Roles we recruit
Seven practices, 27 functions. Start at the practice when you cannot yet name the title; go straight to the function when you can.
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Nine seats sit under web and conversion, from the developer who builds the pages to the specialist who tests which version earns the demo. We split them by the stage of the website each one owns, screen for what they shipped and what it changed, and charge a flat 15% only once your hire starts.
Most web briefs ask for a developer and describe an ownership problem, a speed problem or a conversion problem. We start with what the website should be doing for pipeline and is not.
The website as a revenue channel, and the seat that owns each stage
Moves: site roadmap and pipeline from the website
1 seat
The marketing site as a product: roadmap, requests, vendors, analytics and the number the site is accountable for.
Brief us when everyone edits the website and nobody owns it, or every change waits on an agency.
Hire a Website ManagerMoves: release speed and page performance
3 seats
The code visitors touch: components, templates, performance and accessibility on the marketing site and landing pages.
Brief us when pages load slowly, break on mobile, or simple changes need a ticket and a two-week wait.
Hire a Front-End DeveloperA WordPress marketing site end to end: theme, page builder, custom blocks, plugins, speed and security.
Brief us when your site runs on WordPress and the builds, updates and fixes outgrow a freelancer.
Hire a WordPress DeveloperA Webflow site end to end: components, CMS collections, interactions and the integrations marketing relies on.
Brief us when your site runs on Webflow and marketing wants pages faster than the current setup allows.
Hire a Webflow DeveloperMoves: uptime, speed and technical health
2 seats
Keeping the site fast, secure and live: hosting, releases, monitoring, forms, tracking and the processes that stop breakages.
Brief us when forms break, tracking drops or the site goes down, and you find out from a customer.
The technical health of the site: crawlability, redirects, DNS, plugins, backups and the fixes search and security depend on.
Brief us when technical issues pile up behind every redesign, and nobody owns the plumbing.
Moves: campaign pages live on time, and their conversion
1 seat
Campaign and paid landing pages built fast from components, matched to the ad and tested against conversion.
Brief us when campaigns launch late because pages take weeks, or paid traffic lands on the homepage.
Moves: conversion rate and test win rate
2 seats
The testing program: research, hypotheses, A/B tests and the readouts that lift demo and sign-up rates on the pages that matter.
Brief us when you have steady traffic and a conversion rate nobody has tried to move with real tests.
Friction on the site: session analysis, usability testing and the design changes that make key paths easier to finish.
Brief us when visitors reach pricing or the demo form and leave, and nobody has watched why.
Measured on
A live URL proves a site exists, not who built it, how it performs or what it did for the business. We screen for code and builds they own, tests they ran with numbers attached, and how they work inside a marketing team that ships on campaign dates.
Conversion candidates walk us through one experiment: the hypothesis, the sample, the result and what shipped. Wins without a sample size are where we dig.
Developers show us a build or repository they own and explain the decisions in it: components, performance trade-offs and what they would change now.
We check a site they built against Core Web Vitals and basic accessibility, and ask what they did about what we find.
We check with a former marketing lead how they handled request queues, launch dates and last-minute changes.
Not sure which seat you need? Tell us what the site should do for pipeline and what stops it, and we will tell you which of the nine owns it.
Public US benchmarks, read October 2026. Web pay is mostly base salary. Developer pay depends on platform and seniority, and conversion roles split sharply between specialists who run tests and managers who own the program.
Each bar runs from the 25th to the 75th percentile, the middle half of reported pay.
Base salaryWages including commission (BLS)Median base salaryAverage total pay, base plus variable
Web Developer
BLS, all industries
$64,230 to $126,230
Front-End Developer
Built In, self-reported
$101,000 median base$121,493 average total
Conversion Rate Optimization Manager
Salary.com base benchmark
$112,868 to $134,885 base
Conversion Rate Optimization Specialist
Salary.com base benchmark
$66,170 to $80,086 base
Web Developer: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, annual wage at the 25th and 75th percentiles (SOC 15-1254), all industries. Front-End Developer: Built In median base salary and average total compensation, self-reported, reviewed October 3, 2026. Conversion rate optimization manager and specialist: Salary.com base salary, 25th to 75th percentile, United States, as of October 1, 2026. Public aggregates, not ZaphyrRecruit placement data.
The clock starts when the brief is signed and stops when three to five calibrated candidates are in front of you. Most of that time is spent talking to people, not searching for them.
Day 1
Forty-five minutes with whoever the hire reports to. We leave with the number the seat owns, the range you can pay and the two or three things that genuinely disqualify.
Days 2 to 7
We build the list from people doing the job now, approach them directly and screen every name against the brief before it reaches you.
Days 8 to 10
Three to five people, each with a page: what they have run, why they fit this seat, pay expectations, notice period and where they are weak.
After the shortlist
Interviews run at your pace. We handle scheduling, references and the counter-offer conversation, and nothing is payable until your hire starts.
Three clients, quoted as they wrote to us about searches we ran for them. We publish no names or logos without permission.
A CRO specialist runs tests to lift conversion, a UX optimization specialist finds and removes friction in key flows, and a front-end developer builds what both of them decide. Testing and research choose what to change; development ships it. In smaller teams one person covers testing and UX, but the developer seat rarely doubles as either.
A flat 15% of the hire’s first-year base salary, payable only once they start. On a $110,000 base that is $16,500, and the same 15% applies to every seat on this page. There is no retainer, no exclusivity and nothing to pay if the search does not produce a hire. If a placement leaves inside the guarantee period, we rerun the search at no further fee.
The BLS puts the middle half of US web developers between $64,230 and $126,230 a year (May 2025, all industries), and Built In reports a $101,000 median base for front-end developers (October 2026). Salary.com puts conversion rate optimization specialists at $66,170 to $80,086 base and managers at $112,868 to $134,885. Platform depth and seniority move the number.
Name the platform, the pages the developer will own and how fast marketing needs them. A marketing site needs someone who ships components quickly, cares about speed and tracking, and can work from a designer’s file without a product manager. We screen builds they own and their working pace, then shortlist within ten working days.
Hire for the platform you run today, unless a rebuild is already decided. WordPress suits large sites with custom functionality; Webflow suits teams that want marketers editing pages without code. If a migration is on the roadmap, brief us for the destination platform and say so, and we screen for migration experience.
When the site has enough traffic to reach a result in weeks, not quarters, and the pages that matter are stable. Below that, tests rarely conclude and a UX specialist or a stronger copywriter moves more. A useful rule: if your demo or sign-up page gets only a handful of conversions a week, fix traffic and messaging first.
Yes. A website manager, a developer and a conversion specialist hired as one structure is how we run a pod, briefed together so each search builds on the last instead of restarting. The same 15% applies to each hire, payable as each one starts, with the owner of the site usually hired first.
Tell us what the site runs on, what it should do for pipeline and where it falls short. We reply within one business day with which of the nine seats it is and what it pays.
Most of our web searches are filled from people we already know, the week an employer briefs us. Set up a job alert for marketing and web roles, or send your CV and we will come to you when a seat opens.
Web & Conversion sits in our Demand, Search & Content practice, next to the search, demand and content teams that fill the site with traffic. Creative designs what the site shows, so it is here too.