Robert Walters
HR Director - Technology
- Permanent
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 10 - 15 yrs
Job expiry date: 31/05/2026
Job overview
Date posted
16/04/2026
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 40,000 - 50,000 per month
Compensation
Comprehensive package
Experience
10 - 15 yrs
Seniority
Director
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
31/05/2026
Job description
The HR Director - Technology (MENA) is a senior leadership role responsible for defining and executing the people strategy across the UAE and KSA within a fast-paced, high-growth, and evolving technology-driven environment. The role involves leading a regional HR team of 9 professionals and owning the full HR lifecycle, including talent acquisition, employee relations, performance management, compensation and benefits, and learning and development. The HR Director acts as a strategic partner to regional and global leadership teams, aligning people strategy with broader business objectives while ensuring operational excellence across all HR disciplines. This position requires building scalable HR structures, frameworks, and governance models in an ambiguous and rapidly changing environment. The role also involves driving organisational design, workforce planning, and transformation initiatives to support market expansion and business growth. Additionally, the HR Director is responsible for ensuring compliance with UAE and KSA labour laws, enhancing employee engagement and culture, and delivering HR operational efficiency. The position demands strong leadership capability, commercial mindset, and the ability to manage change, influence senior stakeholders, and deliver both strategic and hands-on HR solutions.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Define and execute the MENA HR and people strategy aligned with global organisational goals, ensuring consistent alignment between regional HR initiatives and overall business objectives.
- Lead organisational design and workforce planning across UAE and KSA, building scalable structures, governance frameworks, and processes to support rapid business growth and market expansion.
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership stakeholders, providing strategic guidance on all HR matters including talent strategy, organisational effectiveness, and employee engagement.
- Lead and develop a regional HR team of 9 professionals, ensuring capability building, performance management, and creation of a high-performance HR function.
- Oversee end-to-end HR operations including talent acquisition, employee relations, performance management, compensation and benefits, and learning and development functions.
- Drive HR transformation and change management initiatives to support organisational growth, ensuring smooth adaptation to evolving business needs in a fast-paced environment.
- Ensure compliance with UAE and KSA labour laws and HR regulatory frameworks while partnering with global centres of excellence to implement best-in-class HR practices.
- Champion organisational culture and employee experience across the MENA region, driving engagement, retention, and alignment with global values while adapting to local market needs.
Experience & skills
- Proven experience operating at HR Director level in a high-growth, international or technology-driven organisation with end-to-end HR ownership responsibilities.
- Strong experience in both strategic HR leadership and operational HR delivery, including full HR lifecycle management such as talent acquisition, performance management, and employee relations.
- Demonstrated experience managing HR operations across UAE and KSA, with strong understanding of regional labour laws and HR compliance requirements.
- Proven ability to lead organisational design, workforce planning, and HR transformation initiatives in rapidly changing or ambiguous environments.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills with the ability to engage and advise senior executives in a matrix and global organisation structure.
- Commercially minded, pragmatic, and solutions-oriented approach with ability to solve complex HR challenges in real time.
- Experience leading and developing HR teams while building scalable HR structures, processes, and governance frameworks in high-growth environments.
- Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, evolving environments such as start-up within scale-up or transformation-heavy organisations.