We built eCommerce Placement on one belief: the people who run eCommerce businesses deserve better support when it comes to building their teams. That means better candidates, better process, and better information. Today, we are putting one of those things directly in the hands of our clients, at no extra cost.
We are proud to introduce eP CoPilot, a free hiring intelligence tool built exclusively for eCommerce Placement clients. Whether you are benchmarking compensation, scoping a new role, or trying to understand what the talent market looks like right now, eP CoPilot gives you the context you need to make smarter decisions, included as part of your relationship with us.
For eCommerce Placement clients: eP CoPilot is available at copilot.ecommerceplacement.com and included at no extra cost as part of your engagement with us. Reach out to your contact at eCommerce Placement to get access.
Why We Built eP CoPilot
eCommerce hiring is genuinely hard. The roles are specialized, the talent pool is smaller than most people expect, and the market moves fast. Compensation expectations shift. Job titles mean different things at different companies. What worked when you hired your last Director of eCommerce two years ago may not reflect what candidates expect today.
We have spent over a decade placing eCommerce leaders across brands of every size, and one of the most common things we hear from hiring managers is some version of: "I am not sure what we should be paying for this role," or "I do not know how to write a job description that will actually attract the right people," or "How long is this search going to take?"
These are not questions with easy answers, but they are questions we have been answering for clients for years. eP CoPilot puts those answers in your hands directly, at no cost.
What eP CoPilot Offers
Salary Benchmarking
One of the most consequential decisions in any hiring process is the compensation package. Price a role too low and you will lose candidates to competitors before you ever get to the interview stage. Price it unrealistically high and you will either overpay or create expectations you cannot sustain at offer time.
eP CoPilot's salary benchmarking tool gives you current, eCommerce-specific compensation data by role, seniority level, and region. This is not generic HR survey data applied to an eCommerce job title. It is informed by real placement data and active market intelligence from the eCommerce talent ecosystem specifically.
Use salary benchmarks before you write your job description, not after your first offer gets rejected. Knowing the market range early lets you structure a competitive package from the start and have honest conversations with your leadership team about what talent actually costs.
Role Research and Job Description Guidance
Writing a compelling job description for an eCommerce role is harder than it looks. The terminology matters. The responsibilities need to reflect how the role actually functions, not just how it sounds on paper. And the framing has to appeal to the specific kind of professional you are trying to attract, whether that is a channel-focused operator, a generalist growth leader, or a technically deep digital merchandiser.
eP CoPilot provides role research and job description guidance that reflects how these positions are actually structured and what high-performing candidates in these roles actually do. You can use it as a starting point, a reference, or a sanity check on something you have already drafted.
Market Insights
The eCommerce talent market is not static. Demand for certain skills rises and falls with platform changes, economic conditions, and shifts in how brands operate. What was scarce two years ago may be more available today. What was easy to hire for may now require a longer, more competitive search.
eP CoPilot's market insights surface relevant context about what is happening in the eCommerce talent market right now, so you can calibrate your expectations and plan your search accordingly. This includes information about candidate availability, hiring velocity, and where eCommerce talent is concentrating across channels and specializations.
Interview and Hiring Process Frameworks
Even when you find the right candidate, the hiring process itself can create problems. Moves too slowly and you lose candidates to competing offers. Moves too fast and you skip steps that matter. Asks the wrong questions and you end up with confident-sounding candidates who cannot actually do the job.
eP CoPilot includes interview and hiring process frameworks built specifically for eCommerce roles. These cover the kinds of questions that reveal real capability, the red flags that experienced eCommerce recruiters look for, and the process structures that tend to produce good hiring outcomes at companies our size and in our space.
Built on real experience: These frameworks come from 15-plus years of eCommerce placements across DTC brands, multi-brand retailers, Amazon sellers, and marketplace operators. They reflect what we have actually seen work in practice.
Career Intelligence for Your Team
eP CoPilot is not only useful at the moment you are writing a job description or making an offer. It is a resource your HR team, your hiring managers, and your leadership can return to throughout the year whenever a compensation question comes up, whenever you are evaluating a reorg, or whenever you need to make the case internally for what a role should cost and why.
Having this intelligence on hand means fewer surprises mid-search and more alignment across your organization before a search even begins. That tends to produce better outcomes and faster closes.
Why It Is Included for Clients
eP CoPilot is available to eCommerce Placement clients at no additional cost. It is part of how we think about the value we bring to a hiring engagement beyond the placement itself.
The more context our clients have going into a search, the more productive that search tends to be. When hiring managers already understand the compensation landscape, we skip the back-and-forth on offer ranges. When they have a clear picture of what the role should look like, job descriptions take one round instead of three. When they know what the market is doing, timeline expectations are grounded in reality from day one.
eP CoPilot makes those conversations faster and better. It is an investment in the partnership, not a separate product.
If you are not yet a client and want access, the best path is to reach out to our team. We would be glad to talk through what you are building and how we can help.
What Comes Next
This is the first version of eP CoPilot, and we have a clear roadmap for what comes next. We are actively adding more role coverage, deeper regional compensation data, and additional frameworks for the kinds of hiring decisions eCommerce teams make most often. We are also building in more structured guidance for specific scenarios, including how to hire your first dedicated eCommerce leader, how to structure a multi-channel team, and how to evaluate candidates for roles that blend technical and commercial skills.
If you are an eCommerce Placement client and have not yet accessed eP CoPilot, reach out to your contact on our team and we will get you set up. And as always, if you have feedback on what would make it more useful for your specific hiring needs, we want to hear it.