Work with SHAPE on one problem
Careers · Contract and fractional
Work with SHAPE on one problem
We post problems, not roles. Each one is paid on results, and goes to someone who has already solved it somewhere else.
Short engagements in Dhaka and Chittagong. Between jobs, freelancing, or employed with time on the side: all fine. Field work, not desk work.
The idea
How this works
Monoshita Ayruani started SHAPE in 2019 because most women in Bangladesh had never been measured. Over 200,000 women and seven Dhaka stores later, the fitting room is still the business, and the next stage of growth needs things done outside it, by people who have done them before.
- One problem, one owner. You work with one person at SHAPE who decides and signs off. A check-in at week two and week four, then as agreed.
- Paid on results. A day rate where the work is days. A fee per result where the result can be counted. A finder's fee where you bring us something we sign. One page of terms, agreed before you start, paid in BDT.
- Outside, not at a desk. Everything that can be done at a computer, we can do ourselves. We need people who go out: into malls, onto shop floors, across the table from landlords and partners, and into conversations with the women we serve.
We are looking for the person who did it as the owner or the lead, not as part of a team that did it. Show us the before and the after, and we will believe you.
Open now
The open problems
Problem 06 · Video Open now
Make videos for SHAPE, paid per video
Anyone who can make short videos about real products and real women, on a phone, and wants to be part of a growing creator network.
SHAPE needs more video than one shoot a month can give. We want creators who make 15 to 45 second videos about real SHAPE products, fit and the women who wear them. Every video that passes our brand check is used by SHAPE. You are paid per video. We are developing how the videos that do best for SHAPE earn more, and we share what works with you so you make more of it. Women on camera, in SHAPE's direction: real bodies, real homes, nothing that would embarrass anyone watching next to her mother.
- You have done
- Made short videos that sold something, for your own page, a brand or a client. Show us three, and tell us what they did
- Paid
- Per video. We are developing how videos that do well for SHAPE earn more, and we will talk you through it
- You work with
- Ovick Alam, with brand direction from Monoshita Ayruani
- Where
- Anywhere. Products are sent to you, or you shoot in a SHAPE store
Problem 05 · Marketing Starts this week
Fractional marketer, October to December
Anyone with three or more years in marketing who has run a brand's calendar end to end, and can give SHAPE two to three days a week, starting now.
SHAPE's biggest season has started and the founders are carrying the marketing calendar themselves. We need one experienced marketer, fractional at two to three days a week for three months, to own it end to end: launches, offers, campaign briefs, and the follow-through across ads, email, WhatsApp and social, working with the team that produces the content. Comfort with tools is non-negotiable: Shopify, Meta Business Suite, and at least one email or WhatsApp platform you have used hands on.
- You have done
- Three or more years in marketing for a consumer brand or an agency, with campaigns you personally ran and the numbers they moved. Between jobs or free now is perfect
- Paid
- Monthly retainer for two to three days a week, agreed on experience. Three months, extension or a bigger seat if it works
- You work with
- Ovick Alam and Monoshita Ayruani
- Where
- Dhaka, office and stores
Problem 01 · Field research
Mall scout and shop-floor researcher
Anyone who has walked a city's malls and markets with a notebook and come back with something the owner did not know.
SHAPE is choosing where its next stores go. We need someone who will spend days in Dhaka's malls and shopping streets, count who walks past and who walks in, talk to shop staff, owners and customers, and write down what they actually say. Where women shop for themselves, at what hour, with whom, and what the stores around them get right.
- You have done
- Observational or ethnographic research, mystery shopping at scale, retail site selection, or opened your own shop and had to understand the street first
- Paid
- Day rate, plus a bonus if a site you surfaced becomes a signed SHAPE store
- You work with
- Ovick Alam
- Where
- Dhaka, on foot
Problem 02 · Proof
Reviews engine across seven stores
Anyone who has taken a business's Google reviews from a few dozen to the hundreds or more, and kept every one of them real.
Seven stores, each with its own Google Business Profile. Design and run the system that turns a good fitting into a review she writes herself, in her own words, the same week. No incentives to customers, no bought reviews, nothing we would be embarrassed to hear read aloud.
- You have done
- Exactly this, for a restaurant, clinic, salon, gym or retailer. Show us the profile before and after, and tell us how
- Paid
- A fee for every review still live 30 days after it is posted
- You work with
- Ovick Alam, then the Manager, Retail Operations once that person starts
- Where
- Dhaka, in and around the stores
Problem 03 · Partners
Partners who send women to a fitting
Anyone who has built a referral channel from zero: gyms, salons, clinics, workplaces or wedding planners sending people through a door on a code.
A fitting is the product. We need partners whose customers are our customers: bridal, maternity, fitness, workplaces, women's groups. Find them, agree the terms, and make every referral a code we can count at the till.
- You have done
- Partnerships, affiliate or referral programmes, corporate tie-ups, where you can name the partners and the numbers they sent
- Paid
- Commission on redeemed codes, with a retainer while the channel builds
- You work with
- Ovick Alam
- Where
- Dhaka, in partners' offices and shops
Problem 04 · Chittagong
Chittagong site finder
Anyone who knows Chittagong's retail streets and malls well enough to say which three corners matter, and who owns them.
SHAPE is opening in Chittagong. We need someone on the ground who knows the landlords, the malls and the streets, who can shortlist sites, get us the meetings, and tell us what the rent card does not.
- You have done
- Leased, opened or scouted retail space in Chittagong, or run a business there and know who owns what
- Paid
- Finder's fee on signing
- You work with
- Ovick Alam
- Where
- Chittagong
Solved something we need that is not on this list? Apply anyway, choose "None of these", and tell us what you did and the number.
Open door · Creators
Want to create with SHAPE?
Aspiring or established, if you make content, model, or build community, pitch us one idea.
We read every pitch that leads with the outcome: reach with the women you talk to, content we can reuse, or customers through a door.
- One idea, one video. Pitch it in 90 seconds or less, phone camera is fine.
- Your main profile. The Instagram, TikTok or YouTube where you publish most. We look at engagement and craft, not just follower count.
- Read the direction first. One page covers what SHAPE sounds like, looks like, and never does.
Budget is yours to name, optional. Supporting links welcome if they open for anyone with the link.
Selection
Three steps
Bangla or English, whichever is easier for you.
- ApplyAbout five minutes. One sentence on what you did and the number, a link we can open, your hours and your fee.
- A callTwenty minutes with the person who owns the problem.
- A paid trialOne to two weeks on the real problem, then a one-page terms sheet if it works for both sides.
No deadline. Each problem closes when the right person starts on it.
Before you apply
Questions people ask
Is this a job
No. Each problem is a fixed piece of work with one owner at SHAPE, a one-page terms sheet, and payment tied to results. Some run for a few weeks, some for a few months.
Can I do this alongside a job or studies
Yes, if the hours you commit are real. Tell us how many hours a week and for how many weeks, and we plan around that.
How are people paid
A day rate where the work is days, a fee per result where the result can be counted, and a finder's fee or bonus where you bring us something we sign. Terms are agreed in writing before you start. SHAPE pays in BDT.
Is there a deadline
No. Each problem closes when the right person starts on it.