Talent Acquisition Manager
Business
About the role
ABOUT THE ROLE
Lean is hiring a Talent Acquisition Manager to operate in a player-coach role: leading a small talent team while owning GTM & Business hiring. You'll manage and develop the team, drive hiring quality and speed, and act as a strategic partner to leadership. If you're someone who raises the bar on every hire, builds systems that outlast you, and takes pride in the caliber of people joining a company, this role is for you.
ABOUT LEAN
Lean is the leading financial infrastructure provider in the Middle East. We power some of the region's largest companies with APIs that enable payments, account verification, financial data access, and other critical financial infrastructure.
What started as the region's pioneering Open Banking platform and quickly became the de facto leader in account aggregation and payment initiation in the region is now becoming something bigger: a multi-product infrastructure company powering payments, data, and lending across MENA.
We've processed billions of dollars in transactions. We're trusted by 450+ clients - from Binance and Careem to Etisalat - and backed by General Catalyst, Sequoia, and Shorooq. Our $67.5M Series B was just the beginning. We're expanding into new markets, opening offices, acquiring businesses, and building capabilities that didn't exist here before.
WHAT YOU'LL OWN
- Hiring outcomes, hands on
- Run GTM and business hiring end to end: intake, sourcing, screening and closing.
- Build outbound yourself: target company maps, candidate archetypes and outreach.
- Close your own hires: offers, equity conversations, and comp positioning against regional players and global tech.
- Lead the Talent function
- Lead and develop a small team: set priorities and targets, give regular coaching and feedback, hold them accountable, and support their growth.
- Own the hiring plan with leadership
- Work with the CEO, CFO, Head of People and functional leaders on headcount, sequencing and comp trade-offs.
- Surface hiring risks early, set clear expectations wit…