This is the team behind Optimist

Optimist doesn’t have a big, swanky office with unusable chairs or completely impractical “meeting” spaces right in the middle of an open work floor (seriously, what is up with that?!)

We’re digital, remote, and distributed. Each member of our team is a full-time, professional freelancer with years of experience under their belt.

We’re a collective that forms different teams for each client project.

When it’s time to work together, we look at the client’s specific industry, their needs and goals, and our team’s skills and experience. Then, we assemble a group of the best talent for each particular role from our squad or go out and recruit the right person. Each client team is custom built and adaptable to meet their changing needs.

Here are the faces that make it happen.

Tyler Hakes

Tyler Hakes

Strategist & Principal, Des Moines

Tyler Hakes

Tyler Hakes

Strategist & Principal, Des Moines

Tyler Hakes

Tyler Hakes

Strategist & Principal, Des Moines

The Optimist Freelance Community

Beyond our core team, we partner with freelancers and specialty agencies to deliver world-class service to every single client. We have dozens of hand-selected and pre-vetted partners that we can bring into new or existing client engagements to help us generate the best possible results.

Interested in joining our community of vetted freelancers or partners?

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Top of the Funnel

Our Extended Content Marketing Community

Our team and our community partners make up just a small percentage of the overall Optimist community. Top of the Funnel is our free growth community for all things content marketing, inbound, and SEO. Hundreds of strategists, writers, designers, analysts, managers, and content marketers at all levels and skill sets join our community to learn, network, and share work and referral opportunities.

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