IT Recruiter

Job Specification – Recruitment Lead

Experience: end-to-end recruitment experience, including niche and leadership hiring.

Domain Knowledge: Strong exposure to IT hiring, preferably within the Salesforce ecosystem.

Technical & Process Skills: Proficient in sourcing, headhunting, ATS management, and recruitment analytics.

Stakeholder & Team Management: Skilled in managing business leaders and driving recruiter performance.

Networking & Market Insight: Capable of building talent pipelines and leveraging industry networks.

Communication: Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, and presentation skills.

Agility & Ownership: High adaptability with a fast paced & high results-driven and process-oriented approach.

KRA will involve-

End-to-End Hiring – Manage full-cycle recruitment to ensure timely and quality closures within a TAT of max 45 days.

Niche & Leadership Hiring – Independently manage Salesforce niche, senior, and confidential mandates through headhunting.

Team Performance – Lead and drive consistent results with 3 successful joining's per recruiter per month.

Process Compliance & Excellence – Ensure adherence to hiring process, data accuracy, ATS upkeep, candidate verification, and defined process flow.

Recruitment Strategy – Design and execute effective sourcing and hiring strategies.

Talent Pipeline – Build and sustain a strong Salesforce talent network for future needs. Coach team members on follower development on LinkedIn for pool creation.

Strategic Projects – Lead initiatives like ATS implementation, salary benchmarking, and employer branding.

Review Criteria:

Mandatory:

• Strong Technical Recruiter profile
• Must have 7+ years of experience in end to end recruitment (sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer negotiation, joining etc)
• Must have 4+ years of experience in tech recruitment across different tech roles
• Strong grasp of technical concepts and ability to evaluate candidate fit for different technical roles
• Must have experience of analyzing data to improve hiring funnel, take data-driven hiring decisions
• Must be proficient in advanced sourcing techniques such as Boolean search, social media recruiting, and referral programs
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills — should be articulate, confident, and well-spoken in interactions
• Product companies
• This is an IC role

Preferred:

Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, or a related field

Role & Responsibilities:

The company’s Human Resources team plays a critical role in enabling business growth by building high-performing, mission-driven teams across geographies. As a people-first organization, we are focused on attracting, developing, and retaining top talent while creating an engaging and inclusive employee experience.

As a Senior Technical Recruiter, you will own end-to-end hiring for technology roles. You will partner closely with technology leaders to understand evolving workforce needs, build strong talent pipelines, and deliver high-quality hiring outcomes. This role requires a strong understanding of technology roles, proactive sourcing capabilities, and the ability to influence stakeholders while strengthening company’s employer brand.

What you will be expected to do:

• Own and manage the full recruitment lifecycle for technology and IT roles, from sourcing to offer management and onboarding support.
• Partner with technology leaders to understand hiring priorities, role requirements, and future talent needs.
• Design and execute effective sourcing strategies, leveraging online platforms, professional networks, referrals, and offline channels.
• Conduct initial screening and structured interviews using technical, behavioural, and competency-based assessment methods.
• Coordinate and manage interview processes, ensuring a smooth and positive candidate experience.
• Review employment applications and background verification reports to ensure compliance with hiring standards.
• Act as a trusted advisor to candidates, providing clarity on role expectations, compensation, benefits, and work culture.
• Build and maintain strong, long-term relationships with active and passive talent pools.
• Track and report on key talent acquisition metrics, including time-to-hire, source effectiveness, and pipeline health.
• Stay abreast of market trends, emerging technologies, and competitor hiring practices to strengthen hiring strategies.
• Analyse and improve hiring and candidate experience through surveys, feedbacks, etc.

Ideal Candidate:

• 7 to 10 years of overall recruitment experience, with 4-7 years focused on technical/IT hiring.
• Good understanding of technology roles and the ability to assess and articulate technical requirements.
• Hands-on experience with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and resume databases.
• Good analytical skills, including market mapping, talent research, and data-driven hiring decisions.
• Proficiency in advanced sourcing techniques such as Boolean search, social media recruiting, and referral programs.
• Good verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to influence both candidates and hiring managers.
• High levels of ownership, self-motivation, and a proactive, solution-oriented mindset.
• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, or a related field (preferred).

Perks, Benefits and Work Culture:

• Because we are a high-growth global enterprise, and because we prefer to promote successful employees internally, Greenlight Planet offers opportunities for flexible assignments and rapid international career progression as well as a competitive salary and a fun, supportive work environment. Our Creative team, headquartered in Nairobi, is an innovative team, operating in a stimulating atmosphere where our only measure is in the results we deliver.
• Greenlight Planet is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, HIV/Aids, disability or any other protected characteristic as established by law. If you are a committed, passionate professional who wants to become part of a compelling social venture that is redefining energy access in Asia and Africa for the underserved, we want to hear from you.

