Creative talent, carefully chosen.
We place talent, experts and leaders
Recruitment for creative, content and media teams: designers, writers, producers and the people who lead them.
Current Roles
View all jobsWe take a craft-first approach to every search. Whether you need a day-rate freelancer or a permanent editorial director, we bring the same care and attention to the quality of the work.
Most creative placements fail because the recruiter could not evaluate what they were looking at. Our consultants have direct experience in creative, content, and media — which means we can read a portfolio, assess a strategy, and understand the difference between technically competent and genuinely talented.
Why Work With Us
We Know the Work
Our consultants have backgrounds in creative industries. We can read a portfolio, understand a brief, and recognise genuine talent.
Long-term Relationships
Most of our clients have worked with us for years. We know their culture and their creative standards, which means better shortlists for everyone.
Freelance and Permanent
Whether you need a day-rate designer or a full-time Creative Director, we can help.
We work with publishers, agencies, in-house creative teams, and production companies across the UK — covering both freelance and permanent appointments at every level. From junior designers and editorial assistants through to Creative Directors, Brand Strategists, and Heads of Content, we place candidates who are chosen for the quality of their work, not just the length of their CV.
Our clients come back to us because they trust us to evaluate creative output honestly — and our candidates stay in the roles we place them in because the fit was right from the start.
Recruiters who read the portfolio
Narrative Talent places creative professionals in the roles where they do their best work: editorial, design, content, brand and production, for publishers, studios, in-house teams and independent producers across the UK. We care about craft as much as credentials, and our clients know it.
Our consultants came to recruitment from creative work. We have briefed designers, edited writers and commissioned photographers, so we can look at a portfolio and say what is good about it and what is missing. That is why clients trust us to judge the work, not just the CV, and why the people we place tend to stay.
Creative careers are rarely a straight line, so we spend time on the conversation as well as the folio: what someone wants to make next, who they like working with and what they will not compromise on. It makes for fewer, better introductions, for freelancers as much as permanent hires.
