About us
Futureheads is a recruitment business for the digital media industry. We specialise in covering temp and perm roles in user experience (UX) design, content and project management, creative and client services. We cover digital markets across retail, broadcast, publishing, entertainment, telecoms, web and software, public sector and agency.
We are deepening our coverage of core markets as well as growing additional niches in web content and front end development. Each core area that we target will be led by a senior consultant with a track record of success in recruitment for this specialist area.
The Team
The Futureheads team brings together three of the most experienced recruiters in UK digital – delivering deep industry knowledge and a commitment to professionalism for clients and candidates. The business is chaired by a successful entrepreneur with a background in digital and design.
Be Kaler Blake is on the council of BIMA, the British Interactive Media Association, and has been responsible for bringing together some of the key user experience teams in the market. Reach Be on 07958 720975 or mail her on be@wearefutureheads.co.uk
Gill Arnold will concentrate on strategic hire agreements across government and public sector, focussing on content, design and project management. Gill will lead Futureheads’ quality assurance and best practice. Reach Gill on 07872 597674 or mail her on gill@wearefutureheads.co.uk
Rachel Murray tracks corporate and agency recruitment – she has a focus on project management and client service roles. Rachel is nurturing new Futureheads joiners to become top quality consultants of the future. Reach Rachel on 07732 116965 or mail her on rachel@wearefutureheads.co.uk
The team is backed by agency entrepreneur Charlie Hoult. He has grown a number of businesses in design and digital, notably Loewy Group which he took from 40 to 400 staff in 4 years. He also ran First Tuesday London and a nationwide government programme BeyondBricks to champion digital entrepreneurship. Reach Charlie on 07973 163784 or charlie.hoult@googlemail.com
Industry comments
Futureheads has received much positive feedback from across the digital industry since starting out in Autumn 2009:
Justin Cooke , Fortune Cookie MD and BIMA Chair, adds: “The team behind Futureheads have helped Fortune Cookie find brilliant, world-class people for the past 8 years. I trust their honesty, transparency and the speed with which they respond to our needs.”
Richard Titus, CEO of Associated Northcliffe Digital, says: “Futureheads is an exciting proposition, having worked with the team closely they are my first port of call when sourcing user experience, design and project management talent. I cannot speak highly enough of them.”
Jason Mesut, Experience Director, The Team, says: “I am keen to use Be at Futureheads for contract and permanent roles going forward. She is the only recruiter I have ever met who gets what I and my peers do, and in a market full of charlatans, I really need to cut through the crap
to find the talent.”
Matt Hopgood, former Head of UX at BBC confirms: “These girls have been my first port of call for both interim & contract staff as well as providing me with my own career opportunities for the last 8 years. In all that time, they have never failed to provide the highest calibre staff and the last job they got me was Head of UX at the BBC and it doesn’t get better than that. Be, Gill and Rachel are diligent, professional, extremely well connected and thoroughly lovely to boot.”
Do visit the Futureheads website or give us a call on 020 7420 3539