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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A Chief of Staff is the leverage multiplier for a CEO or executive. They run the operating cadence, drive cross-functional projects that fall between teams, prep board materials, manage the executive's time and attention, and step into whatever's broken until a permanent owner exists. The role is shapeless on purpose: you hire one because there's more strategic work than the CEO can personally hold.
Chief of Staff salaries swing wildly based on company stage and reporting structure. Expect an average U.S. salary of $10,400 per month compared with an average Latin American salary of $3,750 per month, creating potential savings of up to 64%. LatAm produces strong Chief of Staff talent with consulting, banking, or operations backgrounds and direct experience working alongside U.S. executives.
Yes, Chief of Staff is increasingly remote at modern companies. South contracts the CoS locally, handles compliance and payroll, and bills you monthly. They join your CEO's calendar, Slack, Notion, and exec staff meetings day one. Time-zone alignment matters more here than for most roles since the work is reactive.
Sharp written communication, strategic instinct, and the operational discipline to actually finish things. Look for someone who can walk you through a CEO-level problem they unblocked end-to-end. Test their ability to draft a board memo from rough talking points and read a P&L. The best Chiefs of Staff combine consulting-grade analysis with operator-grade execution.
Notion or Coda for operating system docs. Slack for daily ops. Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 for documents and calendars. Excel for modeling. Zoom for executive meetings. Project tools (Asana, Linear, ClickUp) for cross-functional initiatives. BI tool fluency (Looker, Tableau, Mode) for board-deck data and exec dashboards.
An Operations Manager runs day-to-day execution across a defined function: people, vendors, processes, and metrics inside ops. A Chief of Staff runs the executive's leverage problem: cross-functional projects, board prep, exec hiring, and whatever's broken in the operating system. CoS reports to the CEO. Ops Managers report into a function. Different scopes and different rooms.
South vets LatAm Chief of Staff candidates through structured interviews, written case exercises (board memo or operating plan from a brief), 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.
