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FoundHQ is a global community of 3,500+ Salesforce Consultants.
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"Finding Consultants that are of this quality in Salesforce is extremely hard. Let alone being able to hire in a matter of weeks. Finally having a partner I can trust, who can deliver the right talent every time, was a game changer.”
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Sr. Director, Revenue Systems
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"I love that I can scale the GTM Systems team up or down as I need to without having to worry about minimum hours.

It makes it incredibly easy to prioritize our projects without worrying about team bandwidth, which is why we have successfully hired 7 Contractors from FoundHQ in the past 18 months.”
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Sr. Director, Biz Apps
Coupa Software
"We needed top-notch Salesforce Contractors that could come in and have an immediate impact. FoundHQ delivered a shortlist of 3 Contractors in just a few days, all of whom we could have hired.
Super impressed and happy to be working with them."
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Stephen
Colorado
Salesforce Experience
5 years
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$95/hour

Years of experience at mid-sized Salesforce Partners with expertise in QuickStart implementations or Managed Services.

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How to Hire a Pardot Consultant with FoundHQ

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Kickoff a Project
Tell us about the work you need to get done by listing a project or scheduling a call with FoundHQ.

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We narrow our community of 3,000 Salesforce Freelancers to the top 3 for your specific project.

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Schedule Interviews
Our team facilitates 1:1 interviews for you to meet each Consultant presented and find the best match.

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We handle all on-boarding, payroll, and compliance so you can start working as soon as you find the right fit.

A Pardot Consultant for every project

Depending on the type of work you need to get done, FoundHQ will hand-select the right Salesforce Contractors to fit the needs of the project, engagement duration, and team fit.

Implementations

Veteran Consultants to lead end-to-end deployments of new Salesforce products.

Rescue Projects

Specialized Consultants focused on dropping in and turning troubled projects around.

Managed Services

Partner with outside Salesforce Specialists to manage your ongoing product strategy, roadmap, and project execution.

Staff Augmentation

Extend the bandwidth of your internal team by adding experienced Salesforce talent in a full-time capacity.

Ad Hoc

On-demand Salesforce Contractors for break-fixes, small scale enhancements, integrations, and ongoing tasks.

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Behavioral and Soft Skills Interview

A 30 minute pre-screen for a full walk through of Consultant's Salesforce work history, prior projects and team structures, core competencies, and an assessment of communication skills.
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Technical Assessment

A deep-dive technical interview or live coding exercise to validate core competency within Salesforce.
This interview is conducted by the Top 1% of Consultants in Our Network.
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Reference Check

We conduct backchannel references with peers, prior Managers, or previous customers worked with on Salesforce projects.

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Resourcing Strategy

Whether you're hiring Salesforce Admin #1 or building a Center of Excellence from the ground up, we help define the hiring plans.

Talent Network

We provide direct access to a network of 2,500+ global Salesforce Contractors from world-class companies.

Flexible Pricing

Our model is designed to maximize flexibility. Projects are all pay-per-hour, only invoiced after work is delivered each month.

No Commitment

Service contracts have no minimum hourly commitment or duration, so you can cancel or change any time.

Speed

Following kickoff with our team, we provide hand-selected Contractor recommendations within 48 hours.

Full Service

We handle any project - from CPQ Architects rescuing a failed implementation to building an entire Salesforce Development team.

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Are there any Recruitment Fees with FoundHQ?

There is NO FEE to List a Project or conduct interviews via FoundHQ.
You don't pay a thing until you find a Salesforce Consultant and start working.
Our service fees are accounted for in the hourly rate you pre-approve before interviewing and hiring the Consultant through us.

Every Consultant's profile will have an hourly rate listed, which is the total cost to you.

-What’s the typical hourly rate for the Consultants?

Average rate depends on the specific type of Consultant you're hiring.
For example, a Salesforce Admin Contractor will be in the range of $85/hour to $115/hour, while a Salesforce Developer Contractor will be around $90/hour to $140/hour.

You can view a complete breakdown of Typical Salesforce Consultant Hourly Rates.

