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Hire a technical support specialist who solves it before it reaches engineering

Not a seat in a shared BPO queue that learns your product from a script. One dedicated Tier 1 and Tier 2 specialist from Latin America who troubleshoots, triages and escalates with the context your engineers need, on your hours.

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

TOP RATED TALENT

Meet the talent you could hire

Six of the technical support and help desk profiles already in the CloudTask talent network. Every card is built from the candidate record itself.

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How it works

How do I hire a technical support specialist?

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

Post the role

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

Review your matches

3 to 5 matches in 48 hours.

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

Your product, not a queue

One specialist who learns your product, your common failures and your customers. Not an agent rotating across many accounts in a shared BPO queue.

Your support hours, covered

Latin America and the Caribbean overlap the US business day, so tickets are answered and escalated while your engineering team is online.

Verified on your stack

Zendesk, Intercom, Freshdesk, Jira, your admin consoles. Tools are checked per candidate against the stack you name, not taken from a self-reported list.

Replacement guarantee

24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire. Support quality shows up in your churn, 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

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.

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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 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 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 CRO and Co-founder, GetAccept

SKILLS

Top capabilities to look for in a technical support specialist

Product knowledge can be taught in weeks. These are the capabilities that decide whether support reduces the load on your engineers or adds to it.

Structured troubleshooting

Reproducing the issue, isolating the variable and ruling things out in order, instead of trying fixes at random until one works.
Triage and prioritization

Knowing which ticket is an outage, which is a bug and which is a how to question, and routing each one to the right place first time.
Escalations engineers can act on

Steps to reproduce, environment, logs, screenshots and customer impact in the ticket, so engineering does not have to ask the same questions again.
Explaining technical things simply

Walking a non-technical customer through a fix in plain English, on the phone, in chat or by email, without making them feel slow.
Knowledge base ownership

Turning every repeated answer into an article or macro, and keeping them current when the product changes.
Admin and access management

User provisioning, permissions, password resets and configuration in the admin consoles your customers or your staff depend on.
Working to support metrics

First response time, resolution time and satisfaction scores, tracked honestly, with the judgment to know when a fast answer is the wrong answer.
AI where it saves a step

Drafting replies, summarizing long threads and searching the knowledge base faster. Useful for speed, never a substitute for testing the fix.

HIRING GUIDE

How to hire a technical support specialist

Technical support is where your product meets the customer on a bad day. This guide covers what the role owns, the difference between Tier 1 and Tier 2, how a dedicated specialist compares with outsourced technical support, and when you should not hire one yet.

What does a technical support specialist do?

They take the tickets, chats and calls where something is not working, find out why, and either fix it or hand it to engineering with everything needed to fix it quickly.

Around that core sit the tasks that keep support healthy: triaging the queue, maintaining the knowledge base, managing user access and admin settings, and spotting when many small tickets are really one product problem.

What is the difference between Tier 1 and Tier 2 support?

Tier 1 is the first line: password resets, how-to questions, known issues with a documented fix, and gathering the details when something is new. Most tickets should end there.

Tier 2 takes what Tier 1 cannot close: deeper troubleshooting, configuration problems, log review and reproducing bugs. Tier 2 decides what goes to engineering and writes the escalation. Many teams hire one person to cover both and split the roles as volume grows.

How is a dedicated specialist different from outsourced technical support?

Outsourced technical support usually means a BPO or managed service provider staffing your queue from a shared pool, often with a script and an escalation path back to you for anything unusual.

A dedicated specialist works only on your product, inside your helpdesk and your Slack, and builds the product knowledge that a rotating pool resets. For a complex SaaS product, that knowledge is most of the value.

When should you not hire a technical support specialist yet?

When ticket volume is low enough that your founders or engineers can still answer everything within a day. At that stage the better investment is a knowledge base and a few macros.

It is also the wrong hire if what you need is someone on site to fix laptops and printers, or an engineer to fix the bugs. Fixing the product itself is a job for a software engineer, which is a separate hire covered on our backend developers and full stack developers pages, and a support specialist should not be asked to do it.

What does the first month look like?

The first two weeks go on the product: shadowing the queue, reading the knowledge base, and learning the known issues and the escalation path. Answering real tickets with review comes next.

By the end of the first month a good specialist is closing Tier 1 on their own and writing escalations your engineers do not have to rewrite.

What should I check in the interview?

Give a real ticket from your queue, anonymized, with a vague customer description. Ask what they would ask the customer first, and what they would check before replying.

Then ask them to write the escalation to engineering for a bug you describe. Clear steps to reproduce and a stated customer impact are the signal you are looking for.

Red flags in technical support candidates

Fixes tried at random. In the ticket exercise, listen for the order of their questions. A candidate who jumps to solutions before asking the customer anything, or cannot say what they would rule out first, will close tickets by luck and see them reopen.

Escalations engineers have to rewrite. When they write the escalation for the bug you describe, look for steps to reproduce and the customer impact. Without them your engineers ask the same questions again and the fix waits.

Every ticket is urgent. Ask how they would sort an outage, a bug and a how to question that arrive together. A candidate who works the queue in arrival order will leave the outage behind a password reset.

Jargon with a frustrated customer. Ask them to explain a fix as if you were a non-technical customer. If the explanation depends on the vocabulary it was meant to remove, your customers will feel slow and write back.

Fast over right. Ask how they think about first response time against resolution. A candidate who only talks about answering quickly, and never about testing the fix, will improve the metric without solving the customer's problem.

How much does it cost to hire tech support?

It depends on the tier, the technical depth of your product, the hours you need covered and the country the person works from, so 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 technical support in Latin America?

Overlap. Escalations are only fast when support and engineering are online at the same time, and Latin America and the Caribbean share most of the US working day.

The second reason is English, spoken and written, under pressure, with a frustrated customer. We screen that live on a call rather than inferring it from a profile.

How does CloudTask hire for this role?

You send the product, the tier you need, the tools and the hours to cover. 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.

Is this outsourced technical support?

It is a dedicated staffing model, not a shared call center. One specialist works only for you, in your helpdesk and your tools, on your hours. A shared outsourced queue is a different product, and it can be the better fit for simple, high-volume support.

Do you place IT technicians or software engineers?

This page covers remote technical support and help desk specialists. Fixing the product itself is a software engineering hire: see our backend developers and full stack developers pages.

How fast can a technical support specialist start?

You get 3 to 5 matched profiles within 48 hours. After you choose, plan the first two weeks for product training and shadowing before full ticket ownership.

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.

Ready to hire?

3 to 5 matches in 48 hours. Start with a quick role brief to get your shortlist.