Join the Network
Work at the Top of
Your Game.
The digitalCORE Expert Network is a curated bench of senior media operators - former GMs, revenue chiefs, ad tech leads, and PE-backed executives - matched to real client work in the 16 service areas where publishers need help most.
16
Service Areas
Fractional
Engagement Model
Senior
Operators Only
Real
Client Work
The digitalCORE Expert Network is a curated bench of senior media operators — former GMs, revenue chiefs, ad tech leads, and PE-backed executives — matched to client work across sixteen service areas. Members get paid project work, a peer community of operators, and the chance to keep practicing the craft they spent careers building.
For Senior Operators
Support Top
Media Companies.
The digitalCORE Expert Network is a hand-selected group of senior media operators who have spent their careers building, running, and scaling revenue inside publishing organizations. Every member has held the seat, owned the number, and made the call.
You bring the experience. We bring the clients. Engagements are project-based or fractional, scoped around your availability, and matched to your specific area of expertise. You operate. We handle everything else.
How It Works
How the Network Works
You Apply / We Vet and Onboard
Submit your background and the service areas where you have done the work. We review every application against the same operator-level bar - senior media experience, P&L ownership, and demonstrable depth in your domain. Selected experts go through a structured onboarding so we know exactly how to position you.
We Match You to Work
When a publisher engagement aligns with your expertise, market segment, and availability, we bring you the brief. No prospecting, no proposals, no pitch decks. You see the scope, the client, and the commercial terms up front and decide if it is a fit.
You Do the Work
You operate alongside the client team on real revenue problems. We handle contracting, scoping, billing, and client management so you spend your time on the work itself, not on running an agency. When the engagement ends, you stay in the network for the next match.
Who We're Looking For
You Have Done
the Work.
The Expert Network isn't for advisors, generalists, or career consultants. It's for operators who have spent years inside publishing organizations actually building the systems, closing the deals, and managing the teams that produced the results.
If you have done the work - and you want to keep doing it on your own terms, alongside other senior operators - this is the network for you.
The Bar
The Five Non-Negotiables
- 0115+ years of experience in media, publishing, or adjacent revenue-driven sectors.
- 02A senior operating role with direct P&L, team, or revenue ownership - not advisory only.
- 03Deep expertise in one or more of digitalCORE's 16 Publisher Services.
- 04Available for fractional or project-based work alongside your other commitments.
- 05Comfortable working alongside client leadership, not behind a deck.
Open Seats
Areas We're
Actively Building
We're expanding the bench across every domain where publishers need senior expertise. If your background fits one of these areas, we want to hear from you.
What You Get
More Than a Gig.
Joining the Expert Network means joining a curated community of senior operators with access to vetted client work, transparent terms, and a peer group that has been in your seat.
Curated Client Access
Engagements with vetted publishers and media operators who already understand the value of senior expertise. No tire-kickers, no unpaid pilots.
Flexible Commitment
Fractional and project-based by design. Take the work that fits your calendar, your bandwidth, and the kinds of problems you want to solve.
No Business Development
We source the engagements, handle the scoping, and manage the client relationship. You spend your time operating, not selling.
Peer-Level Network
Work alongside other senior operators across the 16 service areas. Share patterns, swap notes, and tap a bench of people who have been in the seat.
Reputation Protected
We only place experts on engagements where they can deliver. Your name goes on real outcomes, not on work that was set up to fail.
Fair Compensation
Senior rates for senior work. Transparent commercial terms agreed up front so you always know what the engagement is worth.
"It's far better to hire a wonderful person at a fair price than a fair person at a wonderful price."
Warren Buffett
"If you're not stretching, you're not learning. If you're not learning, you're not growing."
Gwynne Shotwell, President, SpaceX
Join the Network
Ready to Join?
If you've done the work and want to keep doing it on your own terms, the Expert Network is built for you. Apply to join, or take a closer look at the 16 service areas we cover.