Full-time, senior LATAM marketing, creative, and ops professionals, working your hours at $3,500 to $4,500 per month, all-in. Month-to-month, nothing owed until you hire.
You can hire senior Latin American (LATAM) marketing, creative, and operations talent through a specialized recruiting company like Talent Scout, which vets professionals across Latin America and embeds them full-time in your team at $3,500 to $4,500 per month, all-in, up to 70% below the fully loaded cost of the same US hire. Some of the best talent in the world is one time zone away: senior professionals who work your hours, speak fluent English, and cost a fraction of the equivalent US hire. Talent Scout finds them, vets them, and embeds them full-time in your team, so you get a dedicated teammate, not a freelancer and not a shared agency pod. This is your starting point for hiring LATAM talent, whatever the role.
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We place senior LATAM professionals who work your hours, embedded full-time and screened for 8+/10 English fluency and US client-readiness. They are not gig freelancers, not task-level virtual assistants, and not an outsourced agency team juggling ten clients. They are dedicated hires who join your standups, learn your brand, and own their work, at $3,500 to $4,500 per month, all-in, which is up to 70% below the fully loaded cost of the same US role.
Roughly five or more years of hands-on experience in the specialist's specific discipline. It is a descriptive standard we screen every candidate against, not a certified guarantee.
We place across five buckets: creative, brand, growth, operations, and web dev, the same structure you will see across our site. Where a role has its own page, the name links to it.
Creative: a graphic designer, a motion graphics designer, a UI/UX specialist, a web designer, a video editor, a content writer or content creator, or a copywriter.
Brand: a marketing strategist, a social media manager, an influencer marketing manager, or an email marketing manager.
Growth: a paid search manager or Google Ads specialist, a paid social (Facebook and Meta ads) specialist, an SEO specialist, an AEO/GEO specialist for AI search, or an affiliate manager.
Operations: a project manager or an account manager, our most-requested roles of 2026, plus AI operations specialists.
Web dev: a full stack, front-end, or back-end developer, or a WordPress, Shopify, or Webflow developer.
Need more than one seat, or a blended team? That is our outsourced marketing and marketing staff augmentation model. Running an agency? See LATAM talent for marketing agencies.
| Role | US fully loaded (per mo) | Embedded LATAM (Talent Scout) |
|---|---|---|
| Graphic designer | about $9,375 | $3,500 to $4,500 |
| Video editor | about $9,802 | $3,500 to $4,500 |
| UX designer | about $12,708 | $3,500 to $4,500 |
| Content creator | about $9,375 | $3,500 to $4,500 |
| Social media manager | about $11,062 | $3,500 to $4,500 |
| Marketing strategist / manager | about $14,851 | $3,500 to $4,500 |
| SEO / AEO specialist | about $11,004 | $3,500 to $4,500 |
| Paid social manager | about $15,136 | $3,500 to $4,500 |
| Project / account manager | about $14,484 | $3,500 to $4,500 |
Every embedded hire is one flat all-in rate of $3,500 to $4,500 a month regardless of role, with no benefits load or recruiting fee added on top. See the full role-by-role breakdown in our 2026 LATAM marketing salary report.
The table above shows what an embedded hire costs you, all-in. The market data behind it, role by role, lives in our 2026 LATAM marketing salary report. Two numbers worth knowing going in: an embedded senior LATAM hire through Talent Scout runs 57 to 69% under the fully loaded cost of the same US role, and every placement lands in the same $3,500 to $4,500 a month all-in band no matter where in Latin America the specialist is based.
Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, and Mexico are our four most active placement countries, and we hire for the role, not the passport. Local salaries differ from country to country, but the all-in price you pay does not, so the useful question is who is best for the seat, not which country is cheapest. All four sit within zero to three hours of US Eastern time, as the time zone table below shows.
US companies hire from Latin America because it combines senior-level skill, real-time overlap with US working hours, and a cost 57 to 69% below the fully loaded price of the same US hire. That combination is structural, not a trend. The talent got deep over the last decade while the cost gap stayed wide, and geography stopped deciding who sits on your team the moment the world stopped going into offices.
Most of the case for Latin America collapses into one practical fact: your teammate is awake when you are.
A designer in Bogotá is on the same Slack, in the same standup, and in the same client call as your team in Chicago. A revision requested at 10am is back before lunch, not waiting in a queue for a workday that starts when yours ends. Over a quarter, that difference is not a convenience. It is the difference between a person who is part of how your team works and a vendor you send briefs to.
