A complete guide to hiring a Fractional CMO
The Place to Hire a Fractional CMO
Get matched with senior marketing leaders
who can own your growth strategy without the
cost or delay of a full-time hire
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Not ready for a call? Email us at
hello@fractionaljobs.io
You’ll be working with Fractional Jobs founder
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Taylor Crane
What Does A Fractional CMO Do?
Everything a normal marketing leader would do, but while working on a flexible, part-time basis. Whether you’re exploring where to find a fractional CMO or already in talks with candidates, here’s what you can expect:
Lifecycle Marketing
Manage customer journeys from acquisition through retention. They build programs that expand accounts, drive referrals, and maximize lifetime value, ensuring marketing continues delivering beyond the initial sale.
Public Relations
Shape your public image through media outreach, thought leadership, and strategic storytelling. They also build relationships with press and influencers that align with your brand’s identity and values.
Performance Marketing
Plan, launch, and optimize paid campaigns across multiple channels. They drive measurable ROI with data-driven targeting, creative testing, and spend allocation designed to scale cost-effectively.
AI Automation
Bring deep expertise in integrating the latest AI workflows into marketing. They modernize your stack and drive efficiency by delivering transformative upgrades and new AI-first tools that deliver long after their tenure.
GTM & Pipeline
Design and refine GTM strategies, building acquisition channels that convert. They ensure your pipeline is aligned to revenue targets across inbound, outbound, and partner programs.
Brand & Communications
Elevate your perception with integrated PR, design, and content strategies. They shape how the market sees you, ensuring consistency across channels and building lasting credibility and awareness.
Positioning & Messaging
Clarify how your brand wins by defining positioning and messaging that resonate. They craft narratives that differentiate you in competitive markets and drive alignment across commercial and product teams.
Marketing Leadership
Strengthen execution by hiring, training, and managing marketing teams and vendors. They ensure the right resources are in place, aligned to goals, and delivering strong measurable impact.
Revenue Growth
Partner closely with sales to align pipeline with closed revenue. They connect marketing programs to bottom-line impact, ensuring leads convert and go-to-market efforts directly fuel growth.
FRACTIONAL CMOs FOR START-UPS AND
EARLY STAGE GROWTH COMPANIES
Cost-Efficient Expertise
Access senior-level marketing strategy without the overhead of a full-time hire.
Startups get top-tier experience for a fraction of the cost while still accelerating growth.
Startups get top-tier experience for a fraction of the cost while still accelerating growth.
Speed to Impact
Plug in quickly with proven strategies, skipping the long ramp-up period of a permanent executive.
This allows startups to act immediately on pressing growth opportunities and market shifts.
This allows startups to act immediately on pressing growth opportunities and market shifts.
Flexible Engagement
Scale scope and hours as your business evolves.
Companies avoid long-term commitments while matching expertise to changing needs across fundraising, launches, and new market entry.
Companies avoid long-term commitments while matching expertise to changing needs across fundraising, launches, and new market entry.
Proven Playbooks
Apply experience from multiple startups and growth phases.
Tested approaches shorten the learning curve and focus efforts on tactics that drive growth.
Tested approaches shorten the learning curve and focus efforts on tactics that drive growth.
How it Works
Designed to find
you a
Fractional CMO
that will blow you away.
It starts with the largest network of fractionals in the U.S. (& beyond!)
The challenge with most recruiting options is that you’re only reaching a small subset of available talent. However, we have virtually every fractional in our database. Seriously.
Your chance of finding the perfect match is only as good as your top-of-funnel. Our process starts by getting your opportunity in front of virtually everyone that could be a fit.
Your chance of finding the perfect match is only as good as your top-of-funnel. Our process starts by getting your opportunity in front of virtually everyone that could be a fit.
We’ll handpick the best 5 - 10 options for you.
We do the hard, tedious, work of sifting through all the interested candidates to identify the few that are exceptional fits for your need. We’ll send you their profiles to your email, and you tell us who you want to chat with.
This work is done by humans. We use AI to move faster, but humans outperform AI matching algorithms when quality matters.
This work is done by humans. We use AI to move faster, but humans outperform AI matching algorithms when quality matters.
Get email intros to the ones you like the most.
We make direct email introductions to the candidates you want to meet with. Then, we get out of the way from there. You can run your interview process however you want.
We’re here to help along the way, too. Use us as a sounding board or thought partner as you hone in on who the perfect fractional is for your needs.
We’re here to help along the way, too. Use us as a sounding board or thought partner as you hone in on who the perfect fractional is for your needs.
Hire & pay your fractional directly. Not through us.
We are not a middleman! This is the best part about getting help from Fractional Jobs. We don’t take a % fee of the relationship like most marketplaces. You own the relationship with the candidate you hire.
Sign a contract with them directly. Pay them directly. You can even convert them into a full-time employee if there’s mutual interest.
Sign a contract with them directly. Pay them directly. You can even convert them into a full-time employee if there’s mutual interest.
Pricing
Unlike agencies or marketplaces that take an ongoing cut of your hire’s earnings, Fractional Jobs charges employers a one-time referral fee so every dollar you pay your CMO goes directly to them.
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Fractional Jobs
How We Charge: One-time referral fee
Cost Over 1 year: $3K - $5K, depending on the role
Ongoing Fees? None, 100% of wages paid directly to your hire
2.
Recruitment Agencies
How They Charge: % of Salary, up front
Cost Over 1 year: $5-30K+ depending on the role
Ongoing Fees? Not ongoing, but fees are based on the negotiated salary
3.