What if my Consultant doesn't work out?

The beauty of working with Salesforce Consultant on FoundHQ is the flexibility it provides.
If you engage a Consultant that doesn't end up being the right fit, we terminate the engagement and replace the Consultant immediately.
Additionally, we will provide a refund for work performed up to the point of termination.

To date, FoundHQ has facilitated 200+ projects with a success rate of 98.5%.

How does payment work?

All Consultants are engaged as subcontractors of FoundHQ.
You don't need to worry about any onboarding, compliance, timesheets, or payment.

The Consultant will track all hours worked on a weekly basis.
FoundHQ will submit an invoice at the end of each month for all approved hours work.
Invoices are payable NET 30.

How does communication with my Consultant work?

FoundHQ Consultants embed directly into your team and fit into your existing processes.
You can add them to the company Slack, create a corporate email and anything else you might need.

The Consultant is a resource for YOUR team, no need to go through FoundHQ for any work related items.

Are there minimum commitments that need to be met?

Absolutely not. You can decide how much work you need done in a give week or month but you aren't locked in to any minimum number of hours or project duration.

It may be 20 hours this week and only 10 hours next week. Everything is flexible.
You pay for actual work delivered.

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Offshore Salesforce Engineers

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Do you need to hire Offshore Salesforce Engineers?

Companies are increasingly turning to a truly global hiring strategy when it comes to building internal Salesforce teams. However, there are questions to ask yourself when determining if hiring a team of offshore Salesforce Engineers is the right fit for your organization.

Let's take a look at the potential benefits for your company; how other companies are hiring offshore Salesforce Development teams; and the best way to start the process.

Benefits of hiring Offshore Salesforce Engineers

Are you thinking of adopting an Offshore Salesforce Support strategy to assist with ongoing project work?

There are a number of ways you can go about it and the different options provide different benefits. For starters, you can partner with an Offshore Development company, which is a vendor that supplies a team of their employees to work on your projects. Alternatively, you can hire a team of Independent Salesforce Consultants directly, which allows you to have more control over team selection and management of the work to be done.

Regardless of which approach you take, here are some of the key benefits that make Offshore Salesforce Development an attractive option for US-based companies.

Increases your Talent Pool

Why limit yourself to hiring only people who live in the same time zone, country, or city as you?

By deciding to hire offshore Salesforce Engineers, you immediately increase the pool of talent in the market, which is especially necessarily when dealing in a highly competitive market like Salesforce. You are more likely to find higher quality Engineers if you are willing to hire people based anywhere in the world.

Hire for Specialized Skill Sets

The challenge with hiring full-time Salesforce Engineers is that you need to identify skill sets that can be used on an ongoing basis, across a wide range of projects.

For example, you might only have 2 months worth of CPQ Cloud projects - what are you going to do with that individual when the CPQ work finishes?

Offshore Salesforce Freelancers are available for short-term project engagements, so you can onboard an Engineer for a specific set of tasks and offboard them when the work is finished.

Allow Your Company And Projects To Scale

Hiring Offshore Salesforce Engineers can help you easily increase your company’s development capacity when projects call for it and decrease it during slower periods of work. Perhaps your in-house team is fully occupied with strategic projects and you need a Salesforce Engineer to focus on inbound requests when they surge.

There is incredible flexibility for companies hiring offshore teams of Consultants.

Save Money

By hiring Offshore Salesforce Engineers, you can save a lot of money.

On average, a Sr. Salesforce Engineer in the United States will charge an hourly rate of $120/hour-$145/hour, while a Sr. Salesforce Engineer in India is typically around $50/hour-$65/hour.

Companies that are willing to invest in onboarding offshore Development teams and building the processes necessary for them to succeed can ultimately benefit from huge cost savings.

Receive The Completed Work Faster

When building a global Salesforce Development team with Engineers scattered across different time zones, you are able to adopt a continuous development process.

That’s because there will always be someone working on the project, essentially 24 hours a day. This is in contrast to hiring Salesforce Engineers based in a single time zone, where you only have work getting done for 8-10 hours per day.

