Hire an SMMA operations manager in Latin America.

Vela headhunts currently-employed SMMA operations managers in Latin America for US digital agencies, screens them on live agency work, and recruits the way we hire for our own team. The search is built for professionals already working inside agencies, not the active job-board pool.

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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

The professional owns the parts that break retention.

SMMA owners looking for an operations manager who owns workflows, reporting rhythm, handoffs, and operating documentation.

Own

Owns operating-system ownership across content calendars, creative approvals, paid social updates, and reporting.

Translate

Turns social and paid performance movement, client notes, and internal movement into clear next actions.

Protect

Keeps the founder out of recurring status cleanup without hiding account risk.

Shortlist21dthree vetted professionals
First profile7dtarget on senior search
Replacement90dno re-fee
Deposit$1,000refundable · credits to fee

Built for agency work, not generic remote hiring.

SMMA accounts create pressure around content calendars, paid social results, creator handoffs, reporting, and client expectation drift. Vela searches for professionals who understand content calendars, creative approvals, paid social updates, and reporting, not generic remote hires who need the agency model explained from scratch.

  • A live working-call exercise around a workflow audit with scattered reporting inputs and repeated manual handoffs.
  • Tool familiarity across Meta Ads, Instagram, TikTok, Notion, Looker Studio, plus the project and communication surfaces the agency already uses.
  • Prompt judgment: turning messy account context into client-ready output without inventing facts.
  • Workflow documentation and automation briefs from call notes, task movement, and reporting context.
  • Weekly summaries that connect social and paid performance movement to what the team shipped and what happens next.
  • Documented workflow improvements the team can reuse after handoffs.

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 yes.

  • Your SMMA needs operating-system ownership, not another disconnected handoff.
  • Clients need clearer communication around social and paid performance movement.
  • You want a currently-employed professional headhunted from real agency context.
  • You need a back-office admin role.
  • You want the cheapest available remote hire.
  • You expect a job post to reach the same professionals Vela headhunts.

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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 smma operations manager is already working at another agency.

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

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