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 Integration Specialist plumbs AI capabilities into existing software: connecting an LLM to a CRM, embedding GPT into a Zendesk workflow, building Make or n8n flows that summarize calls into HubSpot. They sit between RevOps, customer success, and engineering, and the role is more configuration plus light scripting than full-stack development. The good ones save hours of manual work per team per week.
AI Integration Specialists fall in the mid range of the AI hiring market. Expect an average U.S. salary of $7,600 per month compared with an average Latin American salary of $2,750 per month, creating potential savings of up to 64%. LatAm produces strong AI integration talent from RevOps and engineering backgrounds, with specialists shipping production integrations for U.S. SaaS and services companies.
Yes, integration work is fully remote-friendly. South contracts the specialist locally, runs payroll and compliance, and bills you monthly. They join your stack, Slack, and stakeholder Notion day one. Time-zone alignment helps for stakeholder discovery interviews and live testing.
Strong API and webhook fluency, comfort with at least one no-code orchestrator (Make, n8n, Zapier), and enough scripting to write a custom function when needed. Look for someone with a portfolio of shipped integrations and a sense for what's worth automating. Test with a brief: integrate an LLM into a Zendesk-to-HubSpot ticket workflow.
n8n, Make, Zapier, or Pipedream as the orchestrator. OpenAI and Anthropic APIs. Light Python or TypeScript for custom logic. PostgreSQL or Airtable for state. Slack, HubSpot, Salesforce, Zendesk, Intercom, Gmail APIs as common targets. Cloudflare Workers or AWS Lambda for serverless functions. Familiarity with Snowflake or BigQuery for data tie-out.
An AI Automation Engineer is broader and often writes more custom code, owns deeper architectures, and runs ongoing maintenance. An AI Integration Specialist focuses on plumbing existing tools together with light scripting. They overlap on no-code orchestrators. For project-based AI integration work, hire a Specialist. For deep workflow ownership, hire an Automation Engineer.
South vets LatAm AI integration specialists through technical interviews, take-home integration exercises, and reviews of prior workflows. 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.
