546. Recruiters 🚶♂️
A list of pretty great marketing recruiters, in case you're looking
Hellooo 👋 So happy to have you here. I’m Kevan. I have spent 15+ years as a head of marketing for some cool tech startups. Now I’ve co-founded a brand storytelling business called Bonfire. We do coaching, advisory, and content. If you identify with creativity and marketing, we’d love for you to join us.
A database of the best marketing recruiters, in case you’re looking :P
A fun little Slack community I’m part of recently sent around a spreadsheet with a list of 50+ recruiters across all sorts of disciplines: product, engineering, growth, and yes marketing. It’s a loooong list, made longer when I added a couple of mine to the roll call. But it also got me thinking about what a marketing-only list of recruiters might be like.
This list of recruiters is made up of only the ones I’ve worked with or known of. By “worked with,” I mean recruiters who have either tried to recruit me to open marketing roles in the past or recruiters whom I’ve worked with to build out marketing teams that I’ve led.
Tis the season for recruiting, too. Did you know January and February are the busiest time of year for recruiters? November and December are spent dreaming about new jobs. The new year is about going out and making it happen.
I am done looking for new jobs now that I have my own thing at Bonfire, but if you might be in the market for new work in the new year, let me know, and I’ll be happy to get you more info on any of the recruiters here!
A few top ones from the list:
Paige Robinson, Will Reed
Janine O’Neil, ElevenX Talent
Andrew Banks, Faraday Partners
Bella McDowell, B Squared
Chase Whittingham, Artisanal
Amber Weinberg, Aperture
Michael Doran, TeamSourced
Elisa Dolan, True
Jacqui Corrado, Swing
Also, check out these TikTok videos for some good advice on how to stand out in a job search:
About this newsletter …
Hi, I’m Kevan, a marketing exec based in Boise, Idaho, who specializes in startup marketing and brand-building. I previously built brands at Oyster, Buffer, and Vox. Now I am cofounder at Bonfire, a brand storytelling company.
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