A generalist staffing firm can post a job description. A specialist can tell you whether the candidate in front of you actually understands the difference between a 1P and 3P Amazon listing. Here's why we chose specialization over breadth.
The lines between Retail and eCommerce blurred years ago. A brand's Amazon storefront, its DTC site, its wholesale relationships, and its in-store experience are no longer separate departments reporting up separate chains of command. They're one connected commerce operation, and hiring for it works best when the recruiter understands how the pieces fit together, not just the job title on the req.
That's the premise behind Commerce Staffing. We didn't want to be a general staffing firm that happens to place Retail and eCommerce roles alongside everything else. We built the firm around 12 practice areas, each with its own recruiting specialization, because "hire someone with eCommerce experience" is not specific enough to source, screen, or place the right person.
A practice area isn't a filter on a job board. It's a body of candidate relationships, interview frameworks, and market knowledge specific to one function. Our Marketplace Management practice knows the difference between a candidate who managed Amazon Vendor Central and one who ran full-funnel retail media across Amazon, Walmart, and Instacart. Our Supply Chain practice knows which demand planning backgrounds translate cleanly into a DTC replenishment role and which don't.
That specificity is what lets us move fast. When a role comes in, we're not starting a search from zero. We're pulling from a network we've already built for that exact function.
Each of these has its own dedicated hiring page with the specific roles we place, what we look for, and how our search process works:
Commerce Staffing is affiliated with eCommerce Placement, a firm that has recruited exclusively in digital commerce since 2010. That affiliation means our candidate network didn't start from scratch. It's the same proprietary network, extended to cover the full Retail and Omnichannel picture, not just the eCommerce slice of it.
We work on a contingency basis across every practice area: a 20% placement fee, due only when you hire our candidate, backed by a 90-day replacement guarantee. No retainer, no upfront commitment, just a specialized search built for the role you actually have open.
We use "Commerce" to describe the combined Retail, Omnichannel, and eCommerce function, since most brands and retailers no longer separate these into distinct departments. Our 12 practice areas cover the roles that sit across all three.
Specialization lets us maintain deeper candidate networks and more accurate screening for each function, rather than spreading a single generalist network across dozens of unrelated role types.
Commerce Staffing is an affiliated sister firm to eCommerce Placement, sharing the same recruiting network and 14+ years of Commerce-focused search experience, expanded to cover Retail and Omnichannel roles alongside eCommerce.