Best Recruitment Agencies in Brazil: A Comparative Shortlist for US Companies

Brazil holds the deepest professional talent pool in Latin America, with established hubs in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and beyond covering everything from software engineering to finance and marketing. 

For a US company that’s already settled on Brazil, the challenge lies in finding the right partner to source and vet talent, especially with more agencies competing for that business than almost anywhere else in the region.

A handful of recruitment agencies in Brazil have built the infrastructure to make that search fast and reliable, with deep local knowledge, established sourcing networks, and processes built specifically for cross-border hiring. Between them, they cover everything from full-time placement to staff augmentation to executive search, so the right one depends less on availability and more on which model fits how you want to hire.

I’ve put together a comparative shortlist of the strongest options below, what each one recruits for, how they structure the hiring relationship, and where each one is the clear choice so you can narrow this down quickly.

What Are the Best Recruitment Agencies in Brazil for US Companies?

The best recruitment agencies in Brazil for US companies are Hire With Near, Insight Global, Adecco, Michael Page, Robert Half, Randstad, SGF Global, and Pierpoint. All eight are firms a US company can engage to hire in Brazil, not local agencies serving Brazilian employers.

Each takes a different approach, from full-service nearshore staffing to global enterprise search to large-scale temporary staffing, so the right fit depends on the roles you’re hiring for, how much of the employment relationship you want to manage yourself, and whether you’re making one hire or building an entire team. 

The table below shows what each firm sells, the evidence behind its place on the list, and the situation it fits:

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On this list, I only included companies that clear one of two bars:

• A rating of 4.5 or above from at least 50 client reviews on an established platform (G2, Clutch, Trustpilot, GoodFirms, or ClearlyRated, client ratings only).
• A verifiable track record with large, recognizable enterprise clients and decades of industry-recognized global presence.

I studied journalism at PUC-Rio, one of Brazil’s leading universities, before spending over a decade in B2B content, and that background is part of why I built this list around what companies publish and verify, not just what they claim. Every company here names Brazil as a country it operates in or recruits from on its own site.

Here’s a closer look at what each one does well, in no particular order:

Hire With Near

Hire With Near is a full-service staffing and recruiting agency that helps US companies hire top-performing remote talent in Latin America across all departments and industries. We run the search end to end: sourcing, screening, candidate presentation, and support once your new hire starts.

Brazil is one of our largest markets. According to Hire With Near’s 2026 State of LatAm Hiring Report, Brazil accounts for 14% of our placements, our third-largest source country, and it leads for information technology and engineering roles. 

We work from a talent pool of 160,000+ pre-vetted Latin American professionals and source fresh for every search, so the candidate shortlist you see is built for your role rather than pulled off a bench. That shortlist reaches you with video introductions in 3 to 5 days, and most of our clients make a hire in under three weeks.

Our model is placement: we find the person, they join your team, and they report to you. There’s no upfront cost, and you pay nothing until you make a hire.

We fill 97% of the roles we take on. Every placement carries a 180-day replacement guarantee (double the industry standard), but you’ll rarely need it: 80% of our hires stay two or more years, and our client satisfaction score is 9.1. 

We’re ranked No. 118 on the 2026 Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America.

Rating: 4.9/5 on G2 (155+ reviews)

Services: Full-service nearshore staffing and recruiting, RPO, staff augmentation, executive search

Best for: Hire With Near fits a US company that wants full-time hires in Brazil working inside its own team, across more than one function, with the same recruiters running every search.

Limitations: There are three situations on this list where another firm is the better call. Embedding recruiters inside your own hiring function rather than placing hires onto your team, staffing Brazil operations at high volume, or a sector-specialist search you want handled out of a local Brazil office. We’re not built for any of those three.

Insight Global

Insight Global earned a spot on this list for how much of its recruiting operation it points at Brazil specifically. The firm runs a dedicated Brazil location page covering São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, and it describes Brazil as its fastest-growing market in Latin America. 

Its professional-services division recruits on an evergreen basis for cloud, data, artificial intelligence, and application development work, which are the searches US companies most often bring to the region.

Insight Global places people onto your team through contract work, contract-to-hire, and permanent placement, so a role you aren’t ready to make permanent can start on a defined engagement and convert later. 

Rating: 4.6/5 on ClearlyRated (525+ reviews)

Best for: Insight Global is the right call when you need to staff a contract or contract-to-hire team in Brazil at volume and want a large, established recruiting operation behind it.

Limitations: If you need a specialized permanent hire outside cloud, data, AI, or application development, or want a Brazil-focused boutique rather than a large, multi-country operation, another firm is the better call.

Adecco

What stood out about Adecco is the breadth of what it runs inside Brazil under one roof. Its Brazilian operation is organized into six service lines: staffing, specialized recruitment, outsourcing, information technology, recruitment process outsourcing, and healthcare. 

