Background

At Amini, we are committed to making a difference for our customers, colleagues, and communities. We are a dynamic, fast-growing deep tech startup. We are building environmental data infrastructure for Africa and the tropical belt. Amini is at the forefront of cutting-edge technology, utilizing Geospatial Data and AI / Machine Learning capabilities to solve environmental data scarcity for countries in the global south.

Responsibilities

• Build and continuously maintain candidate market maps across Engineering, Product, Machine Learning, Operations, Commercial, Customer Success, and Sales/Business Development
• Proactively source high-quality talent using a range of methods and channels, including direct outreach, LinkedIn, referrals, and niche communities, rather than relying on inbound applications
• Maintain and nurture a live candidate network ahead of need, so searches move quickly once a role is greenlit
• Apply this same proactive search approach across all levels, from senior leadership hires to core technical and operational roles
• Manage full-cycle recruitment for roles across the business, across levels and locations
• Screen, interview, and assess candidates for both technical/functional fit and cultural fit
• Coordinate interviews, manage feedback loops, and drive offer negotiations through to close
• Partner with hiring managers across functions to understand requirements in depth and provide genuine market insight, not just take a job spec at face value
• Advise leadership on realistic seniority, compensation, and location trade-offs for each role, based on current market intelligence
• Maintain clear, proactive communication with stakeholders and candidates throughout the process
• Ensure compliance with country-specific employment legislation and hiring practices as Amini expands into new markets
• Manage recruitment operations end to end, including candidate tracking, onboarding, compliance checks, and ATS management
• Apply sound judgement on contractor and contingent hiring arrangements, including relevant local frameworks (e.g., IR35-style regimes), where applicable
• Continuously improve sourcing and recruiting strategies, and promote best practice, including diverse and inclusive hiring
• Help build employer brand and sourcing channels as Amini expands into new regions
• Represent Amini's mission and scaling story compellingly to passive candidates, including diaspora talent considering a return to the region

Qualifications

Essential

• 4-5+ years of recruiting experience, in-house strongly preferred, with a track record as a proactive search specialist rather than a process administrator
• Experience recruiting across a broad range of functions: engineering, product, data/ML, operations, commercial, customer success, and sales
• Strong, demonstrable candidate sourcing and pipeline-building skills, including confident use of recruiting and sourcing tools
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, both written and verbal
• Comfortable managing multiple concurrent searches in a fast-paced, resource-constrained environment
• Back-office fluency: candidate tracking, onboarding, compliance checks, and ATS management
• Working knowledge of employment law and compliance considerations across multiple jurisdictions, including contractor/contingent worker classification
• Proven experience of global hiring: sourcing and closing candidates across multiple countries and time zones, not just a single domestic market
• Experience recruiting across multiple international geographies for a remote-first or distributed organisation, ideally including the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, and North and South America

Highly Desirable

• Experience recruiting in Caribbean or African markets
• Familiarity with technology domains relevant to Amini, such as sovereign cloud, infrastructure, connectivity, or AI/ML
• Experience with contractor compliance regimes (e.g., IR35) where hiring includes contract or contingent talent
• Experience recruiting for early-stage or scale-up companies going through rapid, multi-country expansion
• Experience structuring flexible arrangements (e.g., advisory-to-full-time, fractional-to-permanent) for senior hires

• Build and continuously maintain candidate market maps across Engineering, Product, Machine Learning, Operations, Commercial, Customer Success, and Sales/Business Development
• Proactively source high-quality talent using a range of methods and channels, including direct outreach, LinkedIn, referrals, and niche communities, rather than relying on inbound applications
• Maintain and nurture a live candidate network ahead of need, so searches move quickly once a role is greenlit
• Apply this same proactive search approach across all levels, from senior leadership hires to core technical and operational roles
• Manage full-cycle recruitment for roles across the business, across levels and locations
• Screen, interview, and assess candidates for both technical/functional fit and cultural fit
• Coordinate interviews, manage feedback loops, and drive offer negotiations through to close
• Partner with hiring managers across functions to understand requirements in depth and provide genuine market insight, not just take a job spec at face value
• Advise leadership on realistic seniority, compensation, and location trade-offs for each role, based on current market intelligence
• Maintain clear, proactive communication with stakeholders and candidates throughout the process
• Ensure compliance with country-specific employment legislation and hiring practices as Amini expands into new markets
• Manage recruitment operations end to end, including candidate tracking, onboarding, compliance checks, and ATS management
• Apply sound judgement on contractor and contingent hiring arrangements, including relevant local frameworks (e.g., IR35-style regimes), where applicable
• Continuously improve sourcing and recruiting strategies, and promote best practice, including diverse and inclusive hiring
• Help build employer brand and sourcing channels as Amini expands into new regions
• Represent Amini's mission and scaling story compellingly to passive candidates, including diaspora talent considering a return to the region

• Candidate market mapping
• Proactive talent sourcing
• Direct outreach
• LinkedIn sourcing
• Referral generation
• Niche community engagement
• Candidate network nurturing
• Full-cycle recruitment management
• Candidate screening and interviewing
• Technical and cultural fit assessment
• Interview coordination
• Feedback management
• Offer negotiation
• Stakeholder management
• Market insight provision
• Compensation and location advisory
• Communication (written and verbal)
• Recruitment operations management
• Candidate tracking
• Onboarding coordination
• Compliance checks
• ATS management
• Contractor and contingent hiring judgement
• Employment law and compliance knowledge
• Global hiring experience
• Remote-first/distributed organization recruiting
• Employer brand building
• Diverse and inclusive hiring practices
• Sourcing strategy improvement

• 4-5+ years of recruiting experience, in-house strongly preferred, with a track record as a proactive search specialist rather than a process administrator
• Experience recruiting across a broad range of functions: engineering, product, data/ML, operations, commercial, customer success, and sales
• Strong, demonstrable candidate sourcing and pipeline-building skills, including confident use of recruiting and sourcing tools
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, both written and verbal
• Comfortable managing multiple concurrent searches in a fast-paced, resource-constrained environment
• Back-office fluency: candidate tracking, onboarding, compliance checks, and ATS management
• Working knowledge of employment law and compliance considerations across multiple jurisdictions, including contractor/contingent worker classification
• Proven experience of global hiring: sourcing and closing candidates across multiple countries and time zones, not just a single domestic market
• Experience recruiting across multiple international geographies for a remote-first or distributed organisation, ideally including the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, and North and South America
• Experience recruiting in Caribbean or African markets (Highly Desirable)
• Familiarity with technology domains relevant to Amini, such as sovereign cloud, infrastructure, connectivity, or AI/ML (Highly Desirable)
• Experience with contractor compliance regimes (e.g., IR35) where hiring includes contract or contingent talent (Highly Desirable)
• Experience recruiting for early-stage or scale-up companies going through rapid, multi-country expansion (Highly Desirable)
• Experience structuring flexible arrangements (e.g., advisory-to-full-time, fractional-to-permanent) for senior hires (Highly Desirable)