This one isn't a traditional hire — it's a channel marketing partnership for experienced community consultants. You keep your own practice: your rate, your retainer structure, your relationship with the client. What Pollen8 brings is the channel — clients who need community strategy but don't yet have someone to execute it — and we take a referral fee for making the introduction, not a cut of your day rate.
On top of the referral channel, we also route on-demand consulting calls to our network when clients request call packages instead of a full engagement. Those are structured as an 80/20 revenue split in your favor — you do the call, you keep 80%, we keep 20% for sourcing the client and handling the booking and billing.
How this works
- Referral model: we introduce a client, you contract with them directly at your own rate or retainer
- Referral fee paid to Pollen8 on the engagement, not a percentage of your ongoing rate
- Call packages: for clients who just want on-demand consulting calls, we book them through you and split the revenue 80/20 in your favor
- You stay independent — this isn't exclusive, and it doesn't affect your other clients or practice
What you'll do
- Take client introductions from Pollen8 and run the engagement your way
- Deliver community strategy, audits, or ongoing advisory depending on what the client needs
- Take on-demand consulting calls for clients who want a package instead of a full retainer
- Represent Pollen8's community-first point of view without being boxed into our playbook
What we're looking for
- A track record of running your own community consulting practice or engagements
- Comfortable owning client relationships and billing directly, independent of Pollen8
- Strong point of view on community strategy — we're referring you because of your expertise, not despite it
Nice to have
- Existing case studies or referenceable client work you can point to
- Experience with retainer-based consulting, not just project work