Developers, PMs, designers, AI evaluators. Every hire is pre-vetted, in your timezone, and backed by a 3-month replacement guarantee. Tell me the role and I'll send a shortlist of Latin American talent who've done exactly that.
Awana isn't a marketplace and isn't a job board. We source, vet, and match one role at a time. Here's what we've placed most.
AI, backend, frontend, founding, full-stack. Senior, English-fluent, in your timezone.
See engineering roles →Ship production AI, RAG, agents, RLHF, model evals. The team behind the model.
See AI roles →Startup-tempo PMs who ship, not manage. Bilingual, US-market fluent, roadmap-first.
See PM roles →Product designers, UX/UI, brand and marketing designers. Systems-thinkers who ship.
See design roles →The people who make the machine run. From CS to RevOps analysts to office ops leads.
See ops roles →Every role is different. Tell us what you need, most searches we run have never been searched before.
Start a custom search →The LatAm advantage
Latin American talent has quietly become one of the best hiring markets on earth. Same working hours as the US. Near-native English. Senior operators trained at Nubank, Rappi, MercadoLibre, Kavak, and every US-headquartered startup with a LatAm office. And salaries roughly 50% below equivalent US rates.
Compared to offshore hiring in India or Eastern Europe, the timezone alone changes everything. Your LatAm hire joins your morning stand-up, attends afternoon meetings, ships in your sprint. No handoffs, no delays, no 6am syncs. You get a real teammate, not a queue.
Compared to hiring in the US, you get the same seniority for a fraction of the cost. That's not because the talent is cheaper, it's because the cost of living is. Senior developers in Bogotá or Guadalajara live comfortably on rates that would barely cover rent in San Francisco.
Awana has placed 500+ LatAm hires with US startups over the last 5 years. We know what works, what breaks, and how to build a team that scales.
30 minutes. You tell me the role, the stack, and what great looks like. I tell you if we can help, and if not, who can.
We source from our vetted LatAm talent network, then screen for skills, communication, and startup-fit. 1 in ~50 sourced makes the shortlist.
You get 3-5 pre-vetted candidates with videos, code samples, and honest notes on strengths and gaps. No filler.
You interview. We handle logistics, references, offer support. Most hires close within 2 weeks of the shortlist.
Every LatAm placement carries a 3-month replacement guarantee. 98% of our hires stay past the window. The 2% that don't? We source a replacement, usually within 2 weeks, because we already know your team.
Thirty minutes. No obligation. If we can't help, we'll point you to someone who can.
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