Hire UI/UX Designers in Latin America

Fill out the form, then book your intake call and tell us the product you design for, the platforms and design tools your team uses, whether the role leans toward research or visual design, the seniority you need and your budget. NBS screens each candidate in four stages, including a B2-or-higher CEFR English assessment and a role-specific design work sample. You'll interview your first candidates within 3 business days of the intake call and choose your hire.

UI/UX designer salaries in Latin America run 40 to 60 percent below US rates for senior roles and 50 to 70 percent below for mid-level roles. A direct hire placement carries a one-time fee, and nearshore staff augmentation runs on a fixed monthly fee that covers employment, payroll, benefits, compliance and monthly invoicing. NBS quotes its fee on the intake call.

Hire nearshore if your designer needs to work live with your US product managers and engineers. All 12 NBS countries sit within 2 hours of US Eastern time, while India runs about 9.5 to 10.5 hours ahead, the Philippines about 12 to 13 hours ahead and Eastern Europe about 7 hours ahead. A nearshore designer can sit in on a morning usability test with your US users and put the revised Figma prototype in your engineers' hands the same afternoon.

A nearshore UI/UX designer lives in Latin America and works on your US team during your business hours. That overlap lets the designer run live usability sessions with your US users and answer engineers' handoff questions. NBS recruits nearshore UX/UI designers in 12 countries, all within 2 hours of US Eastern time.

You can hire from 12 LatAm countries: Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua in North and Central America, and Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay in South America. NBS has local recruiters in each, and each country has a hiring guide on this site.

Yes, NBS offers nearshore staff augmentation for a fixed monthly fee and Employer of Record coverage in all 12 markets. It also offers direct hire placements with a one-time fee and Recruitment as a Service for high-volume hiring teams.

The typical mid-level UX/UI designer salary in Latin America is $2,700 to $3,980 a month. Junior designers earn $1,730 to $2,590 a month, and senior designers earn $4,315 to $5,955 a month. NBS quotes its fee on the intake call.

NBS recruits UI/UX designers for web and mobile app interfaces, interaction design and clickable prototypes, Figma design systems, and UX research. Tell us on the intake call which platforms and design tools your team uses and how the work splits between research and visual design. Each candidate completes a role-specific design work sample before you interview them.

Interview your first candidates within 3 business days of the intake call.

Yes, UI/UX designers work US hours. All 12 countries sit within 2 hours of US Eastern time all year.

Mexico City and Central America (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua) run 2 hours behind US Eastern during US daylight time and 1 hour behind the rest of the year. Colombia, Peru and Ecuador run 1 hour behind during US daylight time and level with US Eastern the rest of the year.

Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil (Brasília time) run 1 hour ahead during US daylight time and 2 hours ahead the rest of the year. Mainland Chile also changes its clocks: it runs level with US Eastern from early April to early September, 1 hour ahead in the weeks around that, and 2 hours ahead from early November to mid-March.

Yes. NBS recruits product designers and UX researchers in all 12 of its Latin American countries, and they work during US business hours. Under nearshore staff augmentation, NBS acts as Employer of Record and covers employment, payroll, benefits, compliance and monthly invoicing for each designer and researcher.

Hire your Brazilian UI/UX designer through NBS, which has recruiters in Brazil and acts as Employer of Record under nearshore staff augmentation, so you need no Brazilian entity. NBS covers employment, payroll, benefits, compliance and monthly invoicing for that designer. Brasilia time runs 1 to 2 hours ahead of US Eastern, so your designer joins your stand-ups and design reviews in the same working day.

NBS helps you handle local labor law compliance and payroll. As Employer of Record for nearshore staff augmentation, NBS covers employment, payroll, benefits, compliance and monthly invoicing. Employer of Record coverage spans all 12 markets.

NBS replaces your hire free within 90 days if the hire does not work out, and the replacement rate is under 2 percent. A dedicated account manager manages the relationship, and NBS checks in at 30, 60, and 90 days.