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LinkedIn →Hire Amazon marketplace specialists
who know what Amazon rewards.
A dedicated Amazon marketplace specialist, or a small team, who treats Seller Central as a skill of its own. It is not a side task added to general eCommerce SEO. Each specialist is vetted on real listings before they touch yours. They work inside your catalogue and your reporting routine. You can scale up or down each month without a hiring cycle. You interview the specialist who would run your listings before anything is signed.
Interview before signing · Scale monthly
Tell us about the role
Start Your Enquiry
Send a short brief. Once we have a complete brief, we confirm the date you will receive your itemised proposal.
What you get
Hiring an Amazon marketplace specialist through PixelCrayons gets you a vetted specialist inside your Seller Central. They run your listings, Amazon SEO and ads together. They manage ad cost (ACOS and TACOS) against your real margin, with a named coordinator behind them. They also say where Amazon fits next to your own store. You interview them first and scale monthly.
- Vetted on live listings and ad accountsEvery specialist has managed live catalogues and ad accounts to our delivery standards before yours.
- A second specialist who already knows your catalogueA named coordinator, an escalation contact and a second specialist already briefed on your account.
- Working inside your teamYour Seller Central account, your reporting templates and your stand-ups, if you want them there.
Our work
See what we've built
and the results it brought.
Real projects for real clients, with results we can show.
2004
Established
500+
Agencies served
4,500+
Projects delivered
340%
Revenue growth · 7 months
eCommerce
+127%
Organic traffic · 5 months
SaaS
85%
Faster delivery · backlog cleared
via agency partner
Technologies we work with
- Commerce and web
- Shopify
- WooCommerce
- Magento
- WordPress
- Webflow
- Next.js
- Marketing
- Google Ads
- Meta Ads
- GA4
- Klaviyo
- Cloud
- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud
- AI models
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- Google Gemini
- Build and deploy
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- GitHub Actions
- CRM and automation
- HubSpot
- Salesforce
- Zapier
- n8n
Product names and marks are trademarks of their owners. Naming a technology means our teams build with it. It does not mean a partnership, certification or endorsement.
Monthly rate for this hire
From $2,800per month, 160 hoursSenior specialists from $4,000, quoted per person.
Direct prices for brands and companies buying for themselves.
What they cover
Amazon skills
that help your products sell.
This is not a general eCommerce marketer who also touches Amazon. It is a specialist in the platform on its own terms. They know what Amazon's search rewards, and what it does not.
Listings and catalogue work
- Listing optimisation: titles, bullet points and backend search terms
- A+ Content and Brand Story pages
- Amazon SEO: how Amazon's own A9/A10 search ranks products, which differs from Google
- Category and variation structure across your catalogue
- Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) basics: stock health, restock timing and effects on your account
Amazon advertising
- Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands and Sponsored Display
- ACOS and TACOS (ad cost as a share of ad sales and of all sales) managed against your real margin
- Bids and budgets set up for Amazon's auction, not copied from Google or Meta
- Mining search terms for new keywords and blocking the ones that waste spend
- Pay-per-click (PPC) ads used on purpose to help new listings climb in organic ranking
Reviews, brand protection and advice
- Building reviews steadily and managing your reputation on Amazon
- Brand protection: watching for hijackers and unauthorised sellers
- Plain advice on when to sell on Amazon and when to sell through your own store
- Reporting that keeps Amazon's own numbers separate from everything else
- Forecasts that do not pretend to be more precise than they are
In practice
What an Amazon specialist
checks every week.
Practical notes on the role: the routine, the interview signs, and what to have ready before they log in.
A week inside Seller Central
Most of the week is small, repeated checks rather than big launches. They pull the search-term report and move queries that sell into exact-match campaigns. They block the queries that waste spend. They raise bids where a product's margin can carry it. They read the Business Report for each product (ASIN, Amazon's product ID). It shows a listing that gets visits but few sales. They check stock health, so an ad is not pushing a product about to run out. They also scan your listings for new sellers or edited detail pages. Listing changes go out in planned batches, not daily tinkering.
What a strong candidate talks about
Ask them to open a real search-term report they have worked on and explain a few decisions. A strong specialist talks about margin before ACOS. They can say why a high-ACOS campaign may still be worth running on a new launch. They know the difference between a suppressed listing, stranded inventory and a lost Buy Box (the main buy button). They also know what each one needs. Weak candidates talk about ranking hacks, or quote ACOS targets without asking what your product costs to make and ship. Anyone relaxed about Amazon's review policies is a risk to your whole account.
