Fashion recruitment agency
for DTC and Ecommerce Brands

Your First Interview in 5 Days

We help fashion and apparel brands doing $5M to $100M+ hire the design, merchandising, growth, and ecommerce operators who scale a label past its first hit product. Our fashion recruiters know the org chart at every revenue tier, from technical designer to head of growth, and how a modern fashion brand actually sells across DTC, TikTok Shop, wholesale, and retail.

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Go from generalist hiring to a fashion operator network

Most fashion brands stall because the team was built for the launch, not the second act. A legacy creative staffing agency rents you freelance designers by the day, which fills a seasonal gap but never builds the permanent team that owns growth. A supply-chain apparel shop staffs factories and procurement, not brands. A generalist recruiter sends candidates who have never briefed a lookbook or read a tech pack. As a fashion recruitment agency built for DTC and ecommerce, we place the full-time operators a scaling apparel brand actually needs.

Freelance staffing does not build a team

Legacy fashion agencies rent day-rate freelancers. That covers a season. It does not build the permanent team that owns the P&L.

The hire: Creative Director or Brand Manager.

DTC fashion lives on paid creative

Fashion sells on visual social. Without a performance creative strategist feeding paid social, CAC climbs and the feed goes stale.

The hire: Performance Creative Strategist or Paid Social Manager.

Merchandising and planning decide the margin

Buy wrong and you sit on inventory. Fashion needs planners and merchandisers who model sell-through and allocation, not just taste.

The hire: Merchandiser, Planner, or Allocation Analyst.

Technical design talent is scarce

Patternmaking, CAD design, and tech packs are specialist skills. A generalist recruiter does not know where this talent sits.

The hire: Technical Designer, Patternmaker, or Product Developer.

Retention is the second sale

A first-time apparel buyer is expensive to win. Without lifecycle and CRM, you pay to acquire the same customer twice.

The hire: Lifecycle Marketing Manager or Director of Retention.

Generalist recruiters waste 60 days

They send candidates from unrelated industries who have never run a fashion brand's TikTok Shop or managed a wholesale account.

The hire: anyone, as long as the fashion recruitment agency actually knows the category.

First interviews in 5 days. Risk-free model.

Apparel brand recruiters for DTC and ecommerce

We recruit for apparel brands, not textile mills. Our apparel recruiters place the design, product, merchandising, and ecommerce operators who run a modern apparel label, across womenswear, menswear, activewear, footwear, denim, and accessories. If you need a sourcing or production manager who sits on the brand side, we cover that. We do not staff factory-floor, procurement, or manufacturing operations roles, and that focus is deliberate: it is what keeps our shortlist full of operators who understand how apparel sells, not just how it gets made.
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Roles we recruit for fashion and apparel brands

We recruit across the fashion brand org chart, from creative director to technical designer to senior media buyer, including executive search and full-time roles. Our talent pool covers operators at every revenue tier, across womenswear, menswear, activewear, footwear, denim, and accessories brands.
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Design, Product & Technical

The designers and product operators who turn a concept into a sellable, on-margin product.

  • Apparel Designer
  • Technical Designer
  • CAD Designer
  • Patternmaker
  • Product Developer
  • Print & Graphic Designer
  • Accessories Designer
  • Design Director
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Merchandising, Buying & Planning

The merchandising and planning operators who decide what gets made, in what quantity, and where it sells.

  • Merchandiser
  • Buyer
  • Planner
  • Allocation Analyst
  • Production Manager
  • Sourcing Manager
  • Licensing Manager
  • Merchandising Director
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Growth & Ecommerce

The operators who run profitable acquisition and own the DTC store for a fashion brand.

  • Head of Growth
  • Performance Marketing Manager
  • Ecommerce Manager
  • Paid Social Manager (Meta, TikTok)
  • Paid Search Manager (Google)
  • TikTok Shop Manager
  • Amazon Marketplace Manager
  • CRO Specialist
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Retention & Lifecycle

The lifecycle marketers who turn a first-time apparel buyer into a repeat customer.

