People Lead
tactical.Who You Are
You’re a people-first HR professional who blends strategy with delivery.
You can handle sensitive employee relations cases one moment, roll out a new HR system feature the next, and then coach a manager through a performance conversation, all while keeping compliance watertight and culture thriving.
You thrive in a fast-moving creative environment and understand how to balance people's priorities with business needs.
What You’ll Do
Strategic Execution
Leadership Partnership
Talent strategy
You'll join a collaborative, ambitious People Team that's passionate about building exceptional teams and creating brilliant employee experiences.
This is a fully remote role, giving you the flexibility to work from wherever you do your best work while collaborating with colleagues across multiple countries and time zones.
If you're someone who loves bringing order to complexity, enjoys building relationships and takes pride in creating an outstanding hiring experience, we'd love to hear from you.
You’re a people-first HR professional who blends strategy with delivery.
You can handle sensitive employee relations cases one moment, roll out a new HR system feature the next, and then coach a manager through a performance conversation, all while keeping compliance watertight and culture thriving.
You thrive in a fast-moving creative environment and understand how to balance people's priorities with business needs.
What You’ll Do
Strategic Execution
Leadership Partnership
- Represent the People function and advise Leadership on all people related matters.
- Partner with the Leadership Team to drive wider business objectives.
- Lead, mentor, and develop the People team, setting clear priorities and ensuring high performance.
- Own People strategy roadmap, translating business goals into a long term people strategy aligned with growth, innovation and culture.
- Define, track and deliver People reports and dashboards covering and KPIs.
- Use People data insights to inform strategic decisions and drive continuous improvement
Talent strategy
- Oversee all hiring activity, ensuring efficient, scalable recruitment processes.
- Support UAE National hiring initiatives in alignment with business and government objectives.
- Own Employee lifecycle framework
- Oversee onboarding and offboarding experiences, ensuring each process is consistent, compliant, and experience-focused
- Lead onboarding and offboarding meetings with new joiners
- Maintain strong internal communications that keep employees informed and aligned.
- Ensure all touchpoints of the employee lifecycle are tracked and experience is aligned with Tactical’s values and ways of working
- Own the design and execution of the performance management framework.
- Run performance review cycles, calibration, 1-1 templates, and reminders, ensuring high completion and quality feedback.
- Partner with leadership to run annual talent reviews.
- Partner with managers to set SMART goals and run Performance Improvement Plans.
- Act as a senior point of escalation for complex employee relations matters.
- Serve as a cultural ambassador, ensuring Tactical fosters a collaborative, solutions-focused team culture with clear accountability.
- Oversee the People technology ecosystem, ensuring data accuracy, security, and efficiency.
- Oversee automation and system improvements to create seamless HR processes.
- Own the Tactical policies and benefits strategy
- Create, review, update and obtain sign off on policies and benefits
- Collaborate with the Operations team to ensure people policies and benefit implementation processes run efficiently.
- Ensure 100% compliance with UAE labour law and relevant global policies.
- Oversee immigration, visas, and contracts for a global workforce and our freelancer networks.
- 7 years’ generalist expertise across all of the employee lifecycle
- Experience with policies, processes, employee relations matters, escalations and associated documentation
- Experience developing and managing a team
- Experience managing review cycles
- Agency to manage up
- Experience working directly with a leadership team to drive wider business objectives
- Strong knowledge of UAE labour law
- Nice to have:
- Hiring and talent pipelining experience
- Understands global mobility
You'll join a collaborative, ambitious People Team that's passionate about building exceptional teams and creating brilliant employee experiences.
This is a fully remote role, giving you the flexibility to work from wherever you do your best work while collaborating with colleagues across multiple countries and time zones.
If you're someone who loves bringing order to complexity, enjoys building relationships and takes pride in creating an outstanding hiring experience, we'd love to hear from you.