Lupa Hire
Hire exceptional talent.
From Latin America,
with care.
Discover a smarter way to hire the right person, backed by senior specialists who know your industry and a scientific process built to identify who will perform best at your company.
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A Top Recruitment Leader In North America
Lupa Founder Joseph Burns was named a Top 100 Recruitment Leader in North America by Atlas x Hoxo, in recognition of our people-first way to hire.
A Better Way To Build Teams In Latin America
Most recruitment firms in the region sell you speed and volume, flooding you with candidates and treating Latin America as nothing more than a source of cheap labor. For us, Latin America is a source of ambition.
We understand the appeal of Latin America’s cost savings. But instead of throwing resumes at the wall to see what sticks, we present hand-picked candidates who actually fit your needs.
We built our team with the best senior experts in the region and follow an established, science-backed method: define a performance profile for every role before the search begins, find the best person in Latin America for it, and stay with you until they join your company.
There are three ways to work with us, and we will help you pick the one that suits you best.
Direct Hire
We handpick talent that fits your culture and goals, delivering pre-vetted candidates within a week through our proven process.
Staffing
Everything in our recruiting service, plus we handle contracts and payroll. Seamless, compliant, and stress-free.
RPO
We partner with you for a set period and embed our recruiters within your team. Same precision, care, and speed, but closer.
Why Choose Lupa
What makes Lupa different from other companies? The answer is a sophisticated formula we’ve refined over years of searches, built to consistently deliver the best candidates.
Senior Partners, Not Junior Recruiters
Other firms run searches with junior recruiters and make up for their inaccuracy with candidate volume. We run every search with a senior Talent Partner who specializes in your field and knows the Latin American talent market first-hand. Experience makes a difference.
A Tailored Performance Profile
We understand the real risk isn't failing to hire, but hiring the wrong person. Science backs the right hiring decisions, and we put it to work in every search: a tailored performance profile that sets clear standards for what the role actually demands.
Latin America Specific Guidance
We help companies hire the right way in the region, so they keep coming back. We don’t push a specific model on you based on our own recurring revenue or profit margins. Our strategic guidance helps you pick the best country and hiring modality for your company’s current and future needs.
Technology That Keeps Us Human
We don’t use AI to run bot-led interviews or spam candidates with irrelevant jobs. Instead, our technology compounds the knowledge from every search we run. Our core technology is a closed-loop AI platform built by and for Latin American talent.
What Our Clients Say
Companies that keep hiring with Lupa
"What I love about Lupa Hire is their approach to sharing small, carefully selected batches of candidates. They focus on sending only the three most qualified individuals, which has already helped us successfully fill 20+ roles.”
"Talking about Lupa, I would say: these are the people you want to work with. They understand what consultancies are like. They understand that they could work for a month on a req, only to have it pulled because a client contract didn’t go through. You understand our business model, and that is invaluable."
"We came to Lupa with a need to hire key tech and AI positions in Latin America. Our target when working with them was to find the best of the best in the region and they delivered. Their approach goes beyond what you'd expect from a headhunter with an incredible focus on match quality."
"Before Lupa Hire, we struggled to find a vendor who could match both the volume and the quality we needed to build out our senior development team in Mexico. Lupa Hire gave us real visibility into the pipeline and consistently sent us candidates who actually fit, not just resumes, but people who understood product engineering. It's made a real difference in how fast we've been able to grow the team."
“With Lupa, we rebuilt our entire tech team in less than a month. We’re spending half as much on talent. Ten out of ten”
"We hired 2 of our key initial developers with Lupa. The consultation was very helpful, the candidates were great and the process has been super fluid. We're already planning to do our next batch of hiring with Lupa. 5 stars."
“We’ve worked with Lupa on multiple roles, and they’ve delivered time and again. From sourcing an incredible Senior FullStack Developer to supporting our broader hiring needs, their team has been proactive, kind, and incredibly easy to work with. It really feels like we’ve gained a trusted partner in hiring.”
