Hire Director of Engineering

How It Works: Hire Steps Guide



How It Works: Hire Steps Guide

JOB Description
Hire a Director of Engineering from Latin America: Save Up to 80%!
Need a Director of Engineering who can lead your entire engineering organization without the U.S. executive price tag? Remote Latinos connects you with experienced professionals from Latin America at up to 80% less than local hires.
What Does a Director of Engineering Do?
A Director of Engineering leads multiple engineering teams and owns the overall health, output, and strategy of the engineering organization. They manage engineering managers, set hiring and technical direction, work closely with product and business leadership, and ensure delivery at scale.
Where to Hire a Director of Engineering?
You can hire vetted Directors of Engineering from Latin America through Remote Latinos. Our candidates have led engineering organizations at U.S. startups and growth-stage companies, managing teams of 15 or more engineers across multiple product areas.
When to Hire a Director of Engineering?
- Your engineering organization has multiple teams but no one leading them cohesively.
- Delivery is inconsistent across teams and no one is accountable at the organizational level.
- You need someone to build and scale the engineering function as the company grows.
- Engineering managers need leadership, development, and a consistent operating model.
- Technical and product strategy are misaligned and you need a senior engineering voice at the table.
- You are preparing to scale hiring and need experienced leadership to build the right team.
Who Are Directors of Engineering?
They are senior engineering leaders with experience managing engineering managers and multiple product teams at U.S. technology companies. They combine deep technical credibility with organizational leadership and have grown engineering functions through periods of rapid scale.
Why Hire a Director of Engineering from LATAM?
- Save up to 80% compared to U.S. Director of Engineering compensation.
- Get organizational engineering leadership without the executive hiring process and cost.
- Hire professionals who have scaled distributed engineering teams before.
- Work with bilingual leaders who communicate clearly with founders, executives, and engineers.
- Access senior technical leadership that compounds value across the entire engineering organization.
How Does a Director of Engineering Support Your Team?
- Lead and develop engineering managers across multiple teams.
- Set engineering hiring strategy and own the technical talent pipeline.
- Define engineering operating models, standards, and delivery processes.
- Represent engineering in leadership and executive conversations.
- Own cross-team delivery commitments and organizational KPIs.
- Partner with the CTO or VP of Engineering on long-term technical and organizational strategy.
Other FAQ
What Tools Does a Director of Engineering Use?
Jira, Confluence, Notion, Lattice or Leapsome, GitHub, Slack, Zoom, Google Workspace, and engineering metrics and reporting tools.
What Is a Director of Engineering Salary?
In the United States: $160,000 to $240,000+ per year.
In Latin America: $32,000 to $72,000 per year.
That means you can save up to 80% by hiring through Remote Latinos, without compromising on quality, communication, or performance.
Ready to Hire a Director of Engineering from LATAM?
Connect with Remote Latinos and get matched with a vetted Director of Engineering from Latin America.
Frequently Asked Questions
Employers
We want to keep this process as stress free as possible, so all communication with the RTM’s is done through us. After conducting the interviews, you are welcome to put these people through a certain skill test (you can also send a skill test before the interviews) and if they pass, it is time to hire! This whole process normally takes a week, at most 10 business days.
A full-time position is someone who will work between 30-40 hours per week. They focus on working in the business every single weekday. Weekends are off unless instructed on the interviews that this is a must, and the RTM agrees.
They truly NEED a remote team member to take a load off their back. It is a top priority for them to find A players. Whether it is appt setters, media buyers, graphic designers, data entry people, whatever it is… These people that are looking to hire whatever role they are looking for BECOME that role first before hiring. They dictate what the day to day looks like, what KPI must be met, and overall what this job will entail. They are not guessing. Data is what these business owners follow, not their emotions.
Overall the owners build the right SOP’s, processes, and KPI’s around the role they are seeking, so whenever the time comes to hire someone, the person has a roadmap for succession.
The unlimited offer is exactly what it sounds like, hire as many people as you need for the year. The pay her hire package is only up to 3 hirings, and does not have unlimited replacements. For more context on costs, book a call with our team.
We have placed many different types of roles in the last year and one of the most popular roles is appt setting. Instead of having the sales rep send a ton of emails/messages, the RTM takes over so the sales rep can focus on being on calls and closing more deals. For instance, our best appt setters book 10-20 appts a week! Appt setter is just one of the many positions we offer. If you need some graphic design work done, we can help. What about media buying and taking over your current ads, we got you covered.
The most important thing to remember is that when you are looking to grow the business it is an absolute MUST to find A players. This starts with your RTM team since they are normally the first hirings an online business makes.
Without happy clients/RTM’s we do not have a business. We have been able to build a business (front end and back end) purely on word of mouth. Remote Latinos is here to provide world class talent to world class businesses all done with the highest intent of integrity.
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