Human Resources Manager
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About the Role
Nabat, a climate-tech startup in the UAE, seeks an HR Manager to own end-to-end people operations. This hands-on role covers talent acquisition, compliance, payroll, employee relations, and HR strategy in a fast-paced venture environment.
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Responsibilities
- Define hiring plans, role scope, job descriptions, candidate criteria, and role prioritization with hiring managers
- Approve visa and immigration priorities, manage quota usage, and ensure Emiratization compliance
- Approve payroll calendar, cut off dates, inputs, exceptions, off cycle items, and final payroll sign off
- Approve employee leave requests, HR policies, and handle non standard employee cases
- Set compensation standards, organizational grading, benefits design, salary structure, and annual budget
- Own ER case strategy, grievance and disciplinary decisions, and conflict resolution outcomes
- Set learning priorities, mandatory and optional training requirements, annual calendar, and budget
- Define executive mandates, exit rationale, and lead executive negotiations
- Set performance cycle policy, timelines, calibration process, and approve salary review and bonus principles
- Approve governance and access rules for HR systems and sensitive data extracts
Requirements
- 7–10 years of progressive HR experience, ideally in a startup, venture, or lean team environment
- Strong knowledge of UAE labour law, PRO processes, and Emiratization requirements
- Proven ability to operate independently across the full HR spectrum without a large team
- Experience managing outsourced HR/payroll providers and holding them accountable to SLAs
- Commercially minded with the ability to balance people first thinking with business pragmatism
- Excellent judgment on sensitive employee matters, with discretion and professionalism
- Strong communicator who can engage credibly with leadership, employees, and government bodies
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Company Overview
- Nabat is a climate tech startup based in the UAE using advanced technology to protect and restore natural ecosystems with precision and scale.
- We operate at the intersection of ecological & environmental sciences, GIS, AI, and robotics.
Role Overview
- The HR Manager at Nabat will serve as the Venture HR Lead, owning end to end people operations across the organization.
- This is a hands on, senior individual contributor role responsible for building and running all HR functions.
Key Responsibilities
- Define hiring plans, role scope, job descriptions, candidate criteria, and role prioritization with hiring managers.
- Approve sourcing strategy, shortlist direction, offer/package terms, and final selection.
- Lead interviews and decision making with hiring managers.
- Own agency selection for niche and specialist roles.
- Screen CVs, schedule interviews, assessments, and manage candidate communications.
- Coordinate onboarding handoff post acceptance and maintain recruitment trackers, SLAs, and hiring reports.
- Approve visa and immigration priorities and manage quota usage.
- Escalate and resolve critical regulatory, governmental, and compliance cases.
- Review compliance status, upcoming expiries, and high risk cases.
- Coordinate with employees to provide required documentation (e.g., EID).
- Manage access and authorization for outsourcing providers on ICP systems.
- Ensure org wide Emiratization compliance.
What We're Looking For
- 7–10 years of progressive HR experience, ideally in a startup, venture, or lean team environment.
- Strong knowledge of UAE labour law, PRO processes, and Emiratization requirements.
- Proven ability to operate independently across the full HR spectrum without a large team.
- Experience managing outsourced HR/payroll providers and holding them accountable to SLAs.
- Commercially minded with the ability to balance people first thinking with business pragmatism.
- Excellent judgment on sensitive employee matters, with discretion and professionalism.
- Strong communicator who can engage credibly with leadership, employees, and government bodies.
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