The Director of Human Resources is a strategic and hands-on leader responsible for overseeing all aspects of the HR function to support organizational effectiveness, staff well-being, and alignment with Yaqeen’s mission and values. This individual will drive culture, recruiting, talent development, performance management, and compliance, while fostering a workplace rooted in Yaqeen’s core values in order to effectively and efficiently reach our organizational mission.

• STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP
• Develop and execute HR strategies that align with the organization's mission and long-term goals.
• Serve as a thought partner to executive leadership on people and culture strategy.
• Lead organizational planning on workforce development, structure, and succession.
• Build and manage the department budget ensuring that programs are on track to meet KPIs and meet objectives.
• TALENT MANAGEMENT
• Oversee full-cycle recruitment and onboarding processes.
• Lead initiatives on talent retention, employee engagement, and career growth.
• Build frameworks for performance evaluation, promotions, and coaching.
• LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT
• Design and implement training programs for various HR focus areas including tarbiya, leadership, soft skill development and HR compliance training.
• Reinforce growth pathways (individual contributor and management) across departments.
• COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
• Build compensation program that is equitable and comprehensive to a global team
• Monitor annual inflation and cost of living and ensure proper adjustments when necessary
• Evaluate and apply benefits program including medical insurance and retirement opportunities
• Uptodate on all best practice and innovative benefit opportunities relevant to enhancing employee work life balance experience including PTO, perks, etc
• HR OPERATIONS
• Maintain and enhance HRIS systems and personnel records.
• Oversee and smooth operations and effective execution of all department functions.
• Work cross functionally with other departments to ensure best application of people and culture strategy.
• Track and report HR metrics including headcount, retention, engagement, and audit appropriately
• Provide insights to support data-informed decision-making.
• EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
• Strong pulse on employee issues and concerns
• Create channels for employees to voice their opinions and perspectives
• Oversee the increase in employee satisfaction through intentional engagement opportunities
• Foster a strong sense of connection across all levels of the organization.
• Build meaningful reward and recognition program to ensure employees feel valued and have a strong sense of belonging
• Lead org wide events that align all members of the organization and intentionally build team chemistry and understanding - Host org wide All-hands, tarbiya session, trainings, etc
• Manage employee escalations with wisdom and care
• POLICY & COMPLIANCE
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws.
• Lead policy development, employee handbook updates, and benefits administration.
• Communicate and reinforce HR policy across organizations.
• CULTURE & ORGANIZATIONAL HEALTH
• Operationalize Yaqeen’s values by infusing them into the organizational policies and leadership philosophy
• Develop frameworks for spiritually grounded performance and workplace culture through initiatives such as Yaqeen’s Tarbiya Program.
• Facilitate organizational alignment between leadership and employees.
• Champion inclusive, equitable, and values-driven workplace practices.
• Support conflict resolution, mediation, and restorative processes.
• Create safe channels for employee feedback and voice.

• REQUIRED:
• Master’s degree in HR, Business Administration, Organizational Development, or related field.
• Minimum 7–10 years of progressive HR experience, including 3+ years in a leadership role.
• Proven ability to build systems, lead change, and manage complex interpersonal dynamics.
• Deep knowledge of employment law, HR compliance, and best practices.
• Strong emotional intelligence, discretion, and interpersonal skills.
• PREFERRED:
• SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, or equivalent HR certification.
• Experience in nonprofit, mission-driven, or faith-centered organizations.
• Familiarity with Islamic ethics and application in multicultural work environments.

We are seeking an experienced and mission-driven Senior Recruiter to join our team. This is a full-time contractor (6-month term, exempt) role. This role is critical to building a high-performing workforce that advances our organizational mission. The Senior Recruiter will lead the full-cycle recruitment process with a strong emphasis on proactively sourcing and engaging top talent quickly and effectively. The ideal candidate is a strategic partner who thrives in a fast-paced environment, balancing speed and quality while ensuring candidates are aligned with our values. They will collaborate closely with leadership to anticipate hiring needs, accelerate recruitment timelines, and cultivate a diverse pipeline of candidates passionate about contributing to our mission.

