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Nearshoring · Campinas, Brazil

Your team. Our expertise. Brazil's best.

Building a great team is one of the hardest things a growing company does. CapacityPod gives you direct access to top-tier Brazilian talent — recruited with executive-level rigor, managed by you in our offices in Campinas.

The Challenge

Hiring can be slow and expensive, and talent attrition can be detrimental to your growth plans.

Offshore providers promise savings, but inconsistent output, communication gaps, and high resource turnover may erode the value of those savings. Remote-only models rarely provide the integrated team members that companies actually need. There is a better way to build your team.

The CapacityPod Model

Built for quality, not volume.

Quality Over Cost

We attract and retain top-tier Brazilian talent by creating an environment where ambitious professionals thrive, and we ensure that compensation is right. You get stability and expertise — not just a lower rate compared to your local market.

Partnership, Not Transaction

We invest in understanding your business needs before we recruit a single person. Strategic alignment comes first, then we find the right person for the position.

In-Office Culture

Your team works from our Campinas office. Accountability, team cohesion, and institutional knowledge — built deliberately, not left to chance.

Full Compliance Handled

Full-time employment (CLT), FGTS, payroll, and benefits — we manage it all. You receive one fixed-fee invoice. No Brazilian regulations risk, no complexity to navigate.

Two services. One standard.

Whether you are building a team in Brazil or entering the Brazilian market, CapacityPod brings the same rigor and the same commitment to getting it right.

Nearshoring — Staff Functions

Top-tier Brazilian talent for your finance, accounting, marketing, and operations teams. Recruited with CFO-level rigor. In-office and productive.

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Market Expansion — Brazil & South America

Local expertise, EOR-based team building, and a structured path to Brazilian market entry — without premature commitments.

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Why Campinas

Brazil produces world-class talent. We make it available to you.

Campinas is Brazil's technology capital — home to UNICAMP, one of Latin America's top universities, and 32 of the world's largest IT companies. The same professionals that IBM, Dell, Samsung, and Bosch recruit here are the ones CapacityPod brings to you.

GMT-3. One to two hours ahead of US Eastern. Real-time collaboration. 200,000+ STEM graduates entering the Brazilian market annually. A structural cost advantage that has held steady in USD terms while US domestic labor costs have risen significantly over the past five years.

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How It Works

A proven process from first conversation to long-term partnership.

1
Discovery
First diagnostic conversation
2
Alignment
Role definition and hiring brief
3
Recruitment
20–30 candidates, 3 on your shortlist
4
Integration
30-day and 90-day support
5
Steady State
Monthly check-ins, annual reviews
René Stephansen, Founder and CEO of CapacityPod
About

Founded and run by a CFO with more than 20 years of experience.

CapacityPod is founded and run by René Stephansen — a CFO with more than 20 years of leadership experience across the US, Latin America, and Europe. The standards CapacityPod holds its talent and its process to are the same standards René has applied throughout his career. He is personally involved in every search and every client relationship.

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For Talent

Build an international career. From Campinas.

CapacityPod is a serious, demanding place to work. You will be embedded in international teams, working in English every day, held to a high standard — and supported in building an international career.

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Let's talk about building your team.

The first conversation is a diagnostic — we want to understand your situation before we propose anything. No pitch, no obligation.

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