Companies hiring global Salesforce Developers see massive productivity gains and reduction in overall delivery timelines.

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Challenges hiring Offshore Salesforce Engineers

Adopting this strategy may have a ton of benefits but it doesn't come without challenges. This resource model requires proactive decision making from a company, so they can plan and prepare for onboarding a global Salesforce Development team.

Quality Control

Companies are typically hiring the majority of their teams from existing networks - previous colleagues, referrals, friends of friends, professional recommendations etc. However, when companies start hiring in different countries, they are inevitably wading into unknown territory.

It's particularly important to take your time with the vetting process. Conduct multiple rounds of video interviews to meet the Salesforce Engineer and communication at length. Be sure to conduct technical assessments (ideally a live coding exercise, so you can watch how they work) and most definitely check previous references on the individual.

Dev Ops Process

This is perhaps the most important factor when hiring offshore Salesforce Engineers.

Because you will have a continuous development process with multiple individuals working on a code base simultaneously, you need to have proper Dev Ops processes and controls in place. The development org can get messy and delay production timelines if you don't have the proper tools, processes, and QA methodology implemented at the start.

Expectation Setting

At the start of an engagement with Offshore Salesforce Engineers, you want to be clear on what you expect from them.

What is the turnaround time you expect to see on new requests? How often are they attending stand ups? Are they interfacing heavily with other team members and stakeholders?

Set these expectations upfront to ensure everyone is aligned.

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Companies hiring offshore Salesforce Engineers

As US companies become more comfortable with remote work, we are seeing a huge increase in the adoption of offshore Salesforce Development services.

Cargill, a global manufacturing company has a team of 14 based in India, spanning Salesforce Engineers, Administrators, Architects, and Business Analysts. Other companies building offshore Salesforce Development teams include PayPal, Workday, Coupa Software, Uber, Snowflake, MongoDB, and many others.

FoundHQ recently partnered with ACV Auctions to scale an Offshore and Nearshore Salesforce Development team. Over a 6 week period in early 2022, we helped them define the needs and successfully hire a team of 7 Salesforce Engineers, based throughout Latin America and India.

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Where You Can Find Offshore Salesforce Engineers

There are still limited options for reliably hiring Offshore Salesforce Engineers.

There are some Development Partners that exist with HQ locations in various countries and teams dedicated to recruiting, interviewing, and hiring Salesforce Engineers to put on projects with US companies. Some of these can be good options; however, companies that operate locally are paying in that local currency, which means the Engineers they are able to hire tend to be junior.

The most experience Salesforce Engineers are either taking full-time jobs with US companies or they are Freelancing directly with US based companies, both of which offer them a significant increase in earnings compared to joining a company Headquartered in their Region.

For that reason, the best option is to build a direct relationship with these Engineers.

This is where some of the risk comes into play if you don't have an intermediary helping to vet the talent and guarantee reliability.

To save time and be assured that the team you hire is made up of true Salesforce Experts, you might want to consider hiring through a specialized Freelancer platform like FoundHQ.

Our team has spent 10 years focused entirely on Salesforce talent acquisition. We have built a trusted network of 2,500+ Salesforce Freelancers globally and every individual on the platform has been pre-vetted and verified by our team.

These include offshore Salesforce Engineers from companies like Accenture, Deloitte, IBM, Stripe, Uber, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and dozens of other Fortune 500s.

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How to Find the right Pardot Consultant

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Without inbound leads, Sales is left investing significant time in unproductive activities. This is why many companies turn to Pardot, a leading Marketing Automation platform that helps teams generate, manage, and build robust pipelines of qualified leads for B2B organizations.

For companies already using Salesforce Sales Cloud as their CRM, it's a no brainer to integrate Pardot for a seamless integration and a simple partnership between your Sales and Marketing teams.

Using Pardot, you can create custom email campaigns with automated triggers, attribute where Sales activities originated, and get hard data about what’s working in your sales approach as a whole. Pardot is at its best when you know exactly how to use it and when you can properly integrate it into your existing Sales processes, lead management strategy, and CRM setup.