"Lupa goes beyond typical headhunters. They helped me craft the role, refine the interview process, and even navigate international payroll. I felt truly supported—and I’m thrilled with the person I hired. What stood out most was their responsiveness and the thoughtful, consultative approach they brought."
“The quality of candidates is great. Your pricing is reasonable. People are great to work with. I can't imagine a better experience.”
Results That Matter
Nearly everyone we place is still there well past the first year
Companies across the world that come back to hire with us again
People building long careers on the teams we matched them to
The Lupa Way
97% of our placements are still in the seat after their first year. That’s the result of a simple difference: most firms start by sending you people. We start by defining the right person. Here is a simplified view of our method: seventeen steps in practice.
Work Across Time Zones
Our Talent Partners and the candidates we hire for you work your hours, so your work gets done the same day instead of the next one. We also collaborate with leading software development companies in Brazil to expand access to niche technical expertise.
Nearly everyone we place is still there well past the first year
Companies across the world that come back to hire with us again
People building long careers on the teams we matched them to
What We Believe
Five principles shape how we work with clients, with candidates, and with each other.
Cultural Competency
Lupa was built in Latin America by people who live and work here. We understand the market and the cultures around it, then translate that context into stronger searches and working relationships.
Match Quality
A hire is more than a resume matching a job description. We align skills, motivations, values, and role outcomes so every candidate presentation has a clear reason behind it and a better chance to last.
Ethics of Care
People come first. We treat every client, candidate, and colleague with warmth, empathy, and respect. That care shapes the questions we ask, the feedback we share, and the relationships we stay responsible for.
Learning Focused
Every search teaches us something. We study the market, use scientific evidence, peer-review our work, invite candid feedback, and use what we learn to sharpen the next decision
Radical Transparency
We share what we see, including the difficult truths. Frequent updates and open communication keep both sides aligned and turn uncertainty into better-informed decisions.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What roles can Lupa recruit for?
We work across technology and engineering, including AI and machine learning roles, as well as finance, sales, marketing, customer service, operations, and leadership. Job titles alone don’t tell the whole story, so every search starts with a performance profile that defines what success actually requires.
How quickly can you send a shortlist?
What many firms call a shortlist, Lupa calls a candidate presentation. Most clients meet strong candidates within a week, but we never trade match quality for speed. Your specialist shares clear progress while research, interviews, and peer review continue behind the scenes.
How do you assess candidate quality or fit?
We call it match quality. We build a scorecard from the performance profile, interview for evidence rather than impressions, and send you a candidate profile that opens with the one thing that sets that person apart. It is how we separate a strong engineer from someone who just interviews well.
Do you conduct technical assessments?
Your team owns the technical evaluation. We design the selection process so each interview or test measures the performance profile, and every decision connects back to evidence rather than instinct.
Why hire nearshore in Latin America?
Latin America is a source of ambition, not a way to spend less. You get senior professionals in your own working hours, and Cultural Competency so both sides read each other correctly from the start.
Do I need to sponsor visas for Latin American hires?
Remote professionals working from Latin America generally do not need U.S. or Canadian visa sponsorship. We clarify the location, contract, and working arrangement during the consultation call to avoid surprises.
How do payroll and payments work?
You can manage payments directly with our guidance, or we can handle the entire payroll process to keep things compliant and hassle-free.
Do you handle full-cycle recruitment?
Yes. We are with you from consultation through offer and start date. Your team runs the final interviews and owns every hiring decision.
What contract types do you support?
Contractor or full-time employee, whichever fits. Most clients bring people on long-term as another full-time team member, not freelancers for a one-off project.
What do recruiting, RPO, and staffing cost?
Three models. Direct Hire: one success fee when the person starts. RPO, or recruitment process outsourcing: a lower monthly base plus a smaller fee per hire once you are hiring repeatedly. Staffing: a monthly per-user fee, with payroll run by us. Book a call or contact us, and we’ll tell you which one fits your plan and what it costs.
