We’re Motive

Creative Recruitment Agency

As a creative recruitment agency, we build creative design teams for fast growth agencies, brands, and technology vendors. With over twenty years experience of hiring expert designers, we understand the specific requirements of each design position, and have amassed and extensive network of candidates suitable for all design roles.

Hire creative talent

The creative market has become a tough place to be in recent months, with fast growth brands hoovering up the best creative talent.

We work with agencies and brands on permanent, contract, and executive search roles, and we’re proud to have developed a far reaching network of quality design talent, partly due to our specialist design recruitment team having an excellent understanding of the skills required to succeed in the channel. This is coupled with our ability to identify market insights and trends, that can support you in scaling your team.

We can help you hire your next creative expert to deliver on your design recruitment brief. So if you are a hiring manager looking to build a creative team or just make one placement, get in touch with one of our creative recruitment agency consultants today.

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Creative positions we recruit for

The below is an example of some of the typical creative positions that we recuit for:

  • Head / VP of Design

  • Creative / Design Director

  • Senior Designer

  • Designer

  • UX / UI Designer

  • Junior Designer

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Our creative hiring process

We understand the unique challenges, talent requirements, and expertise needed when hiring creative talent. This is aligned with our core values of knowledge, leadership, and support.

1) Discovery - First, we take time to understand your business, culture, and hiring needs.

2) Talent Aquistion - Second, we conduct extensive network engagement and initial screening of candidates.

3) Expert Screening - Third, and the most important part, final candidate screening one by one of our retained industry experts.

4) Interviews - Forth, we schedule candidate interviews, offers, and package negotiations.

5) Post-Offer Care - Finally, both candidate and client are kept in regular contact to ensure the best long term outcome.

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Creative recruitment services we offer

Contingent Recruitment

When you work with Motive’s contingent recruitment services, you can tap in to our extensive network of candidates to help find brilliant talent. There are no upfront costs and payment is dependent on our team successfully filling your company’s open tech positions.

Exclusive Search

Working together on an exclusive basis will enable you to reduce your spending and receive the very best service, spending more time with one creative recruitment agency significantly reduces the overall time you spend with recruiters and on recruitment in general. 

Retained Search

In retained creative recruitment, you create an exclusive relationship with your dedicated recruiter. On retained search projects, we put together a specialist account team with resources and a main point of contact that get to work on finding you the best talent.

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Who we work with

We are experts in creative recruitment and we operate a specific team to the channel. We work with:

Agencies

We come from the creative and digital agency world ourselves, bringing over twenty years agency experience. We have hired the exact people you are looking to hire, and this is why we’re the best in the business.

Brands

We’ve worked with ecommerce and client-side brands as our agency clients, so we know first hand what it takes to bring on board the best brand talent.

Technology Vendors

Often venture capital backed, we understand the needs of fast-paced technology vendors, who command top talent at scale. We’re the recruitment partner of chose when it comes to technology products.

Media Owners & Publishers

National Press, B2C magazines, Broadcasters Radio, and online advertisers.

  • Working with the creative recruitment team at Motive is like a breath of fresh air.

    Director - Whale Agency

Open Creative Positions

A career in creative design can take you in many directions, from artwork and layout, to conceptional brand, and motion graphics work. Be it agency side, where you work on different brands and camapigns, or client side where there is the potential to be more niche, the creative design career options are endless. Both in permanent and freelance design roles. If you are considering a new creative design opportunity or would just like to be kept in the loop with what’s available, get in contact, send us your CV, or subscribe to our monthly newsletter.

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