Latin American hubs sit zero to three hours from US Eastern time. Here is the actual clock math.
| City | UTC offset | vs New York (summer / winter) | vs Los Angeles (summer / winter) | 9:00am in New York (summer) is |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bogotá | UTC-5 | 1 hour behind / same time | 2 / 3 hours ahead | 8:00am |
| Mexico City | UTC-6 | 2 / 1 hours behind | 1 / 2 hours ahead | 7:00am |
| São Paulo | UTC-3 | 1 / 2 hours ahead | 4 / 5 hours ahead | 10:00am |
| Buenos Aires | UTC-3 | 1 / 2 hours ahead | 4 / 5 hours ahead | 10:00am |
| For contrast: Manila | UTC+8 | 12 / 13 hours ahead | 15 / 16 hours ahead | 9:00pm |
Source: IANA time zone database. Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and the Philippines do not observe daylight saving time, so the gap shifts only when US clocks change. Every one of the four Latin American hubs sits inside a normal workday for a US team on either coast. The same 9:00am standup lands at 9:00pm in Manila, which is why offshore collaboration usually runs async or overnight. For the full side-by-side, see offshore virtual assistant: Philippines vs Latin America.
This is the line that separates nearshore from offshore, and it is the reason we place in Latin America rather than wherever labor is cheapest. We break the comparison down properly in nearshore vs offshore staffing.
Mike Bodkin, who co-founded Talent Scout after running a marketing agency for a decade, puts it more bluntly than we would in a brochure:
"It doesn't matter if someone is in Omaha or Bogotá. Remote is remote."
There is no LATAM team and no US team. There is one team, and geography is incidental to it.
The savings are real and they are large, and they are worth stating precisely rather than as a slogan.
Start with the most-requested role on our board this year, a senior project or account manager. Fully loaded in the United States, that seat costs about $14,484 a month, or $173,800 a year. Embedded full-time from Latin America, it costs $48,000 a year, all-in. That is roughly $125,000 a year of difference on a single seat.
A senior SEO specialist runs about $105,000 a year in base salary in the US, and about $11,000 a month, or $132,000 a year, fully loaded. Embedded from Latin America, the same specialist sits in the same $3,500 to $4,500 a month, all-in band as every other role we place. Across roles, an embedded LATAM hire runs 57 to 69% under the fully loaded cost of the equivalent US hire.
Those US figures come from our 2026 Latin American Marketing Talent Salary Report, which builds each role's US number from published compensation data (ERI SalaryExpert, Payscale, Glassdoor, Salary.com, and Built In) and applies the employer-cost multiplier of 1.25 to 1.4 times base salary from the MIT and Hadzima employer-cost model. The report shows the full role-by-role table and names its sources for every figure.
Lower cost is not lower quality, and the reason is boring rather than magical: it is a different local labor market, not a different standard of work. We screen every candidate for roughly five or more years of hands-on experience in their specific discipline and 8 out of 10 or better English fluency before they reach your shortlist. The savings come from where someone lives, not from what they can do.
The honest answer is that this window opened recently, and we can date it from our own placements.
Talent Scout started in 2025. In our first year we worked with more than 30 North American agencies, and we currently have more than 50 active embedded placements running. The roles companies are asking us for most in 2026, in order, are project and account managers, paid media specialists, SEO and AEO specialists, developers, and graphic designers. That is not junior support work. That is the core of a marketing organization, being staffed from Latin America, by companies that could have hired anywhere.
One movement in that list is worth naming. The SEO and AEO specialist entered our top five most-requested roles for the first time this year. Agencies are staffing AI-search capability out of Latin America before most US teams have finished writing the job description. That is what a market looks like when it is early rather than crowded.
The reason it is early is that the pieces only recently lined up. Remote work stopped being an exception and became infrastructure. A generation of Latin American specialists spent the last decade working with US brands and learned the standards. And the cost gap, which everyone assumed would close, did not.
If the work is ongoing, if it needs an owner rather than a task-taker, and if the fully loaded cost of a US hire is the thing standing between you and the person you need, this is the model. If the work is a one-off, a marketplace is genuinely the better tool and we will say so.
