First, all talent on Pangea is required to connect their calendars and create Stripe payment accounts before applying for roles, which verify their identity. We use data from candidates’ LinkedIn profiles, portfolios, and resumes to build a detailed profile of their experience, and compare it to other candidates with similar backgrounds to get a bigger picture of their abilities and accomplishments. When each candidate applies to a role, we take a critical look at their body of work to select the best applicants for you to talk to. For D2C and ecommerce brands, we pay special attention to experience across categories like clothing, electronic devices, shelf-stable food and beverages, exercise equipment, beauty and self care, and jewelry and luxury, as well as work with internet-only brands and companies that also have storefronts. Many top fractional workers on Pangea also have reviews from past roles and recommendations from past colleagues, bosses, and other professional connections to bolster their profiles.
We pride ourselves on being able to find you top marketers in less than 48 hours after starting our search. Once your job is posted, the best fractional D2C marketers in our private talent network will be contacted with information about your role. As new applications come in, we’ll hand-select the top candidates for you to review, and promote the two we think are best for you based on their availability, skillset, and relevancy to D2C companies like yours.
A great match starts with a quick intake call with one of our talent experts. We’ll discuss your unique needs for the position, and determine the deal makers + breakers that help us find the perfect match. After distilling this into a job post, we’ll employ our proprietary matching algorithm to gather a high-quality pool of candidates that match your needs and have experience working for similar companies, with similar products, and/or delivering equivalent results. Once they’ve had 48 hours to apply, we’ll hand-pick the best 2 candidates for you to interview, or you can try your hand at reviewing each candidate yourself in our integrated applicant tracking system.
Pangea works with D2C companies of all budgets, from smaller brands focused on a singular line of goods to larger companies that resell high-quality products at lower costs than traditional retailers. Our talent experts will help you pick the right balance of experience and budget to target for your search so you can get the best return on your investment. For lower budgets, we tend to suggest starting with experienced fractional designers for just a few hours a week; as you start to see results, you can fluctuate the hours in the contract. Pangea’s flexible weekly retainers (typically 5–40 hours/week) keep you in control no matter what stage your company’s in right now.
This is a question we get a lot at Pangea. We think of fractional talent as the best of both worlds for hiring in this changing ecosystem. You get all of the flexibility of hiring a freelancer: less overhead, more control over hourly commitments from project to project, and access to experts with specialized skills. But they also come with many of the benefits of a full-time employee, buying into your company’s mission and maintaining a long-term outlook toward growth. Because we focus on facilitating ongoing engagements, your talent is always ready to work instead of requiring hours of onboarding each time you spin up a new project.
Forget a week—you can hire a fractional developer on Pangea in just a few days. Pangea gets you hand-picked, vetted matches to interview just 48 hours after posting your role to our private network of fractional developers, designers, marketers, and ops talent. Book interviews ASAP directly on applicants’ calendars, take the call with our AI-powered sidekick, and sign a contract when you’ve found the right one. If you’re building out a D2C team for an internet-only brand or a company that also has storefronts, you can manage them all right from Pangea without juggling a dozen different platforms.
We offer a standard NDA and customize our own boilerplate contract for each role on Pangea, ensuring that you’re in control of your proprietary assets from application to interview and beyond. Our NDA ensures that you can safely share intellectual property with your fractional hires. Contracts remain flexible for as long as you work with fractional talent on Pangea, allowing you to modify compensation and adjust weekly hour commitments (often 5–40 hours/week) as your needs change. Invoicing and payments are handled on-platform with weekly reminders and autopay, supported in over 160 countries via Stripe. And if you decide that you want to hire them full-time, we offer a seamless offboarding experience.
Pangea has a diverse ecosystem of operations talent, including project managers and chiefs of staff, with experience across D2C and ecommerce. We do our best to match you with the right ops person on a variety of metrics, from a background working with similar D2C companies to yours, to familiarity with similar operational structures, to experience solving problems relevant to your current obstacles. Whether you’re setting up internet-only operations or coordinating efforts for companies that also have storefronts, you can find a great fractional operations hire on Pangea.
