Talent and People Operations

Echelon; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Echelon in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is hiring for a Talent and People Operations role. You will own end-to-end recruitment processes—from seat release to signed offers—alongside onboarding, payroll inputs and data governance within a growing framework.

You will own recruitment operations, offers and contracts, onboarding, data administration and policy cycles, ensuring accuracy and discretion while learning how a modern company is built in Saudi Arabia. Arabic and English fluency are expected.

Qualifications

• Curiosity — You ask why a process exists before you run it, and you read a labour-law rule or a pay framework the way other people read the news.
• Speed of learning — A new platform, a new rule, a new spreadsheet model: you are competent in days and fluent in weeks, and you write down what you learned so the next person is faster.
• Ownership — A process is yours from the first candidate email to the payroll file. Nothing sits waiting for a reminder.
• Discretion & warmth — Absolute discretion with pay, equity and personal data; direct and warm with candidates and new joiners; early to elevate what needs escalating.
• Where you are — Early in your career, with a first exposure to HR, talent coordination or a people-generalist role — ideally in Saudi Arabia — and either a working familiarity with Qiwa, Mudad, GOSI and Absher or the appetite to master them fast. Arabic and English, written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Recruitment operations — Search-firm coordination, scheduling, case-study and panel logistics, candidate communication and the record of every process, from seat release to signed offer.
• Offers & contracts — Pricing each seat on the framework’s offer calculator, offer and employment letters, share-plan paperwork with Legal, visas and Iqama, GOSI and Qiwa registration.
• Onboarding — The first-thirty-days plan agreed with the hiring manager, equipment and access on day one, the Echelon Way induction, and the check-in that tells us whether the landing worked.
• People administration & data — One roster that is always right — levels, bands, allowances, dependants, start dates — leave and medical, education allowance on invoice, and the monthly payroll inputs handed to Finance.
• Policies & cycles — Drafting the missing people policies with the People lead, and running the calendar of the performance review programme, the annual off-site and the half-year review.

Job description

Talent and People Operations

• Riyadh, Saudi Arabia • Full-time • Independent Group Functions

CONTEXT & MANDATE
Echelon is a Saudi-born, sovereign technology company that brings leading global AI technologies to the Kingdom, deploys them with its own forward deployed engineering organisation, compounds partner technology into Echelon IP and, over time, productises Saudi-developed capability.

Echelon will multiply its headcount several times over in the next eighteen months, on one published framework: levels defined by the work, one band per level, one allowance policy, equity for everybody. This seat is where that framework meets a person.

You will run the machinery that turns a hiring decision into a colleague: the recruitment record from seat release to signed offer, the offer priced and papered on the framework, the visa, the first day, the roster and the payroll file. Every hire Echelon makes in the next two years passes through your hands.

Nothing here is finished. The policies are half-written, the roster is a spreadsheet, the onboarding is a plan. You will own the process end to end and decide how it runs inside the framework — and you will notice, before anyone else does, where it breaks.

We are not hiring for a CV. We are hiring a mind that is early in its career, likes order, is curious about how a company is actually built, and will outgrow this seat. When it does, the People function will have grown around it — the People Experience seat opens next, and you will have shaped what it inherits.

WHAT YOU WILL OWN

• Recruitment operations — Search-firm coordination, scheduling, case-study and panel logistics, candidate communication and the record of every process, from seat release to signed offer.

• Offers & contracts — Pricing each seat on the framework’s offer calculator, offer and employment letters, share-plan paperwork with Legal, visas and Iqama, GOSI and Qiwa registration.

• Onboarding — The first-thirty-days plan agreed with the hiring manager, equipment and access on day one, the Echelon Way induction, and the check-in that tells us whether the landing worked.

• People administration & data — One roster that is always right — levels, bands, allowances, dependants, start dates — leave and medical, education allowance on invoice, and the monthly payroll inputs handed to Finance.

• Policies & cycles — Drafting the missing people policies with the People lead, and running the calendar of the performance review programme, the annual off-site and the half-year review.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

You like things to work. You notice when they do not, and you fix them before anyone asks. You want to understand how a company is built, not only how it is administered.

• Curiosity — You ask why a process exists before you run it, and you read a labour-law rule or a pay framework the way other people read the news.

• Speed of learning — A new platform, a new rule, a new spreadsheet model: you are competent in days and fluent in weeks, and you write down what you learned so the next person is faster.

• Ownership — A process is yours from the first candidate email to the payroll file. Nothing sits waiting for a reminder.

• Discretion & warmth — Absolute discretion with pay, equity and personal data; direct and warm with candidates and new joiners; early to elevate what needs escalating.

• Where you are — Early in your career, with a first exposure to HR, talent coordination or a people-generalist role — ideally in Saudi Arabia — and either a working familiarity with Qiwa, Mudad, GOSI and Absher or the appetite to master them fast. Arabic and English, written and spoken.

THE SEAT

Reports to: Chief People, Org Capability & Culture
Location: Riyadh