Industry: Solar Electric Power Generation
Role: General Recruitment Manager (Full-time, Remote)
Location: Brazil
Monthly Salary: $3,000 USD all-in
U.S. Equivalent Salary: $7,500/month
Total Savings: 60% vs. U.S.-based hires ($7,500/month)
Background: Scaling the Team Behind a Fast-Growing Home Efficiency Company
Our client started in residential solar and grew into a broader home efficiency business, selling and delivering upgrades that lower what households spend on energy. It competes in a market where homeowners weigh several providers before committing, which puts the quality of its people at the center of how it wins work.
Growth in that market is a hiring problem before it is anything else. Every new territory and service line needs people in place before it produces revenue, and the pace of expansion has outgrown what the existing team could absorb alongside its day jobs. The client needed a General Recruitment Manager to own hiring across the organization and keep headcount ahead of demand.
The Challenge: Building a Hiring Function That Keeps Pace With Growth
The client needed more than a coordinator posting jobs. Hiring was spread across managers with full-time responsibilities, which made the process inconsistent and slow and left candidates waiting.
The role covers owning recruitment end to end across the organization: running intake with hiring managers to define what each role actually requires; sourcing through job boards, referrals, and direct outreach; screening and structuring interviews so candidates are evaluated against the same criteria; managing offers; coordinating onboarding; and keeping the ATS and hiring data clean enough to show where the process stalls.
The ideal candidate needed to operate independently, hold hiring managers to a consistent process, and prioritize across several open roles at once without losing momentum on any.
Hiring a U.S.-based General Recruitment Manager with this experience would cost approximately $7,500/month, or $90,000 per year. The client wanted highly qualified talent without compromising expertise or the ability to operate independently.
The Solution: Top LATAM Talent
South sourced, vetted, and presented qualified candidates for this role. The position was filled in just 18 days, and the contractor was already working with the client within 5 days of being hired.
The Impact: A Full Hiring Function at a 60% Savings
- The position was successfully filled in just 18 days.
- The contractor was fully onboarded and working with the team within 5 days of being hired.
- The client gained a recruiter who owns end-to-end hiring across the organization, without day-to-day supervision.
- Hiring runs on one consistent process, instead of varying by which manager happens to be filling the role.
- Hiring managers spend less time sourcing and screening and more time on their own teams, with shortlists prepared for them.
- Candidates move through the process faster, which matters most for the roles where good people accept the first solid offer they receive.
- Hiring data, from time-to-fill to source and drop-off at each stage, shows where the process stalls and what to fix.
- Based in Brazil, just one to two hours ahead of U.S. Eastern Time, the recruiter works alongside the team during U.S. business hours, so candidates can be screened and scheduled the same day.
- The client can open new roles without adding a U.S. recruiting salary each time headcount grows.
- The client secured specialized LATAM talent at 60% less than the estimated cost of a comparable U.S.-based hire.
- That adds up to $54,000 in annual savings: $36,000 per year versus an estimated $90,000 for a U.S.-based hire.
Why Hire With South?
Hiring talent is not the problem. Building great teams is.
Most hiring solutions stop at sourcing. South runs the whole system: we find people who are not on job boards, vet them down to the top 1%, and stay on after day one with a dedicated success manager who makes sure the hire sticks. We measure ourselves on retention, not placements. One monthly invoice covers payroll, benefits, and compliance.
For this client, that meant a recruitment manager sourced, vetted, and working with the team in under three weeks, at 60% less than a comparable U.S.-based hire.
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