Property Finder
Head of Total Rewards & Performance (Based in Dubai)
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DUBAI BASED ROLE
Relocation would be required but with highly competitive, tax-free salary package.
Company Profile
Property Finder is a pioneering property portal in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, dedicated to shaping an inclusive future for real estate while spearheading the region’s growing tech ecosystem. At its core is a clear and powerful purpose: To change living for good in the region.
Founded on the value of great ambitions, Property Finder connects millions of property seekers with thousands of real estate professionals every day. The platform offers a seamless and enriching experience, empowering both buyers and renters to make informed decisions. Since its inception in 2007, Property Finder has evolved into a trusted partner for developers, brokers, and home seekers. As a lighthouse tech company, it continues to create an environment where people can thrive and contribute meaningfully to the transformation of real estate in MENA.
Role Summary
You will own the strategy, design, and evolution of our reward and performance framework, ensuring that how we reward, incentivize, and manage performance directly supports business growth and value creation.
This is a commercially focused role spanning Executive Compensation, LTIP, Performance Management, Sales Incentive Plans, Compensation, Benefits, and Wellbeing.
The role will partner closely with the CPCO, Executive Leadership, and Finance to build scalable, data-driven programs that attract and retain exceptional talent, differentiate high performance, and align employee outcomes with company performance.
Success will be measured not simply by the delivery of programs, but by their impact on performance, talent outcomes, organizational effectiveness, and business results.
Key Responsibilities
Total Rewards Strategy & Business Impact
- Own and continuously evolve the Total Rewards strategy, ensuring alignment with business strategy, growth ambitions, and talent priorities.
- Translate business objectives into reward and performance mechanisms that drive accountability, productivity, and value creation.
- Use internal and external data to evaluate the effectiveness and ROI of reward programs and recommend changes where required.
- Design and implement scalable reward frameworks appropriate for a high-growth, technology-led organization.
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Performance Management
- Own the evolution of the company-wide Performance Management framework, creating a clear link between individual performance, business outcomes, career progression, and reward.
- Partner with business and People leaders to improve goal setting, performance calibration, and accountability.
Executive Compensation & Remuneration Committee
- Own the design and governance of Executive Compensation, ensuring packages appropriately balance fixed compensation, short-term incentives, and long-term equity.
- Prepare analysis, recommendations, and materials for the Remuneration Committee (RemCo) and senior leadership.
- Maintain strong governance around executive compensation decisions and ensure programs remain competitive and appropriate as the organization scales.
Sales Incentive Plans
- Partner with Commercial and Finance leadership to design and evolve Sales Incentive Plans that directly support revenue growth and strategic commercial priorities.
- Ensure incentive structures appropriately reward acquisition, retention, expansion, and other critical commercial outcomes.
- Analyze incentive effectiveness, identifying unintended behaviors or areas where plans are not delivering the intended commercial outcomes.
Process and System Ownership
- Own the annual merit and variable compensation cycle across the organization.
- Ensure salary increases and variable compensation meaningfully differentiate performance and contribution.
- Partner with Finance on modeling, budgeting, and scenario planning.
- Evolve total rewards systems, processes, and frameworks leveraging cutting-edge technology (AI enablement) to create an enhanced employee experience and higher business impact.
Benefits & Wellbeing
- Own the strategic direction of Benefits and Wellbeing programs, ensuring they remain competitive, relevant, and cost-effective.
Analytics, Governance & Decision Support
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- Develop dashboards and reporting that connect reward investment, performance, retention, and business outcomes.
- Provide Executive Leadership with clear, data-driven insights and recommendations.
- Partner closely with Finance on workforce cost modeling, compensation budgeting, and long-term planning.
Desired Qualifications
- Significant Total Rewards leadership experience within a high-growth technology or similarly performance-driven organization.
- Strong experience across Executive Compensation and RemCo, including executive benchmarking and incentive design.
- Deep knowledge of LTIP / equity compensation, ideally within a privately held, high-growth, or pre-IPO environment.
- Experience designing or governing Sales Incentive / Sales Compensation Plans in a commercially driven organization.
- Strong understanding of Performance Management, including the connection between performance differentiation, compensation, and business outcomes.
- Strong commercial and financial acumen with the ability to model the cost and expected impact of reward decisions.
- Highly analytical and comfortable translating complex data into clear recommendations for Executive Leadership.
- AI literacy and curiosity
- Experience operating within fast-moving environments where programs and frameworks need to evolve as the business scales.
Other Capabilities
- Commercial mindset: Thinks beyond HR programs and understands how reward decisions influence business performance.
- Impact orientation: Focuses on measurable outcomes rather than process completion.
- Strategic and hands-on: Comfortable moving between executive-level strategy and detailed program design.
- Data-driven judgement: Uses data to inform decisions while recognizing where judgment and business context matter.
- Ownership: Operates with high accountability and proactively identifies opportunities to improve performance and organizational effectiveness.
- Technology mindset: Comfortable using technology, analytics, and AI to improve reward decision-making, employee experience, and operational efficiency.
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