Head of Talent Acquisition & People

📍 Remote (UK-based but we have co-working spaces in every city)

🕒 Full-time

Join the UK’s Leading TikTok Agency

At Nonsensical, we’re the UK’s leading TikTok agency, working with top brands across the world to deliver scroll-stopping, highly shareable content.

As we continue to grow, we’re looking for a Head Of Talent Acquisition & People to lead and evolve our hiring strategy, develop our people operations, and help build a team that thrives in a fast-paced creative environment.

This is a strategic and hands-on leadership role focused on building high performing teams, creating best in class people processes, and ensuring Nonsensical remains one of the most exciting and rewarding places to work in the creative industry.

Here’s what you’ll do for us

Talent Acquisition Strategy & Execution

• Lead all hiring across the agency - from planning and sourcing through to hiring and onboarding
• Partner with leadership to forecast needs and shape workforce planning across teams
• Build a consistent pipeline of top-tier talent in creative, strategy, production, and operational roles
• Implement scalable and inclusive recruitment processes that reflect our values and culture
• Oversee freelance hiring and manage a trusted network of external partners

People Operations & Development

• Lead the people function day-to-day, overseeing onboarding, offboarding, performance reviews, and development frameworks
• Partner with managers to support employee growth, career paths, and goal setting
• Create and implement HR policies that support our remote-first, creative working culture
• Introduce tools, processes and initiatives that support a high-performing, happy and engaged team
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on all people matters

Culture & Experience

• Be a visible culture leader within the business, supporting initiatives that nurture creativity, inclusion and collaboration
• Design and deliver regular team experiences, workshops and wellbeing initiatives
• Gather and act on employee feedback to evolve how we work
• Work with the leadership team to shape and evolve our benefits offering

Skills, experience and characteristics

• 3+ years in talent acquisition ideally in a fast-growing creative, media or digital agency.
• 2+ years in people/HR leadership helping shape culture 
• Proven experience building recruitment functions and successfully scaling teams
• Deep understanding of people operations, including performance, employee relations and engagement
• Highly strategic, but comfortable rolling up your sleeves and getting things done
• Strong working knowledge of recruitment and HR tools (e.g. Workable, BambooHR, Notion, Slack)
• A confident communicator with excellent relationship-building skills
• Passionate about building inclusive, values led workplaces
• A natural problem solver with strong judgement and attention to detail
• Familiarity with TikTok, creator culture or creative industries is a bonus

What else do we offer

💡 Creative Half-Days – Every quarter, take a half-day and £50 to do something that inspires you. A class, a gallery, a random frog pottery workshop, your call.

📚 Learning Fund – £200 a year to spend on books, audiobooks, and content that fuels your brain.

🎉 Bonus Leave Days – Birthday? Wedding? Moving house? Have the day off on us, no annual leave used.

Sound like your kind of thing?

We’re a team built on passion, driven by creativity, always led by curiosity, and grounded in honesty.

We are a remote-first agency but we do have access to co-working spaces across the UK, with a lot of our team based in Birmingham, London, Manchester, Bristol and Edinburgh.

👉 Do you want to shape the future of one of the UK’s most exciting creative agencies? We’d love to hear from you, hit apply and drop a cover letter over to us at [email protected]