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Hire nearshore product designers who sit in your design critique.

Nearshore product designers are UX and UI designers based in Latin America who work as members of your product team during US hours. nearshore.now vets their portfolios and process, employs them locally, and you direct the work in Figma, Jira and Slack the way you would with anyone else.

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Torre.ai Staffing Partner Founded by Tania Zapata and Alexander Torrenegra
Plate 1. Where nearshore.now hires product designers Map of the Americas with routes from Buenos Aires, Córdoba, São Paulo, Mexico City, Guadalajara, Monterrey, Bogotá, Medellín to US cities. Bogotá – New YorkBogotá – AustinMexico City – Los AngelesMexico City – ChicagoBuenos Aires – MiamiSão Paulo – New YorkMedellín – NapaGuadalajara – DenverMonterrey – AustinCórdoba – Chicago Mexico City Guadalajara Monterrey Bogotá Medellín São Paulo Buenos Aires Córdoba New York Miami Chicago Austin Denver Los Angeles 40° N 20° N 0° 20° S 120° W 100° W 80° W 60° W N 0 1,000 km Azimuthal equal-area
Plate 1Where we hire product designers United States
Buenos Aires 34.60° S, 58.38° W –:–– · UTC
  • 5 days
    to your first shortlist
  • 6–8 hours
    of daily overlap with every US time zone
  • 40–60%
    below the cost of an equivalent US hire
  • 1 invoice
    We employ. You manage.
The role5 titles placed

What a nearshore product designer does on your team.

  • Turns product requirements into flows, wireframes and high-fidelity screens.
  • Runs user interviews and usability tests in English or Spanish, whichever your users speak.
  • Maintains your design system and its components.
  • Works with engineers during the sprint, because a 3 PM question gets a 3 PM answer.

Titles we place

  • Product designer (UX and UI)
  • UX researcher
  • Design systems designer
  • Visual and brand designer
  • Design lead

Skills and tools

  • Figma, FigJam, prototyping
  • Design systems and component libraries
  • User research, usability testing, analytics review
  • Accessibility standards (WCAG)
  • Front-end literacy: HTML, CSS, how components get built
  • Presenting and defending design decisions in English
Vetting4 steps · you interview the finalists

How we vet product designers.

  1. Portfolio review against a rubric: problem framing, iteration, outcomes, craft.
  2. A live design exercise on a realistic brief, discussed out loud.
  3. A conversation with a senior designer about process and tradeoffs.
  4. An English interview and reference checks.

Then you interview the three to five who pass. We never place someone you have not met.

Seniority

Mid-level
Three to five years. Owns features end to end inside an existing system.
Senior
Six or more years. Owns a product area, runs research, mentors.
Lead
Runs a small design team and the design system.
WhereArgentina · Brazil · Mexico · Colombia

Why Latin America for product designers.

Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Mexico City and Bogotá have deep design communities and design schools, and many senior designers there have spent years working for US startups through agencies. Nearshore staffing skips the agency markup and gives you the designer directly, on your team, in your hours.

ArgentinaUTC−3

Buenos Aires and Córdoba

Buenos Aires has one of the region’s largest design communities.

Hire in Argentina BrazilUTC−3

São Paulo and Campinas

São Paulo has a mature product-design scene.

Hire in Brazil MexicoUTC−6

Mexico City and Guadalajara

Scale. With about 130 million people and the largest economy in Spanish-speaking Latin America, Mexico has more engineers, accountants and bilingual professionals than any other nearshore country.

Hire in Mexico ColombiaUTC−5

Bogotá and Medellín

The time zone is the whole argument. A Bogotá employee works the complete Eastern and Central business day and six to seven hours of the Pacific day, with no daylight-saving shuffle because Colombia never changes its clocks.

Hire in Colombia
Fithonest answer on the call

When it fits, and when it doesn't.

A good fit when

  • You have a product manager or founder who owns the roadmap and needs design capacity.
  • You want someone embedded with engineering, not a vendor delivering mockups on Fridays.

Not the right tool when

  • You need a one-off brand or website project. Hire an agency for that.
FAQ4 entries

Questions about nearshore product designers.

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01Do nearshore designers speak English well enough to run user interviews?

The ones we place do. English fluency is a screening requirement, and we test it in a live interview, not a form. Many of our designers also run research in Spanish or Portuguese, which is useful if you serve those markets.

02Which tools do they use?

Figma is the standard. They work inside your Figma organization, your design system and your ticketing tool, so nothing lives outside your accounts.

03Can I see portfolios before the call?

You see portfolios with the shortlist, within about a week of the intro call. Each candidate comes with our review notes.

04Can I hire a nearshore product designer through staffing or recruitment?

Either. With nearshore staffing, nearshore.now employs the product designer in their country and you pay a flat monthly fee. With nearshore recruitment, we run the same search and vetting, and you hire the product designer directly for a one-time fee.

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