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Team Augmentation

Scale Your Team, Not Your Headcount.

  1. Leo LinLeo Lin
  2. Brandbank GroupBrandbank Group
  3. Runaway The LabelRunaway The Label

Most commerce teams are understaffed relative to the job they're being asked to do. An ecommerce manager doing the work of three people. A trading function without a dedicated trader. A development team stretched across too many priorities to move quickly on any of them. A platform rebuild underway with nobody managing the day-to-day while it happens. DotCollective's Team Augmentation Program puts the right people inside your team, in the right configuration, for as long as you need them. That might be a single senior consultant embedded one to three days a week as a strategic right-hand and capability transfer partner. Or it might be a dedicated squad of DotCollective people, discipline-specific or multi-disciplinary, operating as a fully configured extension of your team for an ongoing engagement or a defined project. The shape flexes. The principle doesn't. DotCollective people working as part of your team, not as a separate agency. Under your direction, or ours, depending on what works. The goal is always to leave the business stronger than we found it. If you want to know what good looks like in your seat, hire the consultant who's done it 50 times.

This Program Delivers

  • Accelerate Revenue Performance
  • Access Enterprise Capability at Any Size
  • Eliminate Infrastructure Drag

Used by companies like

DecjubaBrandbank

Two engagement models

  • 01

    Model 1 — Embedded Consultant

    A single senior DotCollective consultant embedded in your team, one to three days per week. Ongoing. Named person, consistent presence, capability transfer as the outcome. Best for: capability gaps, team transitions, strategic right-hand, or trading and CRO function coverage.

  • 02

    Model 2 — Dedicated Team

    A configured squad of DotCollective people, discipline-specific or multi-disciplinary, operating as a dedicated extension of your team. Ongoing or project-scoped. Client-directed or DotCollective-led. Best for: brands needing sustained development capacity, a full ecommerce function, or a multi-disciplinary team without the overhead of building one internally.

Program features

Every program is tailored to your situation. These are the core components we typically deliver.

  1. Embedded Senior Consultant

    A named DotCollective consultant in your team, on-site where possible, one to three days per week. Consistent presence. Not a rotating resource. Not a junior hand.

  2. Dedicated Team Configuration

    A configured squad of DotCollective people sized and shaped to your need. Pure development team, trading and CRO function, multi-disciplinary squad, or something else entirely.

  3. Day-to-Day Trading & Operations

    Site trading, merchandising, promotions, content, and performance reporting handled with the discipline of someone who has run this function before.

  4. Strategic Right-Hand

    In the room for the decisions that shape what comes next. Stakeholder management, roadmap input, and senior commercial thinking available to your leadership team.

  5. Flexible Direction Model

    Client-directed or DotCollective-led, depending on what works for your team. We adapt to your operating model rather than imposing ours.

  6. Capability Transfer

    The named outcome of every Team Augmentation engagement is a stronger internal team. We coach, document, and transfer so when the engagement ends, the capability stays.

Is this program right for you?

Answer yes to any of these and this program is probably the right starting point.

  • Your ecommerce or development function is under-resourced relative to the commercial ambition of the business

  • You have a capability gap, a team transition, or a talent hire in progress that is leaving the function exposed

  • You need sustained development capacity or a full ecommerce function without the overhead of building one internally

  • You want DotCollective people working as part of your team, under your direction or ours, for an ongoing engagement or a defined project

Leo LinLeo Lin

What comes next

Team Augmentation is often the bridge between where a business is and where it needs to get to. Once the immediate capability gap is filled and the team is stronger, the natural next programs depend on what the augmentation period surfaces. Most clients move into Conversion Accelerator to formalise the performance improvements made during augmentation, or Loyalty & Retention to build on the customer base the trading function has been growing.

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Tell us where you are.
We'll tell you which program fits.

A 30-minute discovery call is enough for DC to map your situation to the right program — or tell you honestly if we're not the right fit. No pitch deck. No obligation.