Lead IT Recruiter in Latin America
David Gomez is the Lead IT Recruiter for Latin America at Alcor, helping US tech product companies hire senior engineers, specialists with rare tech stacks, and in-demand AI/ML engineers across Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, and Chile. With 10+ years in IT recruitment, including focused experience hiring senior software engineers across the region, David combines deep market knowledge with a hands-on, end-to-end recruitment process, optimized for retention, not just placement speed.
Main expertise
- In-demand, niche, and rare tech stack sourcing;
- Screening candidates against client requirements, team culture, and long-term scaling goals – not just technical fit;
- End-to-end recruitment process management;
- IT executive search;
- Recruitment metrics and analytics;
- Client relationship management: partnering with engineering leaders to align hiring plans with team-scaling goals;
- Latin American IT labor market: salary benchmarks, talent pools, and hiring trends.
David began his career as an IT Recruiter in Mexico, working across internal recruitment, executive search, technical recruiting, and staffing before advancing to Senior IT Recruiter. After Alcor expanded into Latin America, he joined the team to lead recruitment efforts across the region, building development teams for US tech product companies. Among the companies David and his team have supported are Franki, Briq, and Firstup, where they placed 31 engineers – spanning rare skill sets like RxSwift Automation Java Development, and others – each screened to match the client’s technical requirements, team culture, and long-term scaling goals, with no compromise on quality.
His hands-on recruiting experience across Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, and Chile gives him deep expertise in the region’s developer salary benchmarks, AI and emerging tech talent pools, city-level hiring landscapes, and the LATAM IT market trends that shape how US tech companies build engineering teams abroad.