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Careers at On Method

Three seats are open for the few who ship.

Fellow-level seats at an SI shop for trade pros. No recruiters, no job boards, no junior bench — and every rate in print below.

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Closer $400–$600/hr, fractional · Builder $150–$300/hr, project · Rainmaker rev share or $2K–$5K/mo

The shop you’d be joining

We sell one audit, then build what it finds.

On Method is SI counsel for trade services — plumbing, HVAC, electrical, roofing, auto. A $2,500 fixed-price audit finds where SI pays; pilots and builds follow where the numbers lead.

The demos are live and public, because shipped work is the whole pitch — for clients and for you.

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Why this page reads different

No recruiters. No games. Just the plain terms.

01

No recruiters, ever.

Every seat fills by warm intro or by the work itself. No agency listings, no recruiter calls, no exceptions.

02

The trials are paid, never free tests here.

The trial is real work — a live call, a fixed-scope build — and it pays. Talk is the one thing we don’t buy.

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The rates are printed on this page in full.

The bands on this page are the bands on the call. Nobody here hides behind “call for quote”.

Three seats, three kinds of leverage

Three seats stand open; pick the one you’d fill.

The Closer

Fractional SI operator · 8–16 hrs/month

You sit on calls with trade-business owners and scope the build in one conversation. You’re the technical credibility the audit sells — and QA on the audit reports.

The bar

  • Ex-founder or ex-head of SI who’s run something, not just advised.
  • Shipped SI products real users touched — point to it, we can click it.
  • Comfortable with an owner who cares about payroll, not tech.

$400–$600/hr, or a $4K–$10K/mo retainer. Trial: one paid call, $500 flat.

The Builder

Project-based SI engineer · fixed scope, fixed price

You ship the agents the audit sells — missed-call text-back, estimate chasers, review engines — wired into the messy systems shops actually run.

The bar

  • Production agents with multi-step tool use, evals, and guardrails you can describe and defend.
  • Something live we can click. Papers and tutorials don’t count.
  • Senior only — there is no junior pyramid here.

$150–$300/hr (specialists $400–$500+), set as fixed project prices, paid on milestones. Trial: one fixed-scope pilot, $5K–$10K.

The Rainmaker

Trade insider · revenue share, or retainer + commission — your pick

You open doors we can’t buy our way into. Warm intros to owners who already pick up when you call — never cold calls.

The bar

  • You’ve worked in or around the trade — service desk, parts counter, distribution.
  • Owners know your name, and you can name 20 you’d call this week.
  • You’ve seen the demos and believe the product works.

Revenue share on closed audits and pilots, or $2K–$5K/mo retainer plus commission. You pick the structure that makes you hungrier.

The pay, in plain numbers

The bands are worked out loud, in plain print here.

Closer

12 hours a month at the $500 mid-band is $6,000 — part-time hours, fellow money. The full band runs $3,200–$9,600 a month.

Builder

A first pilot at $7,500 fixed over four weeks, paid in milestones — no hourly meter, no open-ended scope.

Rainmaker

Every closed audit is $2,500 and every pilot starts at $5,000. On rev share, your cut rides on numbers like those — in writing, before you make a single intro.

Illustrations from the published bands, not promises. Your band is set on the call, in writing.

The funnel is the filter

Two minutes taped, one call, one paid trial.

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Send the video.

Two minutes, phone camera, unlisted link. Who you are, what you’ve shipped, which seat. No video, no look — that’s the whole filter.

02

Twenty minutes.

A short call with the founder. You ask your questions; we ask ours. Fit gets a straight answer either way.

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Work a real one.

A live call, a fixed-scope build, a warm intro worked together — the real job, not a homework test. Trials pay at the seat’s published terms. Then both sides decide, eyes open.

Apply in two minutes of video

First show the shipped work; then say plain words.

Record 1–2 minutes: your name, the seat, one thing you shipped that real people use, and why this shop. Upload it unlisted (YouTube or Loom) and email the link — plus one link to the work itself — to hello@onmethod.com.

Email your video

Every video gets watched. Fits get a reply. Applications without a video don’t get read.

Three seats stand open while the work is here.

Three seats, filled by shipped work only.

Send your two-minute video