• Partner with organizational leaders to define hiring priorities and translate workforce needs into clear and timely recruitment strategies.
• Proactively source, engage, and build relationships with mission-aligned talent through networking, outreach, events, and digital platforms.
• Manage the full-cycle recruitment process with a strong focus on efficiency and speed to hire: job postings, outreach, screening, interviews, feedback, and offers.
• Champion an excellent candidate experience that reflects our organizational values and culture at every stage of the process.
• Develop and maintain a talent pipeline for hard-to-fill and future roles, ensuring we can respond quickly to organizational needs.
• Collaborate with the HR squad to strengthen employer branding and highlight our mission to prospective candidates.
• Track and report recruitment metrics such as time-to-fill, quality-of-hire, and pipeline strength to drive continuous improvement.
• Mentor junior recruitment team members and share best practices for fast, effective talent acquisition in a mission-driven context.
• Stay informed on trends in nonprofit and social impact recruiting, with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

• REQUIRED:
• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
• 5+ years of recruiting experience, with a track record of proactively sourcing and hiring top talent quickly.
• Proven success recruiting for mission-driven organizations (nonprofit, social enterprise, or similar sector).
• Strong knowledge of sourcing strategies, recruiting tools, and applicant tracking systems (ATS).
• Excellent relationship-building, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to balance speed, quality, and cultural fit in the hiring process.
• Commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the recruitment process.
• PREFERRED:
• Experience shaping employer branding and candidate engagement strategies.
• Strong consultative skills with the ability to influence hiring decisions at the leadership level.
• Understanding of nonprofit talent market trends and compensation benchmarking.
• Passion for connecting people to meaningful work that creates impact.

As the AI Growth & LLM Visibility Lead, you will set the vision that makes our content discoverable and cited across both traditional search engines and LLMs. You will shape the roadmap, study how large language models surface information, guide engineers on the right technical enhancements and run data-driven experiments that lift traffic and conversions. You will keep the team ahead of fast-moving algorithms and API changes - turning technical insights into measurable growth wins. As both executor and pioneer, you will invent the playbook, run the tests and scale what works - setting the benchmark for how Islamic knowledge surfaces in the age of LLMs.

• ARCHITECT AND BROADCAST THE TECHNICAL-SEO ROADMAP FOR LLM-ERA DISCOVERY — publish living documentation (OKRs, dependency graphs, rollout plans) that aligns answer-engine optimization (AEO), site performance, and growth KPIs with wider business objectives.
• REVERSE-ENGINEER GENERATIVE "CRAWLERS" — deconstruct how ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and emerging LLM APIs ingest and cite content; translate findings into llms.txt rules, HTTP header tweaks, vector-store strategies, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines.
• STRATEGIZE AEO AT SCALE — define technical requirements and guidance for engineering to deploy advanced schema (JSON-LD, microdata), semantic HTML5, canonical tags, language alternates, and MCP/agent hooks.
• INTEGRATE PAID AMPLIFICATION LOOPS — partner with marketing to run targeted campaigns that feed first-party engagement data back into organic/LMM ranking signals (e.g., CTR, dwell time, branded queries).
• INSTRUMENT A FULL OBSERVABILITY STACK — wire GA4, RedShift, PostHog, Search Console, custom SERP scrapers, and LLM-citation trackers; expose dashboards for share-of-answer, vector-index recall, Core Web Vitals, and canonicalization drift.
• RUN CONTINOUS TECHNICAL AUDITS — profile crawl budgets, indexation trees, hreflang coverage, structured-data parity, render performance, and cache headers; collaborate with engineers to remediate at the code level.
• CHAMPION GENERATIVE-CONTENT WORKFLOWS — orchestrate AI agents, internal fine-tuned models, and MCP protocol hooks to mass-generate or refactor content built for conversational SERPs.
• LEAD DOMAIN-AUTHORITY OPS — design outreach automations, digital-PR sprints, and partner programs that secure backlinks and entity mentions from LLM-indexed authorities, reinforcing knowledge-graph confidence.
• EMBED BEST PRACTICES ACROSS DELIVERY TEAMS — pair with engineering, marketing, product, content teams to bake technical SEO/LMM-readiness checks into CI pipelines and launch rituals.
• TRACK ALGO AND API SHIFTS IN REAL TIME — stay updated with Google SGE rollouts, AI agents, MCP servers and schema deprecations; collaborate with engineering to spin up rapid prototypes/POCs that validate impact and feed insights into the optimization playbook.

