{"id":845879,"date":"2025-12-09T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=845879"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:11:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:11:49","slug":"major-international-company-hiring-south-africans-who-dont-need-to-emigrate-for-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/845879\/major-international-company-hiring-south-africans-who-dont-need-to-emigrate-for-the-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Major international company hiring South Africans – who don\u2019t need to emigrate for the job"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Brandtech+ is seeking to hire over 100 global employees, with a particular focus on South African talent, as it expands its team of over 200 staff members in the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brandtech+ specialises in film, CGI, motion design, and print, with its 1,000-person global team working with brands across the US, UK, Europe, Asia and Latin America. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It forms part of the broader Brandtech Group, which is headquartered in New York. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the country has one of South Africa\u2019s most significant production operations, employing over 220 local staff, it remains relatively unknown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company has 100 global roles open for mid-to-senior talent and AI-aligned specialisations, with South Africans encouraged to apply. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company stated that this announcement comes amid a challenging time for South Africa\u2019s advertising and production sector. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sector faces retention challenges, consolidation and rising uncertainty around AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSouth Africa remains one of the world\u2019s most sought-after talent hubs for global creative work and has been one of our strategic hiring markets,\u201d said Candice Siege, Global Chief Operations Officer at Brandtech+.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe favourable time zone for the UK, Europe and the US, the internationally recognised creative pedigree, the strong work ethic, and a maturing remote-work culture all make South African talent an exceptional fit for global work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Siege said that the company is scaling faster than it can hire, which it said is a good problem to have. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She noted that South Africans do not need to emigrate or nativagate \u201cthe local pitch treadmill\u201d to work with the world\u2019s largest brands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She added that global creative opportunities shouldn\u2019t be limited to traditional hub locations, as they should belong to anyone talented enough to deliver them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur model is remote and genuinely flexible, giving talented people the chance to build global careers from home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe want incredible, future-focused South African creatives, strategists, producers and technologists to realise they can build international careers from home.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said that the company is building the world\u2019s best GenAI marketing company, and that South African workers will be crucial in this process. <\/p>\n\n\n

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With remote South African workers remaining in high demand with international employers, many workers are emigrating back to South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recruitment group DNA EOR reported a 70% increase in South Africans actively seeking to return over the past year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DNA EOR said that South Africans are packing up their flats in London, Amsterdam, Toronto, and Sydney, shipping their dogs, and booking one-way tickets back to South Africa.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Motivations for moving vary, with some including a desire to escape South Africa\u2019s weather and the wish to raise children closer to family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For many, the lifestyle abroad no longer feels as attractive as it once did, with many now optimistic about South Africa\u2019s improving economic conditions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith South Africa itself changing in ways that feel reassuring for many, returning feels less like a compromise and more like a confident choice,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moving back to South Africa also doesn\u2019t mean workers need to quit lucrative jobs in the UK, EU or other countries, as these companies already offer remote work opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DNA EOR also noted that South Africa is one of the strongest remote-first talent markets in the world, due to its cost advantage, time zone alignment, high education standards, and neutral English accents. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South African workers are in high-demand from international companies, with Brandtech+ looking for South Africans to fill 100 vacancies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":672439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[24346,24347,24331],"class_list":["post-845879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-brandtech-group","tag-brandtech","tag-dna-eor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845879"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845917,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845879\/revisions\/845917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}