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# Talent Acquisition Manager at Lean Technologies

- **Company:** Lean Technologies
- **Location:** Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-11-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-04
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/leantech/f8b5ef76-8cff-4057-992b-aad167dead14

## Job description

## About the role

Lean is hiring a Talent Acquisition Manager to operate in a player-coach role: leading a small talent team while owning GTM & Business hiring. You'll manage and develop the team, drive hiring quality and speed, and act as a strategic partner to leadership. If you're someone who raises the bar on every hire, builds systems that outlast you, and takes pride in the caliber of people joining a company, this role is for you.

## About Lean

Lean is the leading financial infrastructure provider in the Middle East. We power some of the region's largest companies with APIs that enable payments, account verification, financial data access, and other critical financial infrastructure.

What started as the region's pioneering Open Banking platform and quickly became the de facto leader in account aggregation and payment initiation in the region is now becoming something bigger: a multi-product infrastructure company powering payments, data, and lending across MENA.

We've processed billions of dollars in transactions. We're trusted by 450+ clients - from Binance and Careem to Etisalat - and backed by General Catalyst, Sequoia, and Shorooq. Our $67.5M Series B was just the beginning. We're expanding into new markets, opening offices, acquiring businesses, and building capabilities that didn't exist here before.

## What you'll own

- Hiring outcomes, hands on
- Run GTM and business hiring end to end: intake, sourcing, screening and closing.
- Build outbound yourself: target company maps, candidate archetypes and outreach.
- Close your own hires: offers, equity conversations, and comp positioning against regional players and global tech.
- Lead the Talent function
- Lead and develop a small team: set priorities and targets, give regular coaching and feedback, hold them accountable, and support their growth.
- Own the hiring plan with leadership
- Work with the CEO, CFO, Head of People and functional leaders on headcount, sequencing and comp trade-offs.
- Surface hiring risks early, set clear expectations with hiring managers on timelines and trade-offs, and advise on capacity planning.
- Run request-to-hire end to end: business case, sign-off and JD before any search opens.
- Quality, process and data
- Agree what great looks like with each hiring manager before a search starts, and hold the bar through to offer.
- Embed Lean's values into interview loops through role-specific scorecards, and coach hiring managers on structured interviewing and calibration.
- Find inefficiencies, then build and maintain the recruiting playbooks that fix them.
- Own the TA stack: Ashby, Granola, and an AI workflow layer (Claude skills, Notion agents) that lets a small team operate like a larger one.
- Programmes and markets
- Own the internship programme and Emiratization compliance.
- Deliver the 2027 KSA Graduate Program with university partners.
- Hire for LeanX, our stablecoin startup inside a scaled company.
- Support the hiring and launch our new Cairo hub.
- Build Lean's employer brand and candidate experience across all office locations.
- AI in recruiting
- Own the team's AI adoption roadmap.
- Evaluate new tools against measurable process outcomes.
- Set the standard for responsible and effective AI use across the TA function.

## What we're looking for

- Talent experience at a VC firm at startup/scale-up phase, with at least 1 year in a people management capacity
- A track record of closing senior GTM and leadership hires.
- Ability to manage up. You can advise leadership on org design and comp, and you push back with data.
- Structured assessment habits: scorecards, calibrated loops, evidence over instinct.
- Excellent process management and ATS proficiency (Ashby experience is a plus), with high attention to detail
- Prior experience hiring across UAE and/or KSA markets
- Clear, concise communication skills.
- Strong command of hiring metrics and reporting
- You know how to build a company's presence and reputation in the talent market
- Background in fintech (preferred)
- Experience with Emiratization and/or Saudization programmes
- Arabic speaker (desirable)

NB. While we think the above experience could be important, we’re keen to hear from people that believe they have valuable experience to bring to the role. If you identify with the team and mission, but not all of our requirements, then please still apply!!

Why Join us? We’re building the financial infrastructure for MENA. Not as a slogan, as a fact. Since 2019, we’ve become the first regulated Open Banking and Open Finance company operating across the UAE and Saudi Arabia. We’ve processed billions of dollars. We connect millions of accounts. We enable companies like Binance, Careem, and Etisalat to build products that were previously impossible in this region. Our recent $67.5M Series B from General Catalyst and Sequoia isn’t just validation: it’s fuel. We’re expanding into new markets, launching new products, and setting the pace for what financial innovation looks like in MENA. We solve hard problems. We move fast. We hold ourselves to a high standard. And we’re looking for people who’ve done this before to help us do it right. If you’re motivated by building something that lasts, not just something that scales, Lean is where you need to be.

