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Hire an AI automation specialist who takes the manual work out of your operations

Not a consultant who builds a workflow and leaves, and not an agency on a monthly retainer. One dedicated person from Latin America who automates the handoffs across sales, operations and support, and keeps those automations running.

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TRUSTED BY TEAMS WHOSE CLOUDTASK HIRES HAVE STAYED 5 TO 8 YEARS

  • Apollo
  • Vonage
  • Expensify
  • GetAccept

How it works

How do I hire an AI automation specialist?

You do one thing: interview. We handle everything else.

1

Post the role

5 minutes. The role, the motion, the tools, the comp band. That is all we need to start.

2

Review your matches

3 to 5 matches in 48 hours.

3

Interview and hire

We coordinate interviews. On Managed Staffing, we also handle payroll and compliance across LATAM.

How it works

WHY TEAMS TRUST CLOUDTASK

What you get with every hire

Someone who stays after the build

Automations break when a tool changes or a process moves. A dedicated person on your team fixes them the same day instead of opening a new project.

Your working day, covered

Latin America and the Caribbean overlap the US business day, so a failed workflow gets noticed and fixed while your team is still working.

Verified on your stack

n8n, Make, Zapier, GoHighLevel, your CRM and your help desk. Checked per candidate against the tools you name, not taken from a self-reported list.

Replacement guarantee

24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire. Your automations run your operations, so the guarantee covers the case where the fit is wrong.

WHY CLOUDTASK

Staffing with numbers behind it

10,000+

hires placed

since 2016

85%

still in seat

past 90 days

24 months

replacement guarantee

on Managed Staffing

12

countries

across Latin America and the Caribbean

PRICING MODEL

Managed Staffing.

Managed Staffing is open to every role we place. We find the person, handle payments and compliance, and stay involved after the hire with check-ins, visibility, and escalation when something is off. You get the person. We keep the machine running. For roles that create demand, outbound SDRs, BDRs, demand generation and full-cycle AEs, Managed Staffing runs on a six-month minimum term.

Pay

One all-in monthly rate

Per person. That is the number, and there is nothing added to it.

In the monthly rate

  • Sourcing from the CloudTask staffing and recruiting company
  • Screening and vetting
  • Matching coordination
  • Worker payments
  • Compliance and employment administration
  • Onboarding support at day 0, 7, 30 and 60
  • Ongoing check-ins with the hire and with you
  • Time and activity tracking, on by default
  • Performance escalation
  • 24-month replacement guarantee. Replacements not capped.
  • Health benefits available on request
  • Equipment benefits available on request

Stays with you

  • The work itself
  • Priorities and direction
  • Who you hire

$299 to start your search. One time, not a subscription. It applies to your buyout or toward your first placement.

Start your search

PRICING MODEL

Direct Hire.

Direct Hire is open to every role we place. We find the person, vet them, and hand them over. You employ them, you manage them, you own the relationship from day one. Roles that create demand usually land here, because live call feedback and daily coaching work best coming straight from your sales leader, and there is no minimum term.

Pay

20% to 30%

Of first-year base salary. One time, quoted per role, paid when they accept.

In the fee

  • Sourcing from the CloudTask staffing and recruiting company
  • Screening and vetting
  • Shortlist of matched candidates
  • Interview coordination
  • Offer support
  • 6-month replacement guarantee. One replacement, same job description.

Yours when they accept

  • Employment and payroll
  • Compliance and employment administration
  • Ongoing management
  • Time and activity tracking
  • Health benefits and equipment benefits

$299 to start your search. One time, not a subscription. It applies to your buyout or toward your first placement.

Start your search

How CloudTask compares

Run the numbers. We did.

The same role, three ways to fill it.