Have these ready before day one
Give them user permissions in Seller Central and the advertising console as a named user, not a shared login. Share your landed cost per product, so ad decisions use real margin. Give Brand Registry access if you have it. A+ Content, Sponsored Brands and most protection tools depend on it. Share the image and copy files behind your current listings. Add any product claims your legal or compliance team has already approved. And decide who signs off listing changes. Without that, title edits sit in someone's inbox while the ad budget keeps running against old copy.
Where the role stops
An Amazon specialist is the wrong hire when the real problem sits earlier in the chain. If your product photos are weak, you need a photographer or designer to make new ones. The specialist can brief them but should not be shooting them. If stock keeps running out, that is a supply planning problem no bid change fixes. If your account is suspended, you need someone who writes appeals and plans of action. That is a narrower, more urgent job. And if your growth plan depends on owning customer data, your next hire is probably for your own store.
How it works
How hiring works,
from brief to first day.
Start
Brief and a call
We sign an NDA and you tell us about your catalogue, your account history and the gap.
Once the brief is complete
Proposal and interview
We confirm when your proposal will arrive and put forward the specialist whose track record fits. You interview them before anything is signed.
Your decision
You sign off
You confirm the scope, the payment and the access we need. Nothing starts before this.
Typically 2 to 3 business days later
The work starts
You grant account access. They review your listings and ad history and join your reporting routine.
Every month
Scale up or down
Add a second specialist when your catalogue or ad spend grows. Step down when it does not. You can resize monthly, with no hiring decision attached.
You make requests, give approvals and see the weekly review in your Prism workspace. Each decision is written down with the result it was meant to bring. See how Prism runs the work →
Get a Proposal
Meet the people who will do the work before you sign
Why through us
Why hire through us:
the specialist and the cover behind them.
An Amazon account manager for hire gets you their skills. Hiring through a company that delivers this work every day adds a support structure. It keeps your listings and campaigns running when someone is out.
Vetted on live listings and ad accounts
Every specialist in our team has managed live catalogues and ad accounts before yours. That work met our own delivery standards. It was reviewed weekly and held to the same reporting standard you will see. A strong interview shows how someone talks about ACOS. A managed account shows whether they actually moved it.
A second specialist who already knows your catalogue
You get a named coordinator, an escalation contact and a second Amazon specialist, already named. The second specialist is briefed on your account from day one. They work from the same catalogue notes and change log the first one keeps. If the first specialist is on leave or leaves for good, the second steps in without a slow start. A solo Amazon freelancer has nobody to pass the account to. An in-house hire only gets that backup with a team around them. You get the specialist and the cover that keeps Seller Central moving.
Working inside your team
Your Seller Central account and your reporting templates. Your stand-ups too, if you want them there. Dedicated means working inside your account routines. Listing changes are not dropped into another team's ticket queue.
Honest advice on Amazon and your own store
Amazon owns the customer relationship on every Amazon sale. You get no email address, no direct remarketing and no brand relationship you control. An Amazon seller consultant who only tells you to spend more on Amazon is not giving you the full picture. Ours will say plainly when your own store deserves the next budget instead.
Side by side
Hiring on your own,
compared with hiring through us.
An in-house hire is still right when Amazon is a large, lasting share of revenue and central to your business. We will say so when it is. This page is for every other case.
| Hiring it yourself | Through PixelCrayons | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to a working specialist | A full recruiting cycle: sourcing, interviews and notice periods, then time to learn your catalogue | Eligible work can typically start two to three business days after scope, payment and required access are confirmed |
| Vetting | A CV and an interview: you only learn whether they can move ACOS once real budget is at stake | A track record on real catalogues and ad accounts, held to our own standards and reviewed weekly |
| Management work | All yours: recruiting, then checking every ad decision against your margin | A named PM and escalation path are included; you direct the catalogue and ad plan, not the admin around it |
| Scaling | A new hiring cycle each way: months to grow, severance to shrink | Resize monthly: add a specialist or step down after a conversation |
| Risk when it doesn't work | A wrong hire slows you down until it is spotted, then ends in a difficult exit | If the fit is wrong, we propose someone else; leaving takes one handover call with the listing history |
Who is accountable
The people responsible
for your work.
Saundaraya Gupta
Technical Manager
Brings technical work, client updates and project management together, so work moves smoothly from brief to launch.
LinkedIn →Every engagement
A named coordinator and escalation contact
Know who coordinates your engagement, who owns the work and how to escalate an issue.
All engagements. Roles may be combined and vary with your engagement.
Before you sign
Our commitments
Each one says where it applies and links to its full terms.
Time-zone overlap
At least four hours a day inside your core working hours. Two hours plus a daily written handover for the US West Coast.
