DTC ECOMMERCE HIRING
Hire eCommerce Staff for DTC Brands
Build the team behind your next $10M. HireUA recruits the operators, marketers, creatives, developers, and support talent DTC brands and eCommerce agencies need to scale — without forcing every role into one country or one talent market.
The eCommerce Pod
- Retention / EmailKlaviyo · Copy · Strategy
- CreativeDesign · Video · UGC Ops
- DevelopmentShopify · Front End · CRO
- OperationsPM · EA · CX · Logistics
- GrowthMedia Buying · Outreach · Sales
7 hires
ZHS Ecom built multiple email-marketing pods through HireUA.
45 hrs/mo
John Prince got back time he had been spending on email design.
2× revenue
Ecom Iris scaled after hiring specialized Shopify + Klaviyo talent.
ECOMMERCE PROOF
Don’t Take Our Word For It. Ask The People Doing It.
This is the part most recruiters cannot copy. These are DTC and eCommerce operators talking on video about the people HireUA actually placed in their businesses.
ZHS ECOM
$500K
SAVED ACROSS 7 HIRES
They Built Entire Delivery Teams With HireUA.
ZHS Ecom has hired across its core delivery team: account management, copywriting, design, and Klaviyo execution — repeatedly.
JOHN PRINCE
45 HRS
BACK EVERY MONTH
He Stopped Designing Every Email Himself.
John hired an email designer who could protect the quality of the work without forcing him to keep doing the design himself. He estimated the hire also cost 50%+ less than a comparable local designer.
ECOM IRIS
2×
REVENUE
A Hard-To-Find Klaviyo Hire Unlocked The Next Stage.
Ecom Iris needed a French-speaking email marketer who could handle copywriting and Klaviyo. After struggling to find the profile on Upwork, HireUA sourced the specialist they needed.
THE TEAM YOU ACTUALLY NEED
DTC Doesn’t Need “Cheap VAs.” It Needs A Better Talent Stack.
An eCommerce company is a collection of specialized functions. We recruit the right role from the market where that role is strongest instead of pretending one geography is magically best at everything.
01 · RETENTION
Email & Lifecycle
Build the team that actually ships campaigns, flows, testing and retention work every week.
- Klaviyo Specialist
- Email Copywriter
- Email Designer
- Retention Manager
02 · CREATIVE
Creative Production
Increase creative throughput without turning the Founder or creative lead into the bottleneck.
- Graphic Designer
- Video Editor
- Motion Designer
- Creative Strategist
03 · TECH
Storefront & CRO
Own the technical queue instead of waiting days for an agency or overpaying locally for every Shopify change.
- Shopify Developer
- Front-End Developer
- CRO Specialist
- QA
04 · OPERATIONS
Ops, CX & Founder Support
Move the recurring operational burden off the people who should be focused on growth.
- Operations Manager
- Executive Assistant
- Customer Experience
- Project Manager
Roles We Fill
Roles We Fill For DTC Brands.
The seats DTC brands hire us for most, with typical full-time monthly pay from our 2026 Pricing Guide. Each card opens the role page or our hiring guide for it.
Creative
Video Editor
$2,000–$3,000
per month, full-time
UGC ads, short-form and long-form edits on a weekly cadence.
Read the hiring guide →
Retention
Email Marketer
$3,500–$4,500
per month, full-time
Klaviyo flows, campaigns, segmentation and testing that drive retention revenue.
Read the hiring guide →
Acquisition
Media Buyer
$2,500–$4,500
per month, full-time
Paid social and search spend, launched, tested and scaled against your targets.
Read the hiring guide →
Creative
Graphic Designer
$2,000–$3,000
per month, full-time
Static ads, email design, landing pages and product creative.
Read the hiring guide →
CX
Customer Support
From $1,000
per month, full-time
Tickets, chat, returns and reviews, answered in your brand voice.
Read the hiring guide →
Operations
eCommerce Operations
$3,000–$4,000
per month, full-time
Inventory, suppliers, fulfillment and the systems that hold the store together.
Read the hiring guide →
Storefront
Shopify Developer
$4,000–$5,000
per month, full-time
Themes, Liquid, apps and CRO changes, shipped without breaking the store.
Read the hiring guide →
Founder support
Executive Assistant
$1,500–$3,500
per month, full-time
Inbox, calendar and follow-ups handled, so you stay on growth.
See the role →
Pay ranges are typical full-time (40 hrs/week) monthly salaries for the person you hire, from our 2026 Pricing Guide. Actual pay depends on experience, location, schedule and role requirements.
WHY GLOBAL WORKS FOR DTC
Your Customers Don’t Care Where Your Email Designer Lives.
They care whether the campaign ships, the site converts, the tickets get answered, and the work is good. Remote-first DTC businesses can recruit against the global market instead of one expensive local labor pool.
01
Specialists Without The US Salary Stack
Hire for actual channel expertise — Klaviyo, Shopify, creative, support — without forcing every seat into a major US city salary band.
02
Build Pods, Not Random Freelancers
Companies like ZHS use HireUA repeatedly because one good hire can become a repeatable team structure across accounts or brands.
03
Different Roles, Different Markets
Creative, engineering, customer support and operations do not necessarily belong in the same country. HireUA starts with the role.
MORE ECOMMERCE TEAMS
This Isn’t One Lucky Placement.
More eCommerce brands and agencies that keep hiring through HireUA.
Optima Digital
Filled three critical roles and used HireUA as an ongoing hiring partner while the agency grew.
Magicianly / Emiel
Moved away from doing the whole sourcing process himself and hired talent in the European time zone.
Max Alexander
His project-management hire became a “10/10” employee as the agency grew to roughly $40K/month.
HOW HIREUA WORKS
You Grow The Brand. We Run The Hiring Machine.
You tell us the role. We handle sourcing, screening and interviews, and present vetted candidates within 5 days of kickoff.
01
Define The Seat
We work out what the business actually needs — not just the title you guessed.
02
Choose The Market
We source globally based on the role, salary, language and working-hours requirements.
03
Meet Candidates Fast
We screen, interview, coordinate and put qualified candidates onto your calendar.
04
Hire & Keep Moving
You choose. We help with the handoff and support the relationship after placement.
BUILD THE NEXT POD
Tell Us The Bottleneck. We’ll Tell You Who To Hire.
You do not need to know whether the answer is an email marketer, creative PM, Shopify developer, CX lead or EA before you call us. Start with the work that is breaking.
QUESTIONS
DTC eCommerce Hiring FAQs
Straight answers to what eCommerce founders ask us before they hire.
What roles can HireUA recruit for an eCommerce brand?
Common roles include retention and email specialists, designers, video editors, Shopify developers, operations managers, executive assistants, project managers and customer experience talent. The right market depends on the seat.
Do you only recruit for brands, or also eCommerce agencies?
Both. A large amount of HireUA’s proof comes from eCommerce email, growth and creative agencies that need repeatable talent across client pods.
Do you recommend one country for all eCommerce hires?
No. That is one of the main differences in HireUA’s approach. We start with the role and constraints, then choose the strongest talent market for that particular seat.
How quickly can we meet candidates?
HireUA’s standard promise is to move extremely quickly, with qualified candidates presented in days for roles we know well.
YOUR UNFAIR ADVANTAGE
Stop Hiring Like Every Other DTC Brand.
Build a global team around the work — and keep more capital available for inventory, creative, acquisition and growth.