14 hires · 11 weeks01 · Series A fintech · 2026
Founding engineering team
Backend, mobile, data
From zero to fourteen engineers in eleven weeks, with every offer accepted.
Taking two new hiring briefs for Q1
Priya Nair
Talent Partner · Tech & Product
I find the people your competitors can’t, and they stay.
Dubai · hiring across the GCC
420+
people hired
23 days
median time to hire
94%
still there after a year
Searches closed
14 hires · 11 weeks
Placed in 6 weeks02 · Logistics scale-up · 2025
VP Engineering search
Executive search
A long-listed search across London, Bangalore and Dubai; the hire relocated with her family.
Time to hire 54 → 23 days03 · E-commerce · 2024
Interview process rebuild
Process design
Replaced six rounds with three structured interviews and a paid take-home. Offer acceptance went up to 92%.
For companies
Hiring someone who’ll stay?
- Fractional talent partnerTwo to four days a week inside your team.From AED 18,000 / month
- Single role searchEngineering, product or design. Paid on success.18% of first-year salary
- Hiring process auditA week with your team, then a written plan.AED 9,500
For candidates
Looking for your next role?
Send your CV and what you want next. You’ll hear back within 48 hours, even if it’s a no, with honest feedback.
Send my CV
“Priya hired our first ten engineers. Two years later all ten are still here.”
“The only recruiter who told me why I didn’t get a job. She got me the next one.”
How Priya works
I’ve hired engineers, product managers and designers for ten years, in-house at two Dubai scale-ups and now as a fractional talent partner for funded start-ups across the region.
I run the whole process: the brief, the search, the interviews and the offer. Candidates get honest feedback within 48 hours, every time, which is why they take my calls.
2023 – Present
Fractional Talent Partner
Independent
2019 – 2023
Head of Talent
Delivery scale-up
2016 – 2019
Technical Recruiter
Ride-hailing company
- Level 5 Associate Diploma in People ManagementCIPD