Job description

The Talent Acquisition Manager (UAEN) is a strategic leadership role responsible for designing and executing a forward-looking, digitally enabled talent acquisition strategy for a sovereign wealth fund operating in global financial markets. Based in Abu Dhabi, this role leads end-to-end hiring across investment and corporate functions, ensuring the organization attracts world-class talent while advancing a strong Emiratization agenda. The position plays a central role in transforming the recruitment function through AI-enabled sourcing tools, predictive analytics, automation, HR chatbots, and data-rich dashboards to enhance quality of hire, reduce cycle times, and optimize candidate experience. The role partners closely with senior leadership, business heads, Finance, Risk, Legal, IT, and HR teams to forecast workforce needs, execute structured manpower plans, and align hiring with long-term investment strategy and approved headcount frameworks. It establishes governance standards for recruitment processes, including compliance with data privacy regulations, non-discrimination standards, audit requirements, and board-level oversight expectations. The Talent Acquisition Manager also defines and oversees governance frameworks for AI in recruitment, ensuring transparency, fairness, accountability, bias monitoring, and continuous recalibration of algorithmic tools. In addition, the role drives employer branding initiatives locally and globally, builds sustainable talent pipelines for UAE Nationals and investment professionals, manages recruitment vendors and executive search firms, oversees recruitment budgets, and supports organization design initiatives such as job structuring and span-of-control optimization. As a people leader, the position develops and mentors the Talent Acquisition team, builds AI literacy, and ensures operational excellence while serving as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders on market insights, hiring risks, workforce capacity, and long-term capability planning.