Hire an executive assistant for a PE-backed CEO in Latin America.

Vela headhunts currently-employed executive assistants to PE-backed CEOs in Latin America for US private equity firms and their portfolio companies, 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.

CEOs of private equity-backed companies, and the operating partners behind them, looking for an assistant who covers part of a chief of staff's job: board rhythm, sponsor requests, and the CEO's week.

Own

Owns the CEO's calendar around board meetings, sponsor check-ins, lender calls, and the company's own operating cadence.

Translate

Turns board and sponsor requests into a tracked list with owners and dates, and chases the leadership team for their parts.

Protect

Protects the board-deck timeline so materials go out on time without the CEO assembling them the night before.

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.

A CEO under a private equity owner answers to a board that meets more often and asks for more. Monthly sponsor reporting, board decks, lender calls, add-on diligence, and the operating plan all land on a calendar already full of running the company. The assistant who helps is half executive assistant, half chief of staff: someone who tracks every promise made to the board and makes sure it is kept. They exist, mostly next to CEOs who will not give them up.

How we reach them.

  • Every search starts with the executive assistants to PE-backed CEOs who are in the seat right now, in Medellín, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, and Mexico City. A CEO who has one who can run a board week does not let them go, and the operating partner usually knows their name.
  • 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 board-week exercise: a board meeting, an add-on diligence call, and a customer escalation landing on the same two days, triaged with a note to the CEO explaining the choices.
  • A follow-through exercise: notes from a sponsor meeting turned into an action list with owners, and the first reminder to an executive who is running late.
  • 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 CEO spends board week assembling materials instead of preparing for the meeting.
  • Sponsor and board requests get lost between the CEO and the leadership team.
  • You want chief-of-staff follow-through without a US chief-of-staff salary.
  • You need a chief of staff who makes operating decisions on the CEO's behalf.
  • The role is mainly in-person office management.
  • The CEO is not willing to hand over the calendar.

Compare the seat before you choose the market.

Private equity executive assistant.

The same seat on the sponsor's side of the table.

Portfolio operations analyst.

Who collects the numbers the board deck is built on.

Post-merger integration project manager.

When the CEO is also absorbing add-ons.

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 executive assistant 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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