Junior LATAM placement · fourteen days

Junior hires ready Monday, vetted to the Vela standard.

We place junior professionals — assistants, coordinators, customer support, and ops — from a vetted LATAM bench, every one already interviewed on a working call. Three vetted candidates land in your inbox in fourteen days. Same standard as the senior search, applied to an active bench.

// $499 depositrefundablecredits to fee on hire
// Shortlist14dthree vetted candidates
// Placement fee20%of professional year-one base
// Replacement90dno re-fee
The roles

Three seats. All vetted the same way.

The junior bench is narrow on purpose. Three roles owners hire right after their first senior professional. Every candidate is vetted on a working call, not a screening form.

// Customer Support
Support.

// the second hire after the senior

  • Owns 4 to 8 accounts under a senior professional's direction.
  • Runs the weekly cadence, prepares reporting, drafts the recap decks.
  • Handles inbound questions and surfaces issues to the senior.
  • Has done real client work in your tools, not learned them in a bootcamp.
  • Vetted on a live working call against the same standard as the senior search.
// Executive Assistant
EA.

// the seat that gives you back ten hours a week

  • Manages the founder's inbox, calendar, and meeting prep.
  • Books travel, handles personal logistics, screens inbound requests.
  • Drafts communication and internal updates against your voice.
  • EST overlap, C1+ English, comfortable in a fast-moving business.
  • Vetted on a live working call against the same standard as the senior search.
// Project Manager
PM.

// the seat that keeps the work on schedule

  • Owns project timelines across 8 to 12 active engagements.
  • Runs the weekly internal status meeting and the client-facing status update.
  • Coordinates handoffs between teams.
  • Has run project management before, not just learned a tool like Asana or ClickUp.
  • Vetted on a live working call against the same standard as the senior search.
The Vela Method

Headhunt. Vet. Place.

Same framework as the senior search, applied to an active bench.

Step 01
Headhunt.

Pulled from a vetted LATAM bench of professionals we have already interviewed on a working call. Faster than the senior search because the candidates are already in the pipeline.

Step 02
Vet.

A live interview to verify the work — track record, judgment, real workflow — against the same scorecard we use to hire for our own team. Same standard as the senior search.

Step 03
Place.

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

How the method runs

Faster than the senior search. Same live-interview standard.

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A ten-minute intake.
You answer a short brief. We translate it into the candidate profile and confirm before sourcing begins.
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We source from the bench.
We pull from professionals already interviewed and vetted on a working call. First profile within seven days.
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You interview and choose.
Three vetted candidates within fourteen days. If none are a fit, we keep recruiting at no additional cost until you hire.
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We stand behind it.
Every placement is backed by a ninety-day replacement window. Want the professional trained to run AI in the seat? We offer that as a separate, optional bootcamp.
What's included

One offer. Everything you need post-placement.

// Vela Junior placement
20% of professional year-one base salary

$499 refundable deposit to start · credits to placement fee on hire. The full fee is billed only when you and the professional confirm terms.

Same vetting standard as the senior search, applied to a junior bench. Three vetted candidates in fourteen days, recruited the way we hire for our own team, with a ninety-day replacement window on every placement.

// Hiring senior instead?
See Vela · Senior Search

Senior professionals, headhunted from the ones currently employed — not the active bench.

Vela · Senior Search

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Ninety-day replacement guarantee
If the hire does not work out within the first ninety days, we run the replacement search at no additional cost.
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Seven-day first profile, $499 refundable deposit
The first vetted candidate lands in your inbox within seven days. Three candidates within fourteen. The deposit is refundable in full if we miss day fourteen with three vetted candidates, or if you decline to interview any of them. Once you take any interview with a Vela candidate, the deposit is earned — it pays for the sourcing, vetting, and shortlist work already delivered. If none of the initial candidates is the right fit, we keep recruiting at no additional cost until you hire.
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Live interview vetting
Every candidate is interviewed in a live working call — a real conversation about the work, not a screening form. Same standard as the senior search, applied to a junior bench.
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Reference and scorecard check
Every professional is checked against the same scorecard and reference process we use to hire for our own team. We grade whether they can run the seat, not how they read on paper.
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Optional AI bootcamp
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.
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Custom role brief
Drafted from your intake call. You approve rather than author it.
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Salary benchmarking
What junior professionals earn in Medellín, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and Bogotá. So the offer lands correctly the first time.
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Hire is yours after confirm
Vela is a placement firm — not a staffing layer. Once you and the candidate confirm terms, you sign the contractor agreement directly. No Vela markup on their pay, no managed-services hold. They go on your payroll, your tools, your team.
Your effort

Three and a half hours of your time, across fourteen 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 you10 min
Brief draftingWe handle it0 hrs (we write, you approve in Slack)
Sourcing from benchWe handle it0 hrs
Reference and scorecard checkWe handle it0 hrs
Live interviews with candidatesWe handle it0 hrs
Final interviews (you talk to 3)On you2 hrs
Hiring decisionOn you20 min
Contract and payment setupWith you1 hr
Your total time over 14 days~3.5 hrs
Fit check

The junior page is not the senior page.

// For
  • Companies hiring a junior support hire under an existing senior.
  • Founders who need an executive assistant they can actually trust.
  • Operations leads building out a project management seat.
  • Owners who want a vetted bench rather than a marketplace résumé dump.
  • Anyone hiring a second or third LATAM contractor and ready to scale the system.
// Not for
  • Anyone who needs a senior professional to own the seat. Use the senior search instead.
  • Roles that require physical on-site presence.
  • Teams without an existing senior to direct the junior hire.
  • Roles requiring US time zone presence past 6pm EST.
Why the junior page exists

Same standard. Same live interview.

The junior page exists for one reason. Owners who hire a senior through Vela ask the same next question: who sits under them, and who keeps the work moving while the senior runs the seat?

The junior page is the same vetting standard, applied to an active LATAM bench. Three seats: customer support, executive assistants, junior project managers. Every candidate is interviewed on a working call, the same way we vet for our own team.

Pricing matches the senior page — twenty percent of the placed professional's year-one base salary. Junior salaries are lower than senior salaries, so the dollar amount comes down naturally. The standard does not.

Read the senior search page

Start a search

The junior seat that compounds the senior.
Vetted like our own team. Ready Monday.

$499 refundable deposit to start. Three vetted candidates in fourteen days. The full placement fee is billed only when you and the candidate confirm terms — twenty percent of year-one base. Ninety-day replacement on every placement.

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// Ten-minute intake · first profile in seven daysMedellín · Miami · New York