Senior Recruiter, Creative and Design

Kettle; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Kettle designs digital products with soul and partners with leading consumer brands. We are seeking a Senior Recruiter, Creative and Design, to join our growing Talent team in the United States.

You will partner with the Director of Talent Acquisition to fill roles across Design, Production, Technology, Strategy, and Operations. This role thrives on building relationships with hiring teams and candidates in a fast-paced creative environment, improving Talent processes, and finding the right

Qualifications

• 5–7+ years as a Recruiter in a digital agency or in-house creative environment.
• Experience closing junior to senior level roles, primarily creative and design.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
• Familiarity with recruitment systems such as Greenhouse or Bullhorn.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in hiring.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end recruitment for assigned roles from brief to sourcing, assessment, and offers.
• Source candidates quickly for a range of creative roles, including Product Design and Content.
• Partner with hiring managers to understand ideal candidate profiles for current and future needs.
• Guide candidates and managers through the interview process, keeping everyone engaged.
• Proactively build and maintain a strong candidate pipeline for ongoing needs.
• Provide a best-in-class candidate experience throughout the process.
• Source and engage top talent using traditional and innovative methods.

Skills

Relationship building

Talent acquisition

Creative recruiting

Stakeholder management

Diversity, equity, inclusion

Sourcing

Tools

Greenhouse

Bullhorn

Notion

Airtable

Job description

Kettle designs digital products with soul, for some of the most ambitious consumer brands in the world. Our work lives at the intersection of product thinking and brand storytelling; products that are just as considered in feeling as they are in function.

We are looking for a Senior Recruiter, Creative and Design, to join our growing team. This role will partner closely with our Director of Talent Acquisition and Talent team to fill roles for our Design, Production, Technology, Strategy, and Operations partners.

This is a role for someone who loves building relationships with hiring teams and candidates in support of a fast-paced creative organization. You have ideas on how to improve Talent processes and operations, as well as a passion for finding the right people for each individual team. Our ideal candidate brings expertise in creative and design recruiting, excellent communication skills, and the ability to navigate fluid environments with calm, clarity, and sound judgment.

Candidates should have:

• A flexible and proactive attitude with a positive, solution-focused mindset
• Exceptional organizational skills and a process-driven mindset
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills
• Experience closing junior to senior level positions, primarily creative and design, and the ability to carry the conversation with hiring managers and leadership teams
• Comfort managing multiple priorities and pivoting as needs change
• Experience sourcing and advocating for diversity, equity, and inclusion
• 5-7+ years as a Recruiter in a digital agency or in-house creative environment
• Familiarity with Greenhouse, Bullhorn, Claude, Airtable, and/or Notion a plus

We'd like to know that you can:

• Manage end to end recruitment for assigned roles from hiring manager brief to candidate sourcing and assessment through offer negotiation
• Quickly and thoughtfully source candidates for a variety of creative roles, from Product Design, to Social Art Director, to Content Strategist, and digital Copywriters
• Partner closely with hiring managers to understand ideal candidate profiles for current and future business needs
• Guide candidates and hiring managers through the recruitment process keeping everyone updated and engaged along the way
• Proactively build a pipeline of candidates for current and future roles
• Provide a best in class candidate experience
• Source and engage with amazing people by leveraging conventional and unconventional methods to find the best candidates out there

The target range of compensation for this role is $100,000 - $120,000. This is not a bonus eligible role. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location. Target start date is January 2027.

At Kettle, we care deeply about diversity, acceptance, and belonging across our offices. With effort placed on to creating dialogue, community, and expression outside of binaries, we would love to know how you prefer to be addressed. This is completely optional, but if you're comfortable sharing this information, please let us know your pronouns.

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