Top LATAM professionals · placed from our network

We headhunt the ones who aren't looking.

The best professionals in Latin America are already employed and not on any job board. We headhunt them, vet each one the way we hire for our own team, and place them inside US companies — customer success, operations, project management, executive support, design, and the roles that actually run the business.

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At risk past the refundable deposit · full fee billed only on confirmed hire

Average years of professional experience per hire

90d

Replacement window included on every placement

Diana C.

Strategy · LATAM growth · ChatGPT-native

Lima, Peru

Marcela P.

Enterprise retention · CRM · Salesforce

Bogotá, Colombia

Camila V.

QBRs · Power BI · HubSpot

Medellín, Colombia

Nicolas R.

SaaS lifecycle · renewals · Salesforce

Medellín, Colombia

Ingrid M.

Trilingual · UK/EU/CA · multilingual ops

Bogotá, Colombia

Jose A.

Operations · KPI delivery · escalations

Bogotá, Colombia

Laura B.

Editorial · campaigns · Looker Studio

Medellín, Colombia

Diana C.

Strategy · LATAM growth · ChatGPT-native

Lima, Peru

Marcela P.

Enterprise retention · CRM · Salesforce

Bogotá, Colombia

Camila V.

QBRs · Power BI · HubSpot

Medellín, Colombia

Nicolas R.

SaaS lifecycle · renewals · Salesforce

Medellín, Colombia

Ingrid M.

Trilingual · UK/EU/CA · multilingual ops

Bogotá, Colombia

Jose A.

Operations · KPI delivery · escalations

Bogotá, Colombia

Laura B.

Editorial · campaigns · Looker Studio

Medellín, Colombia

The premise

The strongest professionals aren't always looking.

The professionals worth hiring are already in seats they care about. Reaching them takes a network — and the care to recruit each one properly. That's what we're built to do.

The Vela Method

Headhunt. Vet. Place. A professional who arrives ready.

Three steps from your brief to a proven professional in the seat — built so they stay past year one.

// HEADHUNT · 01

Currently-employed professionals in your field. Reached by warm intro, prior-network referral, or a researched personal email — never a job post, never a recruiter blast. The motion is slow on purpose. The pool is smaller and the professionals are stronger.

// VET · 02

Every professional runs a working call before they reach your inbox — the same scorecard we use to hire for our own team. We probe real experience, judgment under pressure, and how they communicate live. We put forward only the people we would hire ourselves.

// PLACE · 03

You interview a shortlist of three, choose, and we stand behind it with a ninety-day replacement window. Want them trained on AI on top? That runs as an optional bootcamp — additive, never bundled into the fee.

From the network

A few of the professionals in our network.

Click through for the full profile — experience, daily stack, working-call notes.

Diana C.

Senior Account Lead · Growth & Go-to-Market

Location: Lima, Peru
Experience: 15y
English: C1
Monthly: $4,000

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Marcela P.

Senior Account Lead · Enterprise Retention

Location: Bogotá, Colombia
Experience: 10y
English: C1
Monthly: $3,800

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Camila V.

Senior CSM · Customer Success

Location: Medellín, Colombia
Experience: 4y
English: C1
Monthly: $3,000

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Partner network

Vela runs the search. HireTalent expands the professional bench.

The client experience stays Vela: brief, headhunt, shortlist, agreement, deposit, and replacement window. Behind it, we can route sourcing through HireTalent LATAM and selected partner pools when a seat needs more signal.

HireTalent LATAM

The primary professional bench behind Vela searches: LATAM professionals, profile context, and role-specific sourcing depth.

HireTalent.ph

A separate Philippines network available when a client deliberately needs offshore support rather than the Vela LATAM motion.

The professionals

We vet on the tools your seat actually runs.

Every professional has done real work in the stack the seat depends on, whatever the role. We verify it on a working call, not a résumé.

// Customer Success

HubSpotSalesforceZendeskIntercomGainsight

// Project & Ops

AsanaClickUpNotionMondayTrello

// Exec & Admin

Google WorkspaceMicrosoft 365CalendlySlackLoom

// Design & Content

FigmaCanvaAdobe CCCapCutWebflow

// Marketing

Meta AdsGoogle AdsAhrefsKlaviyoLooker Studio

C1+ English. Proven in the seat. EST overlap. Vetted like our own team. Every placement, without exception.

The engagement

Place the seat. Train it only if you want to.

One standard placement, billed at twenty percent of year-one base. If you want your professional trained on AI, that runs as a separate, optional bootcamp — never bundled into the fee.

// Placement

The standard engagement.

20% of professional year-one base salary

Headhunt, working-call vetting against the same scorecard we use to hire our own team, and a shortlist of three in twenty-one days. The professional arrives proven and ready to own the seat.

Three vetted candidates in twenty-one days.
Working-call vetting on every shortlist.
Scorecard and references — the way we hire our own team.
Ninety-day replacement. $499 refundable deposit to start.
Hire is yours after confirm — no Vela markup, no managed-services layer.

// Optional add-on

AI bootcamp, if you want it.

Priced separately · never bundled into the fee

Want your new professional trained to run AI inside the seat? We offer a focused bootcamp — live one-on-one sessions on the workflows that matter for their role. Entirely optional, added only if you ask for it.

Live one-on-one sessions, scoped to the professional's seat.
Reporting, automation, and AI-assisted communication.
Run after placement, on your timeline.
Quoted on its own — additive to the placement, not part of it.

What's included

Everything required. Nothing surplus.

