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Hire a dedicated marketing automation consultant who runs your automation every day

A marketing automation consultant or specialist from Latin America who joins your team, owns your workflows, lists and lead routing, and fixes them the day something breaks.

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

  • Apollo
  • Vonage
  • Expensify
  • GetAccept

TOP RATED TALENT

Meet the talent you could hire

Six of the marketing automation and CRM profiles already in the CloudTask talent network. Every card is built from the candidate record itself.

How it works

How do I hire a marketing automation consultant?

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.

WHY TEAMS TRUST CLOUDTASK

What you get with every hire

One owner on your team

A dedicated consultant who works inside your team and keeps the workflows running after launch, week after week.

Same day as your team

Latin America and the Caribbean overlap the US working day, so a broken form or a stuck workflow gets fixed the day it breaks.

Verified on your stack

HubSpot, Marketo, Salesforce, Klaviyo, GoHighLevel, Zapier, Make. 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 automation cannot wait for a second search, 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

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 a marketing automation specialist

Anyone can drag boxes into a workflow builder. These are the capabilities that decide whether your automation produces pipeline or quietly sends the wrong email to the wrong list.

  • Workflow design with an off switch

    Enrollment rules, suppression lists and exit criteria written down before the workflow goes live, so nobody gets the same nurture email three times.

  • Lead scoring and routing

    Turning form fills and engagement into a clear handoff to sales, and revisiting the scoring when sales says the leads are not ready.

  • Clean data as the foundation

    Properties, lifecycle stages and deduplication kept in order. Automation built on messy data only makes the mess faster.

  • Integrations that hold

    Keeping the CRM, the marketing platform, forms and ads in sync, and noticing the day a sync stops before a campaign is built on stale data.

  • Reporting marketing can defend

    Attribution, funnel conversion and campaign reports that a sales leader and a finance lead both accept as the same number.

  • Email and nurture operations

    Templates, segmentation, sending limits and deliverability hygiene, so the emails that matter land in the inbox.

  • Governance and documentation

    Naming conventions, permissions and a written record of what each workflow does. The next person on the account should not have to reverse engineer it.

  • AI where it saves a step

    AI-assisted workflows, lead enrichment and first drafts of copy. Useful for speed, with a human deciding what actually reaches a prospect.

HIRING GUIDE

How to hire a marketing automation consultant

Most teams look for a marketing automation consultant when the automation is already broken or half-built. This guide covers what a marketing automation consultant or specialist does, when a one-time project is the better purchase, and when a dedicated person on your team is.

What does a marketing automation consultant do?

They run the systems that move a lead from first touch to a sales conversation: forms, lists, workflows, lead scoring, routing, nurture email and the reporting that shows whether any of it works.

The job is part builder and part operator. Building a workflow takes an afternoon. Keeping fifty of them accurate as your offers, your team and your data change is the work that fills the week.

What is the difference between a project consultant and a dedicated one?

A project consultant or implementation partner is hired for a defined piece of work: a migration, a new platform rollout, a rebuild of lead scoring. The engagement has a scope and an end date, and the knowledge of how it was built largely leaves with them.

A dedicated marketing automation consultant, often called a marketing automation specialist, is one person on your team who owns the platform day to day. They build, but they also maintain, answer requests from sales and marketing, and fix what breaks. The value is continuity.

When is a one-time project the better choice?

When the work is a one-time project with a clear end, such as a migration from another platform or a first implementation, and your team can run the result afterwards. A specialist firm that has done the same migration many times will usually do it faster.

Hire a dedicated person when the requests are continuous: new campaigns every week, sales asking for routing changes, reports that need to be rebuilt every quarter. That volume does not fit a project scope, and paying for it hour by hour gets expensive.

What should I ask in the interview?

Ask them to walk you through a workflow they built that went wrong. You want to hear how they noticed, how they stopped it, and what they changed so it could not happen again.

Then give them a real request with a conflict in it: marketing wants a new nurture, sales wants fewer emails going to active opportunities. Ask how they would build it. The answer tells you whether they think about the whole system or only the task.

Red flags in marketing automation specialist candidates

No workflow ever went wrong. Ask them to walk you through one that did. A candidate who has no example, or who cannot say how they noticed and what they changed afterwards, has either built very little or never checked what their workflows sent.

Building the task, not the system. In the conflict between a new nurture and fewer emails to active opportunities, a candidate who just builds what marketing asked for, without suppression or exit rules, will build the same way for you.

Data as someone else's problem. If they talk about workflows and never about properties, lifecycle stages or duplicates, they will automate your mess and make it faster.

Nothing written down. Ask how the next person would know what each of their workflows does. A candidate with no naming conventions and no record leaves you a platform someone has to reverse engineer.

Integrations they trust blindly. Ask about a sync that stopped. Someone who has never debugged one, or only found out when a campaign went out on stale data, will not notice the day yours breaks.

Which platforms do they need to know?

The one you run today, at the level you actually use it. HubSpot, Marketo, Pardot and Salesforce, Klaviyo, ActiveCampaign and GoHighLevel all share the same concepts, but the details differ enough that platform experience shortens the ramp.

Integration tools matter too. Zapier, Make and native connectors are where many automations quietly fail, so experience debugging them is worth asking about directly.

How long before a new specialist is effective?

Plan the first two weeks for an audit: what workflows exist, which are live, what data they depend on and what reports people rely on. Most inherited platforms contain automation nobody remembers building.

After that, start with one owned area, such as lead routing or the main nurture program, rather than a queue of unrelated requests.

How much does a marketing automation specialist cost?

It depends on seniority, the platforms, 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 a marketing automation specialist in Latin America?

Overlap. Automation requests come from sales and marketing during the US working day, and Latin America and the Caribbean share most of it, so a broken workflow is fixed before it costs a day of leads.

The second reason is English. Your specialist writes the emails your prospects receive and works with your sales team in real time, and we screen that live on a call.

How does CloudTask hire for this role?

You send the platforms, the scope 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 a marketing automation consultant?
Someone who designs and runs the systems that move a lead from first touch to a sales conversation: workflows, lead scoring, routing, nurture email and reporting. Some are hired for a single project, such as a migration. A dedicated consultant joins your team and runs the platform day to day.
How much should I pay for marketing automation help?
It depends on seniority, platforms, language and country, so a single number would mislead you. On Managed Staffing you pay one all-in monthly rate per person; on Direct Hire, a one-time fee. We quote your role before you interview.
What does a marketing automation specialist do day to day?
Builds and maintains workflows, keeps lists and data clean, manages lead scoring and routing to sales, runs nurture email and reports on what the automation produces.
Where can I hire a marketing automation specialist?
Freelance platforms and implementation partners work well for a one-time project. If the work is continuous, a dedicated specialist on your team is usually the better fit. Tell us your platforms and we verify them per candidate before you see a profile. If HubSpot is the only tool you need covered, see our HubSpot experts page.
How fast can a specialist start?
You get 3 to 5 matched profiles within 48 hours. After you choose, plan the first two weeks for an audit of the workflows, data and reports already in the platform.
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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