1. Should have 2 - 7 years of IT Recruitment experience.
2. Should have good Oral and written communication skills.
3. Should have hands-on experience in handling IT Recruitment Permanent and Contract Staffing.
4. Strong in Searching Techniques / Sending Mass Mails / Job Postings etc
5. Familiar with IT requirements and Recruitment process.
6. Result oriented and ability to build strong professional relationships
7. Ability to work independently and multi-task in a fast paced environment.
8. Should have good convincing and negotiable skills.
9. Strong team player and pro-active.
10. Handling end-to-end recruitment.
11. Searching resumes through internal databases, references and external entities like Boolean searches, Mass Mailing through job boards, Job Posting, LinkedIn searches.
12. Coordinating the interviews of candidates with the client. Scheduling and Tracking the Shortlisted Candidates for the Interview.
13. Responsible for tracking the offered Candidates until Joins the Organization.
14. Maintaining the Trackers Reports of the Candidates

Talent Acquisition Role Responsibilities are given below:

Building Talent Pool

• Determining the current staffing needs of an organization

• Lead the sourcing strategy to identify the potential talent

• Identify and manage the external sourcing partners

• Responsible of hiring Top management hiring

• Identify the process gaps and reengineer the process as and when required

• Devising the technical assessment for selection procedure for various roles

• Creating a salary benchmarks and manage consistency for all the roles/locations

• Should make sure that the salary proposal are well within the defined budgets

• Creating a pool of blacklisted companies and employees whom the organization

• should refrain from hiring and vice versa

• Collaborating with the Department Heads and Divisional heads to identify the

• Challenges and resolutions

• Expertise in head hunting of candidates

• Should plan for reduction of drop out % rate

• Responsible for incorporating best industry practices for recruitment

• Ensure the reduction in early attrition

• Create a potential pipeline for future hiring

Sourcing Strategy

• Identify the right source of recruitment mix for the company

• Proactively connecting with prospective institute and organization for hiring such as

• Campus Recruitment, Job Portal, Ads, Contract Hiring, Offline Hiring, Consultancy

• Promoting the Kinara Brand amongst all stakeholders

Vendor Management

• Right consultant for right role

• Identifying the right vendor for every specialized roles and skills

HO & Field Hiring

• Recruitment & Onboarding for all the levels

BGV

• Neatly we do the BGV, strongly, oral or through IDFY

Pipeline Creation

• Creating the talent pool as a backup

• Strategy to reduce the early attrition

• Strategies to screen the right profiles, less rejection

Budgeting

• Ensure budget and cost optimization of the organization

HRMS

• How effectively the usage of HRMS in place by reducing the manual efforts

Other Requirements:

• Similar Industry market knowledge

• Team handling experience

• Have worked in the strategical capacity

Skills and Competencies:

Technical Skills

• Data Analysis and Reporting

• Have prior experience in handling HRMS tool

• Stakeholders Management

• Excellent in Analytics

Soft Skills

• Resourcefulness

• People Management

• Communication

• Time management

• Team management

• Recruiting and interviewing skills
• Phone, MS Teams, and online meeting platform skills
• Familiarity with relevant HR Terms
• Good Communication and interpersonal skills
•  IT Recruitment experience.

Desired Candidate Profile

• MBA from tier 1/ 2 colleges
• At least 5-10 years experience in core recruitment
• Tech and startup experience preferred
• Knowledge of applicant tracking systems
• Good presentation skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proficiency in MS Office Applications

• Partnering with leaders in resource planning, allocation and drafting the manpower plans for the company
• Collaborating with Hiring Managers to design and implement optimal sourcing strategies against the manpower plan requirements
• Direct sourcing covering all sourcing channels - internal mobility, referrals, advertised search, on-line job boards, networking, research, company website and search engines
• Identifying the sources for hiring that are cost efficient, highly effective with fast turnaround time
• Partnering with the business leaders on creating strong assessment mechanisms for recruitment
• Deploying assessment tools in the interviews to ensure that talent that is taken forward is as per org/ business requirements
• Handling all Recruitment operations (Sourcing, interview scheduling, coordination etc)
• Creating regular recruitment reports / trackers to gauge the health of manpower planning and recruitment related processes
• Creating Job Descriptions & specifications with respect to hiring
• Staying connected to consultants, vendors, industry peers & internally with business leaders at all points to ensure relevant and timely information flow
• Gathering real time market intelligence on people, compensation, related trends and movements
• Compensation benchmarking - internal and external
• Handling salary negotiations and ensuring the compensation offered takes into account the market trends and internal parity

Desired Candidate Profile

• Masters with specialization in HR
• Certification as Assessor
• Awareness of the placement process across Tech and Non-Tech Institutions
• Knowledge of recruitment and assessment tools
• Understanding of competency based assessments
• Exceptional excel skills
• Financial literacy of P&L and balance sheets
• Planning and organizing skills
• Strong process orientation
• An inclination for documentation & frameworks
• Strong communication Skills
• Strong Interpersonal Skills
• Ability to multitask

• Attract first-rate talent and ensure lasting and successful placements aligned to client requirements
• Responsible for end to end selection process – sourcing, screening, interview coordination, back ground verification etc. in accordance with Anther recruitment strategy
• Understand client company, competitors, market place
• Client management – understand the client mindset, nuances of the requirement, coordination across all stages of recruitment while creating a positive rapport with the client stake holders.
• Map requirement, role criteria, define position description, skill specification
• Locate, identify and track potential candidates through the use of Job-Boards, social media, user groups/associations, candidate referrals, networking, etc
• Create detailed candidate profile summaries for each candidate presented
• Candidate Experience – ensure that all candidates are well informed on all aspects of the position proposed and are prepared adequately before every interview. Hand hold candidates through offer, on boarding and settling in period at the client Organisation
• Build network of candidates and develop creative, cost-effective sourcing strategies to accommodate for current and future client demands