Operations / Sales / HR – UAE National (Family Book) – Talabat

This is talabat’s structured entry point for UAE nationals into the company’s day-to-day commercial and support functions, spanning Operations, Sales, and HR. Rather than a single fixed job description, it works as a track-based hire: candidates are assessed against the needs of these three functions and placed where their background and interests fit best, which makes it a natural landing spot for UAE nationals early in their careers or looking to move into the fast-growing delivery and technology sector. The Family Book requirement confirms UAE nationality and reflects talabat’s active participation in Emiratization hiring initiatives.

Depending on the track, day-to-day work looks different but shares a common thread of keeping the local Dubai business running smoothly. On the Operations side, that can mean supporting fleet and delivery partner coordination, monitoring service levels, and troubleshooting issues that affect order flow. On the Sales side, it typically involves engaging restaurant and retail partners, supporting onboarding, and helping grow talabat’s merchant base across Dubai. On the HR side, responsibilities usually center on recruitment coordination, employee lifecycle administration, and supporting the wider Emiratization agenda that a role like this one is itself part of.

Whoever fills it will sit within talabat’s UAE country team, working alongside more senior operations, commercial, and people functions, and reporting into whichever department they are placed under. Because talabat operates as part of Delivery Hero, there is exposure to a large, multi-market organization even from a locally-based, UAE-focused seat, with processes and systems that mirror what a global on-demand delivery platform runs on.

This role suits a UAE national who wants a genuine foot in the door at a well-known regional tech company, is comfortable with the pace of a delivery and logistics business, and is open to being placed into whichever of Operations, Sales, or HR best matches their strengths rather than applying for one narrowly defined function.

Roles like this one matter to talabat because Emiratization hires who enter through Operations, Sales, or HR become the local backbone of a business that ultimately depends on trust with UAE customers, restaurant and retail partners, and delivery talent. Someone supporting operations directly affects how reliably orders move and how quickly service issues get resolved, which shapes customer experience on the app every single day. Someone supporting sales helps expand and retain the partner base that keeps the platform's selection competitive against other delivery apps in the market. Someone supporting HR helps the company staff up responsibly and sustain the very Emiratization pipeline this role is drawn from, which matters both operationally and as part of talabat's standing with UAE regulators and the wider community. Beyond the specific function, having UAE nationals embedded across these teams gives talabat local market fluency that's hard to replicate with an entirely expatriate workforce, and it strengthens the company's long-term relationships with government stakeholders, partners, and the labor market it operates in. A single hire in this kind of role is a small piece of a much larger effort to build a durable, locally-rooted organization inside a fast-moving regional tech company.

For a UAE national early in their career, this kind of role offers something harder to get from a first job in a more traditional company: exposure to how a large, multi-country technology platform actually runs, from the ground level up. Being rotated or placed into Operations, Sales, or HR at talabat means learning the mechanics of on-demand logistics, partner commerce, or people operations inside a business that moves fast and measures results constantly, which builds a habit of working with data, deadlines, and cross-functional teams from day one. That kind of operational literacy transfers well into almost any future role, whether the person stays in tech, moves into consulting, or eventually specializes deeper in one function. There's also real networking and internal mobility value in joining talabat through a program built around UAE nationals. It puts someone inside a company that is part of Delivery Hero, a large international group, which means visibility into regional and sometimes global ways of working even from a UAE-based seat. Employees who perform well in an entry track like this are typically well placed to move into more specialized or senior roles within whichever function they land in, whether that's account management and partnerships on the sales side, workforce planning on the HR side, or logistics and city operations management on the operations side. For someone building a long-term career in the UAE's private sector, having talabat and a recognizable tech-platform employer on an early resume is a meaningful credibility marker, and the direct, hands-on nature of the work builds practical skills in communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management that are valuable well beyond this first role.

• UAE national with a valid Family Book
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, in any discipline relevant to business, operations, HR, or commerce
• Strong written and spoken English; Arabic is an advantage
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, target-driven environment
• Good communication and interpersonal skills for dealing with partners, colleagues, or candidates depending on track
• Basic proficiency with MS Office or Google Workspace tools
• Willingness to be flexible across Operations, Sales, or HR based on business need
• Prior internship or entry-level work experience is a plus but not required