Creative Staffing and Recruiting Agency

A creative staffing and recruiting agency sources, screens, and delivers interview-ready candidates, so you’re not spending your time sorting through portfolios or interviewing designers who look great on Behance but can’t translate that to real client work.

At Near, the process starts with a discovery call where your dedicated recruiter learns your creative standards, the tools your team uses, and the type of work the hire will actually be doing day to day.

For an agency needing a production designer, that means understanding the client types you serve, the software stack you run, and whether you need someone who can own a project or someone who executes well within a defined system.

For an in-house marketing team, it might mean finding a copywriter or content writer who can absorb a brand voice quickly and work without heavy supervision.

Your recruiter then builds a shortlist of pre-vetted LatAm candidates, screened for portfolio quality, software depth, English fluency, and proactive communication style, and delivers it within days.

You run the final interviews. We handle contracts, payroll, and compliance if you want us to.

Near is a full-service nearshore staffing and recruiting partner that helps US companies hire across all industries and departments, including creative, design, and content functions.

Our recruiters specialize in placing roles like graphic designers, motion designers, UX/UI designers, video editors, copywriters, and creative directors. We handle everything from sourcing and screening to payroll and compliance.

Here’s what’s included:

1. Candidate sourcing and screening. We handle sourcing, portfolio review, English proficiency testing, software skills verification, initial interviews, and international background checks. You only see candidates worth your time.
2. Payroll, compliance, and contracts. Through our staffing model, Near manages contracts, payroll, tax compliance, and benefits administration, so you can hire in LatAm without setting up a local entity or navigating local labor law yourself.
3. Equipment and onboarding logistics. We’ve helped clients source laptops, coordinate equipment setup, and get hires operational from day one.
4. Ongoing support. Your dedicated recruiter stays available after the hire for check-ins and anything that comes up.

Both our recruitment-only and full-service staffing options include the same rigorous vetting process and no upfront costs.

Creative staffing and recruiting agencies typically charge a placement fee of 20–30% of the hired candidate’s first-year salary, or a monthly markup for staffing models that include payroll and compliance.

At Near, fees depend on which model you choose, and we walk through them clearly on the first call. There are never upfront costs, and you only pay once you make a hire.

Even after Near’s fees, the total cost of hiring a creative professional through Near is still 30–60% less than the equivalent US-based hire.

A senior graphic designer in LatAm at $42,000–$60,000 annually versus $59,000–$99,000 in the US covers the recruiting fee many times over in year one.

Hiring in Latin America is different from hiring in other offshore regions in two specific ways that matter for creative work: time zone and cultural alignment.

Unlike India or the Philippines, LatAm talent works fully in US business hours: no asynchronous feedback loops, no overnight lag on revision rounds.

And crucially, Latin American designers have grown up consuming and producing work shaped by US brand culture. The aesthetic sensibility is there without needing to be taught.

Near’s creative candidates are fluent in the tools that matter for creative work: Figma and Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere, After Effects) are usually baseline.

Depending on the role, candidates also work in Webflow, WordPress, Canva, CapCut, DaVinci Resolve, Blender, Cinema 4D, and other specialized tools.

During the kickoff call, we scope the exact tool stack your role requires and screen against it specifically, so you’re not spending time in interviews discovering basic software gaps.

Near functions as both a creative staffing and recruiting agency that handles the full process from sourcing to placement and ongoing employment support.

The practical difference for you: unlike a pure staffing agency that provides temporary placements, Near places dedicated full-time team members who integrate into your workflow, your tools, and your culture.

And unlike a pure recruiter who hands off a candidate and disappears, Near stays engaged post-placement to support onboarding, retention, and your next hire when you’re ready to scale.

Yes, Near specifically recruits and vets creative professionals with enterprise B2B portfolio experience, not just e-commerce or B2C work, if that is what you need.

Enterprise design has a different standard: more sophisticated, more precise, less forgiving of aesthetic misses.

Near’s creative recruiters understand that distinction and screen for it. We also evaluate whether candidates can independently identify when a detail is wrong before a client sees it—the kind of proactive quality control that enterprise work demands.

Most Near clients receive their first vetted creative shortlist within 3–5 days of the kickoff call and complete a hire within 21 days.

Creative roles can sometimes take slightly longer than administrative or technical roles because portfolio review and aesthetic calibration add a step, but the process is still meaningfully faster than a traditional creative agency search or job board hire.

Yes, LatAm creative professionals work US business hours. You get same-day Slack, Figma collaboration, and revision rounds.

This is one of the most meaningful differences between LatAm and other offshore regions for creative work specifically, because creative feedback cycles are synchronous by nature.

You shouldn’t have to describe a design note in writing and wait 12 hours for a response, and when you hire creative talent with Near, you won’t have to.

Near has a 97% placement success rate, 80% two-year retention across placements, and a 4.9 rating on G2 from 115+ client reviews. Those metrics reflect consistent delivery, not one-off wins.

Our recruiters specialize by function and industry. That means they understand what separates an average candidate from an A-player in your specific role.

Every candidate goes through structured screening for skills, communication ability, and culture alignment before reaching you.

Clients regularly tell us the quality of talent we present exceeds what they’ve seen from job boards or other agencies and that their hardest decision is choosing between strong options.

If a hire doesn’t work out, our 180-day replacement guarantee protects you.

Near screens out order-takers during vetting by evaluating proactive communication style as a core competency.

We look for candidates who ask clarifying questions before starting a brief, who flag potential client issues before they become problems, and who engage with the work as partners rather than executors.

During the calibration call, we also share specific scenarios with candidates to assess how they handle ambiguity and incomplete direction, because creative work is always partially ambiguous, and the best candidates thrive in that.