Marketing Staffing and Recruiting Agency

A marketing staffing and recruitment agency sources, screens, and delivers interview-ready marketing candidates, so you're not spending your time sifting through unqualified applicants or chasing people who look good on paper but can't do the actual work.

At Near, the process starts with a discovery call where your dedicated marketing recruiter learns your team structure, your tools and platforms, and the type of candidate who'll actually thrive in your environment.

For agencies, that means understanding your methodology: how you do SEO audits, how you approach paid media strategy, what your client onboarding looks like—so we can find someone you can genuinely train on your way of doing things, not just a generalist who’s touched the platforms.

Your recruiter then builds a shortlist of pre-vetted LatAm candidates, screened for platform experience, portfolio depth, English fluency, and cultural fit, 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 staffing and recruitment partner, providing sourcing, screening, background checks, initial interviews, and even payroll and compliance support. 

Here’s what our services cover:

1. Candidate sourcing and screening. We handle sourcing, screening, English proficiency testing, marketing experience verification, initial interviews, and international background checks. 
2. Payroll, compliance, and contracts. Through our staffing model, Near can manage 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. If you need it, we make it happen. We’ve helped clients source laptops to avoid customs delays, secure office space, and coordinate equipment setup. It’s not something every client needs, but it’s there if you do.
4. Ongoing support. Once your hire is in place, we don’t disappear. Your dedicated recruiter stays available on Slack for questions, 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.

Marketing recruiting firms typically charge a placement fee of 20–30% of the hired candidate's first-year salary for direct hire arrangements, or a monthly markup on the candidate's salary for staffing models that include payroll and compliance.

Some agencies also require a retainer before they start work. Near doesn't.

With Near, there are no upfront costs. You only pay when you make a hire. Discovery calls, kickoff calls, shortlists, and candidate interviews are all free.

What most clients find: even after Near's fees, the total cost of hiring a marketing professional through Near is 50–60% less than the equivalent US-based hire. A Growth Marketing Manager in LatAm at $48K–$72K annually versus $95K–$150K in the US covers the recruiting fee many times over in year one.

Every hire Near places is dedicated exclusively to your team—not shared across multiple clients or rotated on a round-robin basis.

This is the single most important distinction from the offshore staffing model most agencies have tried before. 

A dedicated hire can learn your methodology, build knowledge about your specific clients, and grow into the depth of work you actually need them to do. 

A shared resource working across multiple accounts for a third-party service will always be limited to the simplest, most standardized tasks—because there's no continuity and no depth.

Near's hires join your team the same way a local hire would. They're on your Slack, in your standups, trained on your processes, and accountable to you directly.

The LatAm marketing professionals Near places have a genuine fluency with US audiences, cultural references, and market expectations that make them effective on client-facing and US-targeted work from day one.

This is exactly why marketing teams choose LatAm over other offshore regions. Cultural proximity to the US market is a genuine differentiator for marketing work.

LatAm professionals consume US media, understand US cultural references, and are familiar with the expectations of US clients and audiences in a way that makes a real difference for work that requires judgment.

This doesn't replace training on your specific approach. You'll still need to onboard a new hire on your methodology, your clients, and your way of doing things. But the cultural foundation is there, which means you're training on the role, not explaining the market.

Yes. Near provides EOR services, payroll, benefits administration, contracts, and ongoing support if you choose our staffing model. If you prefer to handle these on your own, we have an option for that too. 

Yes. Near offers a 180-day replacement guarantee. If the candidate doesn’t work out in that window, we’ll find you a new placement at no additional cost.

Yes. This is our default

Your dedicated recruiter will learn your preferences, customize evaluation criteria to match what you value most in candidates, and adapt their process to match how you like to hire.

We’ll even help administer assessment tests if that’s part of your process.