KSA National - National Talent & Compliance Lead

KSA National
- National Talent & Compliance Lead

At Horizontal Digital, we hold ourselves to one key belief:
You’re only as good as your worst customer experience. This mantra is what drives our digital consultancy to think beyond the easy answers and instead create websites, apps, portals and other experiences that solve customer needs for Fortune 500 companies in intuitive and empathetic ways. And we make this lofty standard a reality by fusing strategy, data, design and technology together to arrive at solutions that set the bar higher for everyone.

We use these values to fuel superior results:

We forge relationships that make our impact 1,000x stronger. This means working across departments and engaging both our clients and our communities to deliver the greatest good.

We’re not ones to sit on our hands and wait. Instead, we anticipate opportunities, collectively roll up our sleeves and find ways to execute the exceptional.

From new technologies to workplace philosophies, we welcome the unexpected and constantly anticipate what’s next.

We listen before we take action. This means understanding a variety of perspectives and holding ourselves to a higher standard of accountability.

We motivate each other to push past the easy answers and collectively arrive at bigger, more inspiring ideas.

We are seeking an experienced KSA national professional to join us as our new National Talent & Compliance Lead. This is a senior role with two parts. The larger part is compliance & visas: you will become our primary in-house point of contact for Saudization, government relations and the full visa and immigration lifecycle for our people and their families, taking on responsibilities we have historically relied on an external PRO company to manage.

The second part is Saudi national hiring: leading our efforts to attract, source and recruit outstanding Saudi national talent, and helping us stay ahead of our Nitaqat obligations rather than reacting to them.

• Manage the end-to-end visa and immigration process for expatriate employees and their eligible family members — work visas, iqama issuance and renewal, dependent/family visas, and exit/re-entry and cancellation processes.
• Apply for and manage the different types of visas needed for Horizontal Digital employees travelling to Saudi Arabia for work (e.g., business/visit visas).
• Work with our insurance broker to add new employees and eligible family members to our health insurance plan, and manage related updates, amendments and removals.
• Own our Nitaqat/Saudization position — track our Saudi/non-Saudi headcount ratio and quota band on an ongoing basis, and proactively flag to leadership when we are approaching or sitting in the or red zone, together with recommended corrective action.
• Act as Horizontal Digital’s primary point of contact for Saudization, visas and government relations matters
• Monitor and interpret changes to KSA labour law, MHRSD regulations, and Qiwa/Muqeem/GOSI/visa platform requirements, and translate these into clear, practical guidance for leadership and HR.
• Own the government-related and administrative side of onboarding and offboarding for employees, contractors and their families — visas, iqama, labour contracts, GOSI registration, health insurance enrolment/removal and similar — coordinating closely with HR, IT and hiring managers.
• Keep leadership and the HR team up to date on Saudization-, visa- and labour law-related rules, deadlines and obligations that affect the business.
• Maintain accurate compliance, visa and insurance tracking and reporting, and prepare regular updates for…