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Joe GarbuttCEO & co-founder
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Garbutt, J.
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Recruiting Specialist
Own how we hire, end to end, so a new pod can stand up in six weeks. Then sell the same service to our clients.
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- Full time
- Hybrid
- 2 Hardman Boulevard, Manchester
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The role
You own hiring for one of the fastest-growing agencies in the UK, and then sell it. Every new vertical we open needs a pod of three, and the goal is to stand one up in six weeks. At the same time you launch our recruitment offering for clients, finding the people our installers need to keep up with the demand we create for them.
Our core is one thing done well: high-production video ads for ambitious home services businesses. Around it we are building a small set of services that solve the next problems our clients hit as they grow, and recruitment is one of them.
Why this is not a normal recruitment job
- 01You recruit with the best ad machine in the market.We already build video job ads and funnels for our own hiring. You get the same creative and media buying that wins installers their customers, pointed at candidates.
- 02Two sides of the same job.You hire our own team and place people into our clients' businesses. The skills are the same, and the client side earns you commission.
- 03A sourcing partner alongside you.Our recruitment partner sources candidates for our internal roles, and you qualify and close them.
- 04A direct line to the CEO.Hiring decisions do not sit in a queue.
What you'll do
- 01Fill our own seats.Media buyers, creative strategists, client success managers and the other roles we need as we grow, plus support on our freelance bench of editors, designers and videographers. Headhunt them yourself, field inbound applicants, and work with our recruitment partner on sourcing.
- 02Qualify and close.Screen every applicant properly, run the phone calls, manage the trial tasks and get the right people to a yes. Our co-founders do the final interview.
- 03Make a new pod possible in six weeks.Three roles, found, hired and ready to start, every time we open a new pod or vertical.
- 04Lead our hiring strategy.The job descriptions, scorecards, recruitment videos, careers pages, funnels and interview process.
- 05Run the recruiting CRM.Every candidate, every stage and every decision recorded, so hiring never lives in an inbox.
- 06Launch our client recruitment offering.Our client success managers pitch it; you deliver it. Sales staff, surveyors, fitters, office staff: you find, qualify and place them.
- 07Help new starters land,and spend more time in the office when new team members are starting.
What you'll bring
- A lot of hands-on experience headhunting and qualifying candidates, in an agency or in-house.
- You can find people who are not looking, and make them want to talk to you.
- You can tell an A-player from a good interviewer, and hire for attitude as much as skill.
- You create your own recruitment content: job ads, LinkedIn posts, outbound sequences.
- You can run a pipeline of roles at once without dropping a candidate.
- You are commercial, and a client offering with commission excites you.
Recruitment experience in marketing, agencies or home services is a strong advantage. You will use our scorecard to hire everyone else, so it had better describe you too.
How we work
Built by people who left big corporates. Joe came from Unilever, Jude from Škoda. Here, a decision made on Monday morning gets tested on Monday afternoon and rolled out on Tuesday.
AI does the admin. Every night our own system pulls in the numbers from every platform we run on. Ask it a question in plain English and it answers. Leo Rocha, our Systems Architect, builds whatever you need, so less of your week goes on admin.
What we score you on. You own your results. You turn up the same every week. You say what's going on before anyone asks. You run your desk without being chased. Your work makes money you can point to. You lift the people around you. If that energises you, you're who we need. If it puts you off, that's genuinely okay.
Real room to climb. Charlotte Allcard joined as our first full-time hire in August 2025 as a Creative Strategist, was promoted to Senior Creative Strategist in December 2025, and in September 2026 moved into Client Success & Delivery Lead. That pace is not the expectation, but it shows what is possible. As the client recruitment offering grows, so does the team you lead.
What you get
- £42,000 to £50,000 a year, plus commission on client placements, individual bonuses, and team-wide bonuses when we hit company milestones.
- 28 days paid holiday, with Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve off on top.
- Hybrid: two days a week in our Manchester office, the rest from home, plus 10 days a year working remotely from abroad.
- The latest software and equipment, MacBook included.
- Socials that actually happen: masterminds, nights out in Manchester and the odd premiere.
- Clients who are genuinely good fun: many are ex-trade who got off the tools and built their own businesses. No stuffy "circle back" conversations.
How to apply
Watch this first: Working at On steroids, a short video about the team and how we work.
- This application.Two minutes: a few short questions and your contact details. A CV helps, but it's optional.
- A short phone call with us.About you, the job and the pay.
- A video introduction.Filmed on your phone, unpolished is fine. It's not optional: it tells us more than any CV.
- A one-hour trial task with Joe Garbutt, our co-founder and CEO, who runs our hiring today.
- An interview with our co-founders,Jude Cornish and Joe Garbutt.
Everyone hears back within 7 days, yes or no.
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