Hiring in Latin America
A strong media localization market — dubbing, subtitling and access services concentrated in Brazil, Mexico and Argentina — and a fast-growing base of remote localization operations talent that serves North American clients across aligned time zones.
Demand
What is driving demand here?
Latin America's established dubbing and subtitling industry sustains steady demand for media localization talent, particularly in Spanish and Portuguese. Alongside it, a growing pool of remote localization operations specialists serves North American clients directly, taking advantage of overlapping working hours that offshore alternatives cannot match.
Specialisms
Which specialisms concentrate in Latin America?
The parts of the industry with the densest presence in this market, each with its own hiring problem.
Roles
What roles do we place in Latin America?
Director of interpreting
Runs an interpreting operation — the network, scheduling, credentialing and quality behind on-demand and scheduled interpreting, where US demand is largely regulatory and healthcare-driven.
Interpreter network / scheduling managerDirector of interpretingVP of interpreting / language access
Sales director
Owns a revenue number for a language-service or language-technology business — a region, a segment, and usually a small team. The most commonly hired commercial leadership role in the industry.
Account executiveSales directorVP of sales
Business development director
Opens new markets, partnerships and revenue lines for a language business — new logos, new verticals, channel and alliance relationships, rather than managing an existing book.
Business development managerBusiness development directorVP of business development / CRO
What is distinctive
What is distinctive about hiring here?
The media talent is genuinely deep, but streaming commissioning moves in cycles, so teams are repeatedly built up and cut back and much of the experienced population works on contract.
The region's real advantage for North American clients is time-zone overlap, which makes remote operations roles here more workable than more distant alternatives — but it also means the best people are already being recruited north.
Questions
Hiring in Latin America: common questions
- Why hire in Latin America for North American clients?
- Time-zone overlap and a deep media localization talent base. Remote operations and media roles staffed from Latin America work in hours aligned with North American clients, which more distant offshore locations cannot offer, and the region's dubbing and subtitling expertise is among the strongest anywhere.
How we hire
Four practices, every market
- Executive searchRetained search for the roles that set direction.
- Talent searchSpecialist individual contributors and middle management.
- Interim expertiseContract and fractional cover for a defined piece of work.
- Growth advisoryDelivery model change, AI adoption, and the org design that follows.
Elsewhere
The other 5 markets
- United Kingdom and IrelandThe firm's home market. Cardiff-based, working across London, Dublin and the regional technology clusters.
- North AmericaThe largest concentration of language technology and AI buyers, and the deepest market for machine learning and language data roles.
- DACH and continental EuropeGermany, Austria and Switzerland alongside the wider European market. Dense in established LSPs and translation technology vendors.
- NordicsSmall by headcount, disproportionately strong in speech technology and natural language processing.
- Asia PacificGaming localization, language data operations and the fastest-growing demand for multilingual AI capability.
Hiring in Latin America?
A consultation is a call about the role, the local market and what the shape of the team should be.