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Hire a Product Listing & Catalog Specialist.

Product listings created, enriched and kept accurate.

Also called: Product Data Specialist, Catalog Specialist, Product Content Specialist

From US$6 an hourUS$6-27.50/hr

  • E-commerce
  • Manufacturing & wholesale
  • Shopify
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  • Works your hours
  • Colombia hub, on New York time or an hour behind
  • Month to month
What your Product Listing & Catalog Specialist gets doneSample day
  • Turns raw supplier files and spec sheets into import-ready templatesProduct creation & bulk import
  • Writes product titles, bullet pointsContent & SEO
  • Models variants and optionsAttributes, variants & PIM
  • Audits the catalog for missing GTINs, broken images, duplicate SKUsData quality & feedsDoing
In your tools
  • Shopify
  • BigCommerce
  • Adobe Commerce
  • Google Merchant Center
  • Google Sheets
  • Microsoft Excel

Pick the level. See the price.

US$10.50an hourFull time, 38 hours a week, all-in

Level 2 of 4, also called mid-level.Recommended
Even a local mid-level admin costsUS$22.86/hr
A tested Intermediate Product Listing & Catalog SpecialistUS$10.50/hr
At least 54% lessBasis: a Seat's hourly price against the hourly wage of a comparable local hire at the same level. Benefits and payroll taxes would add to the local cost.

Owns the new-product workflow end to end with light review.

  • Weekly batch of live products with complete copy, images and attributes
  • Google Merchant Center disapproval fixes
  • Catalog audit with a prioritized fix list

2-3 years owning catalog work for an online store or agency.

How the Intermediate level works

Per hour, all-in: recruiting, testing and management.

What you hand to your Product Listing & Catalog Specialist

Tasks

  • Product creation & bulk import

    • Turns raw supplier files and spec sheets into import-ready templates
    • Creates products in bulk or one at a time, assigning collections
    • Runs bulk price, stock, status and attribute updates

  • Content & SEO

    • Writes product titles, bullet points
    • Writes image alt text and standardizes image file names, image order
    • Rewrites thin or duplicated manufacturer copy on priority products

  • Attributes, variants & PIM

    • Models variants and options
    • Maintains attribute sets, metafields and product families in the PIM
    • Sends product data from the PIM to the store, Google Merchant Center

  • Data quality & feeds

    • Audits the catalog for missing GTINs, broken images, duplicate SKUs
    • Resolves Google Merchant Center and marketplace feed disapprovals
    • Retires discontinued products

  • Maintenance & reporting

    • Updates seasonal collections, product badges and launch-day content
    • Reports weekly on products added, completeness score
    • Maintains the catalog style sheet and the SOPs

Tested before you meet them

  1. Product copy writing testAll levels40 min
  2. Supplier file to import CSVAll levels60 min
  3. Data accuracy checkIntern to Expert20 min
  4. Attribute model and PIM buildIntermediate and up1.5 hrs
  5. Catalog rescue role-playExpert and Specialist45 min
  6. Catalog portfolio reviewIntermediate and up30 min

One score on every profileSample shown

92%

Three checks before your shortlist

  • Skills tested: A skills test for the role, marked by a senior
  • English and comms: written English tested, spoken English checked on a call
  • ID, work history and references: photo ID, past roles and two referees

From booked call to day one

  1. Step 1: Book a demo

    Tell us the role, your hours and your tools.

  2. Step 2: Meet your shortlist

    Their level and hourly price, tested before you meet.

  3. Step 3: Pick your person

    Month to month. We handle the contract, the equipment and the onboarding, and make sure it all runs.

  4. Step 4: They start work

    In your tools, within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview.

Questions answered

An Intern Product Listing & Catalog Specialist is US$6 an hour, Intermediate US$10.50, Expert US$16.50 and Specialist US$27.50, full time (38 hours a week). That is all-in: recruiting, testing and management, month to month.

Product creation & bulk import, content & seo, attributes, variants & pim and data quality & feeds, run to your priorities. You choose what they own first.

Six practical tests, marked by a senior, including product copy writing test, supplier file to import CSV and data accuracy check. You see the score before you meet.

Tell us and we replace them free, with a new shortlist of tested people to meet. Seats are month to month with 30 days' notice.

More questions

Within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview. First you meet your shortlist, interview the people you like and pick your person.

Yes. Your Product Listing & Catalog Specialist works your business hours in your time zone and joins your Teams or Slack like anyone else. The hub matched to United States clients is in Colombia, on New York time or an hour behind.

Yes, where it helps. Your Product Listing & Catalog Specialist works in the AI tools you already use. They use AI for first drafts and routine work, check every output, and follow your AI policy. You can ask for no AI on any task.

An Intermediate Product Listing & Catalog Specialist owns the new-product workflow end to end with light review. An Expert Product Listing & Catalog Specialist designs attribute models and taxonomies and sets up the PIM and its channel exports. We usually recommend Intermediate.

It stays under your rules: your admin settings and AI policy apply. Our talent rules ban client data in personal or free AI accounts, and passwords, card numbers, health details and ID numbers never go into any AI tool.

You direct the work day to day. We handle recruiting, equipment and quality checks.

Yes. Every Product Listing & Catalog Specialist is tested live in the tools on your job description, such as Shopify and Matrixify, before you meet them.

In week one: staff account on the store platform with product-only permissions, a PIM user seat; style sheet, brand voice guide, image specs and priority keyword list handed; and supplier data sources mapped. You agree the first priorities with them on day one.

Yes. It's also called Product Data Specialist, Catalog Specialist and Product Content Specialist. Same tasks, tests and prices, whatever the name.

Their written English, with a scored test, and their spoken English, on a call with us. We also check their ID, work history and references.

Yes. You meet your shortlist on a short call and pick the person you want. Nobody joins without your yes.

In our talent hubs in the Philippines, Vietnam, Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil and Colombia, and we hire from 60+ countries. Wherever they are, they work your hours.

Pay only for the hours they work. All your Seats are on one bill, and Studio plans are billed monthly.

It can, at most once a year. Your person's hourly rate may rise by up to 5% a year, from the first anniversary of the Seat's start, with 60 days' notice and the right to end the Seat before it applies.

Only when you and your person both agree to it in advance. Otherwise they work the hours you set, and you pay for the hours they log.

You aren't charged for hours your person doesn't work, apart from paid leave. After their third month, your person earns 8 hours of paid leave a month. Paid leave hours are charged at their usual rate.

Your person logs their hours each day in the Get Hands client app, where you can see them. Your next invoice is adjusted to those hours.

Yes, with no minimum hours. From 20 to 37 hours a week, the hourly rate is 10% higher than full-time. Under 20 hours, it's 20% higher.

Yes. Tell us the roles on a call and we shortlist tested people for each.

Yes. You give them access in your own systems, and you can change or remove it at any time.

They get their own login in each of your systems, never a shared one. Any password that has to be shared goes through your own password manager, never email, chat, code or prompts.

A tested shortlist within 72 hours of your call, or your first week is free. That's part of The Right Hands Guarantee.

Yes. Book a 15-minute demo any time, or choose Talk now on the booking form for a Microsoft Teams link straight away. You can also message us on WhatsApp on +61 485 061 086, or email hello@gethands.com.au.

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