Senior Recruiter

Cairo · Remote solely

About this role

Role: Senior Recruiter 

Location: Egypt (Remote)

Work Week: Sunday – Thursday

Work Timings: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM (Saudi Arabian Time Zone) 

Role Overview: 

We're looking for a Senior Recruiter to own end-to-end hiring for a portfolio of open roles across the business. This is a full-cycle recruiting role — from intake to offer — for someone who can run a high volume of searches independently, build strong relationships with hiring managers, and bring structure and speed to how we hire.

\nWhat You'll Do

      Own full-cycle recruitment for 5–8+ concurrent open roles — sourcing, screening, interview coordination, offer negotiation, and closing

      Partner with hiring managers to scope roles accurately, define success profiles, and design interview processes suited to role seniority and function

      Source proactively across LinkedIn and other channels to build strong, diverse candidate pipelines — not just relying on inbound applications

      Run structured, high-quality interviews and provide hiring managers with clear, well-substantiated candidate assessments

      Manage the candidate experience end-to-end, ensuring every candidate — hired or not — has a fast, respectful, transparent process

      Keep the ATS (Lever) clean and current — accurate pipeline stages, notes, and reporting so hiring status is always visible

      Support employer branding efforts to strengthen Soum's presence as an employer of choice regionally

Requirements

      2–3 years of full-cycle recruitment experience, ideally including in-house recruiting for a startup, scale-up, or marketplace/tech business

      Proven track record hiring across multiple functions (e.g., Tech, Operations, Commercial) independently or with light oversight

      Strong sourcing skills — confident building pipelines from scratch, not just managing inbound

      Experience recruiting for the Saudi/MENA market, or strong familiarity with regional hiring dynamics, is a strong plus

      Hands-on ATS experience (Lever preferred)

      Solid stakeholder management — comfortable advising hiring managers, pushing back where needed, and driving process with minimal supervision

      Fluent English required & Arabic is a requirement given close collaboration with the Riyadh team

      Comfortable working remotely and autonomously, with strong bias to action

What Success Looks Like

      Roles filled with strong, culture-aligned hires — not just fast, but right

      Hiring managers trust you to run their searches with minimal hand-holding

      Clean, current pipeline data at all times — no surprises in the weekly hiring review

      Candidates consistently describe the process as respectful and well-run, regardless of outcome

Why Join Soum

 

      Real ownership over your recruiting pipeline from day one

      Direct exposure to a fast-moving leadership team

      A People function that's actively building out career ladders, leveling, and process — you'll help shape it, not just execute it

      A culture that values speed, autonomy, and results over hours logged

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Company at a glance

At Soum, we're on a mission to build a marketplace that enables users to buy and sell anything online with convenience, trust, and ease starting in the MENA market. We began with second-hand electronics in KSA, becoming market leaders, and are now expanding to used cars and collectibles. In just two years, we've facilitated hundreds of thousands of transactions across 150+ locations in the Kingdom, maintained 10,000 active listings at any given time, earned the distinction of being the 10th most downloaded e-commerce app in KSA for 2023, and received more than 5 million app downloads.

Our team, Soumers, have worked in over 14 countries from the US to South Korea. We are always on the look out for the best and brightest to join. We look beyond resumes and titles, we look for the innovators, the hungry, the go-getters. We offer them the autonomy to experiment, learn, fail, and grow.

Every transaction on Soum is guaranteed; we hold funds until the item is delivered and confirmed by the buyer, thanks to our proprietary fulfillment and payment systems. This ensures a secure and reliable marketplace experience.

Soum has pioneered a solution that have transformed digital commerce for sellers in the wider region:

Individuals: Enjoy unique home pick-up and delivery services, secure payments, and transaction guarantees for worry-free selling.
Small Businesses: Sell faster and reach a wider audience with our dedicated "Merchant App."
Teleco and retail partners: Gain optimal returns with bulk-selling options, comprehensive inspections, and efficient warehouse management.

We deploy AI models to power our marketplace with personalized recommendations, dynamic pricing, predictive analytics, and fraud detection, ensuring a smarter, safer, and more efficient platform for our users.

Soum is backed by local and regional investors including, amongst others, Jahez Group, Isometry Capital, and Al Rajhi Partners and have raised $22Mn to date.

Founded2021
Team Size51-200 employees
WorkspaceRemote solely
IndustryInternet Marketplace Platforms
Location
Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Websitesoum.sa/en
LinkedInLinkedIn

Top Benefits

  • Remote work
  • Career development
  • Leadership exposure

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