Senior digital marketing
specialists for global
brands and in-house teams.

Hire-a-Team is a productised model for embedding senior digital marketing specialists in your team — the same person each month, named to your account, working in your Slack + dashboards + tools — without the cost or risk of a full-time hire. Seven roles available: Senior SEO Specialist, PPC Manager, Paid Social Buyer, Email Lifecycle Strategist, Content Strategist, Fractional CMO, and Full Pod (5-person team). Three engagement models: hourly ($95–$185/hr, 10-hour minimum), dedicated monthly ($2,999–$13,999/mo across tiers), or project contract (fixed milestones). Every engagement includes a dedicated PM and a 14-day fit guarantee with 72-hour replacement window.

Three differences. First, every specialist on our bench is senior (5+ years, vetted CV + portfolio + reference contacts) — no rotating freelance pool, no skill-level lottery. Second, every engagement includes a dedicated Project Manager who handles capacity, blockers, scope-creep, and quality oversight — Upwork and Toptal hand you raw freelance access. Third, productised monthly pricing locks in scope and replaces hourly invoicing surprises. Toptal works for non-marketing senior generalists; we are marketing-only. Below $2,999/mo we recommend Upwork or Fiverr for genuinely transactional one-off tasks where you have in-house capacity to vet + brief + PM.

Cost: a senior in-house specialist runs $80–$120k base + 20% benefits + tooling + recruiter fee + 90-day ramp = $130–$180k all-in for year one. Hire-a-Team Senior tier runs $5,499–$7,199/mo ($66–$86k/yr) with no recruiter fee, no equity dilution, no severance risk, and tooling included. Time-to-start: 8 working days vs 60–120 days for in-house hire. Replacement: 72-hour window during 14-day fit vs 90-day notice + full re-recruit. Multi-account exposure: our specialists work across 2–4 accounts, seeing what works across categories — in-house gives single-company depth.

Minimum 4 working hours of overlap with your local business day, guaranteed in writing in every contract. Senior specialists span US Eastern, US Pacific, UK/EU, IST, SGT, AEDT — we staff your engagement with whoever overlaps your peak hours, not whoever is cheapest. Real-time Slack response inside the overlap window, async Loom updates outside it. For 24-hour creative rotation cadence on high-spend paid-social accounts, we sometimes pair two specialists across complementary time zones at no additional cost.

Yes — Hire-a-Team is one of our most common agency partnerships. Silver / Gold / Platinum partnership tiers, NDA-default delivery, brand-suppressed deliverables (your logo on every dashboard + report + client-facing asset), dedicated agency account manager, and 30%+ partner margin floor on every engagement. Specialists attend client calls under your brand at higher partnership tiers. See /white-label-marketing-agency/ for full programme terms — current onboarding for new white-label partners is 2–3 weeks.

72-hour replacement during the first 14 working days if the match is not working — either side can call it, no further obligation, pro-rata refund for unused days. After day 14, replacement on individuals runs through standard 30-day notice with handover documentation prepared by the outgoing specialist. Replacement is rare in practice — under 8% of monthly engagements ever trigger it because we match by sector + stage + working style + voice up front, not just channel skill.

Yes. Standard certifications by role: SEO specialists (Google Search Console + GA4), PPC managers (Google Ads + Microsoft Ads + GA4 + GTM Server-Side), Paid Social buyers (Meta Blueprint + TikTok Academy + LinkedIn Marketing Labs), Email Lifecycle strategists (Klaviyo Master + HubSpot + Customer.io), Content strategists (no formal cert; vetted on portfolio + voice fit + AEO familiarity). Pod-level engagements include all relevant certifications across the 5-person team. Background-checked, ID-verified, reference-validated before bench inclusion.

Yes — buyout structures available case-by-case. Standard buyout fee is 25–35% of the specialist's annual base salary (industry-standard recruiter terms), waived after 24 months of continuous Hire-a-Team engagement. Most specialists prefer to stay with us for the variety + tooling + senior peer cohort, but we never block a good outcome — if a long-term hire is the right move for both sides, we structure it cleanly. Talk to us early; we negotiate transparently.