Salt Digital Recruitment

Global Trade Show Manager £55,000 - £60,000 5 Days Office Based - Manchester (can have flexibility when needed!) We're partnering with a growing international business looking for an experienced Trade Show Manager to take full ownership of their global exhibition and trade show calendar. This is a highly visible role where you'll be responsible for ensuring the company delivers a consistent, professional presence across major international events. You'll act as the central point of coordination between internal stakeholders and external event agencies, taking projects from initial planning through to onsite execution. This opportunity would suit someone who thrives on ownership, enjoys managing multiple moving parts, and has a strong background delivering trade shows, exhibitions, or large-scale B2B events. Key Responsibilities Taking full ownership of a global trade show and exhibition programme. Managing external trade show agencies to ensure projects are delivered on time, on budget, and to the highest standard. Creating and managing event timelines, project plans, budgets, and schedules. Coordinating stand design, production, logistics, shipping, and onsite delivery. Working closely with internal stakeholders across sales, marketing, leadership, and operations teams. Ensuring consistency of brand presence across all international events. Managing suppliers, contractors, venues, and external partners. Leading event delivery onsite and troubleshooting where required. Tracking budgets, spend, and post-event performance. What We're Looking For Proven experience owning end-to-end trade shows, or exhibitions Strong experience managing external agencies and holding partners accountable for delivery. Excellent project management skills with the ability to coordinate multiple events simultaneously. Experience managing budgets, timelines, logistics, suppliers, and stakeholders. Confidence working with senior internal stakeholders and cross-functional teams. A hands-on, proactive approach with a genuine sense of ownership. Experience delivering international events or exhibitions. Comfortable travelling to support events when required. Rates depend on experience and client requirements

Salt Digital Recruitment is seeking a Social Media Manager for a well-known coffee brand in London. This maternity cover role will lead social strategy, content creation, and community management, with performance analysis to optimise outcomes. You'll work in a hybrid setup, start by November 2026, and rates depend on experience. The ideal candidate has strong agency experience with large consumer brands and excels in copywriting, content creation, and fast-paced collaboration with creative

Salt Digital Recruitment seeks a Senior Test Environment & Platform Manager in London. The role blends hands-on OpenShift, Kafka and Linux platform engineering with strategy to move from legacy to microservices, supporting Agile delivery squads. Expect to manage both legacy and modern environments, define standards and automate provisioning with IaC while coordinating across DevOps, QA and architecture teams. Hybrid working with 8 onsite days per month.

Senior Test Environment & Platform Manager - OpenShift / Kafka Location: London - 8 days onsite per month, remainder remoteContract: Inside IR35Rate: Flexible Role Overview We are seeking an experienced Senior Test Environment & Platform Manager to support a major enterprise technology transformation, moving from a legacy monolithic landscape towards a modern microservices-based architecture using Java, Kafka and OpenShift. This is a highly technical Test Environment Management position combining environment strategy and ownership with hands-on platform engineering capability. The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting both the existing legacy landscape and the new microservices environment, while helping transform the organisation's approach from permanent, Waterfall-style environments towards automated, on-demand environments capable of supporting Agile delivery squads. This is not a purely managerial or coordination-focused Test Environment role. Candidates MUST have demonstrable hands-on technical experience with OpenShift and Kafka. Key Responsibilities Test Environment Strategy & Transformation Own and drive the Test Environment Management strategy across a large-scale transformation programme. Define the approach for transitioning from permanent/shared Waterfall-style environments towards on-demand Agile environments. Work closely with architects, engineering teams, developers, QA and delivery squads to understand environment requirements. Ensure environments can effectively support both legacy applications and new microservices-based services. Define environment standards, processes, governance and operating models. Environment & Platform Management Support the design, provisioning, configuration, maintenance and decommissioning of environments. Provide hands-on technical support across OpenShift, Kafka and Linux-based environments. Manage environment configurations, dependencies and integration points. Coordinate environment availability and scheduling across multiple projects and Agile squads. Support environment capacity planning, utilisation and costing. Maintain appropriate documentation covering environment configurations and dependencies. Continue supporting legacy infrastructure alongside the modern platform landscape. Technical Support & Troubleshooting Provide hands-on technical support and troubleshooting for environment-related issues. Diagnose issues across OpenShift, Kafka, Linux and associated infrastructure. Work across Development, QA, Infrastructure, DevOps and Operations teams to resolve complex environment issues. Identify environment dependencies and potential blockers before they impact delivery. Automation & CI/CD Drive greater automation across environment provisioning and management. Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approaches using technologies such as Ansible. Integrate environments with CI/CD pipelines to support automated testing and continuous delivery. Support tooling including Jenkins, GitLab and Azure DevOps. Reduce manual environment provisioning and improve environment consistency and repeatability. Monitoring & Continuous Improvement Monitor environment availability, health, performance and utilisation. Develop appropriate metrics and dashboards for environment reporting. Work with monitoring and logging technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana and Splunk. Identify opportunities to improve environment reliability, automation, scalability and cost efficiency. Drive continuous improvement across Test Environment Management processes. Essential Experience 5+ years' experience within Test Environment Management in complex enterprise technology environments. Demonstrable experience defining and delivering Test Environment strategies. Hands-on OpenShift experience, including environment setup, configuration, support and troubleshooting. Hands-on Kafka experience, including supporting/configuring Kafka-based environments. Strong Linux infrastructure/engineering experience. Strong understanding of microservices and containerised architectures. Experience with Kubernetes and Docker. Experience with Infrastructure as Code and environment automation. Ansible or equivalent automation experience. Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices. Experience supporting complex transformation programmes involving both legacy and modern technology environments. Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving capability. Ability to work effectively across Development, QA, Infrastructure, Architecture and Operations teams. Highly Desirable Experience Azure / Azure DevOps Jenkins / GitLab Terraform or other IaC technologies HP NonStop infrastructure Java-based environments Prometheus / Grafana / Splunk UFT / Selenium / Cucumber Linux shell scripting Large-scale financial services or similarly complex regulated environments Rates depend on experience and client requirements

