Remote jobs in South Africa

Remote 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. Apply now and define the future of work!

This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in our space as a Recruiter on a 6-month fixed-term contract.

Join a team that is designing a better future through remote work. You can restore work-life balance in your own life, flourish professionally and personally, but also directly contribute to Remote’s work of democratising opportunities and distributing wealth across the globe through the hires you make.

• Experience in full-cycle recruitment, at a tech start-up or fast-growing scale-up organisation
• Previous experience as a technical recruiter hiring engineering profiles (e.g. backend & frontend developers and engineering managers)
• Ability to work with large volume applications to improve and ensure high quality in alignment to the role and a diverse hiring pipeline
• Strong track record in high pace hiring environment, with focus on deliverables
• Excited and passionate about an excellent candidate experience at all times
• Aligned to Remote's values and a keen interest in finding the best talent in the world, that matches these values
• Ambitious and intentional about diversity and inclusion, and more specifically to continuously hire in locations we have never hired before
• Experience in working and optimising a Talent Acquisition stack (Greenhouse, BrightHire, GoodTime etc), as well as adopting new tools / technologies
• Excellent spoken and written skills in English, to engage with a global talent pool.

• Work highly effectively to ensure Remote’s talent scaling needs are matched, and in particular Engineering hiring
• Work closely with the TA Leadership on support required to ensure the team is successful
• Directly responsible for creating a world-class hiring and candidate experience
• Continuously improve the timing between first Recruiter call and offer
• Track and analyse metrics and report on hiring progress to business leadership on a regular cadence
• Act as an advocate for remote working and values and ensure they are embodied throughout the candidate experience
• Continuously and proactively improve and initiate creative and scalable changes to our existing recruiting strategy
• Partner with Remote's Talent Sourcer to proactively build a hiring pipeline for hard-to-fill positions
• An aptitude for sharing best practices and becoming a subject-matter expert in the role.

• You’ll report to: Manager, Talent Acquisition
• Team: People Team
• Location: EMEA
• Start date: As soon as possible

Roughly 2-3 hours across 3 weeks

• Interview with future manager
• Interview with team members x 2
• Interview with department director
• Bar Raiser interview
• Prior employment verification check

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Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap‑labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in‑location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent‑hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job‑related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.

At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.

The annual salary range for this full‑time position is $29,000 — $65,000 USD.

Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:

• 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). Read more at remote.com/async.

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!

• Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
• We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
• If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.

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.

We will ask you to voluntarily tell us our pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.

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. To learn more about Remote's AI guidelines check see here.

Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.