The proof

Roles filled, and the hiring behind them


Hiring done from both sides of the table. Inside companies at scale, and as an executive search firm in Dubai.


Searches run by ValCera

X-HR Labs

Engineering

United Arab Emirates · 2026

X-HR Labs builds an AI-native HR and payroll platform for teams operating across borders and payroll regimes. ValCera has run search for them.

x-hr.co


Hiring built in-house

Run from inside the business, as an employee rather than as a search firm.

Tamara

Product and Engineering

Saudi Arabia · SAMA and CBUAE regulated

Three years of hiring inside a BNPL business, across six countries, through the period it scaled hardest. Engineering is where seniority is hardest to read from a CV, and where reading it wrong costs the most.

NymCard

Technical and Executive

United Arab Emirates · CBUAE regulated

A hiring function rebuilt inside a card issuing and payments infrastructure business, then run across the whole company. Engineering and product on one side; on the other, the niche and executive appointments a company makes once.