every stage of the funnel</li><li>Experienced in high-volume, multi-market operations</li><li>Comfortable running ops manually before automating</li><li>Skilled at building exceptional candidate experiences</li><li>A natural operator: structured, calm, process-oriented, and fast-moving</li><li>You think in systems, run on data, and execute with ownership</li><li>Bonus: experience in marketplace or fast-growth environments</li></ul> Tools &amp; Systems You will work across:<ul><li>The Qureos platform</li><li>AI tools</li><li>Internal automation systems &nbsp;</li></ul>Why Join Qureos &nbsp;<ul><li>Build the future of recruitment operations</li><li>Own a core function in a fast-scaling, well-funded startup</li><li>Work side-by-side with founders &amp; leadership</li><li>Meaningfully impact candidates and companies globally</li><li>High autonomy, high ownership, high speed</li><li>A culture that mixes ambition, kindness, and doing the best work of your career &nbsp;</li></ul>If This Sounds Like You…Apply. Let’s redesign recruitment operations together.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Head of Recruitment Ops

Business Development Representative (BDR) - Qureos&nbsp;Remote · MENA Region · Full-timeReporting to: Head of Sales&nbsp;About Qureos&nbsp;Hiring is stuck in the past, slow, inefficient, and painfully expensive.Qureos is building the future: AI-powered hiring that cuts time-to-hire from months to days.&nbsp;And we’re growing fast.If you love prospecting, hitting targets, and turning conversations into pipeline, this is where you thrive.&nbsp;The Role&nbsp;We’re looking for a Business Development Representative (BDR) who’s hungry, driven, and ready to be the frontline of Qureos’ growth in the MENA region.&nbsp;Your superpower? Prospecting.Your energy? Unmatched.&nbsp;You’ll be responsible for building high-quality pipelines through outbound prospecting, engaging inbound leads, and booking meetings with HR leaders, Talent Acquisition teams, founders, and decision-makers across startups, SMEs, and enterprise clients.&nbsp;What You’ll Do&nbsp;1. Outbound Prospecting (Your Primary Motion)<ul><li>Identify, research, and engage target accounts across MENA</li><li>Build and run multi-channel outbound sequences (email, calls, LinkedIn)</li><li>Personalize outreach based on company, industry, and HR/TA challenges</li></ul>&nbsp;2. Inbound Lead Engagement (Your Speed Advantage)&nbsp;<ul><li>Respond to inbound leads fast and move them through early qualification</li><li>Understand intent signals to prioritize high-conversion opportunities</li><li>Convert MQLs to SQLs with tight follow-up and structured discovery</li></ul>&nbsp;3. High-Quality Qualification&nbsp;<ul><li>Uncover pain points, urgency, decision-makers, budgets, and timelines</li><li>Ensure only high-quality meetings make it to the Sales Manager / AE</li></ul>&nbsp;4. Pipeline &amp; CRM Ownership&nbsp;<ul><li>Maintain accurate, up-to-date CRM records</li><li>Track activity metrics, conversion rates, and pipeline coverage</li><li>Forecast your pipeline with precision</li></ul>&nbsp;5. Tools &amp; Systems&nbsp;<ul><li>You’ll work with:</li><li>HubSpot</li><li>Zoho</li><li>Apollo</li><li>LinkedIn Sales Navigator</li><li>Lusha / Clearbit</li><li>And any other tools that help you book meetings faster than anyone else</li></ul>&nbsp;Who You Are&nbsp;<ul><li>1–3 years of experience as a BDR/SDR in B2B environments</li><li>Strong English &amp; Arabic fluency</li><li>Proven track record in prospecting and hitting targets</li><li>You’re not afraid of cold calls, you like them</li><li>You understand how to personalize outreach for HR, TA leaders, founders, and decision-makers</li><li>You think in metrics: activity, conversion, pipeline coverage</li><li>You have the hunger to grow into a Senior SDR, AE, or Sales Manager role</li><li>High ownership, high pace, high hustle</li></ul>&nbsp;Why Join Qureos&nbsp;<ul><li>Join one of the fastest-growing AI hiring platforms in the region</li><li>Work remotely across MENA</li><li>Learn directly from a world-class sales team</li><li>Clear career path into closing roles (AE)</li><li>Energetic, ambitious, fun, and execution-obsessed culture</li><li>Real impact: every meeting you book helps companies hire faster and fairer</li></ul>&nbsp;If This Sounds Like You…&nbsp;You love the chase.You love the “yes.”And you love the sound of your calendar filling up with meetings you earned through pure hustle.&nbsp;Apply! Let’s grow Qureos together.

