Job Openings at Salt South Africa

Overview:

• An established, fast-growing online gaming business is looking for an experienced VIP Manager to take ownership of its high-value customer segment. This role sits at a senior level and focuses on driving retention, maximising player value, and leading a dedicated VIP account management team. You’ll play a key role in shaping VIP strategy while ensuring a premium, compliant, and personalised customer experience.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead and implement the VIP customer strategy in line with commercial objectives
• Manage, mentor, and performance-track a team of VIP Account Managers
• Oversee relationships with high-value customers and act as the escalation point when required
• Drive retention and lifetime value through tailored campaigns, rewards, and experiences
• Analyse player behaviour and performance data to inform decision-making
• Track and report on VIP KPIs including retention, value, and revenue contribution
• Ensure all VIP activity aligns with responsible gaming principles and regulatory standards
• Collaborate closely with internal teams to optimise the end-to-end VIP journey

Requirements:

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience within the iGaming or online betting space
• Proven background in VIP or high-value customer account management
• Experience leading or managing a team
• Strong commercial and analytical mindset
• Excellent relationship-building and communication skills
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, performance-driven environment
• Solid understanding of responsible gaming and regulated markets
• Relevant tertiary qualification in business, marketing, or a related field (advantageous)

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Overview:

• Our client a growing software company specialising in workplace management solutions, including visitor management, contractor oversight, and access control integration. The platform is used by organisations across South Africa to improve security, efficiency, and visibility across their workplaces. Having recently secured our first round of investment, we are entering an exciting
• As the Marketing & Communications Specialist, you will be the internal “voice of the company.” You’ll own content, communication, and digital marketing execution – translating complex products into clear, compelling stories for customers, partners, and internal stakeholders.
• This is a hands-on role suited to someone who enjoys variety, autonomy, and working closely with leadership in a fast-moving SaaS environment.
• You’ll play a central role in shaping how the business presents itself to the market. From website copy and newsletters to product updates and sales collateral, your work will directly influence how customers understand and engage with the platform.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Content & Storytelling

• Develop and manage a monthly company newsletter
• Write and publish customer stories and case studies
• Own and maintain website copy, applying SEO best practices
• Draft media releases and public announcements
• Act as the internal brand and messaging champion

Product & Customer Communication

• Create and distribute product release announcements
• Draft customer-facing product update emails
• Maintain internal product documentation with product and engineering teams
• Produce internal communication updates to align teams

Digital Marketing & Campaigns

• Manage SEO optimisation for web and content
• Plan and execute online marketing campaigns
• Run basic online advertising (Google, LinkedIn, Meta)
• Manage social media channels (LinkedIn and Facebook)
• Track and report on campaign performance and engagement

Design & Collateral

• Design and maintain sales collateral (brochures, one-pagers, pitch decks)
• Build internal and external presentations
• Create digital-first campaign and promotional assets

Stakeholder & Partner Communication

• Coordinate communication with partner marketing teams
• Ensure messaging alignment across partners and channels
• Support sales and customer-facing teams with consistent, high-quality materials

Requirements:

• 3+ years’ experience in marketing, communications, or content-focused roles
• Proven experience producing written content for business audiences
• Experience managing digital marketing channels (email, website, social media)
• Working knowledge of SEO fundamentals
• Basic experience running online advertising campaigns

Bonus:

• Experience in SaaS, B2B, or technology-focused environments
• Exposure to partner or reseller marketing
• Familiarity with brand development or brand guidelines

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Overview:

• Our client, a recognized leader in the South African digital landscape , is seeking a strategic and results-driven Performance Marketing Manager to lead their customer acquisition efforts. This isn’t a traditional media buying role; they are looking for a growth architect who can bridge the gap between deep data analytics and high-impact consumer solutions.
• Operating in a fast-paced, high-volume transaction environment , you will own the “Data → Strategy → Implementation” loop, managing substantial media budgets to drive measurable ROI and long-term user value. If you thrive on building data-driven frameworks and scaling accounts profitably within complex regulatory landscapes, this is the opportunity to make a direct impact on a company’s bottom line.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Strategy & Planning: Develop and execute a comprehensive performance marketing strategy focused on high-quality customer acquisition, ROI, and Lifetime Value (LTV)
• Budget Management: Own and manage a substantial paid media budget, strategically allocating spend across channels to maximize growth.
• Channel Execution: Provide hands-on management of all paid media campaigns, including SEM (Google Ads), Paid Social (Meta, X, TikTok), and Programmatic/Display.
• App Marketing: Drive user growth through expert App Store Optimization (ASO) and app install campaigns across iOS and Android.
• Campaign Optimization: Manage the full campaign lifecycle, including audience targeting, creative testing, bidding strategies, and landing page optimization.
• Creative Collaboration: Partner with the creative team to ensure a continuous pipeline of high-performing, compliant ad creative.
• Analytics & Reporting: Rigorously monitor and analyze key metrics such as CPA, CPC, CTR, and ROAS to inform optimization decisions.
• Stakeholder Management: Present detailed performance reports and strategic recommendations to senior management.
• Technology Implementation: Identify and implement new tools, attribution platforms (e.g., Google Analytics, Adjust, AppsFlyer), and innovative ad formats.

Requirements:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Statistics, or a related field.
• Experience: 5+ years of hands-on experience in a performance marketing or paid media role, specifically within e-commerce or high-volume transaction businesses.
• Budget Expertise: Proven track record of managing media budgets in excess of R500k per month.
• Analytical Mindset: Highly data-driven and proficient in Excel/Google Sheets, with a strong understanding of marketing measurement and attribution models.
• Technical Skills: Expertise in A/B testing methodologies for both ad creative and landing pages.
• Communication: Excellent skills with the ability to articulate complex performance data into clear, actionable insights.

