When several seats could be filled and only one will be, this is the page for choosing between them: what each seat costs you in management time, how long before you can judge it, and which ones we have actually staffed at a healthcare company.
Get a scope and quote ↗What varies most between seats is how much of your week each one consumes, and how long before you can tell whether it is working.
| Seat | Your time, once running | When you can judge it | Staffed at a healthcare company |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sales development | High at first. Daily direction and weekly call review | End of the first quarter, once the ramp has run | Yes, at two |
| Customer support | Moderate. Quality review and escalation rules | Weeks. Ticket quality shows up fast | Not yet |
| Marketing | Moderate, plus your review queue | A quarter or more, depending on the channel | Not yet |
| Engineering | Low once onboarded. Normal code review | Weeks. Merged work is visible immediately | Not yet |
| Finance and bookkeeping | Low. Month-end review | One close cycle | Not yet |
| Operations and admin | High for the first weeks, then low | Weeks, once the process is written down | Not yet |
The last column is the one worth reading twice. Our healthcare work is sales development, at Wondr Health and Virta Health. The other seats we staff at accounts in other industries on the same arrangement, and you run the interviews either way.
The briefs that go well are the ones where somebody on your side already knows what the work looks like week to week. The briefs that stall are the ones where the role is real but nobody has decided what the person would do on a Tuesday.
We cannot fix that from our end, and it is the main reason one brief moves straight to a shortlist while another sits.
So when two seats compete, the tiebreak worth using is which one you could hand over a written description of today.
Worth testing on the shortlist rather than agreeing in advance, because it varies more by function than by title.
Send the role, the stack and the hours. You will get a shortlist within days.
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