Hire a private equity executive assistant in Latin America.

Vela headhunts currently-employed private equity executive assistants in Latin America for US private equity firms, 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.

Partners and managing directors at private equity firms looking for one senior assistant who holds a calendar that changes three times a day, runs the travel, and keeps the deal-team inbox moving.

Own

Owns the partner's calendar across investment committee, portfolio board meetings, investor calls, and travel in three or four time zones.

Translate

Turns the deal-team inbox, meeting requests, and expense trail into a short daily brief: what moved, what needs a decision, what can wait.

Protect

Protects project code names, investor details, and board materials as a matter of habit, not a policy reminder.

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 partner's week is an investment committee, a portfolio company board meeting, two calls with limited partners, and a site visit that moved twice. The assistant decides what gets protected and what gets moved, usually without asking, and sees deal names that cannot leave the room. Most of the people who can do that already support a partner, and that partner makes sure they stay.

How we reach them.

  • Every search starts with the private equity executive assistants who are in the seat right now, in Medellín, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, and Mexico City. The good ones have usually supported the same partner for years, and that partner is the first to notice when they start looking.
  • 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 calendar exercise in Outlook: an investment committee that moved, a board meeting in another time zone, and a limited partner who can only do Thursday, resolved in real time.
  • A confidentiality exercise: a mock inbox with a project code name, a draft letter of intent, and an outside request for it, handled the way a partner would expect.
  • 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.

  • A partner or managing director spends real hours every week on scheduling, travel, and expenses.
  • Assistant coverage breaks when a deal heats up or the partner is on the road.
  • You want someone who has already worked inside a deal calendar, not someone learning what an investment committee is.
  • You need someone in the office for reception, filing, or in-person errands.
  • You want a virtual assistant shared across many clients.
  • You expect a job post to reach the same professionals Vela headhunts.

Compare the seat before you choose the market.

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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 private equity 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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