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• You’ll own the internal platforms and operational systems that keep the business running – from finance and risk to compliance and customer support. Your work will directly improve efficiency, scalability, and regulatory integrity across the company.
• High ownership. Real influence. Tangible impact.

What you’ll do

• Define and drive the strategy and roadmap for internal platforms
• Streamline workflows and eliminate operational friction
• Build scalable, compliant systems with engineering and data teams
• Simplify complex processes like reporting, monitoring, and case management
• Use operational metrics and stakeholder feedback to prioritise effectively
• Partner cross-functionally to design tools that empower teams to perform at their best

What we’re looking for

• 3+ years in Product Management
• Experience in fintech, payments, operations, or internal tooling
• Strong understanding of compliance and operational workflows
• Confident translating business and regulatory needs into technical requirements
• Data-driven and comfortable working across technical and non-technical teams

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Overview:

• Step into a seniorlevel frontend leadership role within one of South Africa’s most respected and fastscaling financial services organisations.
• This is a rare opportunity for a seasoned React engineer to own the frontend technical vision across a complex, multiplatform digital ecosystem. You’ll sit at the intersection of architecture, engineering excellence, and business impact – shaping scalable, highperformance user experiences used at massive scale across web and mobile.
• This role goes far beyond feature delivery. You’ll be trusted to define longterm frontend strategy, introduce bestinclass engineering practices, and lead teams building robust, futureproof React applications. If you thrive in highstakes environments where quality, performance, and scalability truly matter, this role offers the scope and influence to make a lasting impact.
• This is not a headsdown individual contributor role. You’ll operate as a technical leader and mentor, working closely with engineering leadership, product, and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into elegant, maintainable frontend solutions. If you enjoy solving hard problems, modernising systems, and raising the bar for how frontend engineering is done, you’ll feel very at home here.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Frontend Architecture & Strategy:

• Define and drive the longterm technical vision for Reactbased applications, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and support for whitelabel and multiplatform use cases.

Quality & Performance Engineering:

• Design and implement robust quality systems with a focus on high test coverage (80%+), low crash rates, and production stability.

UI/UX Unification:

• Lead the standardisation and unification of complex UI/UX configurations across platforms to ensure a consistent user experience and improved developer velocity.

State & Domain Management:

• Architect sophisticated application logic using modern patterns such as BLoC, Redux, and DomainDriven Design (DDD).

CI/CD & Engineering Operations:

• Drive the adoption of automated testing, build pipelines, containerised development environments, and OTA updates to support predictable, stable release cycles.

Technical Leadership:

• Act as a technical bridge between engineering, product, and business teams – translating architectural decisions into clear business value.

Team Mentorship & Growth:

• Mentor and coach engineers at multiple levels, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, feedback, and engineering excellence.

Hiring & Team Enablement:

• Play a key role in hiring top frontend talent and improving onboarding processes to dramatically reduce timetoproductivity.

Modernisation & Optimisation:

• Identify bottlenecks in legacy systems and lead migrations to modern frontend stacks, delivering measurable efficiency and cost improvements.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in frontend or web development, with significant React experience.
• Proven experience operating in a Lead Engineer, Architect, or Senior Technical role.
• Strong expertise in React, TypeScript, and modern JavaScript ecosystems.
• Handson experience with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Node.js, and frontend tooling.
• Solid architectural experience using patterns such as Redux, BLoC, and DDD.
• Experience working on enterprisescale platforms (finance, logistics, insurance, or similar highly regulated environments preferred).
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to nontechnical stakeholders.
• A passion for engineering excellence, automation, and building systems that scale.

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• A fast-growing, purpose-led fintech is looking for a Product Manager to take ownership of its international money transfer product.
• This organisation operates at the intersection of technology, regulation, and real human impact – enabling individuals to move money across borders quickly, securely, and affordably. With a strong social mission and an international footprint, the team is building scalable infrastructure that supports thousands of customers globally.

The Opportunity

• This is not a maintenance role.
• You will own and shape a live, high-volume remittance product operating across multiple markets, currencies, payout methods, and regulatory environments.
• You’ll sit at the heart of the money movement engine – driving strategy, improving transaction success rates, expanding into new corridors, strengthening integrations, and continuously refining the end-to-end customer journey.
• If you enjoy complexity, scale, and solving meaningful financial problems, this role gives you full exposure to:
• Cross-border payments infrastructure
• Mobile money and banking integrations
• Compliance and KYC frameworks
• Conversion optimisation and funnel analytics
• Market expansion strategy
• You will work closely with engineering (frontend and backend), payments specialists, compliance, operations, and customer support to deliver a fast, intuitive, and highly reliable transfer experience.
• Your decisions will directly impact payout speed, reliability, customer trust, and commercial growth.

What You’ll Be Driving

• Improvements to onboarding, transaction success rates, and payout speed
• Expansion into new corridors and payout partners
• Reduced friction in the send journey through UX and flow optimisation
• Scalable, resilient payments and settlement infrastructure
• Strong regulatory and risk alignment across markets
• Data-led experimentation to improve conversion and retention
• Root-cause analysis on failed or delayed transfers
• Competitive positioning against global remittance leaders
• This role requires strategic thinking, operational awareness, and the ability to move between high-level product vision and detailed execution.

What We’re Looking For

• 2-4 years’ Product Management experience
• Background in payments, remittances, fintech, mobile money, or cross-border money movement
• Strong understanding of settlement flows, payments infrastructure, and compliance requirements
• Experience working across both frontend and backend product development
• Comfortable using analytics to drive prioritisation and product decisions
• Clear communicator who can align technical and non-technical stakeholders