Yara Abdel-Rahman
VerifiedVirtual Assistant
Ramallah · GMT+2/+3
Teams in the US, EU, and the Gulf hire here
How it works
Send us the job in a sentence or a spec — "React developer, 20 hrs/week, must overlap US Eastern." No account, no credit card. A real person reads it, not a form-bot. You hear back the same business day with a shortlist plan.
We hand you two or three people who already cleared our four-step vetting — English, skills test, portfolio and reference check, and a paid trial task. You interview them directly. You see their real work, their rate, and their exact hours of overlap with your team.
Start with a small paid task or a one-week trial before you commit to anything ongoing. You judge the work, not a promise. If the fit is wrong, we swap the person at no cost and no awkward conversation.
Agree on hours and rate, sign a plain-English contract, and start. We handle secure payment, invoicing, and time tracking. You manage the work the same way you'd manage anyone on your team — Slack, standups, whatever you already use.
What you can hire
Full-stack, front-end, back-end, and mobile engineers who ship. React, Node, Python, Laravel, React Native, and more — with public repos and live products you can click through. Senior people, not bootcamp resellers. Starting around $28/hr.
Product, UI/UX, and brand designers with Figma files and shipped interfaces you can inspect. They think in flows and systems, not just pretty screens, and they write clear rationale for every decision. Starting around $25/hr.
Performance and content marketers who run paid media, SEO, email, and lifecycle campaigns — and report on the numbers, not the vibes. Fluent in Meta, Google, Klaviyo, and analytics. Starting around $22/hr.
Executive and operations assistants who own your inbox, calendar, travel, research, and CRM. Organized, discreet, and fluent in English — the kind of support that gives you back ten hours a week. Starting around $12/hr.
Careful, fast operators for list-building, CRM cleanup, lead research, migrations, and repetitive back-office work you keep putting off. Accuracy checked, deadlines held. Starting around $10/hr.
Email, chat, and ticket agents who write in clear, warm English and learn your product cold. They cover the hours your US team is asleep, so your customers never wait overnight. Starting around $12/hr.
The roster
Every profile is a named professional who cleared our vetting. Filter by discipline, see their overlap with your day, and start a conversation.
Virtual Assistant
Ramallah · GMT+2/+3
Full-Stack Developer
Nablus · GMT+2/+3
Frontend Developer
Ramallah · GMT+2/+3
Backend Developer
Hebron · GMT+2/+3
Digital Marketer
Bethlehem · GMT+2/+3
Graphic Designer
Gaza · GMT+2/+3
UX Designer
Jenin · GMT+2/+3
Data-Entry Specialist
Tulkarm · GMT+2/+3
Customer Support
Nablus · GMT+2/+3
Full-Stack Developer
Hebron · GMT+2/+3
Frontend Developer
Gaza · GMT+2/+3
Backend Developer
Ramallah · GMT+2/+3
Digital Marketer
Bethlehem · GMT+2/+3
Graphic Designer
Jenin · GMT+2/+3
Virtual Assistant
Tulkarm · GMT+2/+3
UX Designer
Nablus · GMT+2/+3
Data-Entry Specialist
Hebron · GMT+2/+3
Customer Support
Gaza · GMT+2/+3
Frontend Developer
Ramallah · GMT+2/+3
Digital Marketer
Bethlehem · GMT+2/+3
Virtual Assistant
Jenin · GMT+2/+3
Full-Stack Developer
Tulkarm · GMT+2/+3
Graphic Designer
Nablus · GMT+2/+3
Backend Developer
Gaza · GMT+2/+3
The vetting rail
You meet the people who cleared the bar, not the people who applied.
A live conversation and written test. Talent must be able to run a standup, write a clear Slack update, and explain a tradeoff — not just pass a grammar quiz.
A hands-on, role-specific challenge graded by a senior practitioner. Developers write code, designers solve a real brief, marketers read a real account.
