Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina (in-market, with regular travel to Colombia)
Reports to: Co-Founder
Type: Full-time
Status: First hire in market

About Outsentia

Outsentia is a global talent and operations partner helping companies build high-performing offshore teams in regions like Asia & LATAM. From sales and customer success to engineering and research support, we help our clients find top talent and scale quickly, without compromising quality. Our mission is to bridge exceptional global talent with fast-growing companies that need flexible, reliable, and cost-effective support.

About the Role

We are opening in Argentina and, shortly after, Colombia. This is the person who opens them.

That means the job is not one job. For the first year it is recruiting, HR operations, entity and compliance groundwork, finding the physical space, and setting the tone of how the team works — held by one person, because that is what a founding role looks like. As the region grows, this role grows into leading it.

We are being direct about the shape of this on purpose. If you want a defined lane inside an existing structure, this is the wrong role. If you want to build the structure, keep reading.

What You'll Own

Recruiting — LATAM and global

• Run full-cycle recruiting against live client mandates: intake, sourcing, screening, submission, offer
• Build our candidate pipeline across Argentina, Colombia and the wider region, and contribute to global searches alongside our Pakistan team
• Interview to a consistent standard and write assessments a client can act on
• Own the quality of what reaches the client — not just the volume of what reaches the pipeline

HR operations in-country

• Onboarding, contracts, payroll coordination, benefits and the day-to-day employment relationship for our Argentina team
• Keep our people records, documentation and compliance obligations accurate and current
• Be the first point of contact for the team on anything employment-related

Entity and legal structuring

• Work with our co-founders and external counsel on entity formation, registrations and the contractor-of-record and employment structures we operate through
• Translate what Argentine and Colombian law requires into processes we can actually run
• Flag risk early and in plain language

Offices in Argentina and Colombia

• Source and secure our first office in each market: location, terms, fit-out, vendors, the practical work of opening a door
• Get both sites operational and keep them running

Culture

• Set the standard for how the team works before there is a team to inherit it
• Hire the first cohort and be the reason they stay
• Make sure someone in Buenos Aires or Bogotá experiences Outsentia the same way someone in Islamabad or Austin does

What the First Year Looks Like

• Months 1–3: Argentina entity and employment structure moving with counsel. First client mandates being recruited. Office search underway.
• Months 4–6: Buenos Aires office open. First local hires onboarded. HR operations running without founder involvement.
• Months 7–12: Colombia groundwork complete and Bogotá office open. A small regional team in place that you hired and lead.

Qualifications

• 5+ years across recruiting and HR operations, with real ownership of both — not recruiting with HR admin attached, or vice versa
• Working knowledge of Argentine employment law and payroll obligations in practice, not in theory
• Fluent Spanish and English. Client-facing English is not optional; you will be in front of US clients
• Evidence that you have built something rather than maintained it — a function, a team, a market, an office
• Comfortable with ambiguity, capable of making decisions without a playbook, and honest when something isn't working

Nice to Have

• Experience in market research, financial services, professional services recruiting, or an EOR/PEO
• Exposure to Colombian employment law or prior experience opening a second market
• Familiarity with an ATS and modern recruiting tooling

What We Offer

• A founding role with a defined path to leading the region
• Direct access to the founders; no layer between you and the decisions

How to Apply

Apply through our careers page.

Outsentia hires on capability. We welcome applicants regardless of background, gender, age, disability or national origin.