Not only do we offer competitive salaries, private healthcare, and flexible office hours, but we also insist that every member of the team hold a meaningful equity stake in the business to ensure long-term alignment. We'd love you to join us for this journey!

Lean is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

When applying for a job at Lean Technologies, we will need to collect, use and share Personal Data about you with different members of our team during the application process. This may mean transferring your data to members of the team in one of our office locations worldwide outside of the country you are in. Please refer to our Privacy Notice on our website for more information about how we may use and store your Personal Data

## About Lean Technologies

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Lean Technologies is the leading financial infrastructure provider in the MENA region, enabling businesses to move money, verify identities, and access financial data through a single, compliant API platform.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, $104M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Services / Open Banking / Fintech Infrastructure
- **Target customers**: B2B – banks, fintechs, digital wallets, and enterprises across industries (eCommerce, insurance, gaming, automotive, crypto, etc.)
- **Mission**: To make financial services in MENA faster, more transparent, and accessible to all businesses by building a regulated, API-first infrastructure.

## Products & Services
- **Lean Payments**: API suite for account-to-account payments, including Pay by Bank, instant payouts, refunds, withdrawals, and automated reconciliation. Covers use cases like investment funding, insurance claims disbursement, and gaming withdrawals.
- **Lean Data**: Real-time and historical financial data aggregation APIs that allow businesses to verify income, assess affordability, and gain insights from over 30 banks across the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
- **Lean Verification**: Identity and account verification services, enabling customer due diligence and KYC/AML compliance.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of USD 104M (as of July 2025), with over $4B in transaction volume processed and 16B+ total processed volume reported on the website.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Shorooq Partners (lead in Secondary Market round); Series B backed by 18 investors (names not publicly detailed). Also supported by non-equity assistance and seed round investors.
- **Growth Signals**: 132 employees (+28.9% YoY), serving 400+ companies, connecting 2M+ accounts, verifying 3M+ accounts. Licensed by the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE), Saudi Central Bank (SAMA), and Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM). Holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022 certifications. In-principle approval for Open Finance Services obtained in August 2025.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Regulatory moat**: Fully licensed and regulated in both the UAE and Saudi Arabia – a rare and hard-to-replicate status in the region.
- **API-first design**: Single integration for payments, data, and verification, reducing complexity for clients.
- **Deep bank coverage**: Supports over 30 banks across MENA, giving broad access to financial accounts.
- **Security certifications**: SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022 provide enterprise-grade trust.
- **Proven scale**: Billions in processed volume and thousands of connected accounts demonstrate reliability.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening regulatory approvals and expanding into new MENA markets.
- Broadening industry-specific solutions (insurance, automotive, crypto, gaming) to capture vertical demand.
- Continuing to build a unified platform that combines payments, data, and identity – reducing the need for multiple vendors.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: The company emphasizes “pursue greatness, move fast, and care about each other’s growth” [leantech.me/careers](https://www.leantech.me/careers).
- **Locations**: Offices in Dubai (UAE), Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), and Cairo (Egypt) – with remote/hybrid flexibility implied by the distributed team (employees also in UK, Poland, India, Belgium).
- **Engineering focus**: 32% of staff are in technical roles; the engineering team is led by a Head of Engineering and works on a high-scale financial platform trusted by millions.
- **Growth trajectory**: Rapid headcount growth (+28.9% YoY), recent funding, and regulatory wins signal strong momentum and career development opportunities.
- **Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the company’s commitment to security, compliance, and top-tier talent suggests a professional, high-standard environment.

## Sources
1. [leantech.me](https://www.leantech.me/) – Official website (Payments & Data Infrastructure)
2. [leantech.me/ksa/en/company/about](https://www.leantech.me/ksa/en/company/about) – About Us page
3. [leantech.me/careers](https://www.leantech.me/careers) – Careers page
4. [linkedin.com/company/leantechnologies](https://www.linkedin.com/company/leantechnologies) – LinkedIn company profile

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