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Cloud-based DXP accelerates global engineering with Lifted, an Upwork Company™

Lifted, an Upwork Company™ helped a DXP company centralize global engineering talent, building a scalable developer bench to meet growing product demands.

At a glance.

Increased
hiring velocity
Increased

hiring velocity

One
single workforce model in which multiple vendors are consolidated
One

single workforce model in which multiple vendors are consolidated

Primary
source for independent engineering talent for the client
Primary

source for independent engineering talent for the client

Reduced
overhead for hiring managers.
Reduced

overhead for hiring managers.

Summary

As a Digital Experience Platform’s (DXP) engineering team scaled, so did its complexity. With workforce needs spread across continents and workflows fragmented by multiple vendors, the company lacked a unified strategy for engaging and managing technical contingent talent. To move faster and hire smarter, the company turned to Lifted to centralize its engineering sourcing and workforce infrastructure by helping it build a global bench of developers that could scale with product demands.

The challenges we tackled

The company needed a smarter way to grow its technical team across markets, without slowing down decision cycles or overwhelming its internal operations.

  • Vendor Fragmentation

    Hiring managers and leaders lacked visibility across scattered contractor sources

  • High Demand for Engineers

    Fullstack and software developers needed across time zones at competitive rates

  • High Demand for Engineers

    Fullstack and software developers needed across time zones at competitive rates

  • Need for Collaboration

    Distributed teams required a coordinated hiring and onboarding experience

How our solution helped

Lifted delivered a centralized sourcing model tailored to the company’s distributed R&D environment. By consolidating vendors and aligning workflows, we helped reduce sourcing friction, improve visibility, and hire technical talent more efficiently.

What We Delivered

  • Became the primary provider of global independent engineering talent

  • Onboarded multiple development pods  in under a year, enabled collaborative hiring across functional leads and senior management

  • Supported streamlined approvals and centralized candidate tracking

  • Increased agility in responding to product timelines with pre-vetted talent

Key success factors

Lifted worked closely with the internal teams to support a unified, global engineering workforce strategy.

  • Consolidated vendor landscape into a single, high-performance sourcing channel

  • Implemented workflows and centralized visibility for faster approvals

  • Created alignment between hiring managers, Sr. Management, and sourcing teams

  • Delivered a repeatable model for adding engineering capacity without additional systems or operational overhead

The outcome

From Fragmented Vendors to a Global Engineering Bench: With Lifted, the DXP brought its global contingent engineering workforce into one streamlined system. By consolidating talent pipelines and simplifying cross-functional hiring, the company unlocked greater control, speed, and talent quality, all without expanding full-time headcount. Now, with developers engaged across 15+ countries, the engineering organization operates with greater visibility, efficiency, and the confidence to scale on demand.

While this work was performed when these Enterprise solutions were embedded in Upwork, the same offerings and more are now available through Lifted, an Upwork Company.

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