// Vela placement

20% of professional year-one base salary

$499 refundable deposit to start · credits to placement fee on hire

// Junior placement

Same 20% applied to a junior base

Junior professionals — assistants, coordinators, support, and ops. Vetted bench. Fourteen-day shortlist.

Vela · Junior

If the hire does not work out within the first ninety days, we run the replacement search at no additional cost.
The first vetted professional lands in your inbox within seven days. The full $499 deposit is refundable if we miss day 21 with three vetted professionals, or if you decline to interview any of them. Once you take an interview with a Vela professional, the deposit is earned. On hire, it credits against the placement fee.
Every candidate has been interviewed on a working call. Not a screening form, an actual conversation about the work.
Every professional is checked against the same scorecard and reference process we use to hire for our own team. The notes ride along on the candidate brief.
If you want your professional trained to run AI inside the seat, we offer a separate, optional bootcamp — live one-on-one sessions on the workflows that matter for their role. Priced on its own, never bundled into the placement fee.
Drafted from your intake call. You approve the brief rather than author it.
What this role pays in Medellín, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and Bogotá, so the offer is anchored to the local senior tier.
The contractor agreement, plus a guided setup of Deel, Wise, or Payoneer for international payment.

The comparison

Vela vs the four other ways you could do this.

Same seat. Same $36K LATAM target salary, or its US-equivalent baseline. Different motion, different number on the bottom row.

// Vela// US recruiter// Job board// DIY

Source poolCurrently-employed professionalsActive jobseekersActive applicantsActive applicants

Time to first interview14 days3 – 6 weeks1 – 2 daysDays

Three interview-ready professionals21 days · senior6 – 10 weeks200+ apps to triageWhenever you have time

Vetted like our own teamScorecard + working callNot standardNoneNone

Replacement guarantee90 days · no re-fee30 – 60 days typicalNoneNone

Owner effort~5 hours total~6 – 8 hours30 – 40 hours50+ hours

Year-one cost ($36K seat)$43,200$96,000$80,000$80,000

Hiring paths

Start with the seat shape.

If the role touches clients, projects, reporting, or operations, compare the working model before you compare markets.

// Path 01

Compare nearshore hiring options.

Use the comparison library when the question is offshore support, LATAM professionals, or role ownership.

// Path 02

Replace an offshore VA.

For agencies that have outgrown assistant-level coverage and need client-facing ownership.

// Path 03

Nearshore operations manager.

For reporting rhythm, handoffs, workflow documentation, and operating cleanup.

Your effort

Five hours of your time, across twenty-one days.

You run the part only you can run: the final interviews and the hiring decision. We run everything else.

// Component// Mode// Your time

Intake callWith you15 min

Brief draftingWe handle it0 hrs

SourcingWe handle it0 hrs

Working-call vettingWe handle it0 hrs

Live interviews with professionalsWe handle it0 hrs

Final interviews (you talk to 3)On you3 hrs

Hiring decisionOn you30 min

Contract and payment setupWith you1 hr

Your total time over 21 days~5 hrs

Are we a fit?

The companies we work with — and the ones we don't.

We say no more often than yes.

// For

Companies past the founder-does-everything phase.
Owners hiring their first few key professionals — a real seat someone owns, not a disposable task.
Teams that already know what good looks like in the seat.
Owners who want a proven professional, not the cheapest résumé on a marketplace.
Anyone tired of job-board hires who can't actually run the work.

// Not for

Teams optimizing for the absolute cheapest hire over the right one.
Roles that require physical on-site presence.
Pre-revenue teams with no one to manage the hire.
Anyone who wants a body to fill a seat rather than a professional to own it.

Start a search

Your next key hire is already working somewhere else.
We find them, vet them like our own, and place them with you.

First profile in seven days. Three vetted professionals in twenty-one. Ninety-day replacement, every placement.

$499 refundable deposit to start · 20% of year-one base on hire · deposit credits to the fee

Book Intake Call How it works →

// Eight searches per month · private practiceMedellín · Miami · New York

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We headhunt the ones who aren't looking.

The strongest professionals aren't always looking.

The strongest professionals aren't actively looking.

We vet for who has actually run the work.

We recruit every hire like it's for our own team.

The relationship compounds.

Headhunt. Vet. Place. A professional who arrives ready.

A few of the professionals in our network.

Diana C.

Marcela P.

Camila V.

Vela runs the search. HireTalent expands the professional bench.

We vet on the tools your seat actually runs.

Place the seat. Train it only if you want to.

The standard engagement.

AI bootcamp, if you want it.

Everything required. Nothing surplus.

Vela vs the four other ways you could do this.

Start with the seat shape.

Five hours of your time, across twenty-one days.

The companies we work with — and the ones we don't.

Your next key hire is already working somewhere else.
We find them, vet them like our own, and place them with you.

We headhunt the ones who aren't looking.

The strongest professionals aren't always looking.

The strongest professionals aren't actively looking.

We vet for who has actually run the work.

We recruit every hire like it's for our own team.

The relationship compounds.

Headhunt. Vet. Place. A professional who arrives ready.

A few of the professionals in our network.

Diana C.

Marcela P.

Camila V.

Vela runs the search. HireTalent expands the professional bench.

We vet on the tools your seat actually runs.

Place the seat. Train it only if you want to.

The standard engagement.

AI bootcamp, if you want it.

Everything required. Nothing surplus.

Vela vs the four other ways you could do this.

Start with the seat shape.

Five hours of your time, across twenty-one days.

The companies we work with — and the ones we don't.

Your next key hire is already working somewhere else.We find them, vet them like our own, and place them with you.

Your next key hire is already working somewhere else.
We find them, vet them like our own, and place them with you.