People Partner

About the Job

Lean is building its People Partnering function for the first time, and this role is where it starts. As our first People Partner, you will be the strategic bridge between the business and our People team, embedded across departments, trusted by leaders, and accountable for turning people challenges into scalable solutions. You will own our performance management cycle, build our manager enablement programme from the ground up, and serve as the go-to advisor for high-trust people matters. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role at a company that is scaling fast and needs its people infrastructure to keep up.

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 350+ 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

- Act as a trusted People advisor to department heads across all functions, from engineering to finance to commercial

- Own performance review cycles end-to-end: timeline, calibration, and execution across a ~170-person organisation

- Design and deliver Lean's manager enablement programme, including toolkits, training, and ongoing coaching

- Advise on high-trust people matters including ER cases, terminations, and policy interpretation

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