🇿🇦 Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants

This fully remote full time position at Somewhere is open to applicants from South Africa. The estimated monthly salary is R18,500 – R29,600 ZAR. This role is suited for mid-level professionals. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.

Job Description

* Owning your pipeline: managing inbound phone, email, and live chat leads with speed, precision, and care to consistently exceed quota and conversion benchmarks.
* Building trust with customers: using discovery questions, storytelling, and empathy to guidetravellers toward booking their next big adventure.
* Adapting and innovating: tailoring approaches to different customers, testing creative tactics,and flagging risks or shifts in behaviour to managers early.
* Driving team effectiveness: sharing best practices, contributing to sales scripts, crafting teamwide AI efficiency levers and contributing to objection-handling playbooks.
* Collaborating across time-zones: provide handovers between timezone teams, sharinginsights
* A strong track record in sales - consistently meeting or exceeding quota in a performance-driven environment.
* Experience in building customer rapport: confident in positioning and objection handling, with a relationship-led approach in a B2C environment or with a lifestyle brand, across phone and written word.
* Proven ability to multi-task across inbound and outbound enquiries across live chat, phone, and email; balancing speed and attention to detail with personalization.
* Comfort working independently: managing pipeline, flagging risks, and making proactive decisions.
* Collaborative mindset: able to demonstrate teamwork across mutli-functional/timezone teams. You are proactive with regards to sharing insights
* Growth mindset: openness to coaching, willingness to mentor peers, and a drive to continuously raise the bar. Hungry to see your own performance grow, as well as the team’s.
* Passion for travel and human connection - you’ll need to resonate with company’s mission and customer base.
* Adaptability: thrives in a high-growth, startup-style environment with change and ambiguity.

Tips for South African Applicants

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Timezone Advantage

South Africa (SAST, UTC+2) overlaps well with European business hours and has a few hours of overlap with US East Coast. Mention your timezone flexibility in your application.

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Salary in Context

At R18,500/month, this role is on par with the average South African remote salary. The USD equivalent ($1,000/mo) benefits from the favourable exchange rate.

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Application Tips

Tailor your CV to international standards — use a clean format, highlight remote work experience, and include your English proficiency. Many SA applicants succeed by emphasising their strong work ethic and cultural adaptability.

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Load Shedding Preparedness

If you're applying for a remote role, having a backup power solution (UPS, inverter, or generator) and mobile data as a backup internet connection shows employers you're prepared for South Africa's infrastructure challenges.

About Somewhere

Somewhere is a company in the Recruitment & Staffing industry that hires remote workers from South Africa. They currently have 685 open positions on Hirezar. View all Somewhere jobs →