Hire Remote Marketers on Canadian hours.
Obelisk Talent places pre-vetted, full-time Middle Eastern marketers — paid-media specialists, content writers, SEO leads, social managers, and outbound sales reps — into Canadian SMBs and agencies. Each marketer is matched to a single client, embedded full-time, and shipped on a shifted Cairo schedule that overlaps Eastern by 6–7 hours daily. Brief to start in 10 days.
The TL;DR
What this engagement is, in five lines.
- $1,500–$5,000 CAD/month per marketer · flat, all-in, no recruiter fee
- T-shaped specialists in paid, lifecycle, SEO, content, and outbound
- Replaces 1 generalist with 1 specialist per discipline at agency-marker cost
- We handle HR, payroll & management · 30-day replacement guarantee
Who this is for
Heads of Marketing, agency owners, and operators forcing a single generalist to cover paid + content + lifecycle + SEO
When you need a paid-media specialist, a content writer, and a CRM operator but the local salary band only buys one generalist who does each badly, Obelisk lets you hire one specialist per function for the cost of one local generalist. Embedded only on your team, full-time.
The full operational surface, on one contract.
Each component is a self-contained part of the engagement — sourcing, vetting, embedded delivery, and managed HR/payroll all sit on our side.
Specialists, not generalists
Performance marketers who can read a GA4 report and change the roadmap. SEO specialists who own technical, on-page, and content briefing. Social managers with brand-voice consistency, not just a content calendar. Sales reps who research before sequencing. Each match is depth-first.
Western business fluency by default
Middle Eastern marketing talent has been trained inside global enterprises (PwC, Capgemini, Vodafone, Booking.com) and English-language B-schools. CRM hygiene, attribution literacy, brief-writing, and async reporting are the baseline — not a culture-fit upgrade.
Async reporting on your cadence
Weekly written summaries, dashboards your stakeholders can read without translation, and a working norm of writing decisions down. The shifted-schedule overlap means live syncs happen during your morning; deep work and reporting land in your inbox by EOD.
We handle HR, payroll & management
One Canadian B2B contract, CAD-invoiced. Local employment compliance, monthly payroll, contract administration, and account management on our side. Your stakeholders interact with the marketer; the operational surface is invisible to them.
The roles inside this engagement.
Each linked role page has the responsibilities, skills, sample profiles, and pricing tier breakdown.
Flat monthly CAD. Everything included.
Marketing roles run on the same flat monthly CAD tier structure as engineering — Junior $1,500–$2,000, Mid-Level $2,500–$3,500, Senior $3,500–$5,000. Most marketing placements sit in Junior or Mid; senior strategy hires reach the Senior tier. The rate covers sourcing, vetting, onboarding, payroll, HR, and account management. No placement fee, no markup, no setup cost.
See full pricing breakdownCommon questions about this engagement.
If you don't see your question, every first call is with a co-founder — bring it then.
Can the marketer write in native-quality Canadian English?
Written English fluency is graded during our behavioral interview and the role-scoped craft assessment — for content and copy roles, we explicitly require native-quality writing. We flag any candidate whose writing skews more academic-formal than conversational, since most Canadian SMB marketing demands the latter.
How does Obelisk vet a paid-media or performance marketing candidate?
Performance candidates work a fictional campaign dataset and propose the next three changes they would make. We grade the reasoning chain — hypothesis, expected impact, measurement plan — not the tool trivia. Real account screenshots and weekly reports are reviewed where the candidate has client permission to share.
Will the marketer use our existing martech stack?
Yes. The five-country network covers Klaviyo, HubSpot, Salesforce, GA4, Looker Studio, Mixpanel, Meta Ads Manager, Google Ads, LinkedIn Campaign Manager, Apollo, and Instantly. We match for current production experience with your stack rather than hire-then-train.
Can a single marketer cover multiple channels, or do we need one per discipline?
Mid-level T-shaped marketers can run paid + lifecycle + reporting end-to-end at small to mid scale. Once paid spend hits $50K+/month or you add a content engine, splitting into a paid specialist and a content/SEO specialist outperforms a single generalist — even at the same combined monthly cost.
How is this different from hiring an agency?
An agency rents you fractional senior attention and routes the actual work through junior pods, billed at agency rates. Obelisk gives you one full-time embedded specialist on your team only — same cost as the agency monthly, but the marketer reports to you, learns your brand, and stays.
Is the marketer dedicated to one client?
Yes. Embedded full-time, on your team only. No multi-clienting, no agency rotation, no 'percentage of attention' billing. The structural difference is the entire model — a marketer juggling five accounts cannot ship the same depth as one running yours alone.
Most clients run more than one.
Engagements scale across disciplines under one Master Agreement. These are the services Obelisk clients in your stack usually add next.
Ready to brief this role?
15-minute call, written brief same day, shortlist within 10 days. If none of the candidates are right, we go again — no cost.
Book a Discovery Call