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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Operations functions expand quickly as companies grow. A Chief of Staff supports the exec team, a Chief Product Officer owns product strategy at the executive level, and an Operations Assistant handles day-to-day execution. Procurement and supply chain split across a Procurement Specialist, a Purchasing Agent, a Vendor Management Specialist, an Inventory Planner, a Supply Chain Coordinator, and a Quote Coordinator.
An Operations Manager runs the cross-functional engine of a company: process design, vendor management, internal tools, KPI dashboards, and the weekly cadence that keeps everyone moving. They sit between functions, fix what's broken, and standardize what works. On a small team, they often own HR ops, finance ops, and the systems behind sales and CS. On a larger team, they specialize.
Operations Manager salaries depend heavily on scope. Expect an average U.S. salary of $6,500 per month compared with an average Latin American salary of $3,250 per month, creating potential savings of up to 50%. LatAm produces strong ops managers with consulting, SaaS, and operations backgrounds, fluent in U.S. tools and remote work culture.
Yes, ops is one of the most remote-friendly leadership roles. South contracts the manager locally, runs payroll and compliance, and bills you monthly. They join your project management stack, Notion, and Slack day one. Time-zone alignment means same-day responses to ops issues and aligned cadence for weekly reviews.
Process discipline, analytical fluency, and the ability to ship documentation that other people actually use. Look for someone who has built or rebuilt a function and can show before/after metrics. Test with a scenario: walk through a broken process and propose a fix in 30 minutes. The signal is structured thinking and the willingness to own outcomes, not just inputs.
Notion, Coda, or Confluence for documentation. Asana, Linear, ClickUp, or Monday for project management. Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 for daily ops. Slack for communication. Excel for modeling. Looker, Tableau, or Mode for dashboards. Familiarity with Zapier, Make, or n8n for workflow automation, and HRIS plus billing systems specific to your stack.
A Project Manager owns one project at a time: scope, timeline, status, deliverables. An Operations Manager owns ongoing systems: processes, KPIs, vendors, internal tooling. PMs ship one thing. Ops managers keep the business running. At scale, both roles report into a COO or Head of Ops. On a small team, one person may play both.
South vets LatAm ops managers through structured interviews, paid 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.
