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JOB OPPORTUNITY

Founding Head of People & Organization

iSharp ICT · 6th of October, Giza, Egypt · Full-time

A Senior HR Manager–level role with a clear path to HR Director, titled the startup way: you will found our people function, not inherit it.

Position

Founding Head of People & Organization

Company

iSharp ICT (iSharp Information Communication Technology)

Location

6th of October, Giza, Egypt

Scope

Egypt hands-on; India, Germany, and Turky entities managed remotely

Level

Senior HR Manager level (founding role), growing into HR Director

Reports to

Founder & Managing Director

Employment

Full-time, permanent

ABOUT US

iSharp ICT designs and manufactures immersion-native AI infrastructure: single-phase immersion-cooled OCP ORv3 servers, AI compute, power, battery backup, networking and storage platforms built on AMD EPYC. Our engineering team works across six locations: UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, India, Germany and Taiwan. We are building the world’s first immersion-native AI infrastructure company.

THE ROLE

We are hiring our first People leader, at Senior HR Manager level with a path to HR Director. In startup terms, this is a founding role: we want an entrepreneurial builder who will create iSharp’s HR function from a blank page. There is no team to inherit and no handbook to update. You will design the model, write it, run it yourself, and then build the team that takes it forward. You report directly to the Founder & Managing Director and act as his partner on every people decision.

You will lead HR hands-on in Egypt and manage people operations for our entities in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, India, Germany and Taiwan remotely, working with local partners and providers.

WHAT YOU WILL BUILD

▪    Company structure, hierarchy, function charters and job architecture across all locations

▪    Our values, culture and corporate book: handbook, policies and code of conduct

▪    The hiring engine: hiring profiles, structured interviews and offer process, run hands-on for priority roles

▪    Compliant employment in every country: contracts, visas, social insurance and contractor agreements

▪    Payroll, salary bands, incentives and benefits

▪    Onboarding, performance cycles, training and an HRIS

▪    The HR team the company needs next

WHO YOU ARE

▪    4–5 years of progressive HR experience, ideally including time as the first or only HR person in a startup, scale-up or new business unit

▪    You have built an HR function, policy set or new country operation from scratch

▪    Hands-on knowledge of Egyptian labour law, social insurance and payroll

▪    GCC employment experience in the UAE and/or Saudi Arabia

▪    A strong record recruiting engineers and technical talent

▪    Fluent English and Arabic

▪    A builder: comfortable with ambiguity, commercially minded and respected by engineers


NICE TO HAVE

▪    Experience in hardware, electronics manufacturing or data centers

▪    Multi-country HR in Asia or Europe

▪    CIPD, SHRM or SPHR certification

▪    Experience setting up HR for a factory workforce

▪    Equity or long-term incentive design


WHAT WE OFFER

▪    The chance to build the people foundation of a deep-tech company from day one

▪    Direct partnership with the Founder and a seat at the leadership table

▪    A competitive package: base salary, performance incentive and long-term incentive

▪    Medical insurance

▪    A growth path to HR Director, then Chief People Officer


HOW TO APPLY

Send your CV, two professional references and a one-page note to [Click to show email] with the subject line “Founding Head of People”. In the note, describe one thing you built from scratch: what you started with, what you built, and what you would do differently.

Shortlisted candidates will meet the Managing Director, complete a short case exercise and go through reference checks.

Closing date: 30 October 2026

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