Cape Verdean talent, ten islands, one bridge to your team.
Ten Islands Talent sources, vets, and places skilled Cape Verdean professionals with U.S. companies, employed compliantly through a licensed Employer of Record, paid on time, and set up to do great work from day one.
Why ten islands
Cape Verde is ten islands scattered across the mid-Atlantic: Santiago's cities, São Vicente's music, Fogo's volcano, Sal's salt flats, each with its own rhythm, but the same instinct for hospitality Cape Verdeans call morabeza.
We built Ten Islands Talent on that same instinct: treat distance as a bridge, not a barrier, between skilled Cape Verdean professionals and the U.S. companies that need them. Every placement we make is grounded in real local knowledge and backed by compliant, licensed employment, not a workaround.
Built for real-time handoff
Cape Verde sits three to four hours ahead of the U.S. East Coast, close enough for a genuine workday overlap, far enough to give your team a head start before the day even begins. It's closer still to Central and Mountain time, and the overlap holds for most of the year regardless of daylight saving, since Cape Verde doesn't observe it.
A teammate starting at 8am local time is already four hours into focused work before a 9am ET stand-up begins. From late morning through early afternoon ET, both teams are online together, plenty of room for reviews, pairing, and hand-offs. When the Cape Verde day wraps, the U.S. afternoon carries the work forward, so nothing sits idle overnight the way it can with teams eight, ten, or twelve time zones away.
What we do
Three pieces, handled end to end, so you get the work without the paperwork.
Talent sourcing & vetting
We identify, screen, and match Cape Verdean software engineers, support specialists, and operations talent to your open roles, so you only interview candidates worth your time.
Compliant employment
Every placement is backed by a licensed Employer of Record, so your new hire is legally employed, insured, and paid according to Cape Verdean labor law, with no local entity required on your end.
Ongoing HR & payroll
Payroll, statutory benefits, and day-to-day HR support are handled for the life of the placement, so you manage the work, and we manage the administration.
How a placement comes together
A straightforward, four-step process from first conversation to first day.
Tell us the role
Share the skills, seniority, and timezone overlap you need.
We source & vet
Our network surfaces qualified candidates; you interview the ones worth meeting.
Employment begins
Our EOR partner issues a compliant local contract and registers the hire.
You manage the work
We handle payroll and HR; you handle the day-to-day collaboration.
The ten islands
Every placement draws from the same well of character and skill these islands are known for.
Nine inhabited islands, one uninhabited nature reserve, and one talent pool we've built genuine, on-the-ground relationships with.
Let's talk about your hiring needs
Tell us what you're looking to hire for, and we'll follow up within one business day.