Remote jobs in South Africa

RemoteRemote is solving modern organizations' biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease.

We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams.

With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world.

You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.

We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.

If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world.

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Join Remote as a Product Manager, Benefits Platform & Integrations, where you'll play a pivotal role in scaling our global benefits infrastructure across all product lines.

This role spans internal and external benefit systems—from sourcing and enrollment to renewals and integrations—ensuring that Remote delivers compliant, competitive, and seamless benefit experiences for customers and employees worldwide.

You’ll work at the intersection of technology, partnerships, and operations, shaping how benefits are powered and extended across Remote's ecosystem.

You’ll identify, integrate, and evolve connections with benefit providers, build scalable internal tools, and enhance automation for how benefits are offered, managed, and renewed globally.

This is a unique opportunity to influence the future of global work—enabling businesses to support their teams with world-class benefits, wherever they are.

Extensive Product Management experience, ideally in benefits, payroll, or HR tech, with a focus on API-driven and file-based integrations.

Technically strong, comfortable with APIs, SDKs, and integration workflows spanning multiple domains (e.g., sourcing, enrollment, renewals).

Analytical and data-savvy, proficient in SQL for validation, insights, and data strategy.

Empathetic and user-focused, translating customer and operational needs into impactful products.

Strategic and results-oriented, balancing long-term vision with execution to drive scalability and automation.

Collaborative communicator, skilled at aligning cross-functional teams (Engineering, Operations, Partnerships, Payroll, Design).

Clear communicator, able to simplify complex systems in writing and speech.

Passionate about remote work and global accessibility.

Fluent in English; remote work experience a plus.

• Lead the evolution of Remote's benefits platform, spanning internal tools, external integrations, and data pipelines.
• Conduct market and partner research to identify and evaluate new provider integrations and expansion opportunities.
• Define, prioritize, and deliver on the roadmap for benefit sourcing, enrollment, and renewal automation across product lines.
• Partner with Engineering and Design to define integration requirements, system specifications, and testing plans.
• Collaborate with the Partnerships team to identify, negotiate, and scale strategic relationships with benefit providers and platforms.
• Monitor performance and usage metrics to drive optimization, stability, and scalability across benefit systems.
• Act as the subject matter expert for benefits integrations and internal systems, enabling teams across Remote to build on a unified foundation.
• Work cross-functionally with Payroll, Customer Experience, Benefit Operations, Marketing, and Sales to ensure cohesive benefit delivery and customer experience.

You’ll report to : Group Product Manager

Location : For this position we welcome everyone to apply, but we will prioritise applications from the following locations as we encourage our teams to diversify : EMEA and AMER

Start date : As soon as possible

Interview with recruiter

Interview with future manager

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Interview with team members

Interview with VP, Product

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• Work from anywhere
• Flexible paid time off
• Flexible working hours (we are async)
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• Mental health support services
• Stock options
• Learning budget
• Home office budget & IT equipment
• Budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings).

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You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive.

When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting.

Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

If that sounds like something you want, apply now!

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We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.

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Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under-represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging.

We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team.

During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from our recruiter.

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At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity.

We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience.

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Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.