Business Development Representative

Job Title: Business Development Executive Experience: 1–3 Years&nbsp;Requirements:&nbsp;<ul><li>Proven experience in lead generation and client acquisition (minimum 1 year)</li><li>Work experience in marketing agencies is required</li><li>Strong communication, negotiation, and presentation skills</li><li>Understanding of IT services such as Web Development, App Development, and Game Development</li><li>Ability to work independently as well as in a team</li><li>Goal-driven and passionate about sales &nbsp;</li></ul>Key Responsibilities:&nbsp;<ul><li>Identify potential clients through various channels (emails, calls, LinkedIn, etc.)</li><li>Pitch company services and convert leads into business opportunities</li><li>Coordinate with internal teams to ensure smooth service delivery and client satisfaction</li><li>Prepare proposals, follow up regularly, and close deals successfully</li><li>Monitor market trends and competitor activities to identify new opportunities</li></ul>

Business Development Executive

<h2>Backend Engineer — AI &amp; Data Infrastructure</h2>&nbsp;We are looking for a Backend Engineer to build the AI and data infrastructure powering our next-generation talent and evaluation platform. You will work on data modeling, embeddings, feature extraction, pipeline creation, and serving AI-powered insights at scale. &nbsp;This is a hands-on engineering role focused on scalable AI infrastructure — not research or prototyping. You will collaborate closely with engineering and product teams to design systems that process structured and unstructured data, generate semantic representations, and expose intelligence through reliable APIs. &nbsp;<h2>Responsibilities &nbsp;</h2><h3>AI &amp; Data Infrastructure &nbsp;</h3><ul><li>Design and maintain data models for structured and unstructured data</li><li>Build data ingestion and processing pipelines</li><li>Implement embedding pipelines and vector search systems</li><li>Develop feature extraction logic using LLMs and smaller models</li><li>Optimize for accuracy, latency, and cost &nbsp;</li></ul><h3>Platform Engineering &nbsp;</h3><ul><li>Design and implement backend services that expose AI-driven insights</li><li>Maintain versioning, evaluation checks, and health monitoring for AI outputs</li><li>Optimize performance, caching, and retrieval logic for semantic data</li><li>Collaborate with engineers to ensure data consistency and reliability &nbsp;</li></ul><h3>Model Integration &nbsp;</h3><ul><li>Integrate LLM APIs, embedding models, and small language models</li><li>Build evaluation harnesses to validate extraction quality</li><li>Monitor drift, degradation, and inconsistencies over time &nbsp;</li></ul><h3>General &nbsp;</h3><ul><li>Write maintainable backend code (Node.js / Python / Go)</li><li>Work cross-functionally with product and engineering teams</li><li>Ensure AI systems are robust, observable, and production-ready &nbsp;</li></ul><h2>Required Skills &nbsp;</h2><ul><li>Strong backend engineering experience</li><li>Experience designing or maintaining data pipelines</li><li>Practical experience with embeddings and vector databases</li><li>Familiarity with LLM application patterns (prompting, extraction, RAG)</li><li>Strong SQL and NoSQL fundamentals</li><li>Ability to design scalable APIs</li><li>Understanding of evaluation metrics for AI systems &nbsp;</li></ul><h2>Nice to Have &nbsp;</h2><ul><li>Experience with LangChain or LlamaIndex</li><li>Experience with smaller open-source models (Llama, Qwen, Mistral, etc.)</li><li>Experience with ETL frameworks (Airflow, Dagster, Temporal)</li><li>Interest in skills-based matching or intelligence systems (optional) &nbsp;</li></ul><h2>Success Indicators &nbsp;</h2><ul><li>AI pipelines are stable, observable, and scalable</li><li>Data processing is efficient and correct</li><li>API services return reliable and consistent insights</li><li>Embedding systems improve retrieval quality over time</li></ul>

AI Data Platform Engineer

Opulenco

Opulenco is looking for a results-oriented and professional Operations and Administrative Executive to join our team in Dubai. The role focuses on supporting the operations and administration of our luxury short-term rental properties, including acquiring new homeowners and clients for our portfolio. You’ll be responsible for growing our network, securing partnerships, and representing Opulenco in Dubai’s premium real estate market.Responsibilities:<ul><li>Identify and onboard luxury homeowners for Opulenco’s property portfolio.</li><li>Acquire new clients looking for high-end holiday homes and tailored experiences.</li><li>Build and maintain relationships with brokers, developers, and local partners.</li><li>Conduct property tours and present Opulenco’s services to potential clients.</li><li>Meet sales and acquisition targets on a monthly basis.</li><li>Maintain in-depth knowledge of Dubai’s luxury real estate and hospitality markets.</li><li>Assist with day-to-day operations and administrative tasks to ensure smooth business functioning.</li></ul>Requirements:<ul><li>Proven experience in real estate, luxury sales, hospitality, or administration.</li><li>Strong network within Dubai’s high-net-worth and property circles.</li><li>Excellent communication and negotiation skills.</li><li>Professional presentation and understanding of luxury service standards.</li><li>Target-oriented, confident closer, and able to work independently.</li><li>Fluency in English; Arabic is an advantage.</li></ul>Compensation:<ul><li>AED 4,500 per month plus commission and performance-based incentives.</li></ul>&nbsp;

Operations and Administrative Executive

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