We click through shipped work and call former clients and managers. Claims without evidence do not make it past this step.
A short, paid piece of real work that proves reliability and communication under normal conditions — the closest thing to working together before you commit.
Honest numbers
The rate reflects the cost of living in Ramallah versus San Francisco — not a compromise on the work.
| HirePalestinian | US agency | Freelance marketplace | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior developer | $28–35/hr | $100–150/hr | $15–90/hr |
| Designer | $24–31/hr | $85–130/hr | $20–80/hr |
| Digital marketer | $16–30/hr | $75–120/hr | $18–70/hr |
| Virtual assistant | $10–14/hr | $35–60/hr | $8–40/hr |
| Vetted before you meet them | Always | Sometimes | Rarely |
| Overlaps your US workday | 4–7 hrs | Varies | Roll the dice |
Every professional passes an English assessment, a hands-on skills test, a portfolio and reference check, and a paid trial task before they ever reach you. Roughly 11% of applicants make it onto the platform. You meet the people who cleared the bar, not the people who applied.
Talent sits in GMT+2/+3, which means 4 to 7 hours of genuine overlap with US time zones and a full working day with Europe and the Gulf. You get standups, same-day replies, and async that actually moves — not a handoff to the other side of the planet.
A senior developer runs about $28/hr here versus $80–150 through a Western agency. That's not a discount on quality — it's the cost of living in Ramallah versus San Francisco. You pay for the work, not the overhead, the rent, or the account manager's markup.
Unemployment among skilled young Palestinians is brutally high, and the talent is real and underused. When you hire here, you're paying a fair market wage for excellent work that happens to also keep a family stable and rooted at home. It's a good business decision first. The rest follows.
It’s a good business decision first — a fair market wage for excellent work that also keeps a family stable and rooted at home. The rest follows.
Voices
“I work with a Boston startup every morning before their team is even fully awake. Same standups, same Slack, same code review. The only difference is my commute is to the next room and my rate makes sense for where I live.”
“For years the good work was there but the clients weren't reachable. Now I ship for two US products full-time. My family is stable, I stayed in my city, and nobody is doing me a favor — they hired an engineer.”
“I run six-figure ad budgets for a US e-commerce brand and report the numbers every Monday. They kept me because the ROAS is good, which is exactly how it should be.”
“We hired two backend engineers here after a three-year search for people who could actually own systems. They overlap our whole morning, the code is clean, and we're paying roughly half what our last agency charged for worse.”
“My VA gave me back at least ten hours a week, and the marketer we added grew email revenue 40% in a quarter. I stopped thinking of this as offshore — it's just my team.”
For talent
Fair pay, real clients, and work from home. If you’re a senior developer, designer, marketer, or assistant in Palestine, bring your best work — roughly 11% make it through, and the ones who do build for teams around the world.
Transparent pricing
Simple and transparent: you pay the talent's hourly rate plus a flat platform fee, and that's the whole number — no per-seat licenses, no minimums, no surprise line items. For ongoing hires we bill against tracked hours every two weeks; for fixed-scope projects we agree on a milestone price up front. There's no charge to post a role, interview candidates, or run a paid trial task — you only pay once someone is actually working for you. Payments are handled securely through the platform, with escrow on project work, so your money is protected and your talent is paid reliably and on time. Cancel anytime with no penalty; if a hire isn't working out in the first two weeks, we'll re-match you at no cost.
Questions
Because you see the proof before you pay. Every professional on the platform cleared a four-step vetting process — English assessment, skills test, portfolio and reference check, and a paid trial task — and only about 11% of applicants get through. You interview candidates yourself, click through their real shipped work, and run your own paid trial before committing. The rate is low because of local cost of living, not because the work is.
Start with one hire
Send us the role in a sentence. A real person reads it and comes back the same business day with two or three vetted matches. No account, no credit card, no charge until someone’s working for you.
Or apply as talent — join the roster →