Lead Test Engineer / Test Coordinator (DV Cleared) Location: South West (Dorset Area) - 5 days onsite (Data Centre environment) Rate: £600 - £700 per day Duration: 6 Months (Option to transition to Permanent / FTE) Clearance: Active DV Clearance required We are currently partnering with a high-profile technology client to secure an experienced Lead Test Engineer / Test Coordinator to support a critical project rectification plan and accelerate key delivery dates. This is an autonomous, hands-on role embedded within a close-knit onsite team (Data Centre site in Dorset, with occasional travel to London). Key Responsibilities Take full ownership of test coordination and execution within a physical Data Centre environment. Work independently on-site alongside an engineer and administrative support. Perform end-to-end IP testing and verification across telecommunications and Windows-based systems. Accelerate existing test streams to bring forward key project milestones. Key Requirements Active DV Clearance (UK sole nationality required due to clearance constraints; lapsed DV within 9 months can be reinstated). Strong domain background in Telecoms and IP Testing. Solid technical grounding in Windows environments and Data Centre operational testing. Proven track record as a Test Lead / Senior Tester capable of working autonomously without hand-holding. Rates depend on experience and client requirements

Salt Digital Recruitment is seeking a Lead Test Engineer / Test Coordinator with Active DV clearance for a 6-month on-site role in the Dorset area. The role involves autonomous test leadership in a Data Centre environment, with travel to London as needed. You will own test coordination, perform IP testing across telecoms and Windows systems, and accelerate test streams to hit key milestones. On-site only, 5 days a week.

Salt Digital Recruitment is seeking a Head of Product Design for a Series B AI startup in London. You will own design across web and mobile, from strategy to execution, and build a design function from the ground up with close collaboration with the CEO, Product and Engineering. You will lead the design of complex enterprise UX for security operators and facilities teams, balancing strategic vision with hands-on design in Figma and development handoff.

Head of Product Design Series B AI Startup London (Old Street) 5 days onsite £120k (flexible for the right person + equity + benefits) We're working with a Series B AI and physical security startup building a cloud platform that combines video surveillance, access control, visitor management and emergency response into one system. They're looking for a Head of Product Design to own design across web and mobile, end to end. This is a rare opportunity to build a design function from the ground up - design system, processes, standards, and eventually a team while working closely with the CEO, Product and Engineering, with real influence over strategy and roadmap. You'll be: Owning web and mobile product design end to end Building the design function from scratch, including design system, process and standards Working on complex enterprise UX for security operators, IT and facilities teams Balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution: research, UX, UI, prototyping, Figma, dev handoff Partnering closely with the CEO and cross-functional leads on product direction You'll need: 7+ years in product design, with 2+ years in design leadership A track record of shipping exceptional mobile and web products at scale Deep experience building and scaling design systems and component libraries A portfolio showing both strategic thinking and strong execution Comfort operating at executive level, with a high sense of urgency Startup experience, and to be making a lateral move into this kind of role (not stepping up for the first time) Rates depend on experience and client requirements