Talent Acquisition Manager

YourStudio - Talent Acquisition Manager - London - 12 month FTC

YourStudio is a dynamic strategy and experience design agency specialising in creating next-generation experiences and environments for global brands and retailers. With studios in London, Melbourne, New York and LA, we work supportively as one global team to deliver award-winning experiences that are recognised globally. We create brand strategy and immersive environments, leveraging the senses through communication, digital and experience design. Our mission is to inspire human connection, with sustainable thinking embedded.

We’re incredibly proud of the people who make YourStudio what it is. That pride is reflected in being named one of the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2025 , and in our status as a certified B Corp . It’s more than a badge — it’s a commitment to building a creative studio where people thrive, and where meaningful, values-led work comes to life every day.

The Role

We’re looking for a relationship-driven and highly proactive Talent Acquisition Manager to help us build and nurture a world-class pipeline of creative and strategic talent.

This role centres on headhunting, market mapping, and networking — ensuring we’re consistently connected with the strongest talent in the industry and that every candidate interaction positively reflects our brand.

Alongside building this pipeline, you’ll also play a key role in recruiting and managing our graduate and early-career programmes, supporting our commitment to social mobility and creating accessible routes into the creative industry.

Role & Responsibilities

Talent Pipeline & Headhunting

• Proactively headhunt and engage top talent across design, strategy, client services, account management and operations.

• Build and maintain a deep talent pipeline for current and future roles, keeping warm connections active.

• Network widely — through events, communities, referrals and your existing contacts — to ensure we stay plugged into the best talent in the industry.

• Conduct first stage interviews, reviewing and recommending candidates that reflect our culture, values and creative standards.

• Map the talent landscape across competitor agencies, emerging sectors and new skillsets.

• Represent the company as a brand ambassador in all candidate interactions.

Candidate Experience & Brand Representation

• Ensure a seamless, positive experience for every candidate — from first outreach to offer. Further enhancing our external YS brand.

• Communicate our values, culture and creative approach with clarity and enthusiasm.

• Support employer brand initiatives, including creating content, attending events and supporting partnerships.

Graduate Schemes, Early-Career & Social Mobility

• Support the recruitment, planning and ongoing management of graduate and early-career talent programmes.

• Build partnerships with universities, creative networks, youth organisations and social mobility charities.

• Help design candidate assessments, workshops, and development opportunities for early-career cohorts.

• Track progress of participants, ensuring they are supported and learning throughout the programme.

Talent Operations & Coordination

• Drafts job descriptions for review and finalisation by hiring manager

• Preps interview questioning lines for consistency across interview experience

• Maintain accurate candidate records and pipelines within our ATS/HRIS.

• Conduct first-stage interviews and shortlist for all roles.

• Aids collation of interview feedback and scoring

• Helps manage in-company communication through the hiring process

• Coordinate interview scheduling and candidate communications where needed.

• Provide insights and reporting on talent trends, pipeline strength and market movements.

• Promotes fair and inclusive hiring practices

• Helps maintain contractor base and contracts/comms with in-role contract employees

• Works with Central Ops and Resource to understand and future plan role/skill needs

• Helps plan and prep onboarding docs, alongside the Head of People

You

• Proven experience in recruitment, talent sourcing or headhunting — ideally in a creative, design or agency environment.

• Exceptional relationship-building skills and a strong industry network (or the ability to develop one quickly).

• Able to juggle long-term pipelines with live hiring needs

• Confident, warm communicator who can engage talent at all levels.

• Highly organised with strong follow-through and attention to detail.

• Passionate about championing a positive candidate experience and representing an employer brand.

• Enthusiasm for supporting early-career talent and social mobility pathways.

• Understanding of DEI principles in relation to recruitment and access to the creative industry.

• Passionate about developing accessible and inclusive talent pathways

Additional information:

We offer a competitive salary, available upon request, plus our benefits package, which includes:

• We value culture and collaboration, for this reason we operate a 3 day in the office and 2 day WFH hybrid working policy

• Generous holiday allowance, including 25 days plus bank holidays, a well-being day, 2 community days and your birthday off! Alongside additional extra service allowance

• Private Medical Insurance

• 2 week Working Abroad Opportunity

• Opportunities to work from our global studios whilst travelling

• Dedicated learning platform

• Enhanced parental leave policies

• Lunch club, Thursday office drinks, Summer and Christmas parties!

We would love to hear from you!

YourStudio is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome and encourage applications from all interested parties; we are committed to making our recruitment process as inclusive as possible for every person that applies.

We work actively to create diverse teams, made up of people from different perspectives and lived experiences and are consistently committed to promoting equality and diversity and through this. We are developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring significant and positive contributions to our business and our clients.

You may read this job description and feel you do not match the requirements 100% but we encourage you to apply as we match individuals to the business. We are a creative business so if you feel you could express your experience in a different way then feel free to do so.

Accommodations are available, upon request, for all stages of the interview and employment process for those with a disability or medical need during any stage of the recruitment process.