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With offices in 15 countries across five continents, including our locations in Cape Town and Johannesburg, we help organisations navigate digital disruption, innovation, and transformation. Creating the right digital teams to deliver lasting impact worldwide.
Need to hire? Request a callbackIn South Africa, our teams “Create Futures” by delivering outstanding digital-focused professionals across Creative, Marketing, Sales, Technology, Finance and HR & Business Operations. Our solutions focus on outcomes. From recruiting individual hires to supporting comprehensive talent and workforce strategies that drive long-term growth.
South African and international networks to find the right talent, fast.
A database built for worldwide scale with local know-how.
Smart insights to help you make better hiring decisions.
Flexible multi-hire solutions that grow with your business.
A standout brand with a million-plus community online.
A committment to representing your brand with care.
Bold briefs. Bigger impact.
Sedna, a UK maritime SaaS company, was expanding into Cape Town with no local infrastructure. Salt: Labs delivered a full-service solution interim office space, IT setup, onboarding support, and headhunting elite talent across Engineering, Product, DevOps, Customer Success, and Operations. The result? A fully operational office, 16 strategic hires, and a stronger employer brand, positioning Sedna for long-term growth in South Africa.
NTT needed to establish a modern, high-performing digital organisation in Cape Town, facing a candidate-scarce market, tight deadlines, and complex skill requirements. Salt embedded a dedicated Account Manager onsite, understanding culture, dissecting briefs, and guiding talent through every stage. The result: 46 strategic hires across 9 teams, including Engineering, UX/UI, Strategy, Client Services, Project Management, and Exec leadership, with strong relationships maintained across Johannesburg, London, Switzerland, and Australia, enabling NTT to scale efficiently with the right people in place.
Winterflood was entering the South African market with no local presence or office. Salt: Labs established their employer brand, provided a fully serviced office with IT support, and headhunted elite talent across Full-Stack Engineering, Front-End Engineering, Product Management, and UX. Streamlined coordination ensured hiring stayed on track despite leadership travel and visa delays. The result: 9 strategic hires, a fully operational office, and a strong team culture, laying the foundation for Winterflood’s long-term growth in Cape Town.
Creating teams. Enabling growth. Powering the future of work in South Africa.
Our permanent hiring approach is strategic and tailored to identify, attract, and secure top digital talent in South Africa aligned to the unique competencies and culture of your organisation.
As one of the leading recruitment agencies across South Africa, and with talent experts in Cape Town and Johannesburg, our hiring process allows us to identify and assess the nest skills and people for the roles you need to grow.
Our contract and freelance solutions connect you with top-tier talent from creative to tech. Whether you need a specialist developer, a freelance designer, or an interim leader, we help you fill skills gaps and keep projects moving.
Our contract services across South Africa ensure you’re more responsive, productive, and profitable. We connect contractors with both local and global organisations to meet their specific needs.
Work with one of the best recruitment agencies in Cape Town and Joburg to find key hires from C-suite, executive and senior-level talent across South Africa.
Our Salt:X talent solutions build strategic workforce solutions alongside your hiring needs to rapidly build agile, high-performing digital teams. Meeting evolving business demands.
Kick-start business-critical projects with flexible resources. We can provide an experienced team to drive large-scale transformations.
Whether you need a cost-effective, end-to-end recruitment outsourcing partner to efficiently source top digital talent, or a personalised, high-touch retained search for senior hires, we deliver customised solutions that align with your business goals and ensure the best-fit candidates every time.
We help businesses worldwide build high-performing teams through seamless offshore and nearshore solutions. With our specialist Cape Town team, we provide access to the right talent and the operational support to scale your business and establish new hubs in South Africa.
With offices in 14 countries across five continents why not reach out and learn more about our teams and locations around the world.
Everything you need to hire with complete confidence.
June 25, 2025
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