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An AI Project Manager runs the delivery side of AI initiatives: scope, timeline, status, blockers, and the day-to-day execution that gets a feature shipped. They own one project at a time, track engineering and design progress, manage stakeholders, and clear blockers. The role demands enough AI technical literacy to read specs and ask the right questions, plus the operational discipline that any strong PM has.
AI Project Manager salaries are at the top of the project management range. Expect an average U.S. salary of $11,000 per month compared with an average Latin American salary of $4,500 per month, creating potential savings of up to 59%. LatAm produces strong AI project managers from agency, consulting, and engineering management backgrounds, with PMs shipping AI features for U.S. SaaS companies.
Yes, AI project management is fully remote-friendly. South contracts the PM locally, runs payroll and compliance, and bills you monthly. They join your project management stack, Notion, and Slack day one. Time-zone alignment matters for daily standups and live blocker resolution.
Strong PM fundamentals (planning, status, stakeholder management) plus enough AI literacy to read specs and push back on engineering estimates. Look for PMs who have shipped AI features and can walk through real blockers and how they cleared them. Test with a scenario: a model isn't hitting the eval bar with two weeks to launch. How do they handle the next 48 hours?
Linear, Jira, Asana, or Monday for project tracking. Notion or Confluence for docs. Slack and Zoom for daily ops. Excel for status tracking. Familiarity with the AI/ML stack (eval tools, model APIs, basic prompt-engineering principles) helps, even though the PM rarely codes.
An AI Program Manager owns multiple related projects across teams: roadmaps, dependencies, milestones. An AI Project Manager owns one project at a time: scope, timeline, blockers. PgM is the senior role. PMs report into PgMs. At early stage, one person plays both. At scale, you have several PMs reporting to a few PgMs.
South vets LatAm AI project managers through structured interviews, written case exercises, and reference checks. 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.
