About Vela

Senior placements, recruited like our own team.

Vela places senior LATAM professionals into US companies — customer success, operations, project management, and more. Every search runs through a working-call interview and the same scorecard we use to hire for our own team. We put forward only the people we would hire ourselves.

The bar

Same vetting on every search.

Forty-five-minute working-call interview before any candidate reaches a client. We check track record against references, judgment under pressure, and live communication — the same scorecard we use to hire for our own team. Every dimension lands as a written note on the candidate brief.

The bar is craft, not scale — fewer searches taken, the same standard on each one. If a client wants their hire trained to run AI in the seat, we offer that as a separate, optional bootcamp — never bundled into the placement.

What we ship

Two outputs. Every engagement.

// 01

A senior placement.

Three vetted candidates by day twenty-one. Every shortlist comes with a written brief, working-call notes, and the reference check. Replacement window included on every placement; no re-fee.

// 02

A hire recruited like our own.

Every professional runs the same search, scorecard, and reference process we use to hire inside our own company. We put forward only the people we would hire ourselves. Want them trained on AI on top? That runs as an optional bootcamp.

Built by

Jonathan Garces

Founder · placement

Eight years inside agencies in Miami and New York. Has worked the seat, managed it, and hired for it more times than he can count.

Justin Gluska

Founder · platform

Operations and infrastructure. Builds the platform Vela runs on — candidate systems, AI workflows, search tooling.

Work with us

Tell us the seat. We reply the same day.

Fifteen-minute intake, first profile in fourteen days. Replacement window included on every placement.

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