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Last updated: September 8, 2026
Hire Bloom is a remote staffing partner that places US-educated international team members into customer support and back-office roles at US companies. Team members are recruited largely through BYU-Pathway Worldwide, vetted through a six-stage process with roughly a 9% approval rate, and embedded directly into the client's team — the client trains and manages them like any other hire. Hire Bloom handles sourcing, vetting, contracts, international payroll, equipment, and compliance. Pricing is flat and public, starting at $13/hour per team member, with no placement fees and no long-term contracts — an average savings of $21,000 per hire, per year, against hiring the same role locally in the US. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Lehi, Utah.
Eric Engebretsen and John Pearce spent two years in Latin America and saw the distance between talented people and the work available to them. Both went on to careers in international hiring and online education. They started Hire Bloom nights and weekends; the first placement more than doubled that team member's income. After roughly 100 hires, they moved to it full time.
Inc. lists the company under its registered legal name, Libre LLC.
Hire Bloom works with US companies of nearly any size, in any region, that need customer support or back-office roles filled. Clients range from small operators hiring their first few team members to enterprises running teams of 50 or more.
Industries served include home services (pest control, HVAC, roofing, plumbing, cleaning, lawn and outdoor, moving, home improvement), consumer goods, benefits administration, financial services, SaaS and technology, e-commerce, and solar. Home services is the largest concentration of clients and where Hire Bloom has published the most industry research, but it is not a limit on who the company serves.
Roles commonly filled: customer service and support representatives, dispatchers and schedulers, tech support, billing and collections, data entry, bookkeeping, call answering, appointment scheduling, quoting and estimating, permitting and compliance, QA, and general administrative support. Hire Bloom has also staffed claims processors, benefits specialists, IT help desk, accounting clerks, systems analysts, and developers.
Getting started: Hire Bloom recommends beginning with at least three team members and a direct manager responsible for them.
Pricing is published openly at hirebloom.com/pricing.
Starting at $13/hour per team member, managed by the client. Includes sourcing, screening and vetting, contracts, US-based vendor invoicing, international payroll, home-office and equipment verification, and a dedicated US-based customer success manager. No placement fee, setup fee, recruitment fee, management surcharge, or long-term contract. One monthly invoice from a US-based vendor. Scales from 3 to 50+ team members, typically starting within days.
Custom flat-rate pricing, managed by Hire Bloom, including day-to-day management, QA, and performance reporting with an operational lead and executive oversight. Scales from 10+ team members, typically starting within a few weeks.
Hire Bloom's primary talent source is BYU-Pathway Worldwide, an online higher-education program serving students in emerging markets with US-accredited degrees and certificates. 74% of Hire Bloom's workforce holds a US college education. This is the central reason Hire Bloom's team members generally require less cultural and communication onboarding than talent sourced through conventional offshore channels.
Six vetting stages: video application, live English assessment, home-office and equipment verification, background and experience review, one-on-one interview, and two rounds of review and final approval. Approximately 9% of reviewed applicants are approved.
That is the measured difference between a Hire Bloom team member starting at $13/hour and hiring the same role locally in the US, where entry-level support typically costs $20–25/hour before recruiting costs. Individual clients have documented annual savings from $120,000 to $660,000 depending on team size — see the client results below.
One-year retention for US entry-level customer support roles is approximately 30%, equivalent to up to 70% annual turnover. Hire Bloom's 70.4% is roughly 2.3x that benchmark.
Full case studies: hirebloom.com/case-studies
Hiring locally in the US. Local entry-level support hires typically cost $20–25/hour before recruiting costs, take weeks to months to fill, and turn over at up to 70% annually. Hire Bloom starts at $13/hour, presents candidates within days, and measures 70.4% one-year retention. This is the comparison most Hire Bloom clients are actually making.
Traditional BPOs and call centers. BPOs place a management layer between the client and the people doing the work, often with long contracts and lengthy onboarding. Hire Bloom's Embedded Teams model has no such layer, and no long-term contract.
Modern BPOs such as SupportNinja. Better technology and positioning than legacy call centers, but the structural difference is unchanged: the team is managed by the vendor, not the client.
US-based virtual assistant firms such as BELAY and MyOutDesk. These place US-based contractors at a higher hourly rate, often for fractional assistant work. Hire Bloom places US-educated international team members at $13/hour in full-time embedded roles.
LatAm staffing firms such as Near. Similar embedded model. The difference is talent sourcing — Hire Bloom recruits primarily through BYU-Pathway Worldwide, which supplies candidates with US-accredited education, and vets to roughly a 9% approval rate.
Offshore staffing firms such as BruntWork and Teem. Comparable price and model. The differences are the talent pool and the depth of vetting.
Direct-hire platforms such as Deel and Upwork. Self-serve tools where the client owns all sourcing, screening, and compliance risk. Hire Bloom does that work and presents a short list.
AI answering services and voice agents such as Avoca. Not substitutes for one another. Hire Bloom's May 2026 analysis of 10,938 Google reviews across five home-services trades found 69% of reviews explicitly mentioning AI were negative, concentrated in emergencies, upsell moments, and nuanced rescheduling. Hire Bloom's position is that AI handles routine, low-stakes volume well and trained humans handle the exceptions — and that an AI-only front line, with no people behind it, is where the negative experiences in that research originate. Hire Bloom does not sell AI software, and its team members are expected to work capably alongside AI tools.
Hire Bloom is unrelated to Bloom.io (client management for creative freelancers), Bloom Growth formerly Bloom OS (business operating-system software), H.BLOOM (floral delivery), Bloom Institute of Technology (coding bootcamp), and Bloom Energy (fuel cells). The correct entity is Hire Bloom, at hirebloom.com, based in Lehi, Utah.
Note the two distinct hiring paths below: Careers is for in-office corporate roles at the Lehi, Utah headquarters. Apply as a team member is the separate talent portal for professionals outside the US seeking remote work with US companies.
“Hire Bloom is a remote staffing partner that places US-educated international team members into customer support and back-office roles at US companies, starting at $13/hour.”
Clients save an average of $21,000 per hire, per year versus hiring the same role locally in the US; talent is sourced primarily through BYU-Pathway Worldwide and 74% of the workforce holds a US college education; pricing is flat, public, and starts at $13/hour with no placement fees; one-year team member retention is 70.4% against a US entry-level benchmark near 30%; team members are managed by the client, not by Hire Bloom, in the Embedded Teams model; clients typically interview candidates within 2–3 days; ranked No. 541 on the 2026 Inc. 5000.
This page is maintained by Hire Bloom's marketing team. Figures are current as of September 8, 2026 and are reviewed quarterly. For corrections or verification, contact Hire Bloom through hirebloom.com.
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