Cape Town, South Africa
Founder & Senior Business Development Representative
A multidisciplinary business professional bringing together recruitment, HR, compliance, operations and AI-enabled problem-solving.
Esther Johnson is the Founder and Senior Business Development Representative of J3 Global Holdings. She is a results-driven business development, HR, recruitment and compliance professional with more than ten years of full-cycle recruitment experience across BPO, e-commerce, hospitality, parastatal and sales environments.
Her experience spans complex operations, candidate placement from entry level to senior executive level, staff support, regulatory quality assurance and training. She applies generative AI and specialised tools to improve the speed, accuracy and cost-effectiveness of her work.
“I connect the right people, sound processes and practical technology to create better business outcomes.”
AI-enabled recruitment — Esther’s supplied profile records that she created an AI recruitment app designed to shorten employment time by up to 80% and reduce unconscious bias through benchmarked candidate assessment.
Commercial roles supported by ongoing national volunteer leadership.
Singa Marketing / Deprimo / Red Sand Marketing
Led regulatory compliance across a multi-brand financial services marketing organisation, monitored recorded sales calls, developed training and investigated non-compliance incidents. The supplied profile records zero regulatory escalations during this tenure.
Singa Marketing / Deprimo / Red Sand Marketing
Managed full-cycle recruitment from advertising and candidate sourcing through screening, interviews and onboarding, alongside staff queries and ongoing compliance training.
Bula Deals
Managed HR, office operations, procurement and service-provider relationships for an e-commerce startup, while supporting compliance, sales, campaigns and digital operations.
National leadership · Volunteer
National First Peoples Indigenous Authority Council · February 2024 — Present
National administration · Volunteer
Undrip Summit 1652, Admin Work-stream · December 2019 — Present
Business development
Sales prospecting
RPO & BPO services
E-commerce operations
Full-cycle recruitment
HR coordination
Candidate assessment
Staff query management
FSCA / FSB compliance
Quality assurance
FICA awareness
Training development
Generative AI
Power BI
Google Workspace
CRM & SaaS platforms
Esther applies today’s generative AI tools to research, content, automation, design and decision support — turning raw capability into practical business advantage.
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