AI-Native Recruiter / Talent Sourcer: Work Directly With a Startup Founder ($2,500-$3,500/mo)

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TYPE OF WORK

Full Time

SALARY

$2,500-$3,500/month

HOURS PER WEEK

65

DATE UPDATED

Aug 28, 2026

JOB OVERVIEW

ABOUT US

We're a startup building two online gaming brands (online casinos) serving international markets. We're well-funded, moving extremely fast, and building an AI-first company from day one. We run lean, automate aggressively, and every person on the team is expected to multiply their output with AI tools.

Our operations team is being built in South Africa (Cape Town area), our products serve overseas customers, and you'll work remotely as part of the founding team's inner circle.

THE ROLE

You'll work directly alongside the founder as our first recruitment hire, helping build the initial team for both brands from scratch. This is not a "post ads and wait" recruiter job. This is hands-on talent hunting for a startup hiring its founding staff right now.

What you'll actually do:
- Source candidates on LinkedIn every day: searching, shortlisting, and running outreach from the founder's own LinkedIn profile
- Hunt design and tech talent on portfolio platforms too: Behance, Dribbble, GitHub and similar. You should know how to work these to find great people who never apply to job ads
- Hunt for senior and specialist roles (for example: Chief Product Officer, CRM lead, SEO lead, designers, developers, operations staff)
- Focus the search on one specific region: Cape Town, Paarl, and Stellenbosch, South Africa. We're building an in-person company and culture there, so every candidate you find must be in or near that area
- Build and maintain clean candidate pipelines and trackers, run follow-ups, and keep the founder's hiring funnel moving daily
- Screen profiles hard: we want sharp, hungry, high-output people, and your job is to find them and filter out everyone else
- Use AI at every step: drafting outreach, enriching candidate research, building screening workflows, automating the boring parts

As we grow, this role grows with you. The plan is for the right person to transition from recruitment into a managerial or chief-of-staff type role, running coordination across the team you helped hire.

WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR

We have a clear preference for energetic, early-career people: hungry, fast, ambitious, and excited to build something from scratch rather than coast in a corporate job. This is a young, high-energy startup environment.

- AI-NATIVE. This is the #1 requirement. You use Claude and ChatGPT deeply and daily, not "I tried it once." You build your workflows around AI, keep up with new models and tools, and can show us how you use AI to do the work of three people. In your application, we'll ask you to prove it.
- Experienced at identifying talent. You've done sourcing, recruitment, or talent research before, and you can tell the difference between a great profile and a padded one.
- Proficient with sourcing tools. LinkedIn search and outreach is your bread and butter, and you know your way around Behance, Dribbble, GitHub, and similar platforms for finding design and technical talent.
- iGaming experience helps. If you've recruited for or worked around online casinos, sports betting, or gaming companies, tell us. Knowing this industry's talent pools is a real advantage.
- Energetic and hungry. You want the intensity, chaos, and upside of an early-stage startup. This is not a quiet job with fixed hours. When we're closing a key hire, you're on. If you want strict 9-to-5, this isn't for you.
- Sharp and nimble. You learn fast, write well, communicate clearly in English, and don't need hand-holding after the first week.
- Trustworthy. You'll be working from the founder's own accounts and seeing the inside of the business. Discretion and reliability are non-negotiable.

HOURS AND SETUP

- Full-time, remote
- Your working day must overlap substantially with South African business hours (SAST, UTC+2)
- Startup pace: expect long hours during hiring pushes, balanced by real trust, autonomy, and zero corporate bureaucracy

COMPENSATION

$2,500-$3,500 USD per month (approx. PHP 140, ---------- ,000), depending on experience and how strong your AI + recruitment skillset is. We deliberately pay at the very top of the market because we want a genuinely exceptional person, and we promote from within. The ceiling on this role is high.

THE HIRING PROCESS

Every hire here goes through a live video call with us. We will test your spoken English, we will test how sharp you are, and we will dig into how you actually think and work. We offer very competitive salaries, so the bar is high: only if you're really good will we hire you. If you're the real deal, you'll enjoy the call.

HOW TO APPLY

Apply directly to Rodney Thomas: email ---------- or WhatsApp ---------- . Applications that skip these steps will not be read:

1. Start your application with the word "Blueprint" so we know you read this far.
2. In 150 words or less: describe one real workflow you've built with Claude or ChatGPT that saved you serious time. Be specific about tools, steps, and outcome.
3. In 100 words or less: tell us about the best hire or candidate find you've ever been part of, and how you found them.
4. Attach your CV and your LinkedIn profile URL.
5. Optional but a big plus: a 2-minute Loom/video introducing yourself.

We reply fast to strong applications. If you're the person described above, you'll know it. Apply today.

SKILL REQUIREMENT
Recruiting Candidate Sourcing Talent Acquisition
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