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From Operators, For Operators
Philipp Bugert spent 10+ years in e-commerce hiring and scaling remote teams before founding Hire Top Remote. He’s felt every pain point you feel. Hire Top Remote is the agency he wishes had existed five years ago.
From Operators, For Operators
Philipp Bugert spent 10+ years in e-commerce hiring and scaling remote teams before founding Hire Top Remote. He’s felt every pain point you feel. Hire Top Remote is the agency he wishes existed five years ago.
The bad hire that cost $40k. The agency that ghosted after the invoice cleared.
The “vetted” candidate who disappeared after two weeks. So he built it.
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Hire Top Remote was born from the belief that great talent exists everywhere, but opportunity doesn’t. We set out to change that by building a platform that is transparent, rigorous and candidate-first.
PRE-VETTED PROFESSIONALS
A $40k bad hire. An agency that ghosted. A candidate who quit in two weeks. Philipp couldn’t find an honest placement partner — so he built one, vetted to German standards. That’s the whole mission.
A candidate who looked perfect on paper. No real vetting behind the CV, no accountability afterwards — and the full cost of the mistake landed on us.
The invoice cleared and the agency disappeared. No check-ins, no support, no replacement when things went wrong. Just silence.
A “fully vetted” candidate who vanished after 14 days. That’s when it clicked: the vetting IS the product — and nobody was doing it properly.
Great talent exists everywhere. Opportunity doesn’t. Our mission is to close that gap — for companies and for candidates.
For companies, that means direct access to the top 1% of remote professionals in the Philippines and Eastern Europe — pre-vetted to German standards, ready to start within days, at up to 80% below local salary levels. One fee, one hire, twelve months of security.
For candidates, it means being judged on skill, not geography: fair pay, long-term careers with international companies, and a transparent process. We never charge talent a single cent — and we never will.
