People & Culture Manager

About us

Open builds AI that handles customer support for businesses where it actually matters, companies like MoneyGram, Mollie, TicketSwap, and More.com, running at scale, serving millions of people. We're backed by Y Combinator.

We are guided by a set of values that define who we are and who we hire: Customer Obsession, High Standards, and a genuine belief that great work, the kind that actually changes how a business operates, is worth doing properly.

People are the operating system of everything we build. You'll own the full people function at Open, recruiting the best engineers, operators, and builders in the region, building the HR infrastructure that lets us scale without losing what makes us special, and shaping a culture where high standards are the norm. When we hire right and people thrive, it's because of you.

This isn't a coordinator role or a process-management role. It's the job for someone who gets genuinely excited about finding world-class talent, can hold a sharp conversation with a senior engineer, and believes that culture is built one hire and one decision at a time.

What you'll do

• Own the full-cycle, end-to-end recruiting process for all roles at Open, with a strong emphasis on technical hiring (engineering, infrastructure, AI/ML, and product)
• Act as a strategic hiring partner to every hiring manager, define role requirements, develop position profiles, and align on priorities and timelines before a single candidate is sourced
• Develop and execute targeted sourcing strategies across multiple channels, LinkedIn, referrals, communities, events, direct outreach, to proactively identify and engage top talent, including passive candidates
• Build strong candidate pipelines, assess and close top talent in a competitive market, and deliver an exceptional experience for candidates, interviewers, and hiring managers alike
• Design and continuously optimize a structured, efficient, and equitable interview process, improving consistency, speed, and candidate experience across every hire
• Track, analyze, and report on key recruiting metrics, pipeline health, time-to-fill, source effectiveness, and candidate experience, and share regular insights with leadership
• Manage the full employee lifecycle, pre-boarding, onboarding, offboarding, and everything in between, with a relentless focus on creating a seamless employee experience
• Own HR operations, employment contracts, payroll coordination, benefits administration, and build the processes and playbooks that let us scale without adding unnecessary overhead
• Design and operationalize performance management, review cycles, feedback frameworks, and calibration processes that help people grow and help the company maintain high standards
• Build and maintain People metrics dashboards, headcount, attrition, pipeline health, to give leadership real-time visibility into the state of the team
• Lead engagement initiatives, surveys, learning & development programs, culture-building activities, that make Open a place where high performers want to stay
• Ensure full compliance with Jordanian labor law, maintain accurate employee records, support audits, and keep the organization aligned with legal and regulatory requirements

What you'll bring

• 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience in a high-growth tech environment, with a proven track record of closing senior and technical hires
• Demonstrated ability to develop and execute recruiting strategies aligned to business objectives, not just fill requisitions, but build pipelines before they're needed
• Deep understanding of technical roles, you can hold a real conversation with an engineering hiring manager about backend systems, AI/ML infrastructure, or product architecture
• A well-established network in the regional tech talent ecosystem, and the ability to navigate ambiguity to identify and close exceptional candidates in a competitive market
• Data-driven approach to recruiting, you track pipeline health, time-to-fill, and source effectiveness, and you use the data to make decisions, not just reports
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, exceptional communication, relationship-building, and the ability to manage shifting priorities across multiple stakeholders at once
• Hands-on ownership of HR operations, employment contracts, payroll coordination, benefits administration, with a systems-thinker mindset for continuous process improvement
• Experience designing and running performance management processes in a startup environment, review cycles, calibration, feedback frameworks
• Working knowledge of operating countries labor law and HR compliance requirements
• Fluent English, written and spoken, with strong written communication skills for outreach, documentation, and internal comms
• Experience with ATS platforms (Workable, Ashby, Greenhouse, or similar) and LinkedIn Recruiter

• Experience scaling people functions and recruiting teams during rapid company growth

• Statutory health insurance coverage
• Supportive, collaborative startup culture
• Shape the culture from day one. You won't be joining an existing people function — you'll be building it. That means the values, the rituals, the hiring bar, and the environment people work in are yours to define. For the right person, that's the opportunity of a career.