Talent Acquisition Specialist (AI-Pilled) at Curacel (W22) $4.2K - $6K AI-Powered Infrastructure for Insurance & Healthcare Lagos, LA, NG / Lagos, Lagos, NG / Remote (Lagos, LA, NG; Lagos, Lagos, NG; Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, NG; Ibadan, YO, NG; Ibadan, Oyo, NG) Full-time US citizenship/visa not required 3+ years About Curacel Our vision is prosperity for everyone. Our mission is to make financial services, starting with risk protection and healthcare, seamless, intelligent, and accessible. We build AI that helps insurers, TPAs, banks, and providers automate work, reduce fraud, and deliver better experiences at scale. We are building an AI agent platform that lets financial and health organizations deploy safe, useful agents for real operations. Brands plug in modern claims, compliance, and payment flows and go live quickly across markets. Curacel is trusted by leading insurers, including AXA, Liberty, Old Mutual, and Jubilee. Teams use Curacel to cut cycle times and process more claims with real time decisioning. We serve 40 insurers across the Middle East & Africa. By 2035, our infrastructure will serve hundreds of millions of people. As agentic AI matures, we will use our rails with insurers, banks, and providers to deliver next generation financial protection and healthcare access at scale. We have grown rapidly since launch, serving customers across multiple countries with strong retention and millions in annual revenue. We have raised million dollars from leading investors including Y Combinator, Google, Tencent, etc About the role The Opportunity We provide AI powered insurance infrastructure across emerging markets. We are scaling quickly and need a strategic, high output recruiter to be the chief champion for discovering and winning the people who will absolutely love our culture. You will partner with our People Ops Lead and a fractional Chief People Officer (CPO) with 15+ years at multinationals to design smart, scalable hiring systems that find ambitious, hardworking, high potential talent. You will work with leaders across teams, including the CEO, to recruit outstanding early career and rising talent across Africa and the Middle East. This role demands a sharp, adaptable learner who grows fast. It blends operator rigor with AI craft; you will use AI across the talent lifecycle to move 10x faster and surface signals generic tools miss. As you grow, you will co-own performance frameworks so the best people are meaningfully rewarded. What you will own Hiring engine: demand planning, role scorecards, interview rubrics, offer frameworks AI enabled recruiting stack: sourcing automations, research assistants, scheduling and coordination copilots Funnel and quality metrics: source effectiveness, conversion rates, time to hire, quality of hire, etc. Candidate experience: communications, SLAs, structured feedback, onboarding handoffs Employer brand: early talent programs, market communities, events, and content ATS hygiene and compliance: clean data, documentation, and process controls What you will do Run full cycle hiring for all company roles including product, engineering, commercial, and operations roles Map sourcing strategies per role, then build ‘always-on’ pipelines for priority profiles Partner with hiring managers to tighten scorecards, rubrics, and decision criteria that balance competence and culture add Stand up lightweight dashboards that are self-serve and always current Pilot and document AI experiments that improve sourcing, screening, assessments, and scheduling Create interview kits, debrief templates, and offer playbooks that speed decisions Sell Curacel’s culture and the opportunity to every qualified candidate, tailoring the pitch to their motivations, market context, and growth path Collaborate on onboarding and performance signals so day 1 to day 30 is crisp The AI you will bring Sourcing acceleration: prompt patterns for talent discovery, enrichment, and outreach personalization Structured screening: LLM assisted work sample reviews, structured notes, and skills tagging Workflow automation: ATS updates, scheduling, status reminders, and candidate FAQs via agents Evaluation quality: rubric based summaries, bias checks, and consistency across interviewers Measurement: automated funnel performance, alerts for blockers, and experiment tracking Data and decision making One live recruiting dashboard with weekly updates for pipeline health, conversion, and time to hire KPI trees for priority roles with leading indicators and root cause notes Cohort and source analysis that feeds next week actions for speed and quality What success looks like in 6 months 30 to 40 percent reduction in time to hire on 3 to 5 core roles At least 5 AI assistants or automations in daily use with measurable hours saved Offer acceptance rate above 80 percent for priority roles Hiring manager satisfaction above 8 out of 10 and candidate Net Promoter Score (NPS) above 50 Clean, self-serve dashboards adopted weekly by leadership Repeatable early talent pipeline live across 2 to 3 markets You might be a fit if you have 2 to 3 years in people ops/tech recruiting or high growth startup environments Proven record hiring fast without sacrificing quality, with clear metrics to show it Strong funnel analytics and pipeline management skills Hands on experience with ATS platforms and sourcing automation, plus comfort using AI tools Excellent communication and stakeholder management Detail orientation, high ownership, and comfort with ambiguity Nice to have Experience hiring across Africa and the Middle East Boolean search mastery and light coding or scripting to stitch tools Employer branding content skills and campus or early talent program experience How we work Do not apply if you are looking for work life balance. We are looking for someone who is All In. These values are non-negotiable. Passionate Work: Enjoy the work, set ambitious goals, and consistently exceed expectations Relentless Growth: Stay curious, set bold targets, and adapt quickly to learn Empowered Action: Own outcomes, take initiative, and communicate with clarity Sense of Urgency: Deliver fast with judgment, stay agile, and prioritize high impact work Seeing Possibilities: Stay optimistic, focus on solutions, and persist through obstacles Technology Our Tech Stack The technologies that we use include, but are not limited to: PHP, Laravel VueJs, AngularJs React Native Electron MySql, MS SQL AWS & GCP Docker, k8s Interview Process Our Process Chat with People Team Competency Assessment Chat with Chief People Officer Work Trial Chat with CEO