{"id":2580572,"url":"https://alion.io/job/publicis-groupe-creative-recruiting-director","title":"Creative Recruiting Director","company":{"id":46462,"name":"Publicis Groupe","domain":"publicisgroupe.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/publicisgroupe","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"iCIMS","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":100,"open_postings":41,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0.049,"time_to_fill_p50_days":12,"computed_at":"2026-10-31T05:58:55Z"}},"role":"HR","role_family":"HR","seniority":"head","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["New York, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":121315,"max":194220,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":194220},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-15T01:45:23Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-15","last_verified_at":"2026-11-01T01:08:10Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":17,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":17},"description":"Company Description\nCreative Recruiting Director\nPosition Overview\nWe are looking for a highly experienced Creative Recruiting Director with deep knowledge of the creative advertising agency industry and an exceptional network across the creative talent marketplace.\nBased in New York, this role will lead creative recruiting across Publicis creative advertising agencies, including BBH, Le Pub, Saatchi, Fallon, The Community, Leo, and other agencies across the network.\nThis individual will be a true talent magnet: someone who is well known and respected within the creative community, has an established network of high-caliber talent, and knows how to identify and engage exceptional people before a hiring need arises.\nThe Creative Recruiting Director will recruit Copywriters, Art Directors, Designers, and other creative talent at all levels, from emerging talent through senior creative leadership. The role will partner closely with Creative, Talent, HR, and business leadership to understand current and future capability needs, proactively build talent pipelines, and bring market intelligence that informs hiring decisions. This role requires someone who can move beyond traditional, requisition-based recruiting and operate as a strategic talent advisor, hands-on recruiter, and trusted connector to the creative community.\nKey Responsibilities:\nCreative Talent Acquisition\nLead end-to-end recruitment for Copywriters, Art Directors, Designers, and other creative disciplines at all levels across Publicis creative agencies.\nIdentify, engage, assess, and attract exceptional creative talent across disciplines, capabilities, and levels.\nDevelop a deep understanding of each agency's creative capabilities, culture, clients, and talent needs.\nPartner with Chief Creative Officers, Executive Creative Directors, Creative Directors, and other leaders to define the skills, experiences, portfolios, and profiles required for critical hires.\nEvaluate creative talent through portfolio and book reviews, relevant category and client experience, creative reputation, awards and recognition, and career trajectory.\nDeliver an exceptional candidate experience from initial outreach through offer and close.\nTalent Magnet & Creative Network\nServe as a recognized and trusted connector within the advertising and creative industries.\nBring an extensive, established network of Copywriters, Art Directors, Designers, creative teams, and creative leaders.\nContinuously build relationships with high-caliber creative professionals, even when there is no immediate opening.\nDevelop proactive talent communities and pipelines for critical and emerging creative capabilities.\nMaintain strong relationships with candidates, creative leaders, industry influencers, portfolio communities, and other relevant talent sources.\nAct as an ambassador for Publicis agencies and strengthen their reputation as destinations for exceptional creative talent.\nAttend leading advertising, design, and creative industry events on behalf of Publicis creative agencies, representing the network, strengthening its visibility in the creative community, and building relationships with exceptional talent and industry influencers. \nStrategic Talent Mapping\nProactively map the external creative talent landscape across priority disciplines, capabilities, levels, and markets.\nIdentify rising talent, established leaders, creative teams, and individuals whose capabilities could strengthen the agencies.\nDevelop external talent pipelines for roles that are difficult to fill, recurring, or strategically important.\nUnderstand competitor and agency talent ecosystems and provide insights into where strong creative talent sits in the marketplace.\nAnticipate future talent needs instead of waiting for open requisitions. \nStrategic Partnership\nServe as a trusted talent advisor to Creative, HR, Talent, and business leaders across the agencies.\nBalance network-wide collaboration with the distinct creative identity, culture, and hiring needs of each agency.\nChallenge hiring assumptions when appropriate and help leaders think more broadly about skills, backgrounds, portfolios, and potential.\nBring external market intelligence into talent and workforce discussions.\nAdvise leaders on talent availability, competitive dynamics, candidate expectations, and closing strategies.\nPartner with recruiters and HR teams across Publicis to share talent intelligence and improve hiring outcomes across agencies.\nSupport new business opportunities and rapid staffing needs by maintaining ready access to strong creative talent pipelines. \nData & Recruiting Excellence\nUse recruiting data and market insights to inform sourcing strategies and hiring decisions.\nTrack talent pipelines and provide visibility into market availability and recruiting progress.\nLeverage AI, technology, portfolio platforms, industry networks, and modern sourcing approaches to identify talent and increase recruiting effectiveness.\nContribute to the continuous improvement of creative recruiting practices, tools, and processes. \nQualifications:\nSignificant talent acquisition experience, with strong experience recruiting within creative advertising agencies, design, production, digital, social, or closely related creative industries.\nDeep understanding of the creative agency ecosystem and the disciplines, capabilities, portfolios, and profiles required to build outstanding creative teams.\nDemonstrated success recruiting Copywriters, Art Directors, and Designers across levels, including senior and leadership talent.\nExtensive and established network across the creative advertising industry, particularly within the New York talent market.\nStrong reputation in the marketplace with the ability to attract and engage high-caliber creative talent.\nDemonstrated success proactively sourcing and building relationships with passive talent.\nStrong executive presence and ability to advise senior creative and business leaders.\nExcellent portfolio assessment, relationship-building, influencing, negotiation, and closing skills.\nAbility to operate strategically while remaining hands-on throughout the recruiting process.\nStrong understanding of talent-market trends and emerging creative capabilities, including integrated, digital, social, design, experiential, and AI-enabled creativity.\nComfortable using data, technology, and AI-enabled recruiting tools to improve sourcing and hiring decisions.\nBased in New York, with the ability to build strong relationships across the local creative community and Publicis agency network. \nAdditional Information\nOur Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.\nPublicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.\nIf you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact .\nAll your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.\nCompensation Range: USD $121,315.00 - USD $194,220.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. 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