The proof

Roles filled, and the hiring behind them


Hiring done from both sides of the table. Inside companies at scale, and as a search firm.


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.