Talent Sourcer - Creative
Location: London, UK
At Chapter 2, we're not just embedding talent teams; we're building the future of talent acquisition. Our model integrates embedded recruiting, an employer brand agency, and our proprietary AI SaaS talent platform, The Book. We are redefining how companies access, evaluate, and engage high-performing talent. As an embedded Talent Sourcer, you will work from first principles to identify, map, and engage world-class talent for our global enterprise client. Chapter 2 transforms our client's recruiting motions into a decisive competitive advantage.
The Role
We are partnering with a global enterprise and industry industry-leading creative brand. As their embedded talent solution, Chapter 2 will deliver more than 100 builders, leaders, and operators across creative functions. The Talent Sourcer – Creative, Design, and Marketing will own the discovery and initial engagement of exceptional talent across key functions such as Brand, Product Marketing, Performance Marketing, Creative Direction, UX/UI, and Frontend.
You will
- Map creative talent ecosystems to uncover top-performing professionals across marketing, brand, creative, and design disciplines for a global enterprise brand.
- Conduct deep market research to understand creative and marketing talent landscapes, from emerging designers and brand leads to performance marketers and frontend engineers.
- Execute targeted search strategies to ensure comprehensive coverage of design and storytelling disciplines, leveraging creative networks and communities.
- Track and analyse sourcing metrics to optimize outreach strategies and improve response rates across different talent segments.
- Drive high-velocity candidate discovery that identifies, qualifies, and engages world-class creative and marketing professionals.
- Build talent pipelines aligned with the needs of the Design, Product, and Marketing teams, maintaining warm relationships with passive candidates.
- Craft compelling outreach that reflects modern creative culture and the company's design-forward ethos.
You will bring
- A keen eye for creative talent: you bring storytelling, design literacy, and marketing intuition to talent identification.
- Passion for discovering talent, building consumer products that can change the world.
- Experience sourcing creative professionals for high growth scaleups or enterprise companies.
- High agency. You navigate culture and influence candidates to engage. Impossible is just something you haven't discovered, yet.
- High resilience. You understand sourcing is probabilistic, and how you respond to low response rates is more important than any single rejection. You have grit.
- You think deeply about talent signals before reaching out but then execute outreach rapidly. You think slow, act fast.
- You know that speed is how we win.