The company says it holds more than two million registered CVs in the country. That breadth is also why it’s on this list: Adecco is one of the long-established global staffing brands, and its Brazil operation is wide enough to cover an operational team and a specialized hire from the same relationship.

Its models run from temporary staffing and direct hire through to outsourcing and recruitment process outsourcing, so the same partner can place a permanent hire and staff a temporary operational team in parallel. 

Track record: Six Brazil service lines and more than two million registered CVs, and nearly seven decades of staffing industry history globally.

Best for: Adecco suits a company hiring at volume in Brazil across several functions at once, where one vendor covering operational and specialized roles is worth more than a specialist per role.

Limitations: If you need a single specialist hire in a niche discipline rather than volume staffing across several functions, another firm is the better call.

Michael Page

Michael Page made this best recruitment agencies in Brazil list for the depth of its footprint in the country. The firm works from five offices in the country, in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba, Campinas, and Recife, and recruits across fourteen sector specialisms, including banking, engineering, finance, information technology, legal, logistics, oil and gas, and supply chain. 

That combination is what a specialist search usually needs: consultants who work one sector in one market every day, rather than generalists briefed on a job description.

Michael Page places hires onto your team through specialized permanent, temporary, and project recruitment, and it takes on recruitment process outsourcing when a company wants it to run a hiring program. 

Track record: Five Brazil offices and fourteen sector specialisms, and nearly 50 years of recruitment history as part of a publicly listed global group operating in 36 countries. 

Best for: Michael Page fits a specialist hire in a defined sector where you want a consultant who recruits that sector in Brazil day to day.

Limitations: If you need high-volume operational staffing or a program spanning many countries at once, another firm is the better call.

Robert Half

Robert Half is on this list for its track record in specialized placement. Founded in 1948 and listed on the New York Stock Exchange, it’s one of the most recognized names in the business. 

Its Brazilian operation covers six practice areas: finance and accounting, information technology, human resources, sales and marketing, legal, and engineering. It also absorbed the former The Creative Group brand, so creative and marketing searches run through Robert Half as well.

The firm places specialized permanent and contract hires onto client teams and takes on interim management, and it runs executive search as a separate practice. 

For a US company, the fit is usually a single named hire in one of those practice areas, briefed to a recruiter who covers that discipline in Brazil, rather than a volume program across a whole department, since Robert Half’s recruiters specialize by function rather than run high-volume account operations.

Track record: Founded in 1948, listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Best for: Robert Half fits a finance, accounting, or technology hire in Brazil where you want a specialist recruiter and a recognizable brand behind the search.

Limitations: If you’re staffing an operational team at volume or want one vendor to run an outsourced or RPO program, another firm is the better call.

Randstad

The reason Randstad made this list is scale, and the fact that Brazil gets its full operating structure rather than a satellite office. 

Founded in 1960, the largest staffing firm in the world runs four divisions in the country: Randstad Operational, Randstad Professional, Randstad Digital for technology and information technology roles, and Randstad Enterprise. The practical effect is that one relationship can cover an operational team, a professional hire, and a technology hire without changing vendors mid-plan.

Randstad places hires onto client teams, supplies contract staff, and runs full talent-lifecycle recruitment process outsourcing and managed service programs. 

Track record: The world’s largest staffing firm, founded in 1960.

Best for: Randstad suits staffing at scale in Brazil across several bands of seniority, where the breadth of one vendor matters more than a deep bench in a single specialism.

Limitations: If you need a niche sector specialist with deep day-to-day expertise in one discipline, another firm is the better call.

SGF Global

SGF Global is here for a client roster few firms its size can match: IBM, Unilever, and Dell. The company has been in business for more than 30 years and works across more than 35 countries, with Brazil listed under its Latin America presence.

It acquired Adecco’s Ecuador and Uruguay operations in 2024, one of several moves that have expanded its footprint across the region in recent years and reinforced the multi-country reach that puts Brazil in context alongside a much longer country list.

Its services run from temporary staffing and direct hire to nearshoring, recruitment process outsourcing, and business process outsourcing, which is a wider span than most firms on this list.

Enterprise clients: IBM, Unilever, and Dell.

Best for: SGF Global fits a company hiring in Brazil as part of a multi-country plan, where one vendor across a long list of countries matters more than a deep local bench in one city.

Limitations: If you want a single, clearly scoped placement, be precise about which model you’re buying before you sign: a direct-hire search and an outsourced project are priced and governed very differently, and this is a firm that offers both.

Pierpoint

What sets Pierpoint apart is how it works rather than how big it is: it embeds recruiters inside your hiring function instead of sending candidates in from outside it. 

Its Latin America delivery team runs recruitment programs in Brazil alongside Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Peru, and Uruguay, so Brazil is a named market inside a regional program rather than a standalone office.

Its client roster includes Amazon, Nike, and Microsoft, which is the kind of procurement scrutiny that tends to follow a firm around. 

In practice, that means Pierpoint’s recruiters work inside your existing systems and interview process rather than running a separate one alongside it, so your hiring managers stay hands-on throughout the search rather than reviewing a shortlist at the end.