Managed specialists only; not a staffing promise for project teams.
Full termsClear IP & Ownership Terms
Your materials remain yours. Bespoke deliverable rights, licences and handover are agreed before work starts.
All engagements.
Full termsClear Delivery & Escalation Ownership
Know who coordinates your engagement, who owns the work and how to escalate an issue.
All engagements. Roles may be combined and vary with your engagement.
Full termsWhy not just hire a freelancer?
A freelancer can be the right choice for a single, well-defined task. We are set up for work that needs an accountable team: a named coordinator, delivery reviewed by QA and a senior lead before release, and continuity arrangements written into the engagement. Confidentiality, ownership and escalation terms are agreed in writing before work starts.
How does time-zone overlap work?
Your engineers work at least four hours a day inside your core working hours. We set the window with you before the engagement starts and hold it for as long as the engagement runs. For the US West Coast the live overlap is two hours each morning, with a written handover at the end of every Indian day. We do not run night shifts: engineers who work nights leave quickly, and keeping the same people on your team matters more to us than a longer overlap.
Can we try you before we commit?
For eligible managed specialists, yes: up to 14 calendar days or 80 logged working hours, whichever comes first. Stop within it and eligible trial hours are free; continue and they're billed at the agreed rate. Unpaid trial work stays ours. Project work and other roles get a paid pilot with scope, acceptance criteria, duration and fee agreed first.
What if we want to stop?
Cancellation, notice and any renewal terms are written into your proposal or statement of work before you accept it. If an engagement ends early, we hand over completed, paid-for work and list any unfinished work separately. For an eligible specialist trial, you can stop within the trial window and pay nothing for eligible trial hours.
How we handle claims, credentials and your data: group credentials, dated ratings, how case figures are signed off, client permissions and data handling.
How we vet
How we vet an Amazon marketplace specialist
and what to ask them.
On Amazon, the specialist worth hiring manages spend against what a product costs to make and ship. The shortlist, the interview and the first fortnight each test for that.
- 01Shortlist on real cataloguesWe put forward the specialist whose track record on real catalogues and ad accounts fits your catalogue, history and gap. That work met our own standards and was reviewed weekly. No generic CVs.
- 02Interview on a real search-term reportAsk them to walk through a Seller Central account they have run, under NDA. Ask them to explain decisions in its search-term report. A strong specialist talks about margin before ACOS. They can say why a high-ACOS campaign may still be worth running on a new launch.
- 03Test account basics and Amazon's rulesAsk the difference between a suppressed listing, stranded inventory and a lost Buy Box, and what each one needs. Weak candidates talk about ranking hacks. Anyone relaxed about Amazon's review policies is a risk to the whole account.
- 04First fortnight: fix listings before ad spendOnce started, they review your current listings and campaigns and write up what they found. Any listing or tracking issues are fixed before ad spend moves. If the fit is wrong, swapping the specialist is a standard step.
Questions
Frequently
asked.
Eligible work can typically start two to three business days after scope, payment and required access are confirmed. Once we have a complete brief, we confirm when your proposal will arrive. You interview the specialist before anything is signed. If your account has listing or tracking issues, the first fortnight goes on fixing them before ad spend moves.
It starts with an NDA, then access to Seller Central and your ad account. The specialist reviews your current listings and campaigns and writes up what they found. Once you agree the first month's priorities, changes start. Onboarding happens inside your process, not next to it.
You get a written report every week, tied to revenue and margin. It covers listing changes, what the ad spend returned, ACOS and TACOS against your targets, and what comes next. Amazon's numbers are kept apart from your own store's numbers, because they do not measure the same thing. Agencies receive it in their own templates.
Often yes, but run the two as separate programmes with separate goals. Amazon reaches shoppers who are already searching the marketplace and ready to buy. Your own store is the only route to a customer relationship, because Amazon does not give you an email address. A specialist worth hiring helps you decide which to do first, using the numbers.
Tell us early: swapping the specialist is a standard step. The new specialist gets the listing history, test logs and decisions the first one kept. So a switch costs days, not a restart. The proposal names the backup for your Seller Central account. It also says whether their cover sits inside the monthly rate.
The role runs ads and listings together, because pay-per-click ads only help organic ranking on listings that convert. If your listings are in good shape, most of the time goes on Sponsored Products, Brands and Display. If they are not, the first fortnight goes on fixing them before ad spend moves.
Interview your Amazon specialist
before you sign anything.
Tell us about your catalogue and the gap, and meet the actual specialist before anything is signed. If your own store needs the work more than Amazon does, we will say so on the first call.
Interview before signing · Scale monthly
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