Freelance Recruiter, Specialist Desk (Cyprus, Remote)

Freelance Recruiter, Specialist Desk (Cyprus, Remote)
Self-employed contract or B2B, Associate Partnership arrangement

About Emerald Zebra

Emerald Zebra is a boutique specialist recruitment and executive search consultancy headquartered in Limassol, Cyprus, with active mandates across Cyprus, Dubai and broader EMEA/APAC markets. For the last 5 years we've focused exclusively on FinTech, Tech, Financial Services, FX/CFD, crypto, payments, and iGaming: regulated, high-complexity hiring with direct board and founder involvement. We don't do volume, we do depth: specialist, senior, head of department, and director level roles.

The Opportunity

We're offering an experienced recruiter the chance to build and own a specialist desk under the Emerald Zebra brand, as a genuine partner in its growth, not a subcontractor working for scraps of commission. Depending on your background, you may step into an established desk with live clients and mandates, or build a new specialism from the ground up within our target sectors.

You'll run full-cycle recruitment for specialist, senior, and leadership roles across FinTech, Tech, Financial Services, FX/CFD, crypto, payments, and iGaming, backed by everything Emerald Zebra has built over 20 years.

Based in Cyprus, working remotely.

What's In It For You

• Commission-only structure with uncapped, high-percentage commission (50:50). No ceiling on what you can earn from the desk you build.
• Instant credibility: you inherit a brand with 25 years of regional standing, live mandates, and a database and network of 65,000+ candidates. Your outreach opens doors from day one.
• Full infrastructure handled for you: ATS, AI Tools, job boards (LinkedIn), marketing, coordination support, invoicing. You focus on recruiting and revenue, not admin.
• Full autonomy over how you run your desk, your hours, and your approach.
• The chance to build your personal reputation as the region's go-to recruiter in your field.
• A genuine stake in something growing: as the desk grows, so does your earning ceiling and your standing in the market.

What You'll Do

• Own and grow a specialist desk aligned to your background and network, across Cyprus, the UAE, and wider EMEA/APAC markets.
• Develop new client relationships within your specialism across our target sectors.
• Manage full-cycle recruitment: sourcing, screening, shortlisting, interview coordination, offer management.
• Work assigned mandates alongside self-sourced business.
• Maintain accurate, complete records in our ATS.
• Work exclusively on Emerald Zebra mandates for the duration of the partnership.

What We're Looking For

• Proven recruitment experience within a defined specialism, either agency side or in-house TA. A recruiter through and through with a passion for the work.
• Alternatively, a professional from within one of our target sectors with internal hiring experience, looking to move into specialist recruitment.
• Resourceful, endurance, committed, resilient, team player, ethical, professional.
• Fluent English; Greek or Arabic desirable.
• Existing network or credible route to build one within your specialism, across Cyprus and the wider region.
• Someone who treats this as building their own business under our banner: consistent activity, pipeline visibility, and real commitment to converting under retained and contingency models.

How the Partnership Works

Working alongside a founder who built and exited Cyprus's largest recruitment agency, you're not just filling a role. You're building equity in your own reputation and earnings, under a brand that gives you the platform to do it faster than starting alone.

Interested candidates should send a CV and a short note to highlight fit. Note candidates must be already based in Cyprus and with the right to work in the EU.