NearTalent is the US-facing brand of Selection Book — a Mexico City boutique recruiting firm with 1,000+ LATAM placements for US scale-ups since 2016. Every salary band, retention figure and playbook published on this site comes from work we actually did.
15+ years in talent acquisition for transnational corporations in chemical, CPG and startup industries. Led the consolidation of TuHabi as Mexico's first PropTech unicorn through 100+ monthly hires during the Series-D scaling phase.
Founder of the Mexican Series-C startup compensation club — a private benchmarking group that homologates tabuladores and compensation practices across 30+ scale-ups. The dataset behind most of NearTalent's salary content originates here.
Specializations: LATAM tech recruiting, compensation benchmarking, employer branding for scale-ups, cross-border hiring compliance.
20+ years in strategic consulting and top advertising holdings: Havas Group, IPG, UM/Initiative, WPP Mindshare, Ogilvy, VML. Roles spanning VP Client Service, Chief Strategy Officer, CMO, Digital VP and Creative VP across 20+ industries and 150+ clients.
Certified Business Coach. Currently leads NearTalent's US-market strategy, content operations and cross-cultural management consulting for clients building distributed LATAM teams.
Specializations: marketing talent strategy, cross-border team management, brand and B2B go-to-market, creative leadership.
Selection Book is a boutique LATAM recruiting firm founded in Mexico City in 2016. We've placed 1,000+ professionals — from senior engineers to C-Level executives — at US scale-ups and Mexican unicorns. We operate across Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile and Brazil with a network of vertical-specialized consultants.
NearTalent is the brand we use for US clients. The methodology, the data and the team are the same.