This is where it’s necessary to have a Pardot Consultant that understands your business and can customize the platform for you.

What does a Pardot Consultant do?

When you bring a Pardot Consultant on board, you can expect them to do more than just tell you the steps you need to take during initial setup. Pardot Consultants are more deeply embedded into an organization since an understanding of your broader Marketing Operations and Sales strategy is necessary. A few benefits they should provide include:

Automating Business Processes Between Sales and Marketing

One of the great things about Pardot, in particular, is that many of the processes that have been done manually in the past can now be automated. Pardot allows up to 150 automation rules to be created. A Consultant can discuss your specific needs and then set up the automation rules to meet those needs. This kind of automation can foster increased support between sales and marketing teams, leading to efficient campaigns that generate more sales, cutting down on manual entry, automating the process of reconnecting with old customers, and easily correcting or eliminating incomplete lead entries. Pardot takes on many formerly tedious tasks on its own. But it does need to be set up in the first place and that is best done with a knowledgeable Pardot Consultant!

Setup and Account Configuration

It’s no small feat to properly set Pardot up for an organization. Making sure it integrates with (or replaces) current software is tough enough. To be successful, your Pardot Consultant will have to connect with your Business Systems team to make sure everything is optimized. But a Consultant can also help you to make sure all accounts are configured properly. Your organization may not need all features for every employee. Configuring Pardot to meet the needs of various teams will set you up for success and minimize unnecessary license expenditures.

B2B Marketing Analytics

Analytics can help you to know who your current customers are, what might attract future customers, and what you need to change in your campaigns.When it’s properly optimized by an expert, Pardot is fantastic at helping your team close the deal with MQLs and SQLs.

Defining Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs)

MQLs are potential customers who expressed interest in your products or services. They might have filled out a form on a website, left a business card at a trade show, or shopped in your online store. Pardot Marketing Automation Consultants can make sure you have a good framework for how you define an MQL and ensure Pardot is properly identifying and sorting your B2B leads.

Defining Sales-Qualified Leads (SQLs)

An SQL also has the intent to buy, but they have actually expressed an interest in your products or services.

Typically, MQLs become SQLs because they’ve been handed by the Marketing team to the Sales team to be targeted as potential customers. This handoff is a critical step for any Pardot Specialist to properly design. A Pardot Consultant can help to ensure that the handoff is seamless so that all teams are set up for success and the right type of leads are being passed to Sales, in order to use their time effectively and maximize the conversion rate of inbound leads!

As with all Salesforce Consultant hiring, you can choose between a Salesforce Consulting Partner or a Salesforce Freelancer (Independent Consultant).

Hiring an Independent Pardot Consultant is an attractive proposition because of their flexibility and potential to work at a lower cost. Many Freelancers focus on Pardot exclusively, which means that they know the platform inside and out.

A Registered Salesforce Consulting Partner may have a larger team to dedicate to the implementation, integration, and optimization process. However, they tend to be more focused on the initial setup and don't often work with companies on an ongoing basis to optimize, build out campaigns, and identify changes that need to be made as your Sales process evolves. You may also not be large enough that you need a dedicated team to work on the project, so make sure to assess all options before defaulting to a costly Consulting Partner.

If your integration with your CRM doesn’t go smoothly, Pardot won’t work properly. Converting potential customers from top-of-funnel leads to MQLs to SQLs to paying clients is the point of getting Pardot.

How FoundHQ helps find Salesforce Certified Pardot Specialists

It's about finding the right Pardot Consultant for your specific business. There are tons of different Partners and Freelancers out there but you want to find someone that has worked in your industry, with a company at your specific growth stage, and has familiarity with all the tools in your Sales and Marketing Stack.

FoundHQ is a Salesforce Freelancers Marketplace with a network of 1,000+ pre-vetted Salesforce Consultants, including dozens of Certified Pardot Consultants available for projects.

You can Create an Account or List a Salesforce Project and our team will identify the best 1 or 2 Pardot Consultants with experience for your business and project goals.

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