Talent Scout Intern

This is a part-time, 15 hour a week role for students who are still in school. If you’re interested, please fill out the application form here

Hi there! I’m Chris, the founder of Sourcing Sprints. We’re a recruiting agency focused on helping early stage startups hire. Our clients are mostly US-based startup founders who need help making their first hires in engineering, product, design, marketing, or sales.

Our team is based in Nigeria, but we source candidates from all over the world. Most of the roles we work on are either focused on startup hubs like San Francisco or NYC or are remote / distributed.

We’re for-profit with an impact-focused mission. In addition to our core agency work, we also run free training programs to make it easier for talent in Nigeria to find high paid, remote jobs.

We’re looking to grow and are adding interns to our team. As a talent scout intern, you’ll be focused on sourcing talent for hiring partners.

• Location: Remote-first. Anywhere in Nigeria.
• Duration: 3-months. Jan 2027 – March 2027
• Pay: Compensation: $200 / month (including data stipend for 15 hours / week + $500 bonus when you source a candidate that gets hired by a client.
• Commitment: Part-time (15 hours a week), limited to students still in school.

About the Role

As a Talent Scout Intern, you’ll help our full-time team run Sourcing Sprints, where we find and reach out to candidates on behalf of clients (primarily early stage, US-based startup founders). We typically work on tech centric roles across software, hardware, growth, product, and design.

Your work will involve sourcing and qualifying candidates on LinkedIn. See below for a short video describing the company for more context:

Who you are

To be eligible for this role you should still be in a Nigerian school or university. We’ll teach you everything you need to know and are optimizing for aptitude, not prior experience. However, we’re looking for people who are:

• Organized and analytical. You love to work with data, solve puzzles, and have extremely high attention to detail.
• Tech-savvy. You’ve taught yourself hard, technical things previously. Some of our most successful sourcers were software developers previously. Fluency with spreadsheets is also a must.
• Excellent communicator. You can speak clearly and confidently. Your written work is free of typos.
• Growth Minded. As a company, we care a lot about training and personal development.

Requirements

• Have a functional laptop. Sourcing will require time spent in front of a laptop. Please have access to a personal laptop and strong internet for project work and staying connected with the team.
• Ability to source daily (weekdays). Although the internship is only 15 hours a week, it’s best if this is spread out throughout the week and done a few hours each day. This allows you to stay in-sync with the team and get frequent feedback so you can improve.

How to Apply

If this sounds interesting, please fill out the **application form here.**

Applications close at 11:59 PM WAT on Monday November 9th. The interview process for this role is application → 45 minute assessment → 15 minute intro call → offer

If you make it past the application stage, we will reach out on Monday, November 16th about the assessment. If you don’t hear from us by then, we’ve moved forward with other applicants.

Thanks for the consideration!