Enterprise clients: Amazon, Nike, and Microsoft.

Best for: Pierpoint fits a company hiring steadily in Brazil that needs recruiting capacity inside its own team, and a hiring process it keeps afterwards.

Limitations: If you want a fully handed-off search rather than a program your own hiring managers stay involved in day to day, another firm is the better call.

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How Do You Choose the Right Recruitment Agency in Brazil?

With eight firms on this list, the fastest way to narrow it down is by matching your hiring model to theirs. Start by answering one question: are you filling a single named role, staffing a team at scale, or handing off a whole hiring function? That answer points you to two or three names worth calling. 

Hire With Near shows up in more than one of these situations below, since full-time placement is the throughline whether you’re hiring one role in Brazil or building out across the region.

If you’re filling one specialist role in a defined sector

Look at Michael Page or Robert Half. Both work through consultants who specialize by discipline rather than generalists working from a job description, and both are built around individual, skill-matched placements rather than volume programs. 

Michael Page’s edge is sector depth across fourteen specialisms, while Robert Half’s is brand recognition and its Creative Group and executive search practices for more senior or creative-adjacent roles.

If you’re building out several roles at once

Hire With Near places full-time hires directly onto your team, and that model scales to team-building, not just single roles. Here are some examples of how this worked: 

• AvantStay, a vacation-rental platform, scaled its Latin American SDR team to 18 people through our services, adding $20 million in new annual recurring revenue and saving more than $1.3 million a year in payroll costs. 
• ParkMobile took a similar approach on the engineering side, placing 9 senior developers in Colombia and saving over $1 million annually. 

In both cases, the roles were filled individually and built into a full function over time, each hire reporting directly to the client rather than to Hire With Near.

Randstad and Adecco solve the same volume problem differently, through operational staffing infrastructure rather than direct placement. Both run full country-level operating structures in Brazil rather than a satellite office, and both can staff a large team across multiple seniority bands through one relationship. 

Randstad’s edge is scale and its four-division structure; Adecco’s is breadth, since it can cover a specialized hire and an operational team from the same relationship.

If you want a full-time hire who joins your team directly

Hire With Near places full-time hires who report to you rather than working through the agency’s own staff or a contract structure, with support that continues after the person starts. If the outcome you want is someone on your payroll and your team from day one, this is the model to look at first.

If you need contract or contract-to-hire technical talent

Insight Global is built for this specifically, with an evergreen recruiting operation for cloud, data, AI, and application development roles, and a structure that lets a contract role convert to permanent once you know it’s working.

If you want recruiters embedded inside your own hiring process

Pierpoint is the outlier on this list because it doesn’t simply hand you candidates. It puts recruiters inside your team to run the search alongside your hiring managers. 

This fits a company that wants to build internal recruiting capacity it keeps after the engagement ends, not one that wants a search handed off entirely.

If Brazil is one country in a multi-country hiring plan

SGF Global is the strongest fit when Brazil is part of a broader regional or global search, since one vendor across 35+ countries can matter more than the deepest possible bench in a single city.

If your plan is specifically Latin America rather than global, Hire With Near is also worth a look here: we cover hiring across the whole region, so the same partner who places a hire in Brazil can also handle a search in Mexico, Colombia, or Argentina without switching vendors.

Once you’ve narrowed to two or three, call each one and ask the same questions

The firms above solve different problems, but within a category the differences come down to execution, not model. Before you commit, get on a call with your shortlist and ask each one:

• How do you source and screen candidates in Brazil specifically, not just the region broadly?
• What’s your average time to shortlist and time to hire for a role like mine?
• What happens if the person doesn’t work out?
• Is pricing structured as a placement fee, a markup on salary, or a retainer, and what triggers it?

Asking all three the same four questions is the fastest way to see which one truly fits, rather than which one pitched the best.

Final Thoughts

What separates these eight comes down to three things: where they recruit inside Brazil, which engagement model they sell, and how much support you get after the offer is signed. The table answers the first two; the third is a question you should ask in a call.

Where Hire With Near differs is what happens before any sourcing starts. Once you decide to move forward, a dedicated recruiter runs a kickoff call on the must-haves, the dealbreakers, and what a strong hire looks like inside your team, then runs the search against that instead of a job description.

Delve, a digital consulting firm in Boulder, Colorado, worked with us on ten hires across Latin America and supported 43% headcount growth in twelve months without lowering its bar.

If you’re looking wider than one country, our roundup of the best staffing firms across Latin America covers the region, and we have the same list for staffing agencies in Mexico. 

You can also get a list of pre-vetted candidates and see the profiles our talent pool holds. You’ll get 2–3 sample profiles showing real candidates’ experience, education, skills, and English proficiency, no meeting required and no commitment. 

It’s a fast way to see the caliber of talent available in Latin America before deciding whether to move forward. If you do, you can interview candidates for free and only pay once you make a hire.

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