  • Director of Retention
  • Lifecycle Marketing Manager
  • Email & SMS Marketing Manager
  • Klaviyo Specialist
  • CRM Manager
  • Loyalty & Referral Program Manager
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Brand, Creative & Content

The brand and creative leaders who carry a founder's voice into a scaling team.

  • Creative Director
  • Brand Manager
  • Social Media Manager
  • Performance Creative Strategist
  • Public Relations Manager
  • UGC & Influencer Manager
  • Direct Response Copywriter
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Retail, Operations & Executive

The commercial, operations, and C-suite hires that set strategy and own the P&L.

  • VP of Sales
  • Wholesale Account Executive
  • Store & Retail Manager
  • COO
  • CFO
  • People & HR Lead
  • CEO / President
  • CMO
Find Out Which Roles Your Fashion Brand Needs

First interviews in 5 days.

Skills we hire for in the fashion & apparel industry

01 / Design, Product & Technical
Apparel Design Technical Design CAD Design Patternmaking Tech Packs Product Development Print Design Graphic Design Accessories Design
02 / Merchandising, Buying & Planning
Line Planning Assortment Planning Allocation Open-to-Buy Sell-Through Analysis Sourcing & Production Licensing Vendor Management
03 / Growth, Ecommerce & Retention
CAC:LTV Modeling Paid Social At Scale TikTok Shop Amazon Fashion Shopify Merchandising Klaviyo Lifecycle Subscription & Loyalty Performance Creative
04 / Brand, Creative & Retail
Founder-Voice Translation Campaign & Lookbook Direction UGC & Influencer Direct Response Copy Public Relations Wholesale Account Management Store & Retail Management Community Building

How the right fashion hires elevate your team

We find operators who make your existing team perform, not operators who replace it. Most fashion brands ride one strong collection and one channel until growth stalls. Every senior hire either compounds the next stage or stalls it. The gap between labels that scale and labels that plateau usually comes down to whether they reached the operator before a competitor did.

A creative strategist who lowers CAC on paid social

A performance creative strategist who has scaled a fashion or apparel brand knows how to turn product into paid social that converts, not just content that looks good. They brief and test at volume, so acquisition cost drops while the feed stays fresh. In a category that sells on visuals, this is the hire that protects blended ROAS.

A merchandiser who protects margin and cash

A merchandiser or planner who models sell-through, allocation, and open-to-buy keeps you from sitting on unsold inventory. They connect the design calendar to the demand plan, so the right units land in the right channel at the right time. This is the hire that keeps cash out of the stockroom.

A growth marketer who connects every channel

Modern fashion sells on its own site, on TikTok Shop, on Amazon, at wholesale, and in retail at the same time. A growth marketer who can think in CAC:LTV for DTC, content velocity for social commerce, and sell-through for a wholesale account makes every dollar work across channels instead of competing with itself.

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Our fashion industry hiring process

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1 Client Intake Call

We start with a structured intake so the role is defined with precision before sourcing begins. We map your current channel mix, wholesale and retail footprint, product calendar, and growth stage to find where the real gap is. You define the growth objective. We build the hiring profile around it.

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2 First Interviews in 5 Days

Within five business days, we present a focused shortlist aligned to your brief. Each profile is screened with custom client questions and evaluated for hands-on fashion or apparel experience, channel fluency, and verified outcomes. Our sourcing goes beyond LinkedIn: we tap a network of pre-vetted DTC and fashion operators and run targeted outbound to reach people who are not scanning job boards.

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3 Weekly Refinement

We provide a shared portal to track candidates, feedback, and interview stages in one place, plus weekly alignment calls. Each week we refine the profile based on founder input, channel priorities, and what is moving in the category. You focus on evaluating fit. We adjust the search until the profile locks.

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4 White-Glove Talent Solutions

We act as an extension of your team on the operational side: interview scheduling, structured reference checks, and test projects tied to real fashion brand challenges, such as a 90-day TikTok Shop launch plan or a paid social creative brief. We also build a custom offer template with benchmark compensation guidance, then manage negotiation, timeline, and onboarding through to signed offer.

