Your nextCreative Directoris 14 days away.
Staffed is the recruitment engine built exclusively for agencies, production houses, and media companies who can't afford an empty senior seat for eleven weeks.
Trusted by 120+ agencies across North America
The problem isn't hiring. It's hiring the wrong way.
Every week without a Creative Director costs you client confidence, pitch momentum, and the team morale you spent years building.
A recruiter who can't distinguish a motion designer from a VFX compositor is not a recruiter — they're a liability in your hiring pipeline.
Your Head of Production shouldn't be writing job descriptions at 11pm. That's budget and focus you can't get back.
“We lost a $2.4M pitch because our CD seat was empty for eight weeks. Never again.”
From overwhelmed to fully staffed.
Three stages. No fluff. Every step designed around the way creative agencies actually hire.
Talent Mapping
We map your org in 48 hours.
Your org chart has holes.
2 open seats · 6 weeks empty
- CD seat empty — 6 weeks and counting
- Senior Editor on notice
- #hiring-panic Slack channel: 47 unread
- Pitch deck due Friday with no creative lead
We map every gap, every dependency.
Full audit · 48 hours
- Full role audit completed in 48 hours
- Skill adjacencies mapped across your team
- 3 parallel searches activated immediately
- Hiring manager freed from screening calls
Shortlist Delivery
3 qualified candidates in 7 days.
Generic CVs. Zero context.
- Recruiter sends 14 irrelevant profiles
- Can't tell a motion designer from a VFX compositor
- No reel review, no culture fit signal
- Your time wasted on 90-minute screening calls
3 vetted creatives. Reels reviewed.
- Maximum 3 candidates — all pre-screened
- Reel and portfolio reviewed by creative specialists
- Culture fit briefed against your agency DNA
- References checked before you see a name
Embedded Support
We stay in until the seat is warm.
Offer accepted. Then nothing.
Recruiter last seen: placement day
New hire exits: day 87
- Recruiter disappears at placement
- No onboarding support
- New hire exits in 90 days
- You restart the whole process
30-day embedded guarantee.
- Dedicated account lead through first 30 days
- Onboarding check-ins at day 7, 14, and 30
- Free replacement if placement exits in 90 days
- Quarterly talent reviews for your whole team
Agencies that stopped guessing.
across all clients
Trusted by leading creative teams
“Staffed sent us three Creative Directors in six days. We hired one on day nine. I've never seen a recruiter who actually understands agency culture the way they do.”
“We were scaling post-production for a Netflix delivery and had three editor seats open. Staffed filled all three in under two weeks. Reels reviewed, references checked — we barely had to screen.”
“The difference is domain knowledge. They knew what a Senior EP actually does on a streaming shoot. Generalist recruiters never got that right. Staffed got it right on the first shortlist.”
Every day without the right Creative Director is a day your competitors are pitching with theirs.
Staffed has already mapped 11,407+ vetted creative and media professionals. Your next hire is in that list. The only question is how long you wait to find out.