Case studyE-commerce & online retail · Remote · May 18, 2026
A pre-qualified front-end developer embedded into APMEX's workflows in weeks — and stayed across multiple website and HubSpot initiatives.
APMEX is one of the largest online precious-metals retailers in the US. The internal roadmap had a steady stream of website initiatives, marketing landing pages, and HubSpot-driven experiences — and not enough front-end capacity to land it all without dragging the rest of the team.
The brief was practical: a front-end developer who could integrate into ongoing projects fast, work alongside the internal team, and ship across both modern front-end workflows and HubSpot environments — without APMEX spending months running a recruitment cycle in parallel.
The friction wasn't a shortage of front-end developers. It was finding one who fit this surface area without an internal hiring lift:
Diiirect scoped the role with APMEX's team — what the workflow looked like, what HubSpot maturity was actually required, what "embedded" needed to mean in practice — and then ran the standard validation stack:
By the time APMEX interviewed, every candidate was someone Diiirect had already pressure-tested against the role's real signals. The selected developer integrated into APMEX's workflows and started supporting active initiatives within weeks.
Around the seat, Diiirect ran the operational layer end-to-end — contractor agreements, compliance, payments, day-to-day coordination — so APMEX's internal team kept all of its time on execution, not contractor administration.
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