Technical Recruiter

🔑 Key Responsibilities

• Identify current and future hiring needs and convert them into structured recruitment plans

• Partner with hiring managers to understand role requirements, skills, and competencies

• Drive end-to-end recruitment within defined timelines, budget, and quality standards

• Optimize internal and external sourcing channels to build strong talent pipelines

• Conduct in-depth screening and interviews to present quality candidate slates

• Manage interview coordination, scheduling, and stakeholder communication

• Use data and market insights to improve hiring decisions and candidate experience

• Build and maintain long-term relationships with prospective talent

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.

🎯 What We’re Looking For:

✔️ 6+ months experience in recruitment, preferably with IT roles

✔️ Familiarity with tech profiles (Developers, QA, DevOps, etc.)

✔️ Strong communication skills and a hunger to learn.

✔️ Bachelor's degree in HR / Business / IT or related field (preferred).

Stipend -: 10K - 15K / Month (Depends upon the interview)

Working Days -: 5.5 Days (Alternate Saturdays will be Off)

Based on Performance, Full-Time opportunity will be provided post completion of the Internship.

Mandatory Criteria (Can't be neglected during screening) :

1. IT Recruitment Knowledge

– Minimum 3 Months of Recruitment Experience in screening, and coordinating interviews especially in IT.

– Understanding of common IT roles (e.g., Developers, QA, DevOps, Data Analysts) and basic tech stacks (like Java, Python, .NET, AWS, etc.)

– Understanding of tech stacks, keywords, and job requirements

2. Basic Understanding of IT Roles & Technologies

– Knowing the difference between front-end, back-end, full-stack, etc.

– Able to read and understand tech job descriptions.

– Comfort in learning new IT terminologies and understanding client needs.

candidate must have at least a minimum of 2+ years of experience in recruitment and selection. Only Immediate joiners must apply.

• Resourcing the candidates from Naukri portal.
• Working with organizations to develop a recruitment plan.
• Executing recruitment plans efficiently.
• Interviewing candidates.
• Coordinate with the candidate and reporting manager.
• Follow up of the candidate and update accordingly.

• Prepare data base and update daily work.

• Bachelors degree or equivalent qualification with 2+ years of professional experience in Talent Acquisition.
• 2+ years experience in full lifecycle recruiting in the IT industry.
• An expert level of knowledge in all full lifecycle recruiting components including, sourcing, qualifying, networking, assessing, legal, job analysis, wage and salary trends, relationship management, and due diligence.
• Detailed analysis of the JD - to understand the client's requirement thoroughly.
• Sourcing and screening of valid profiles.
• Ensuring SLAs are met for providing the validated profiles.
• Basic Excel Skills like Vlookup, Pivot, and PPT skills
• Maintaining a detailed tracker and Scheduling the shortlisted profiles for an interview and ensuring regular following up.
• Candidate Selection offers negotiation and follow-up with joining to ensure the onboarding.
• Must be able to manage competing demands, accept generous and constructive feedback, while being extremely adaptable and flexible. 
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information appropriately.

• Work closely with Hiring Managers to plan and close all assignments in the stipulated time frame.
• Develop a strong pipeline of high-caliber talent for all current and anticipated demands.
• Developing and maintaining strong working relationships with internal clients, vendors, and other team members to create a partnership that yields success, predictable results, and credibility.
• Managing the selection, offers, negotiation, closing, and administrative components of the recruitment process.
• Manage mid and senior-level hiring
• Sourcing through various sourcing channels, candidate management, stakeholder management. 
• Deliver high-quality work in a high-paced, dynamic work environment consistently by managing time and effort
• Taking initiative to complete unanticipated, and verifying the completeness of your own work
• Deliver high-quality results in a timely manner, individually and through others; initiate action and accomplish goals across a wide range of teams and projects in the face of multiple demands, grow professionally by actively staying up-to-date in areas of expertise.
• Hands-on experience and in-depth understanding of various technologies
• Hands on experience in excel reporting and analyses