What we will not do is make you carry the risk of finding out. There is no fee until you hire, engagements run month-to-month, and you get free replacements at any time. The challenges of hiring LATAM talent are real and we have written about them honestly rather than pretending the model has no friction.
| Option | What you get | Hours | Typical cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Embedded LATAM hire (Talent Scout) | Full-time senior pro, dedicated to you, US hours | 40 hrs/week, dedicated | $3,500 to $4,500/mo, all-in |
| Full-time US hire | Dedicated employee; slow and costly to hire | 40 hrs/week | $135,000/yr median advertised salary for a senior marketing role, before benefits and payroll taxes |
| Agency | A shared team across many clients | Limited, based on priority | Monthly retainer, scoped per client |
| Freelancer | Per-project execution, variable availability | As needed | Per project, variable |
| Virtual assistant | Junior, task-level admin support that needs daily direction and review | Full- or part-time | Roughly $640 to $2,400/mo for managed offshore VAs |
Sources: US salary from the 2026 Marketing Hiring Gap Report; VA range from Cherry Assistant (July 2026) and Virtual Business Staffing (2026). If a VA is what you are weighing, our marketing virtual assistant page covers when it is the right call, and virtual assistant vs senior marketing specialist lays out the difference side by side. For the full cost math, see the nearshore staffing cost breakdown.
If you want to run your own screen alongside ours, here is how we test English fluency in a candidate interview.
We take the risk so you do not have to. You do not pay unless you hire. Everything is month-to-month, no long contracts. And if you ever need a change, for any reason, whether it is a lull in work, someone moving on, or a new project that needs a different skill set, you get free replacements at any time. No expiry, no fine print. We are simply there for our clients.
Mike Bodkin, Co-Founder & CEO, Talent Scout. I built and exited Giant Propeller, a marketing agency, after running it for a decade. One of the moves that made that exit possible was hiring senior, full-time LATAM talent instead of stretching US payroll further than it could go: a $110,000 graphic designer in Los Angeles became a $45,000 hire in Colombia, same output, same time zone. That is the exact model Talent Scout runs today for other agencies and marketing teams. Read our full story.
Hire when you need senior help but a US salary does not fit the budget; when you want a dedicated teammate rather than a rotating agency pod; when time-zone overlap actually matters for how you work; or when you are scaling and need to add capacity without adding US headcount cost. If that sounds like you, LATAM talent is often the smartest hire on the board.
Where can I hire senior Latin American marketing talent?
Through a specialized recruiter like Talent Scout, which vets senior LATAM marketing, creative, and operations professionals and embeds them full-time in your team at $3,500 to $4,500 per month, all-in, working your hours.
How much does it cost to hire Latin American talent?
Through Talent Scout, a full-time embedded senior LATAM professional costs $3,500 to $4,500 per month, all-in, which is up to 70% under the fully loaded US cost of the same role.
Do Latin American professionals work US hours?
Yes. Latin American hubs sit zero to three hours from US Eastern time, so your hire works your hours, joins your standups, and collaborates in real time, a core advantage over offshore options.
Is their English strong enough for client-facing work?
Every candidate is screened for 8+/10 English fluency and client-facing readiness, and many have worked directly with US companies.
What roles can I hire?
Marketing, creative, and operations roles, from social media managers, copywriters, and content writers to graphic, web, and UX designers, video editors, and SEO and AEO/GEO specialists. If you need a full function, we also staff blended teams.
What does "senior" mean at Talent Scout?
Roughly five or more years of hands-on experience in the specialist's specific discipline. It is a descriptive standard we screen every candidate against, not a certified guarantee.
Why do US companies hire from Latin America?
Because Latin America combines senior-level skill, real-time overlap with US working hours, and a cost 57 to 69% below the fully loaded price of the same US hire. A specialist in Bogotá or Mexico City works your hours, joins your standups, and closes feedback loops the same day, which is the practical difference between a teammate and a vendor. The cost gap comes from a different local labor market, not a different standard of work.
How fast can I hire LATAM talent?
We present the first round of candidates in 10 days. You run the interviews, we help you compare candidates against the same criteria, and once you choose, every placement includes a full 30/60/90 onboarding arc. There is no fee until you hire.
What time zone is LATAM in?
Latin America spans several zones, from UTC-6 in Mexico City to UTC-3 in São Paulo and Buenos Aires, with Bogotá at UTC-5. That puts the major hubs zero to three hours from US Eastern time, inside a normal US workday on either coast.
How is hiring in Latin America different from offshoring to Asia?
Mostly hours. Manila is 12 to 13 hours ahead of US Eastern, so collaboration runs overnight or async; Latin America works the same day you do. We compare the two models in nearshore vs offshore staffing.
Is LATAM talent the same as a virtual assistant?
Not at Talent Scout. A VA is typically a junior, task-level hire who needs daily direction. We place senior specialists with roughly five or more years in their discipline who own the work. See virtual assistant vs senior marketing specialist.
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