Hire the professional first. The AI training is optional.

Vela headhunts currently-employed senior agency professionals in Latin America for US agencies, recruited the way we hire for our own team. AI training runs as a separate, optional bootcamp. Every search starts with people who already have the job, not the ones between them.

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Diana C.
Diana C.
Strategy · LATAM growth · ChatGPT-native
Lima, Peru
Marcela P.
Marcela P.
Enterprise retention · CRM · Salesforce
Bogotá, Colombia
Camila V.
Camila V.
QBRs · Power BI · HubSpot
Medellín, Colombia
Nicolas R.
Nicolas R.
SaaS lifecycle · renewals · Salesforce
Medellín, Colombia
Ingrid M.
Ingrid M.
Trilingual · UK/EU/CA · multilingual ops
Bogotá, Colombia
Jose A.
Jose A.
Operations · KPI delivery · escalations
Bogotá, Colombia
Laura B.
Laura B.
Editorial · campaigns · Looker Studio
Medellín, Colombia
Diana C.
Diana C.
Strategy · LATAM growth · ChatGPT-native
Lima, Peru
Marcela P.
Marcela P.
Enterprise retention · CRM · Salesforce
Bogotá, Colombia
Camila V.
Camila V.
QBRs · Power BI · HubSpot
Medellín, Colombia
Nicolas R.
Nicolas R.
SaaS lifecycle · renewals · Salesforce
Medellín, Colombia
Ingrid M.
Ingrid M.
Trilingual · UK/EU/CA · multilingual ops
Bogotá, Colombia
Jose A.
Jose A.
Operations · KPI delivery · escalations
Bogotá, Colombia
Laura B.
Laura B.
Editorial · campaigns · Looker Studio
Medellín, Colombia

What this hire actually owns.

Agency owners who want a hire that can run AI in the seat, and want to know what is included in the placement and what is not.

Own

Owns the seat first: account management, project management, client success, or operations.

Translate

Carries reporting, communication, workflow cleanup, and churn prevention from the first week.

Protect

Writes down what they change, so the improvement survives the next handoff.

Deposit$1,000refundable · credits to the fee
Shortlist21dthree vetted professionals · first profile day 7
Fee20%of first-year base
Replacement90dno re-fee

Why this seat is hard to fill.

The hire comes first. We recruit professionals the way we hire for our own team, using the same search, scorecard, and reference process, and we put forward only people we would hire ourselves. If you also want the person trained to run AI inside the seat, that is a separate bootcamp with its own price. It is never bundled into the placement fee, and it is never the reason we put someone forward.

How we reach them.

  • Every search starts with the senior professionals who are in the seat right now, in Medellín, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, and Mexico City. The ones already running a seat well are not applying anywhere, with or without AI in their workflow.
  • We reach them by warm intro, prior-network referral, and a researched personal email. Never a job post, never a recruiter blast.
  • Eight active searches a month, so the outreach stays personal enough that someone with a job reads it.

How we check them.

  • A live working call that tests judgment under real account pressure, not a screening form.
  • The same scorecard we use on our own hires: track record, judgment, and how they communicate live.
  • Reference checks with the people who actually managed them, run the same way we check references for our own team.

Want the hire trained to run AI in the seat? We offer that as a separate, optional bootcamp — priced on its own, never bundled into the placement fee.

We say no more often than we say yes.

  • You want a professional who can do the work, and AI on top of that rather than instead of it.
  • The seat touches reporting, communication, and repeatable workflows.
  • You want someone who has already run this seat, not someone learning it here.
  • You want a tool rollout rather than a hire.
  • You are hiring a prompt engineer.
  • You want the training bundled into the placement fee.

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What they said after we placed them.

Curated from companies who hired through Vela and professionals we placed. Their words, not ours.

“HireTalent gave us exactly what we needed. They found someone with all the qualifications we were looking for, and Andres has been a really strong addition to our team.”

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Elijah P.
Real Estate Company

Your next senior agency professional already has a job.

First profile target: day 7. Three vetted professionals in 21 days. 90-day replacement, no re-fee.

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