Work with PILLAR
Senior specialists. Doing the work only senior specialists should be doing.
PILLAR is a network of senior creative, communications, and marketing professionals who get paired with engagements that match their craft. No layers. No hand-offs. No dead weight. Just the work.
How PILLAR Works
A bench, not an agency.
The best people, on focused work, for exactly the hours the work takes.When PILLAR brings in world-class creative, it is bringing in people who have worked on massive national brands, people whose portfolios include work that most agencies would never have access to. These are senior professionals at the top of their craft. Some do PILLAR work alongside a full-time role at a major brand or agency. Some are independent consultants who choose PILLAR projects because the work is meaningful.
The bench is deep and it is excellent. The bet PILLAR made early on has paid off: the best people, on focused work, for exactly the hours the work takes, produces better outcomes than any full-time structure. The client gets better work, faster, at a better price. The contractor gets meaningful projects and above-fair wages. PILLAR gets to build something where the talent is the product.
PILLAR invests in the tools and systems that make the work better and skips everything else. That means more of every dollar goes to the people doing the work and to the infrastructure that supports them. The efficiency is passed back to the client in real dollars, and back to the contractor in real rates.
Where You Fit
PILLAR builds the right team around each engagement.
The specialization lives in the people, not in the firm. A sample of the kinds of talent in the network, though the list keeps growing.
Strategy & Messaging
Communications strategists, messaging architects, brand strategists, audience researchers, and the people who build the foundational language everything else is built on.
Creative & Design
Designers, art directors, visual identity specialists, web designers and developers, video producers, photographers, and the full range of creative talent that makes an organization impossible to ignore.
Marketing & Communications
Campaign managers, content strategists, social media leads, copywriters, PR professionals, earned media specialists, and the people who get the right message in front of the right people.
Leadership Communications
Executive communications coaches, speechwriters, public speaking trainers, and thought leadership advisors who help leaders show up with clarity and confidence.
Production & Project Management
Project managers, producers, coordinators, and the operational talent that keeps complex creative engagements running on time, on scope, and on budget.
Web & Digital
Developers, UX and UI designers, SEO specialists, email marketing professionals, and digital strategists who build tools and experiences that actually work.
What to Expect
This is not a job listing. It's an invitation.
Project-based, not permanent
You are an independent contractor. You maintain your own clients, your own schedule, and your own professional identity. When PILLAR has an engagement that fits your skills, we reach out. A straightforward noncompete protects active client relationships, and nothing more.
Above-fair compensation
PILLAR pays well because the work demands it. Contractor rates reflect the caliber of talent we bring to each engagement. No spec work. No exposure offers. Real rates for real work.
Senior-level work
You work directly with clients and with PILLAR's leadership. There are no junior teams passing deliverables up a chain, no layers of management between you and the people who need the work done.
Engagements where the work has to be right
PILLAR works with organizations that have never had access to this level of creative and strategy, and organizations that have always had it but were tired of paying for overhead that never touched the work. Either way, the standard is the same.
The full PILLAR machine behind you
You get the infrastructure of an agency while keeping the freedom of a contractor. Project management, collaboration tools, creative direction, production support. You focus on the work you do best. PILLAR handles the rest.
Earn beyond the work
PILLAR Family contractors are eligible for the Co-Op: 10% commission on any client you refer, for a 24-month window from the agreement date, plus priority staffing on that engagement. The work pays. The relationships pay too.
The PILLAR Co-Op
You're not just freelancing here. You're building something.
Every contractor in PILLAR's network is eligible for the Co-Op. When you refer a client to PILLAR, you earn 10% of the signed statement of work value on any engagement that happens inside a 24-month window from the agreement date. On a $75K retainer that renews inside that window, that is $15,000. You also get priority consideration to work on the engagement you helped create.
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Tell us about yourself.
The application asks real questions about your work: what you do, who you have done it for, what you are proud of, and what kind of engagements make sense for you. We ask because we would rather know you now than chase information later. You can save your progress and come back to it.
If you are not sure whether you are the right fit, apply anyway. PILLAR serves a wide range of organizations and the network is always evolving. The worst that happens is a good conversation.
PILLAR welcomes applicants of every background, identity, and lived experience. The strength of this network is the range of perspectives in it. If you do exceptional work, you belong here.
Takes 15 to 20 minutes
Apply to the bench →Eddie reviews every application personally. Review timelines vary, but you will hear from us.
The work is the product. The talent is the company.
Not sure where you fit?
Whether you are a seasoned creative, a strategist between roles, or a freelancer ready to be part of something bigger, this is the right conversation to have.
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