Head of People & Talent

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🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates (UAE) – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👥 People Operations

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Plateful

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2025

🛍️ eCommerce

🛒 Retail

👥 B2C

eCommerce • Retail • B2C

Plateful is a direct-to-consumer kitchenware brand that sells titanium-based cookware and related kitchen products. Their product lineup (from the provided site content) includes pure-titanium pans, saucepans, woks, utensils, cutting boards, vacuum sealers and accessories, and a food-warming mat — all marketed as non-toxic, long-lasting, and buy-it-for-life kitchen solutions. The company emphasizes e-commerce sales (on-site promotions, bestseller listings, and a 90-day trial with lifetime warranty) and targets home cooks seeking safer, durable, easy-to-clean cookware and food-storage tools that reduce waste.

📋 Description

• Own and continuously improve the full-cycle recruiting process across marketing, operations, technology, creative, sales, and other functions • Audit and refine recruiting workflows, interview structures, scorecards, hiring manager briefings, and offer processes • Partner with hiring managers to define role expectations and maintain a high hiring bar • Own sourcing, screening, interviewing, coordination, and closing for key positions • Manage external recruiting partners and agencies when needed • Track hiring performance and improve speed, quality, and candidate experience • Build and eventually manage a small internal recruiting team as hiring volume grows • Establish and implement HR best practices across the organization • Develop systems supporting member retention, engagement, and performance • Establish recurring manager and member check-ins • Develop performance scorecards with department heads • Support managers with performance gaps, recognition, and improvement • Develop processes for performance reviews, career development, compensation reviews, and member feedback • Address people-related issues and support effective team management • Create and maintain policies, processes, and documentation • Organize initiatives that strengthen team connection, including company events and offsites • Help shape and protect Plateful's culture • Identify people demonstrating ownership, accountability, and alignment with company values • Help managers build productive, engaged, independent teams • Create systems supporting high-performer growth and improvement • Act as a trusted partner to leadership on people and organizational matters • Use AI tools to improve recruiting, HR, communication, documentation, analysis, and productivity • Identify automation opportunities and improve operational efficiency • Continuously evaluate and improve People function systems • Bring a modern, AI-native approach to People & Talent

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, preferably in a high-growth startup or fast-paced environment • Experience hiring across marketing, operations, creative, sales, and technical roles • Experience supporting distributed or remote teams • Proven experience building or significantly improving recruiting and HR processes • Strong understanding of member retention, engagement, performance management, and people operations • Strong instinct for culture, ownership, and identifying high-performing talent • Highly proactive, resourceful, and comfortable taking ownership without constant direction • AI-native mindset and active use of AI tools • Strong communication and interpersonal skills • Highly organized and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment • Comfortable working directly with founders, executives, and hiring managers • Willingness to be hands-on • Ability to work CET/EET-aligned hours • Dubai-based candidates are ideal, but remote candidates will also be considered

🏖️ Benefits

• Highly Competitive Salary / USD per month • Performance-based compensation tied to successful hiring and long-term retention of key hires • Full-time role working closely with the CEO and department heads • CET/EET-aligned hours • Opportunity to work directly with leadership and make a meaningful impact

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