Mar 2024 – May 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · On-site

• Rewaa is the one-stop-shop for retailers to go online and synchronize their inventory for both online & offline sales channels. A part of MCIT's Unicorn Program, Rewaa is on the road to become KSA's next Unicorn in line with the Vision2030.
• Managed end-to-end recruitment for Engineering, Product, Data/AI, Customer Success and PMO roles across KSA and Pakistan
• Led a team of 4, including 2 recruiters, 1 sourcer, and 1 coordinator, optimizing team performance and recruitment efficiency
• Oversaw the requirements gathering and job advertising process, ensuring clear and accurate role descriptions to attract top talent
• Developed and introduced an automated data reporting system to monitor and analyze individual and team performance metrics
• Scaled the engineering team in Riyadh, successfully meeting the growing demands of the business
• Notable Achievements:
• Collectively filled 350+ roles in 12 months
• Reduced time to hire from 79 days to 23 days
• Successfully relocated top expat talent from the US, UK, Germany, Netherlands, India, Canada, UAE to Saudi Arabia
• Revamped the organization's interview process by implementing a structured interview framework, improving consistency and candidate experience
• Conducted interviewer training sessions, enhancing the effectiveness and standardization of interview practices across the organization
• Implemented Lever as the new ATS, led internal training for interviewers and recruiting teams, and managed comprehensive data migration from legacy systems
• Introduced and implemented an Engineering Competency Framework to bring structure to the expectations model, and provide a roadmap for growth to the colleagues

Jan 2023 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

• Leading a 10-member Talent Acquisition team across Egypt, Pakistan and UAE
• Responsible for engineering hiring across Germany, UAE, Pakistan, Egypt, and Jordan
• Hands-on recruitment for senior engineers, engineering managers and engineering directors
• Creating and delivering high-performing talent acquisition strategies, gaining management backing to
• effectively improve recruitment processes
• Managing life cycle talent acquisition processes, from initial job promotion to staff onboarding
• Promoting talent diversity, coaching stakeholders on improved recruitment and development strategies
• Demonstrating outstanding market intelligence and strategic networking skills, aiding continual evolution within talent acquisition and retention
• Providing subject matter expertise, consulting with cross-business managers at varying levels to provide talent management advice
• Managing recruitment metrics and analytics, providing detailed reports to enhance internal TA processes
• Monitoring employee performance, delivering feedback and coaching to improve skills sets
• Notable Achievements:
• Improved the offer acceptance rate from 61% to 89% in less than 3 months
• 0% attrition in the team since 2022
• Built and scaled the engineering office in Amman, Jordan - currently consisting of 66 engineers
• Hands-on recruitment of 15 Engineering Managers/Senior Managers in 2023
• Reduced the time to hire from 35 days to average 18 days using data-driven approach
• Built and scaled the Data & Artificial Intelligence department from 0 to 120 members in less than 12 months in 2022
• Successfully collaborated with the CTO, SVP Engineering as well as the Chief of Staff to build an augmented 100-members engineering team currently spanning across Egypt, Jordan and Pakistan
• Succesfully use data to devise metrics to develop a "Role Complexity Framework" to improve recruitment performance and accurate role allocation to the team based on their strengths

Nov 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

• Full-Cycle recruitment for Data & AI, Backend Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Information Security and IT teams across 14 markets
• Leading a 5-member Talent Acquisition Squad
• Additional responsibilities include capacity planning, team management, and stakeholder management
• Sheer focus on Agile Sprint Methodology for goal achievement

Nov 2020 – Oct 2021 · 11 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

• Full-cycle technical recruitment across markets including Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan, Dubai, Germany.
• Scaling the engineering team in Pakistan
• Main focus on Software Engineers (Level 1 - Level 4), Data Scientists, Data Analysts, Data Engineers, Data Warehouse Engineers, Infrastructure Engineers, IT Engineers, Risk & Security Engineers
• Successfully delivered an Augmented Teams project while collaborating with the Chief of Staff, VP of Engineering, Senior Director of Engineering, and the Hiring Manager - I was working as the single point of contact from the Talent Acquisition Team.
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• Responsibilities include stakeholder management, requirement gathering, team management, assignment of tasks and effective completion, and end-to-end recruitment
• Responsible for building a Data & AI hub for Careem in Pakistan and Egypt.
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Feb 2020 – Mar 2024 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Pakistan · Remote

• Provided recruitment consultancy to various early stage startups in Pakistan including:
• Creditbook
• Remotebase
• Neem
• Emerald Labs
• Devflovv
• Solution Founder
• Services included;
• Recruitment process optimisation
• Development of Compensation bands
• Hiring senior talent
• Training inhouse talent acquisition teams
• Scaling engineering teams

Nov 2019 – Oct 2020 · 11 mos · Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan · Hybrid

• (Formerly known as KeepTruckin)
• Full-cycle technical recruitment (researching, scheduling, screening, closing) for all engineering teams
• Collaborated with hiring managers to understand priority roles, position profile, and search calibration
• Manage hiring manager expectations and develop processes around interviewing
• Participated in University Career Fairs, Tech Meetups and Networking events to enhance employer branding
• Maintained strong pipeline of passive candidates for all open roles
• Devised and implemented a framework and reduced the time-to-hire from 45 days to 32 days for engineering roles
• Arranged interviewer training sessions for effective interviewing
• Hired 53 engineers in 10 months
• Roles filled: Front-end Developer, Back-end developer, Data Scientist, Product Designer, Image Annotator, Database Administrator, and Android Engineer

Jul 2017 – Nov 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan · On-site

• Recruitment for three different core business units for the professional services department.
• Rapport building with university placement offices
• Job Ad posting
• Employer branding; ensuring an effective marketing plan reducing the employee on-boarding process time while assuring an effective hiring
• Shortlisting of resumes, planning and scheduling interviews
• Updating of company's global database on a regular basis
• Job description review and amendments as per the changing recruitment requirements
• Training & Development; handling both technical and non-technical training and development of employees to ensure a lucrative career
• Conducting exit interviews
• HR database management; streamlined tracking of employee recruitment process, prospective employee status and evaluation
• Prepare all relevant HR letters/ documents/ certificates as per the requirement of employees
• New employee orientation
• Helped event management committee to organize events at Techlogix
• Provided Techlogix with a self-made streamlined leave record system with minimal provision for error
• Engaged with employees on a regular basis to understand the motivation levels of people in the organization
• Review the position in the manpower plan to ensure the correct number of hiring
• Notable Achievements:
• Hired more than 130 individuals in the year 2018
• Technical recruitment for the following positions; Front-end Developer, Back-end Developer, DevOps Engineer, CloudOps, Techno-Functional Consultant, Sales, HR, QA Engineer, Network Administrator, Database Administrator, Finance, UX Designer, Technical Support Engineer
• Revised the Group Health Insurance limits
• Introduced Group Life Insurance for current employees as an additional benefit
• Quarterly recruitment analytics generated to further improve the recruitment process

Jun 2016 – Aug 2016 · 2 mos

• Human Resource Department
• Employee Appraisal
• Employee Hiring
• Co-ordination with senior management regarding employee termination
• Coordination with senior management with regards to the "Management Associate Program" - main tasks being shortlisting CV's, telephone interviews, planning final interview process.

Jul 2015 – Sep 2015 · 2 mos · Jakarta

• Social, cultural awareness.
• Handled the finance and promotion department of a month-long social campaign to create awareness about diabetes and obesity.
• Campaign included multiple set ups at public places to attract audience, alongside newspaper and TVCs all made by the interns.
• Budget management was the biggest constraint, tackled aptly.