Founding Growth Lead

Founding Growth LeadHalaNour · Founding Team · Equity Seat · UAE · Part-Time, Early StagePlease note that this is an equity seat: the role is initially part-time and equity-only, with a meaningful stake in the company reflecting the contribution and commitment involved, and it is intended to become full-time and salaried as the business develops.About HalaNourHalaNour is an early-stage business with ambitions across the Gulf, and we are bringing together a founding team to help shape its direction and establish its presence in the market. We are looking for experienced people who want to take an active role in building the company, bringing sound commercial judgement and a willingness to carry the work through themselves.Joining the founding team offers the opportunity to lead a core part of the business and influence the decisions that shape its development, with a meaningful equity stake reflecting the contribution and commitment involved.The RoleWe are seeking a UAE-based, bilingual growth and distribution lead to join the founding team as our Growth Lead, in a genuine ground-floor seat where you will shape how HalaNour reaches its users, developing the plan with leadership and then carrying it out yourself. The work is hands-on and suits a growth generalist who is happy to wear many hats: finding inventive ways to put HalaNour in front of the right people, personally striking up conversations to grow a following, using content to bring people in, opening routes through partners, and working out how we grow as you go.Engagement here is earned, so we are looking for someone well versed in guerrilla marketing: inventive and resourceful, able to take a campaign from idea to delivery on their own, and disciplined about linking each action directly to the outcome it produced.What is fixed is the goal: you will carry a clear user-acquisition target and be measured against it, planning backwards from the number and running disciplined experiments to move it.We want someone with a proven record of opening routes to customers, and a feel for what makes a Gulf audience stop, engage, share, and come back.What You Will LeadGrowth at HalaNour covers the whole journey, and you will lead each part of it hands-on:

• The route to users: proposing the routes HalaNour takes to reach people, and making the case for each.
• Partnerships: the relationships that open those routes and the agreements that carry them.
• Finding new users: attention that is earned, through guerrilla activity, content, an active social presence, a following and a community, and the word of mouth that brings other people in.
• Why people stay: getting new users started, keeping them coming back, and understanding what drives adoption and usage.
• Turning users into customers, and growing the value of each over time.
• Measuring and improving: linking each action directly to the outcome it produced, and the disciplined experiments that move the number.What We're Looking ForPlease apply only if you meet all of the following. We read every application against this list and prioritise candidates who clearly meet it.
• Based in the UAE and fully bilingual, with native-level Arabic, deep Gulf cultural fluency and full professional English, as the way HalaNour tells its story has to feel made here and you will work across both languages every day.
• Distribution experience: you have personally opened routes to customers through partners or channels, and secured the agreements behind them, with individual partners such as creators as well as with organisations.
• A credible, professional track record of 8 years or more, in which you have personally grown users, customers or an audience for an established business or recognised brand, and can walk us through what you did and the results, with real numbers.
• Resourceful and self-sufficient, having delivered campaigns from idea to result on your own using guerrilla and unconventional tactics, and comfortable personally showing up, starting conversations and growing a following.
• Outcome-driven, linking each action directly to the outcome it produced and making decisions from the numbers.
• Comfortable carrying a clear user-acquisition target and being measured on it.
• Available part-time during the early stage, and genuinely here to get stuck in.Nice to Have
• Experience growing a mobile app or a consumer or lifestyle product, ideally at a credible early-stage startup or scale-up
• A track record of growing an engaged audience or community organically through contentWhy Join HalaNour
• Lead growth and distribution for a business with ambitions across the Gulf, helping establish its presence and grow its customer base from the earliest stages
• Real influence and real accountability: you shape the plan, carry it out, and are accountable for the number, working directly with leadership
• A reward linked to what you deliver, with a real stake in the company from the start, so that your effort and your outcomes are connectedTo apply, please submit your CV and a covering letter through halanour.ae/careers or apply on Linkedin.