Director of People & Culture

Rewaa is on a mission to revolutionise retail! Our cutting‑edge SaaS platform empowers retailers to move and grow faster. We provide innovative solutions for point-of-sale, inventory management, omnichannel integrations, tax and accounting, and reporting, all delivered on a single screen with our lightning‑fast, robust hardware. With over 10,000+ customers and an ambitious trajectory toward global expansion, there's never been a better time to join Rewaa!

We are hiring a Director of People & Culture to own the full people agenda not just HR operations. You will design and execute the strategy that attracts, develops, and retains the talent we need to win the next phase of growth, while ensuring world‑class operational excellence, governance, and compliance. You will be a true business partner to the executive team, a coach to our managers, and the architect of a culture that combines Saudi roots with the velocity of a global SaaS company.

This is a generalist Director role. You will personally own the entire employee lifecycle. Talent Acquisition, Onboarding, Performance, Total Rewards, L&D, Engagement, People Operations, and Offboarding alongside the HR tech stack, regulatory compliance, and the culture itself.

• Translate Rewaa’s business strategy into a multi‑year people plan covering workforce planning, organizational design, talent strategy, and culture.
• Act as a trusted advisor and thought partner to the CEO, COO, and the C‑suite on organizational effectiveness, succession, and strategic workforce decisions.
• Lead organizational design and re‑organisations as we scale from ~300 to multi‑hundred headcount.
• Own the headcount plan and people P&L in close partnership with Finance.

• Lead the Talent Acquisition function to deliver against aggressive hiring plans across engineering, product, commercial, and operations.
• Build and scale Rewaa’s employer brand as an employer of choice for top Saudi and regional tech talent.
• Design sourcing strategies across referrals, technical hiring channels, university partnerships, and Saudi government talent programs (Tamheer, Hadaf, NTDP, Tamkeen).
• Own offer strategy, candidate experience, and the key TA metrics: time‑to‑hire, quality‑of‑hire, offer acceptance, and source‑of‑hire mix.

• Design and maintain a compensation philosophy and salary bands benchmarked to the Saudi tech market.
• Administer the Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP) end‑to‑end in coordination with Finance & Legal (Carta).

• Build career frameworks and competency models across functions (engineering ladder, IC vs. management tracks, commercial career paths).
• Own management capability development: hire‑to‑manager onboarding, new‑manager training, and leadership development for senior managers.
• Identify and deploy high‑leverage L&D investments, including government‑subsidised AI and tech upskilling programs (NTDP and similar).

• Define, ope rationalise, and protect Rewaa’s values, behaviours, and rituals as the company scales.
• Own employee engagement: surveys, action planning, ENPS, and pulse mechanisms; translate insight into executive action.
• Lead the internal communications cadence in partnership with the executive team (all‑hands, town halls, leadership updates).
• Curate the in‑office experience, offsites, and community‑building moments.

• Oversee end‑to‑end employee lifecycle administration: contracts, onboarding, leaves, transfers, terminations, and End‑of‑Service Benefits (EOSB).
• Partner with Finance to ensure flawless monthly payroll, GOSI reconciliation, and headcount forecasting.
• Manage medical insurance brokerage, benefits providers, and all people‑related vendors.
• Own actuarial audits, EOSB provisioning, and people‑cost reporting to the executive team and the Board.

• Ensure 100% compliance with Saudi Labor Law and proactively adapt policies to regulatory shifts.
• Oversee administration of Qiwa, GOSI, HRSD, Mudad, Muqeem, Absher Business, and any newly…