Talent Specialist

Ziina; Dubai; On-site; AED 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Ziina is seeking a Talent Specialist to own full-cycle recruiting across teams in a fast-growing startup. You will lead outbound sourcing, craft role profiles with hiring managers, and drive a high-quality candidate experience from intake to offer.

You’ll use data to optimize pipelines and contribute to cross-functional hiring strategies while keeping ATS systems accurate. You will collaborate with engineering, product, and operations to align talent strategy with business priorities and

Qualifications

• 3+ years of full-cycle recruiting, preferably in a startup.
• Proven sourcing strength, especially outbound.
• Experience using data/analytics to influence decisions.
• Knowledge of TA systems and recruitment automation.
• Collaborates with engineering, product, and operations.
• Detail-oriented with ability to manage competing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Run end-to-end recruiting for assigned roles from intake to offer.
• Deliver a high-quality candidate experience at every stage.
• Partner with hiring managers to translate needs into roles.
• Use scorecards and feedback to drive calibrated decisions.
• Contribute to leadership recommendations and stakeholder alignment.
• Track pipeline metrics and optimize hiring outcomes with data.
• Maintain ATS, automations, and workflows accurately.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Outbound sourcing

Data analytics

ATS management

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

ATS

Automation tools

AI sourcing tools

Job description

We're looking for a Talent Specialist to join our team at Ziina. This is a hands-on, full-cycle recruiting role: you'll own your pipelines from first outreach to accepted offer, working with teams across the business. You'll run outbound-first searches in competitive markets, with AI tooling built into every step of the process. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who thrives in a growing startup environment, brings strong talent acquisition and operational excellence, and is energized by contributing to a modern, forward-thinking talent function.

As a Talent Specialist at Ziina you will:

• Run end-to-end recruiting for assigned roles, from intake to accepted offer, with a consistent, high-quality process across every team you hire for
• Deliver a candidate experience we're proud of at every stage
• Partner with hiring managers to understand what their team actually needs and turn it into a clear, realistic role profile
• Help hiring managers and interviewers evaluate well: clear scorecards, useful feedback, calibrated decisions
• Contribute to recommendations for senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders
• Track your pipeline metrics, notice what is not working, and improve your own hiring outcomes based on data
• Keep recruiting systems accurate and up to date (ATS, automations, workflows), and when you see something not working in our recruiting setup, even outside your own roles, propose a solution
• Manage job boards, agencies, and other external recruitment partners day to day, and track whether they deliver value
• Look beyond your own roles: bring ideas on employer brand, candidate experience, and how we hire as a company, even where you don't own the outcome

To succeed in this role, you likely:

• Have 3+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including experience in a startup environment
• Are a strong sourcer, comfortable when outbound is the main channel
• Are comfortable using data and analytics tools to drive insights and decisions
• Understand various TA systems and have supported process optimization, including ATS management and recruitment automation tools
• Have experience collaborating with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product, and operations, to align recruitment strategy with business priorities
• Operate with a detail-oriented mindset and can manage competing priorities in a fast-moving, cross-functional environment
• Have significantly contributed to a Talent Acquisition function from the ground up, establishing processes, playbooks, and scalable systems

What would amaze us

• You've closed senior or niche roles through outbound sourcing, in markets where inbound doesn't work
• AI tools are already part of your daily sourcing and screening work, and you know where the human judgment stays
• You've built a dashboard, report, or process improvement that your team actually adopted and still uses
• Ownership is your default: when something blocks your work, you fix it or find the person who can, without waiting to be asked