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Constant Hire vs. Legacy Fashion Staffing agencies vs. Generalist Recruiters vs. In-house Hiring

Time to first interview
Specialization
Candidate pool
Hiring model
Roles best fit
Industry depth
Risk
Constant Hire
5 days
DTC and ecommerce fashion and apparel operators
Off-market network of full-time DTC and fashion operators
Risk-free contingent. Pay nothing until you hire
Growth, retention, creative, brand, design, merchandising, executive
DTC fashion, TikTok Shop, wholesale and retail fluency
Low. You pay only for a hire that sticks
Legacy fashion / creative staffing agencies
2 to 4 weeks
Freelance and full-time creative staffing
Freelance day-rate creative pool
Contingent plus freelance day-rate markups
Design, merchandising, and freelance creative coverage
Deep in traditional and wholesale fashion, light on DTC ecommerce
Freelance churn, thin on modern ecommerce roles
Generalist recruiter
3 to 4 weeks, often off-target
Any industry, no fashion depth
Active applicants and job boards
Contingent, low specialization
Generic corporate roles
None specific to fashion
Wasted weeks on mismatched candidates
In-house hiring
Weeks to months of team time
One brand's perspective only
Inbound applicants and referrals
Salaried recruiter or founder time
Roles the team already understands
Limited to current team's experience
Slow, opportunity cost on founder time

Time to first interview

ConstantHire
ConstantHire
5 days
Legacy fashion / creative staffing agencies
2 to 4 weeks
Generalist Recruiter
3 to 4 weeks, often off-target
In-House Hiring
Weeks to months of team time

Specialization

ConstantHire
ConstantHire
DTC and ecommerce fashion and apparel operators
Legacy fashion / creative staffing agencies
Freelance and full-time creative staffing
Generalist Recruiter
Any industry, no fashion depth
In-House Hiring
One brand's perspective only

Candidate pool

ConstantHire
ConstantHire
Off-market network of full-time DTC and fashion operators
Legacy fashion / creative staffing agencies
Freelance day-rate creative pool
Traditional Recruiter
Active applicants and job boards
In-House Hiring
Inbound applicants and referrals

Hiring model

ConstantHire
ConstantHire
Risk-free contingent. Pay nothing until you hire
Legacy fashion / creative staffing agencies
Contingent plus freelance day-rate markups
Generalist Recruiter
Contingent, low specialization
In-House Hiring
Salaried recruiter or founder time

Roles best fit

ConstantHire
ConstantHire
Growth, retention, creative, brand, design, merchandising, executive
Legacy fashion / creative staffing agencies
Design, merchandising, and freelance creative coverage
Generalist Recruiter
Generic corporate roles
In-House Hiring
Roles the team already understands

Industry depth

ConstantHire
ConstantHire
DTC fashion, TikTok Shop, wholesale and retail fluency
Legacy fashion / creative staffing agencies
Deep in traditional and wholesale fashion, light on DTC ecommerce
Generalist Recruiter
None specific to fashion
In-House Hiring
Limited to current team's experience

Risk

ConstantHire
ConstantHire
Low. You pay only for a hire that sticks
Legacy fashion / creative staffing agencies
Freelance churn, thin on modern ecommerce roles
Generalist Recruiter
Wasted weeks on mismatched candidates
In-House Hiring
Slow, opportunity cost on founder time

Fashion and apparel recruitment case studies

Placed a VP of Operations to help lead the expansion and relocation of Nysonian’s manufacturing operations as the company scaled across multiple brands.

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Placed a VP of Growth to lead all digital marketing efforts across DTC and Amazon, with full ownership of revenue, margin, and performance.

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Placed a mid-level Creative Strategist to help Klone Scents scale direct response creative as revenue grew from $9M to $15M.

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Hollow Socks scaled fast with a VP of Operations to streamline backend systems and a Creative Strategist to scale direct-response creatives.

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Discover how Constant Hire helped Nysonian quickly hire a proven Head of Growth for Nobl, building a growth roadmap & driving efficient customer acquisition.

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Why fashion and apparel brands work with Constant Hire

Operator-driven DTC and fashion network

We know where the operators behind scaling fashion and consumer brands are because we have had hundreds of conversations with them. When you want to headhunt from the brand at your next stage of growth, we know which operators to call.