• 5+ years in growth, technical-SEO, or data-driven acquisition roles with demonstrable impact on qualified traffic, LLM citations, and conversions.
• Mastery of structured data (JSON-LD, microdata), semantic HTML5, canonicalization, hreflang, Core Web Vitals, robots/llms.txt, and advanced performance tuning.
• Deep experience architecting RAG pipelines, vector-store strategies , embedding workflows, and agent frameworks.
• Proven ability to translate MCP protocol, AI-agent flows, and OpenAI function calls into scalable content-delivery patterns.
• Fluency with analytics & observability stacks—GA4, GSC, PostHog, Amazon Redshift/BigQuery, Looker/QuickSight, custom SERP scrapers, LLM-citation trackers
• Ability to design and execute statistically rigorous A/B and multivariate experiments—defining hypotheses, selecting impact metrics (e.g., share-of-answer, LLM citation rates, CTR), instrumenting tests across the website and mobile apps, and analyzing results to optimize LLM visibility.
• Hands-on proficiency in partnering with engineers to deliver code-level SEO improvements.
• Track record of running digital PR, backlink, and community programs that raise domain authority and entity salience in knowledge graphs and answer engines.
• Awareness of Google SGE, AI agents, schema evolutions, LLM API changes, and ability to validate impact through rapid POCs.
• Exceptional communication, project-management, and cross-functional leadership.

Yaqeen Institute embraces a philosophy that values and promotes diversity. Our goal is to attract, develop, retain, and advance a talented and diverse workforce within a culture where all employees are empowered to reach their fullest potential. Please note that all career opportunities at Yaqeen Institute are subject to a three-month probationary period, during which we assess performance, alignment with our values, and mutual fit to ensure long-term success in the role.

Drive our online fundraising strategy and lead a cross-functional team. You’ll oversee digital campaigns across email, paid ads, SMS, and social, using data and creativity to grow our donor community and revenue. Oversee and drive all digital fundraising initiatives. Lead a cross-functional team composed of marketers, creatives, engineers while working with the larger Development team to plan, execute, and optimize digital campaigns that engage donors, build supporter pipelines, and drive revenue growth. Manage and optimize the donor web experience as a core fundraising channel—ensuring it is continuously improved through thoughtful design and conversion strategies Strong leadership qualities to ensure campaigns are donor-centric, data-informed, and aligned with broader organizational goals.

• STRATEGY & PLANNING:
• Develop and own the digital fundraising strategy, including email, paid ads, SMS, web giving, and social fundraising.
• Manage and optimize the donor web experience as a core fundraising channel—ensuring it is continuously improved through thoughtful design and conversion strategies.
• Set clear squad goals tied to acquisition, retention, and revenue KPIs.
• Collaborate with major gifts, events, and other teams/squads to ensure alignment.
• SQUAD LEADERSHIP:
• Lead weekly squad meetings to prioritize initiatives, remove blockers, and ensure delivery against sprint goals.
• Manage and coach squad members for performance, professional growth, and cross-team collaboration.
• Foster a culture of creativity, urgency, accountability, and innovation.
• CAMPAIGN EXECUTION:
• Oversee the production and launch of multi-channel digital fundraising campaigns, appeals, and evergreen initiatives.
• Approve creative assets, messaging, and user journeys for fundraising activities.
• Lead A/B testing strategies to continually optimize performance.
• DATA & OPTIMIZATION:
• Monitor KPIs, dashboards, and reporting tools to track fundraising metrics daily, weekly, and post-campaign.
• Analyze campaign performance to identify trends, gaps, and opportunities.
• Make real-time recommendations to optimize ROI and donor engagement.
• TECHNOLOGY & TOOLS:
• Manage digital fundraising tools and platforms (e.g.,donation platforms, ad management systems).
• Work with Engineering and data teams to improve the donor digital experience and streamline tech workflows.

• 5+ years of experience in digital fundraising, digital marketing, or nonprofit development.
• 2+ years leading teams or squads in a fast-paced, campaign-driven environment.
• Strong understanding of donor acquisition, retention, and lifetime value optimization.
• Hands-on expertise with digital platforms: CRMs (Hubspot, Salesforce, EveryAction, etc.), email marketing (Mailchimp, Pardot, etc.), Google Ads, Facebook Ads Manager, fundraising platforms (Classy, Givebutter, etc.).
• Exceptional project management, prioritization, and communication skills.
• Data-driven mindset with proficiency in Google Analytics, A/B testing tools, and KPI tracking.
• Creative thinker with a proven ability to innovate and inspire action across digital audiences.
• Mission-driven and excited to grow a community of loyal digital supporters.

Yaqeen Institute embraces a philosophy that values and promotes diversity. Our goal is to attract, develop, retain, and advance a talented and diverse workforce within a culture where all employees are empowered to reach their fullest potential. Please note that all career opportunities at Yaqeen Institute are subject to a three-month probationary period, during which we assess performance, alignment with our values, and mutual fit to ensure long-term success in the role.

Have you dreamed of working on Quranic platforms that touch the lives of millions worldwide? Do you care deeply about being part of a mission rather than just taking a job? If you combine creative expertise with a deep inspiration from the Quran, and you are eager to use your talents to help spread its message and help people connect with it more meaningfully, we invite you apply for this role.