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.
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.
