Scale your team with vetted Latin American professionals who work in your time zone, speak fluent English, and cost 40 to 60% less than US hires. Month-to-month, no long-term commitment.
Meet Your Candidates for FreeWhat It Is
Staff augmentation is a hiring model where you bring external professionals directly into your team as contractors, not as an outsourced project handed off to an agency. You manage them like you would manage any employee: they attend your standups, use your tools, report to your leads, and execute against your roadmap. What changes is the legal setup, not the work.
It is different from three things companies often confuse it with. Offshore outsourcing hands a project to an overseas vendor that delivers a finished output on their own terms, usually 8 to 12 hours away. Agency hiring places a full-time employee on your US payroll, with W-2 cost, benefits, and long ramps. Freelance platforms let you browse profiles per project, without vetting, accountability, or continuity.
Staff augmentation sits in the middle: full-time-equivalent contractors, integrated into your team day one, without the cost structure and lock-in of an in-house hire. With Placibly, every placement is based in Latin America: same time zone as the US, business-fluent English, and trained to work remotely for American companies.
Every candidate is screened for English fluency, 3+ years of relevant experience, remote work track record, and US business cultural alignment. You only meet finalists.
Every placement works US business hours, 0 to 3 hours off from ET. No async handoffs, no next-day responses.
Placibly manages the contractor relationship end to end. No foreign entity setup, no international payroll, no 1099 paperwork on your side.
You pay Placibly one flat invoice in USD per placement, per month. We handle payment to the contractor in their local currency and jurisdiction.
If the fit is not right in the first 60 days, we source and onboard a replacement at no additional cost.
Who It's For
Any US company that needs to scale quickly without the overhead of traditional hiring. Common use cases:
Move fast with skilled professionals without the overhead of full-time employment from day one.
Scale your delivery team quickly when new clients come in — without a permanent headcount increase.
Fill a gap quickly when someone leaves, without months of recruiting and onboarding delays.
Explore a new function before committing to a full-time hire — validate the role with a proven professional.
What We Place
From admin and ops to marketing and design — Placibly places Latin American professionals across all core business functions.
Administrative & Operations
Sales & Customer Success
Marketing & Content
Design & Creative
Cost Comparison
Real annual costs by role. LATAM staff augmentation typically lands 40 to 60% below fully-loaded US cost, with materially better outcomes on communication and retention than offshore.
Read the full breakdown in our posts on the real cost to hire in Latin America and the dollar-for-dollar savings analysis.
Nearshore vs Offshore
The cost gap between nearshore LATAM and offshore Asia is narrow once you account for total engagement cost. What is not narrow is everything else.
Time zones matter. A Mexico City or Bogotá contractor overlaps 100% of your US work day. An India or Philippines contractor overlaps 2 to 4 hours at the edges, which pushes collaboration into async and adds 24 hours of latency to every decision.
English fluency matters. LATAM professionals with US business experience write and speak at a fluency level that matches internal US teammates. Offshore fluency varies widely and often forces written-only communication to avoid friction on calls.
Cultural alignment matters. LATAM work culture — direct feedback, autonomous execution, US-style meeting cadence — slots into a US team without retraining. We cover the full comparison in Nearshore vs. Offshore: Which Remote Hiring Model Is Right for You?
The Process
Share the role, skills, and start date in a 20-min intake call.
Placibly searches our LATAM network and shortlists 2-3 qualified candidates.
Meet your candidates, ask questions, make your pick.
Contractor agreement, onboarding support, and 60-day guarantee included.
FAQ
Staff augmentation means contractors work inside your team, on your tools, against your roadmap. Outsourcing means you hand a project or function to a vendor who delivers an output on their terms. Staff augmentation keeps ownership and velocity with you; outsourcing trades those for a turnkey deliverable.
Most placements close in 7 to 14 days from intake call to start date. Complex or senior roles can take up to three weeks. If speed is critical, we can prioritize a role and surface finalists in under a week.
Every placement comes with a 60-day free replacement guarantee. If the fit is not right in the first 60 days, we source and onboard a replacement at no additional cost.
Contractors. Placibly signs the contractor agreement with the professional in their local jurisdiction. You pay Placibly one flat monthly fee per placement and do not handle international payroll, benefits, or tax documentation.
Placibly owns the full administrative layer: local contractor agreements, monthly payments in the professional's currency, tax documentation, and compliance with the professional's local jurisdiction. You get one invoice per placement in USD.
Admin, operations, sales, customer success, marketing, content, customer support, finance, bookkeeping, and select technical roles. If a role requires English fluency, US business hours, and remote execution, it is a fit for LATAM staff augmentation.
Primarily Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, and Brazil. We can source from any LATAM country if a role requires specific expertise.
Tell us what you need. We'll have shortlisted candidates in front of you within 7-10 days.
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