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US Direct Hire Staffing Agency
Time to First Interview 48 hours 3 to 6 weeks 2 to 4 weeks
Payroll & Compliance Included on Managed Staffing You manage Included in rate
Vetting Process Human + AI verified You screen Recruiter screened
Candidate spam Screened out before you see a profile Common Low
Tool Verification Verified per candidate Self-reported Rarely verified
Free Replacements 24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire None Variable
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Testimonials

Trusted by teams that hire with us

  • LATAM has been a gold mine for talent. Our CloudTask hires understand our company culture and mission, and they connect with our customers in a way that drives high NPS and CX scores.
    David Barrett
    David Barrett CEO, Expensify
  • At first we were an SF-based team only. Then I met Amir Reiter back in 2018. After visiting Medellín, I knew LATAM would be key to our growth and success.
    Tim Zheng
    Tim Zheng CEO, Apollo.io
  • After meeting my CX and CS team in Medellín, we immediately loved the culture and the work ethic. As a European-HQ company, we found LATAM to be perfect to service our American clients.
    Carl Carell
    Carl Carell CRO and Co-founder, GetAccept

SKILLS

Top capabilities to look for in an AI automation specialist

Anyone can connect two apps. These are the capabilities that decide whether your automations save hours every week or create failures nobody notices until a customer does.

  • Mapping the process before automating it

    Writing down how the work actually happens today, who touches it and where it stalls. Automating a broken process only makes it break faster.

  • Workflow building in no-code tools

    n8n, Make, Zapier and GoHighLevel: triggers, branches, error paths and retries, built so someone else can read them.

  • AI steps with a human check

    Classifying requests, drafting replies, extracting fields from documents. Placed where they save time, with a review step where a wrong answer would cost money.

  • Connecting your systems

    CRM, help desk, billing, spreadsheets and forms talking to each other, so data is entered once and nobody copies it by hand.

  • Monitoring and failure handling

    Alerts when a run fails, logs someone can read, and a plan for what happens to the records that did not go through.

  • Documentation that outlives them

    What each automation does, what it depends on and who owns it. Without it, every workflow becomes a mystery the day the builder is out.

  • Measuring the time saved

    Knowing how long the task took before and after, so you can tell which automations earn their keep and which to switch off.

  • Working with the people who do the work

    The best automation ideas come from the team doing the task. A strong specialist asks them first and builds with them, not around them.

HIRING GUIDE

How to hire an AI automation specialist

Most businesses buy automation as a project: a consultant builds a set of workflows and moves on. This guide covers what an AI automation specialist does, when a dedicated person beats a project, and when you should not hire one yet.

What is an AI automation specialist?

Someone who takes repetitive work out of your operations by connecting your tools and adding AI steps where they help. Routing a lead, creating a ticket, updating a record, drafting a reply, pulling data from a document.

The tools are usually no-code or low-code platforms such as n8n, Make, Zapier and GoHighLevel. The skill is less about the tool and more about understanding the process well enough to automate it safely.

How is this different from an AI automation consultant or agency?

A consultant or agency is hired for a project. They map a process, build the workflows, hand them over and leave. That works well for a defined, one-time build.

A dedicated specialist is on your team every day. Automations need maintenance: tools change their APIs, processes shift, edge cases appear. The value of a dedicated person is that the second and third version of each workflow gets built too.

How is it different from marketing automation?

Marketing automation is about campaigns, lead scoring and the marketing platform, usually HubSpot or Marketo. That is a marketing operations role.

AI automation specialists work across the business: sales handoffs, operations, support queues, finance paperwork. If your need sits entirely inside the marketing platform, hire for marketing operations instead.

What does CRM and sales automation cover?

Most revenue teams lose time in the handoffs between tools, not inside them. Lead routing that sends a new inbound lead to the right rep in minutes, enrichment that fills the record before anyone opens it, and follow up tasks that create themselves when a deal changes stage.

In practice that means HubSpot workflows, Salesforce Flow, GoHighLevel automations and the n8n, Make or Zapier steps that connect them to your forms, your calendar and your billing. The specialist builds it, documents it and owns it when something breaks.

When should you not hire an AI automation specialist?

When you cannot yet describe the processes you want automated. If nobody can write down how a task works today, the first hire you need is someone to run and document it, not someone to automate it.

It is also the wrong hire when you have one or two workflows to build and nothing after that. A short project with a consultant will cost you less. Hire a dedicated person when the list keeps growing.

What should I automate first?

Start with work that is frequent, rule based and currently done by hand between two systems: copying data from a form into a CRM, creating tasks from emails, sending the same follow-up every time a deal moves stage.