Full-time operators, not day-rate freelancers

Legacy fashion staffing rents you freelance creatives by the day. We place the permanent operators who own the outcome, so you build a team instead of renting one every season.

We have placed at every ecommerce revenue tier

What a $5M brand needs is not what a $30M or $100M brand needs. We have built the org chart at each stage and know which roles to prioritize when, across both the creative and the commercial side.

Risk-free contingent model

First interviews in 5 days. You pay nothing until you make a hire that sticks. No retainer. No freelance markups. No lock-in until the role is filled.

What DTC Experts Are Saying About Us

Constant Hire successfully filled the role within 30 days, showcasing their efficiency. Their collaborative and understanding approach, coupled with good project management and clear communication, made them stand out. They delivered on time, meeting all expectations.
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Mike Tzavlas
Sr. Manager of Talent Acqusition, ARMRA
Gotta give a massive shoutout to Connor. He helped me find some incredible people to join our small/nimble DTC brand team.
If you're looking for a bad ass recruiter for roles like Head of Growth, Director of Performance Creative, Ops, he's your guy.
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Zack Stuck
CEO, Homestead
I absolutely love working with the hiring manager from the Constant hire team. The tone of their voice is like "I got this - you don't have to worry anymore."
Moiz Ali
CEO, Native
I was impressed by their professionalism and experience with hiring creative strategists
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Andrew Case
CEO, Surround Sound
The entire team truly cared about finding the right fit for our company, and they didn't stop until we were satisfied
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Randy Ginsburg
Founder, Third Wall Creative
I am very appreciative of the Constant Hire team for helping me land such a good opportunity and have nothing bad to say about the team. I would recommend them to anyone who is looking for the right fit for their team.

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Michael O'Brien
Filterbuy

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Fashion industry recruitment FAQs

What does a fashion recruitment agency do?

A fashion recruitment agency sources, vets, and places talent specifically for fashion and apparel brands, including DTC labels, ecommerce-native brands, and omnichannel companies. The right specialist partner understands merchandising and sell-through, technical design and product development, and how fashion grows across TikTok Shop, Amazon, wholesale, and retail. We focus on DTC and ecommerce brands doing $5M to $100M+.

How is hiring for a DTC fashion brand different from a traditional fashion house or wholesale label?

Channel and economics change every hiring profile. A growth marketer at a DTC fashion brand thinks in CAC:LTV, builds paid social for repeat buyers, and partners with retention on Klaviyo flows. A traditional fashion house or wholesale label hires for showroom sales, large-account management, and seasonal wholesale cycles. Most candidates fit one model, not both.

What roles do you recruit for fashion and apparel brands?

We recruit across six areas: design, product and technical; merchandising, buying and planning; growth and ecommerce; retention and lifecycle; brand, creative and content; and retail, operations and executive search. Common roles include Technical Designer, Merchandiser, Head of Growth, Lifecycle Marketing Manager, Creative Director, and CMO, across womenswear, menswear, activewear, footwear, denim, and accessories.

Do you place freelance fashion talent or full-time hires?

We place full-time, permanent operators. That is a deliberate contrast to the legacy fashion staffing model, which leans on freelance day-rate creatives to fill seasonal gaps. Freelancers can cover a moment. Building a brand that scales past its first hit product takes owners who stay, so we recruit for the team you keep.

How long does it take to hire for a fashion brand role?

First interviews are presented in 5 business days. Time to placement varies by seniority and specialization. Mid-level operators typically place within 4 to 6 weeks. Executive searches at the CMO or President level run longer. Specialized technical roles like patternmakers and technical designers can take longer, because that talent pool is small and largely off-market.

How much does it cost to hire a fashion recruiter?

We work on a risk-free contingent model. There is no upfront retainer and no freelance markup. You pay only when you make a hire that sticks. Compensation benchmarks and fee specifics are covered on the strategy call.

Build the fashion team your growth depends on

Constant Hire is built for DTC and ecommerce fashion and apparel brands at $5M to $100M+. Our recruiters bring years of experience placing operators who have run design, merchandising, growth, retention, and creative at brands your customers already buy from.

Risk-free model •  No Obligation  •  First interviews in 5 days • Contingent model