Hire a private equity deal sourcing associate in Latin America.

Vela headhunts currently-employed deal sourcing associates in Latin America for US private equity firms and search funds, recruited the way we hire for our own team. 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.

Private equity firms and search funds looking for one person who works the thesis every day: building the target list, writing to owners, and keeping the pipeline honest.

Own

Owns the target list for each thesis, built from PitchBook, industry databases, and research, with a fit note on every company.

Translate

Turns a thesis into personal outreach to owners, written in a voice a founder answers, followed up over months, not days.

Protect

Keeps DealCloud, Affinity, or Salesforce accurate: every owner conversation logged, every warm relationship visible to the partners.

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.

Proprietary deal flow comes from patience. Someone has to build a list of owner-run businesses that fit the thesis, write to founders who have never thought about selling, follow up for months, and log every touch so the partners know which relationships are warm. It is outreach that reads like research, and done badly it burns a market. The people who do it well are already doing it for a fund or a lower-middle-market advisor.

How we reach them.

  • Every search starts with the deal sourcing associates who are in the seat right now, in Medellín, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, and Mexico City. Owner relationships take years to build, and the people who build them are the asset their firm guards most closely.
  • 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 research exercise: a thesis paragraph turned into twenty qualified targets with the reasoning for each, plus the five that look close but do not fit.
  • A writing exercise: a first note to a founder who has never considered selling, and the third follow-up after two months of silence.
  • The same scorecard and reference checks we run on our own hires, with references from the people who actually managed them. We put forward only people we would hire ourselves.

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.

  • Your partners know the thesis but nobody works it every day.
  • Most of your deal flow arrives through bankers and you want more of it proprietary.
  • You run a search fund or a small firm that needs sourcing without a full deal team.
  • You want mass email to a purchased list.
  • You need someone to negotiate letters of intent.
  • You do not have a thesis yet for the outreach to follow.

Compare the seat before you choose the market.

Private equity analyst.

Who screens what the outreach brings in.

Private equity executive assistant.

Who books the owner meetings the outreach earns.

Nearshore staffing for private equity.

Every seat we search for in this field.

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 deal sourcing associate 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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