Leave anything that needs judgment on every case until the simple wins are running. AI steps work best inside a process that is already stable.

What should I check in the interview?

Ask them to walk you through a workflow they built that failed in production. You want to hear how they found out, what they changed, and how they made sure it would not fail silently again.

Then give them one of your real processes in a few sentences and ask how they would map it before building anything. The questions they ask are the best predictor of the work.

Red flags in AI automation specialist candidates

Building before mapping. When you describe one of your processes, a candidate who names a tool and starts designing the workflow before asking how the work happens today will automate your problems along with it. The questions they ask first matter more than the build they propose.

No failure story. A candidate who cannot describe a workflow of theirs that failed in production, or only found out when someone complained, has not built monitoring. Ask how they would know a run failed and what happens to the records that did not go through.

Workflows only they can read. If they cannot describe how they documented what they built, every automation leaves with them. Ask what someone else would need to fix one of their workflows while they are out.

AI on every step. A candidate who puts an AI step everywhere, with no review where a wrong answer would cost money, is choosing the tool over the process. Ask where in your process they would not use AI, and why.

Building around the team. Strong specialists start with the people who do the task. A candidate who talks only about tools, and never about who they asked or built with, will ship automations your team works around.

How much does an AI automation specialist cost?

It depends on seniority, the tools involved, the language requirement and the country the person works from, and any single number describes one scenario and calls it a price.

What is worth understanding is the shape. On Managed Staffing it is one all-in monthly rate per person with payments, compliance and replacement cover inside it. On Direct Hire it is a one-time fee and the person goes on your payroll. We quote your number before you interview anyone.

Why hire an AI automation specialist in Latin America?

Overlap. When an automation fails, the damage is a lead that never got routed or a ticket that never got created. Latin America and the Caribbean share most of the US working day, so failures get caught while they still matter.

The second reason is English. The specialist works with your team to understand each process, and we screen that live on a call rather than inferring it from a profile.

How does CloudTask hire for this role?

You send the processes you want automated, the tools you use and the hours you need covered. We come back with 3 to 5 matched profiles within 48 hours, each one screened on a live call and verified against the stack you named.

You interview and choose. On Managed Staffing we handle payments, compliance and onboarding and stay involved with check-ins. On Direct Hire the person joins your payroll from day one. Both carry a replacement guarantee: 24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire.

FAQ

The fine print, in plain terms.

What is an AI automation consultant?
Someone who maps a business process and automates it with workflow tools and AI steps, usually as a project. A dedicated specialist does the same work continuously, as part of your team, and maintains what they build.
Do you place AI engineers or software developers?
Yes, as a separate role. This page covers business professionals who build and run automations in no-code and low-code tools. If you need someone to train models or write production software, see our AI and ML engineers and backend developers pages.
Which tools do they work in?
Whichever your business already runs on. Tell us the stack, for example n8n, Make, Zapier, GoHighLevel or HubSpot, and we verify it per candidate before you see a profile.
How fast can an automation specialist start?
You get 3 to 5 matched profiles within 48 hours. After you choose, plan for the first two weeks to go on access and mapping your processes before the first workflow ships.
What is the $299 for?
It starts your search. One time, not a subscription. It applies to your first placement or toward a buyout, so it is not an extra cost, it is the first part of one.
Why is there no number on the monthly rate?
Because it depends on the role, the seniority and the country. We quote the all-in monthly rate per person before you interview, so you know the number before you commit to anyone.
Who is the legal employer?
On Managed Staffing, CloudTask is the contracting party and handles payments and compliance, and you direct the work. On Direct Hire, you employ and manage the hire from day one.
How does tracking work, and can I turn it off?
On Managed Staffing, time and activity tracking is on by default. Talk to us about your setup when you start your search.
What happens if the person does not work out?
Managed Staffing carries a 24-month replacement guarantee, and replacements are not capped. Direct Hire carries a 6-month replacement guarantee: one replacement for the same job description.
Is there a platform or subscription fee?
No. $299 starts your search, one time, and applies toward your first placement. There is no subscription.

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