Job Description

Senior Specialist Recruiter
Location: Cape Town / Hybrid
Contract: Full-time
About the Company
We are a boutique search firm in Cape Town, who partner with growing tech businesses, mostly in the SaaS and software product space. We're known for intentional, high-quality hiring solutions that go far beyond filling roles. We uncover complex needs and deliver thoughtful, research-driven search, and recruitment services that sparks real change. We only work with committed well partnered clients - which is becoming more common for us and we are proud of how far we have come.
Our clients are scaling businesses who need the kind of people who want their work to be a source of growth and meaning. It takes one to know one. That's why we're looking for someone ambitious, curious, energetic, and intentional. Someone who can see the spark in others and connect with it to create outcomes that transform careers and companies alike.
This isn't a polished corporate desk job, even though we deliver like it is - it's building, shoulder-to-shoulder with others who are also building. You'll be supported by a hands-on leader, strong business support, cutting-edge tech, and a culture driven by impact. We need someone who works with the team, not for the team, taking initiative, sparking momentum, and driving things forward.
Someone who already is, or is working towards becoming a true advisor for hiring teams or candidates in our niche.
The Adventure: What You'll Do

• Partner with your team and eventually, directly with clients, who are founders and department leaders of scaling tech businesses to really understand their needs.
• Own outcomes end-to-end, without waiting for step-by-step instructions in all search & recruitment processes. Be the go-to dependable delivery expert for individuals in our niche.
• Our team works on search project mostly with a few regular recruitment roles. Your role will require research, mapping with the help of the team, exceptionally well crafted outreach.
• Continuously improve and refine your interview style and skills, balancing persuasion with exploration, assessment for fit - not interest.
• Manage projects, tracking, planning and reporting to ensure all projects run smoothly
• Learn and refine your skills in our systems, tech and tools to continuously improve and expand our success on all projects
• Deliver on complex roles allocated to you with precision - this will take research, planning, execution, persuasion, assessment reporting, management fand delivery. You'll need to continuously develop and improve these skills
• Grow with the team, shaping processes as we build, taking pride in what you contribute
• Work with your team to solve the needs of the business as they come up even when they are a bit outside of your role.
• This role will be delivery focused but we need someone capable of being client facing and taking ownership of processes within a few months of your role.
• For a few hours week you'll collaborate with your team to come up with ideas to drive the business, projects, systems, and accounts forward - to innovate and improve everything from processes, to sales, marketing and ops. These won't be your responsibility but they'll be areas of collaboration that will expand your overall business understanding

What You'll Need to Bring

• 5+ years in recruitment or talent acquisition (agency which is strongly preferred, or in-house, if proactive and you can prove that you excel in hunting persuasively, not just responding).
• Your 5 years needs to be focused on the South African Talent market - the international contract hiring does not help here at all (Just saving you time)
• Experience in B2B or tech/SaaS environments is a strong plus. We are more interested in your scale-up / SME recruitment experience
• Strong writing and communication - you can position a role with marketing flare.
• Confidence in interviewing and assessing fit beyond the CV.
• Comfort with evolving systems and environments where change is the norm.
• A growth mindset, integrity, and hunger to build your own path.

Who You Are

• Curious and intentional: you want your work to grow you, not just pay you.
• Self-driven: you design your own approach and take full ownership of outcomes.
• Grounded in chaos: it energizes you; you create clarity while in motion (not everyone likes this)
• Collaborative: you work with the team, not for the team - sparking ideas and momentum.
• Quality-driven: you demand and deliver excellence, even when you have less.
• Values-first: you believe recruitment is a craft that changes businesses and lives and that doing the right thing brings about the right things - even when its hard
• Reliable - seriously. There is no room for anything else in our team - it's a an absolute baseline requirement. On the plus side - you'll work on in an environment where you can rely on others to support you while pulling your own weight.

Why this role?

• You will work very closely with a small collaborative team - no politics, no competition. Just helpful impact.
• You will grow as fast and as big as you can make happen. There is no ceiling or limit. We are growing, the business is transforming, our services are morphing, our technology is changing - there is no ceiling here and there is no hierarchy
• We cannot stop obsessing about improvement and innovation - if you want to play with tools and tech and help shape and innovate with us for a few hours a week - we want to play with you!
• We have been around for 6 years and are ready to do some epic things. We have put in the ground work and built the reputation and track record to transform into something a little different - which is what we are doing now ? Join us!

Skills Required