Other Marketplaces
How They Charge: % commission on earnings
Cost Over 1 year: $10-50K+ depending on the role
Ongoing Fees? 10-20% ongoing markup of total fees paid
Get a list of the top 5 fractionals that match your needs.
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Wall of Love
Companies love us for three reasons.
They love the candidates we send.
They love how much time we save them.
They love how fast we move.
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Holy sh*t. I’m shocked. These candidates are impressive.
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Anthony Geranio
CEO
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The quality and quantity of the candidates we connected with were an order of magnitude better than we could have found with internal efforts and they were delivered to us on a silver platter at record speed. One of the most efficient and effective recruiting experiences I have experienced in my whole career.
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Mark Jackson
CEO
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Thanks a lot for this. Overall very impressed by the quality of profiles you sent through.
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Lambert Despaux
CEO
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Honestly doing it through you was affordable and quick and the candidates were high quality and saved us so much time.
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Yasi Chehroudi
CEO
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Ryan has been 10 out of 10. Best hire ever. We love him. Such a crusher.
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John Beauprez
Co-founder
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I particularly appreciated how quickly you were able to convert my goals into a JD and get it out to your audience.
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Arjun Gopalratnam
Head of Product
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Honestly doing it through you was affordable and quick and the candidates were high quality and saved us so much time.
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Yasi Chehroudi
CEO
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Ryan has been 10 out of 10. Best hire ever. We love him. Such a crusher.
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John Beauprez
Co-founder
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I particularly appreciated how quickly you were able to convert my goals into a JD and get it out to your audience.
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Arjun Gopalratnam
Head of Product
At Fractional Jobs, we’ve made hundreds of placements that have had an outsized impact on our client’s organizations.
White Glove Support
The work is done by humans. We’re supported by our in-house, best-in-class AI matching algorithm, but real people are going through every profile to ensure it’s a fit for your needs.
Technology is great, but we every one of our client’s is unique. We find and fix the gaps before you see them.
Technology is great, but we every one of our client’s is unique. We find and fix the gaps before you see them.
Largest Global Network
Fractional Jobs maintains the largest network of Fractional Talent, globally. Beyond our database, our founder Taylor Crane manages a fractional newsletter read by 25,000+ senior fractionals across the world.
Seriously, book a call and let us show you why our clients are so consistently impressed by the quantity and caliber of the talent in our network.
Seriously, book a call and let us show you why our clients are so consistently impressed by the quantity and caliber of the talent in our network.
Comprehensive Resources
We provide dedicated support for every fractional hire, from onboarding to contract negotiation to templates.
We are a go-to resource for Fractional CMOs and maintain a toolkit that supports them through every step of the journey. Fractional Jobs is the trusted source for fractional resources.
We are a go-to resource for Fractional CMOs and maintain a toolkit that supports them through every step of the journey. Fractional Jobs is the trusted source for fractional resources.
Own Your Relationship
Unlike other agencies or marketplaces, Fractional Jobs believes in letting you and your fractional talent completely own the relationship.
Set your contract terms, agree on a rate, and pay them directly! Fractional Jobs will never take a cut of your hire’s earnings.
Set your contract terms, agree on a rate, and pay them directly! Fractional Jobs will never take a cut of your hire’s earnings.
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MEET OUR FRACTIONAL CMOs
We have virtually every
Fractional CMO
in our database. Seriously.
Marketing Director
CHRO
Head of Lifecycle
VP Marketing
Marketing Director
Head of GTM
CMO
Marketing Director
VP Marketing
Paid Media Specialist
Head of Lifecycle
HR Director
Head of Brand
VP Marketing
CMO
VP Social
Head of GTM
CCO
Growth Marketing Lead
CMO
Creative Director
CRO Expert
Paid Media Specialist
Paid Media Specialist
Creative Director
Head of Brand
VP Social
Partnerships Director
VP Social
AI Engineer
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Katie Perry
Fractional Marketing Lead
(prev.) Public.com
Josh Grau
Fractional CMO
(prev.) Wealthfront
Emily Hollender
Fractional VP Marketing
(prev.) The Wing
Kristen Sager
Fractional CMO
(prev.) Indiegogo
20,000+
fractional leaders in our network... and counting.
Every Industry Covered
Anything tech & SaaS, eCommerce & DTC, professional services, SMBs, and more.
We can get really niche too, like “remote patient monitoring expertise in healthtech.”
We can get really niche too, like “remote patient monitoring expertise in healthtech.”
Available Part-time
You could hire someone for 2, 10, 20 hrs per week, or anything in between. Up to you!
Some folks will even have capacity for 40 hrs per week interim roles.
Some folks will even have capacity for 40 hrs per week interim roles.
All Major Geographies
Our network is primarily from the U.S. and Canada, with experience at U.S.-based companies.
But we have talent around the world, including the UK, EU, MENA, and elsewhere.
But we have talent around the world, including the UK, EU, MENA, and elsewhere.
If you let us help your fractional search, there’s an 86% chance that you’ll hire one of the candidates we introduced you to.
Contact Us
For Companies
Book a call with us to get started.
Not ready for a call? Send us an email to start a conversation at
Not ready for a call? Send us an email to start a conversation at
hello@fractionaljobs.io
For Talent
hello@fractionaljobs.io
For Partnerships
We also work with companies that want to advertise to an audience of fractional executives and other fractional talent.
To learn more, send us an email to
To learn more, send us an email to
hello@fractionaljobs.io
Fractional Jobs is the talent network for fractional leaders and the companies looking to hire them. For talent, we offer the resources to break into fractional work successfully, and introductions to potential clients. For companies, we’ll help you hire fractional talent across 10+ different function areas.
+ a fractional team of developers,
marketers, and more.
