SA SDRs · SHORTLIST IN 14 DAYS
Hire elite South African SDRs & BDRs. Hire elite South African SDRs and BDRs.
Native English. GMT+2 overlap with UK and US East Coast. Five stages of live vetting. You meet the top 3–6 — not a stack of CVs. One flat fee. No retainer. Zero risk.
Local SDRs cost $5k/month and take three months to ramp. Half quit before they're useful.
Freelancer platforms are a lottery. You get ghosted, lied to, or handed someone who falls apart on their first real call.
You've heard offshore talent is the answer. But every bad offshore hire has made you question whether the savings are worth the risk. The vetting is the problem. Not the talent.
Cape Town. Johannesburg.
Where your best SDR hire is waiting.
For revenue roles, South Africa sits in a sweet spot no other market matches: native English with a neutral accent, GMT+2 overlap with both UK and US East Coast, a sales culture built on resilience, and salaries 60–80% below London or New York — with zero drop in quality.
New to offshore hiring? Read the complete offshore SDR hiring playbook →
Not sure between markets? Read our honest SA vs Philippines comparison →
One call.
Your outbound floor covered.
Whether you need one hunter or a full outbound team, we handpick from South Africa's deep sales talent pool — screened, tested, briefed — and place the right person directly into your team.
Outbound SDRs
High-volume callers who work your ICP, scripts, and CRM from day one. They book qualified meetings and don't need hand-holding.
Inbound SDRs
Lead qualification and routing specialists who keep your inbound pipeline moving fast and your data clean.
BDRs
Strategic outbound operators who target named accounts and enterprise lists with research-led sequences and multi-threaded outreach.
Email & Outreach Specialists
Campaign operators who build sequences that land in inboxes and get replies — cold email, nurture, and reactivation written to be read.
Cold Callers
Relentless, script-adherent callers with strong objection handling. Built for high-volume outbound floors.
Sales Ops Support
CRM admins and RevOps analysts who keep your HubSpot or Salesforce clean, workflows running, and reporting airtight.
We interview hundreds.
You meet the best 3–6.
Every candidate faces five stages of live screening before they reach your inbox. You only see the ones we'd hire ourselves. Read the full vetting playbook →
Sourcing & Application Review
CVs screened for relevant SaaS/tech sales experience, tenure, and role fit. Most are filtered out here.
English & Communication
Live voice and written tests. Accent clarity, confidence on the phone, email writing quality.
Skills & Tool Proficiency
CRM workflows, cold-call roleplay, campaign builds, and tool walkthroughs — tested live. HubSpot, Salesforce, Apollo, Outreach, Instantly.
Culture & Work-Ethic
Deep-dive on how they handle pressure, home setup, internet and power reliability. References checked.
Cream of the Crop
Detailed briefs on each — skills, personality, test results, and our honest recommendation. You interview and choose.
One placement fee.
No monthly cut. Zero risk.
- No upfront retainer — pay only when someone starts
- No monthly cut of salary — the hire is yours
- 30-day replacement guarantee
- Full sourcing, screening, vetting & shortlisting
- English fluency and skills testing before you see a CV
Compare against a traditional recruiter (15–25% of annual salary) or a platform where you do the sifting. With us, you pay once — after the hire starts.
Not a stack of CVs.
A shortlist that's ready to hire.
Send you 20+ unvetted CVs and charge you to sort through them yourself.
Five-stage live screening. You see 3–6 finalists with detailed briefs, test results, and our honest recommendation.
Charge monthly retainers or clip an ongoing percentage of every salary.
One flat placement fee — 70% of first month's salary. After that, the hire is 100% yours.
Source from databases. No live tests. Walk away the moment the CV lands.
Live cold-call roleplay, written English tests, tool walkthroughs, culture interviews, and reference checks.
If the hire quits, you're back to square one — paying full fees again.
30-day free replacement. No questions. No fees. We stand behind every placement.
Brief us. We screen. You pick.
Shortlisted candidates in your inbox within 14 days. You pay once, when they start.
Brief us in 20 minutes
Jump on a call. We learn your ICP, your stack, your scripts, your culture, and what a great SDR looks like for your team.
We do the heavy lifting
Five stages of live vetting. You receive 3–6 hand-picked finalists with detailed briefs — not a stack of CVs.
You choose. You pay once.
Interview the shortlist. Pick your person. One flat fee: 70% of their first month's salary. Nothing after that.
SDR hiring questions, answered.
What experience level do your SDRs and BDRs have?
We place candidates across the spectrum — from high-energy junior SDRs with 6–18 months of experience to senior BDRs who have run enterprise outbound. Every candidate is tested live on the exact skills the role needs, so you see proof of ability, not just years on a CV.
Do they use our scripts or theirs?
Yours. Once you pick a candidate, we brief them on your ICP, scripts, sequence templates, and CRM before day one. Most candidates can start running your playbook immediately.
Can they work US hours?
Yes. South Africa is GMT+2 with no daylight-saving changes, giving full overlap with UK business hours and 6–7 hours with US East Coast. Many candidates are happy to shift to US hours for the right role.
What CRM and sales tools are they trained on?
Commonly HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Apollo, Outreach, Instantly, and LinkedIn Sales Navigator. We verify tool proficiency live in the screening process, so you'll see a skills matrix for each finalist rather than taking their word for it.
How do you verify English level?
Every candidate completes a live voice assessment and a written English test as stage two of screening. We check accent clarity, confidence on the phone, and email writing quality — the things that matter for calls and outreach.
What if they don't work out?
30-day free replacement guarantee. If the person we place doesn't meet your expectations — for any reason — we replace them at zero additional cost.
How is this different from hiring on Upwork?
On Upwork you're sifting through hundreds of profiles yourself and gambling on quality. With Pipeline South we do all of that with deeper live vetting than any platform offers. You see only the top 3–6 out of 100+ applicants, with detailed briefs and our honest recommendation.
Do you handle payroll and contracts?
We're a placement agency, not an EOR. We find and vet the talent — you hire them directly as a contractor or through your own EOR. We can recommend trusted EOR partners in South Africa if you need one.
Stop settling.
Start placing.
Tell us what you need. We'll come back with deeply screened, shortlisted SDRs and BDRs within two weeks. No retainer. No obligation.