Lead Creative Recruiter

Creative Studios and Design Agencies | London | Warm desk | Hybrid working | Friday afternoons off

If you have the appetite to grow, to lead, and to achieve, read on.

We’re Craft, a recruitment business specialising in the creative and design industry. We’re looking for an experienced recruiter to grow our creative specialism, working with an established client base.

We’re looking for somebody who’s drawn to expertise: who digs deep to understand a market, bringing energy, consistency, and commercial edge to a team that’s moving fast.

What’s most important is your ability to manage senior design and creative searches, and that you feel at home consulting with leaders on their talent strategy, whether that’s partnering with an independent agency or a growing in-house brand team.

The opportunity within this role is limitless; we have a warm and engaged network, and we’re here to learn and grow with your personal expertise too.

If you have the appetite to grow, to lead, and to achieve, Craft will support you. Let’s talk.

Why Craft?

Partnership is at the heart of how we work. We take time to understand our clients, care about the careers of our candidates and support each other to do good work.

That care extends to your experience here. We have a People Director who helps make sure our development, support and benefits stay relevant to the people in our team.

We want you to build a successful desk, earn well and enjoy being part of the business.

Your market

You’ll step into a warm, growing desk - backed by trusted relationships and an enviable client base. Working closely with our London Directors and senior counterparts, you’ll take ownership of briefs across the brand and design landscape, covering everything from brand and motion to product and digital and placing exceptional talent into some of the most creative businesses in the UK.

Our goal is for every recruiter at Craft to build a deep, defined specialism. We’ll work with you to hone, simplify, and grow a creative market that breeds success and scale.

You won’t be expected to arrive as a finished article. But you will be someone who’s drawn to expertise - who wants to understand a market properly, and who brings energy, consistency, and commercial edge to a team that’s moving fast.

You’ll be based in our London HQ, hybrid working - with at least two days a week in the office.

Who we’d love to meet

You’re an experienced 360 recruiter, comfortable owning the full lifecycle. You’re someone who enjoys senior-level conversations and thinking beyond the immediate brief, and you care about building genuine, long-term relationships.

Ambitious, not just for yourself, but for the quality of work you put into the world, and you take pride in doing things properly. At this level, success is measured by how you raise standards, deliver results, and contribute to our reputation in the market. We see financial success as a result of those high standards.

Support and room to grow

You’ll be joining a highly experienced team, with an average of 10.5 years in recruitment. We invest heavily in enablement, brand, systems and support functions - so you can focus on what matters.

Progression here is clear, transparent, and built around impact. From Lead Recruiter level, there are pathways into market leadership or people leadership, depending on where your strengths and interests lie.

What we offer

Competitive basic salary and transparent, uncapped commission

A 4.5-day working week, with Friday afternoons off all year

Hybrid working, with at least two days a week in our London office

Flexible working hours

25 days’ annual leave

Work from anywhere for up to two weeks a year

Clear progression and investment in your development

Comprehensive health plan

Enhanced parental leave

If you want to build your career with an experienced, supportive team, we’d love to hear from you.