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Key Responsibilities
Talent sourcing & pipeline generation
- Proactively source top-tier profiles through direct outreach, referrals, communities, and local networks.
- Build and maintain strong, ready-to-activate talent pipelines, with a clear focus on quality and speed.
- Act as a true talent hunter, using a sales mindset to attract, engage, and convert high-potential candidates.
- Stay constantly connected to the local and regional talent market, knowing who’s open, who’s moving, and who to approach next.
End-to-end recruitment execution
- Own the full recruitment lifecycle, from intake and sourcing to interviews, offer, and onboarding.
- Partner closely with hiring managers to understand business needs, role priorities, and success criteria.
- Drive fast, structured, and candidate-friendly hiring processes without compromising on quality.
- Ensure smooth coordination across interview stages and act as the main point of contact for candidates.
Candidate experience & engagement
- Deliver a high-quality, transparent candidate experience at every stage of the process.
- Build long-term relationships with candidates, even beyond immediate hiring needs.
- Follow up rigorously, manage expectations clearly, and represent Capi as a high-standard, high-performance employer.
Market Intelligence & Talent Network
- Actively grow and nurture a strong personal and company talent network across Africa.
- Share insights on talent availability, compensation trends, and market dynamics with the Talent team.
- Participate in local events, communities, and informal networks to strengthen Capi’s employer presence.
Process, Performance & Continuous Improvement
- Track recruitment activity and outcomes against defined hiring targets and KPIs.
- Identify bottlenecks and propose pragmatic improvements to processes, tools, and ways of working.
- Contribute to hiring retrospectives and continuously raise the bar on execution and results.
- Leverage modern recruitment tools and AI-driven solutions to work smarter and faster.
Requirements
Experience
- 3 - 5 years of recruitment experience
- Proven experience in a fast-paced startup, scale-up, or high-performance agency environment (agency + in-house is a strong plus).
- Demonstrated ability to hire at volume without compromising on quality.
- Hands-on experience recruiting in African markets, with strong local exposure.
Skills & Competencies
- Fluent in English and French
- Exceptional sourcing skills with a true hunter mindset and a sales-oriented approach to talent attraction.
- Strong, active personal talent network across one or multiple African markets.
- Deep understanding of local talent dynamics, compensation expectations, and candidate motivations.
- Comfortable sourcing both active and passive candidates.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills; ability to influence, pitch, and close candidates.
- Highly organized, results-driven, and comfortable working autonomously in a fast-moving environment.
- Ability to move fast while keeping processes structured and candidates well-informed.
- Solid stakeholder management skills with hiring managers and cross-functional teams.
- Comfortable using modern recruitment tools, ATSs, and data to track and improve performance.
- High standards and a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
- Pragmatic, solutions-oriented, and comfortable with ambiguity.
- Naturally curious, always learning, and open to feedback and retrospectives.
- A clear “raise-the-bar” mindset: quality matters, shortcuts don’t.
Additional Attributes
- Exposure to technical recruitment, even if not your core specialty.
- Experience leveraging AI tools to improve sourcing, screening, or process efficiency.
Additional Information
- This is a full-time position with competitive salary, share options, and benefits
- Start date: as soon as possible - we are aware people will have notice periods, and can adjust as needed
Capi is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes candidates from diverse backgrounds. We’re all about building a diverse, inclusive team at Capi. Whoever you are, we’d love to hear from you. If there’s anything you need to make the interview process easier—whether it’s accessibility support, a different format, or just a heads-up about what to expect—just let us know, we’re happy to help.
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