South helps growing companies find, hire, and pay top Latin American talent. Build high-performing teams in 21 days or less.
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An AI Designer designs the interfaces and interactions for AI-powered products: chat UIs, agentic workflows, prompt-driven editors, and the patterns for handling uncertainty, hallucination, and human-in-the-loop review. They blend traditional product design with the new design problems unique to LLMs: streaming, error recovery, trust calibration, and the fact that AI outputs are non-deterministic. The role is product designer plus AI literacy.
AI Designer salaries land in line with senior product designer rates, sometimes with an AI premium. Expect an average U.S. salary of $7,000 per month compared with an average Latin American salary of $2,500 per month, creating potential savings of up to 64%. LatAm has built a strong design bench fluent in modern AI product patterns, with designers shipping AI-native products for U.S. SaaS and consumer companies.
Yes, AI design is fully remote-friendly. South contracts the designer locally, runs payroll and compliance, and bills you monthly. They join your Figma, Linear, and Slack day one. Time-zone alignment matters for design crits and live prototyping reviews with engineering.
Strong product design fundamentals plus enough AI literacy to design for non-determinism: confidence indicators, undo/redo for AI-generated content, streaming UI, citation patterns. Look for a portfolio with shipped AI features. Test with a paid brief: redesign a workflow where an AI agent might be wrong 10% of the time. The signal is judgment about trust calibration.
Figma for design and prototyping. Framer or Webflow for prototyping interactive AI flows. ChatGPT and Claude for direct exploration. Notion or Linear for handoff. Lottie or Rive for animation. Familiarity with shipping AI products matters more than tool fluency. Bonus: comfort writing prompts and reading model docs to design with technical accuracy.
A Product Designer covers any product surface, AI or not. An AI Designer specializes in AI products: trust patterns, streaming UI, error states, agentic flows. They share fundamentals. If your product has one or two AI features, a strong Product Designer with AI literacy is enough. If your entire product is AI-native, hire an AI Designer with focused experience.
South vets LatAm AI designers through portfolio review, paid AI design exercises, and structured interviews. You see a shortlist in seven to ten days, run your own interviews, and onboard inside two to three weeks. South handles the contract, monthly payments, and a replacement guarantee. Schedule a free call here to get started!
The region has the perfect mix of everything you want in remote employees: English skills, shared time zones, hard-working, and depth of talent. They are already accustomed to working remotely for top US startups and Fortune 500 companies.
Absolutely! The US and Latin America have basically the same time zones. No Latin American city is more than two hours ahead of EST.
Every hire is sourced based on your exact needs. They will arrive ready to support your business right away. They can do basically any tasks done remotely, but we recommend starting them as support so your team has more bandwidth for high-value strategic tasks.
All types of roles - customer service, executive assistant, sales, accounting, email marketing, lead generation, content writers, operations, social media marketing, and more!
You can pay directly through us (most popular) or we can connect you with one of our payroll partners.
You don't have to deal with any American labor laws / taxes when hiring full-time remote contractors. They aren't US-based, so no visas or sponsorships to deal with either.
We recommend market pay which varies for each role. See our salary guide and success stories for some ideas.
Then, we have two different models:
Staffing (most popular) - We charge a small monthly fee for each employee's monthly salary to make the process hassle-free. The fee covers sourcing, recruiting, admin, payroll, compliance, ongoing support, and a free replacement if necessary at any point. There are no cancellation fees or minimum commitments. You only pay if you make a hire.
Headhunting - A one-time simple fee once we've found the perfect candidate. This comes with a 120-day replacement guarantee.
For both options, you only pay something if we find you someone great that you want to hire.
Yes, we only recruit for full-time and we strongly recommend full-time hiring if you can. Stability (full-time & long-term) is highly sought after abroad. The top caliber candidates are only looking for full-time work.
You're also going to spend time training and getting them up to speed on your processes. It would be a waste to do that over and over again with new people all the time.
We recommend training new hires on one thing at a time.
For example, once they get up to speed on lead generation, you can add the next role writing blog posts or whatever you'd like. You can definitely overlap roles until you have enough work for multiple people.
The cost of living is much less in Latin American countries. Many of our employees are able to own homes, raise families, provide for their parents, and have in-home help of their own with their salaries.
If you aren't happy with your hire in the first 120 days, we will work with you to conduct a second round of search for the same role for free.
Just email us at Hello@HireInSouth.com and we will get back to you with an answer as soon as possible.
