Black Pen Recruitment is a recruitment agency placing fintech, cryptocurrency and technology talent across Africa, including executive search and remote staffing roles.
Black Pen Recruitment is a recruitment agency that places talent in the fintech and cryptocurrency sectors across Africa. Founded in 2012, the firm works with startups, scale-ups and corporates, and its activities span technology talent acquisition, executive search and remote staffing. Its database holds more than 120,000 candidates, and it lists over 180 global clients.
For job seekers, the agency handles placements at several levels. It runs end-to-end recruitment for growing companies - it has taken organisations from 50 to 250 employees across Africa - and conducts executive and senior leadership searches for C-level, directorship and senior management roles across Africa, Europe and the USA. It also places remote employees throughout Africa in positions covering Legal, Finance, Engineering, IT and Human Resources; more than 150 such placements were made during the pandemic.
Geographically, the firm operates across North, South, East and West Africa, with reach into Europe and the USA. Its client work includes serving as the inaugural recruitment partner for Amazon in South Africa. The company's stated focus areas are fintech, cryptocurrency and the technology functions that support them.
