Saudi HR Platform Jisr Manages Over 700,000 Users Amid Hiring Surge

Saudi HR tech platform Jisr has quietly crossed a big line in the sand: more than 700,000 users across the Kingdom are now managed through its system. It’s one of those milestones that sounds neat on paper, but when you pause for a second, it says a lot about how fast Saudi companies are leaning into digital tools to run their people operations.

Jisr’s growth comes at a time when hiring in Saudi Arabia has been anything but slow. Its own State of Hiring data points to average monthly hiring jumping by 51.5% year-on-year in 2025. That sort of pace can be exciting, but it’s also a bit of a faff for HR teams juggling payroll, contracts, compliance and Saudisation rules all at once. Platforms like Jisr are stepping in precisely because spreadsheets and patchwork systems just don’t cut it anymore.

I’ve seen founders around the MENA region wrestle with HR as their teams scale, and it’s rarely the “fun” part of building a company. That’s probably why this shift feels spot on. With over 4,700 organisations on board, Jisr is no longer just serving small and mid-sized businesses, but is increasingly working with larger employers that have complex workforce structures spread across the country.

Mohammed Akkar, Jisr’s founder and CEO, has summed it up by saying HR has become mission-critical for Saudi organisations, especially as hiring accelerates and companies depend on digital systems to manage compliance and planning at scale. I’d agree with that, even if HR tech doesn’t always get the glamour of fintech or AI… well, I mean, it’s clearly doing the hard yards.

The company has also highlighted new enterprise partnerships with Zuhair Fayez Partnership and Theeb Rent A Car (THEEB). These aren’t small logos to add to a slide deck. They signal a growing level of trust from large, established organisations, which is often the toughest nut to crack for any homegrown SaaS platform.

Zooming out, the wider workforce picture matters here. Saudi nationals made up 41% of new hires, and more than half of companies said they increased their reliance on local talent. That puts extra pressure on HR systems to stay compliant with nationalisation requirements, something Jisr has leaned into since its launch in 2017 as the Kingdom’s first local platform combining HR, payroll and finance in one system.

I reckon we’ll hear a lot more about “unsexy” enterprise software like this over the next couple of years. It may not grab headlines like consumer apps do, but for founders and operators reading Arageek, it’s a reminder that solid infrastructure can be the difference between smooth growth and a total mess… or worse, costly mistakes if you get it wrong, definately not something any startup wants.

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