Design hiring is different.
So are we.
We support teams of any size who are ready to grow.
Good Maven’s decades of international recruitment experience and large network of over 50,000 connections enable us to engage right-fit candidates, when other recruiters can’t.
We have decades of experience hiring talent at all levels, from junior to senior and executive leadership positions.
This depth of expertise means:
If you’re a global company that needs to hire across multiple regions, you only need one recruitment partner.
If you're a startup or mid-sized company, you'll get access to a global pool of talent typically reserved for larger companies.
20+ years in design
recruitment
Global warm pipeline across senior & leadership talent
50,000+ global talent pool
There are no other recruiters in the world like us
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Fast, focused turnaround
We deliver the hire within 4-6 weeks on average. We manage interview coordination end-to-end or we can partner with your internal team.
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Design recruiters & leaders on every search
Our team has built and led world-class design and design recruitment teams, bringing deep expertise to evaluating design talent.
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Commercial terms
Fee: 30% of first-year base salary. One-third retainer to begin the search with remainder due on offer acceptance.
Replacement guarantee: If a hire isn’t the right match, we replace them, simple as that.
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Single hire to full team builds
We’ve built an active international network of designers and design leaders across the Americas, Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the UK, and west Asia. From pre-seed founding designers to full design teams at public companies, we support every stage of growth.
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Curated & custom to you
We curate shortlists of candidates who meet technical standards and team needs, saving you weeks of unnecessary screening. We partner with you to shape roles, calibrate interviews, build assessment rubrics, and support hiring decisions.
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Retained search model
We focus on complex, specialist roles and limit the number of searches we take on. This enables senior-level attention, evaluation, and accountability through to a successful hire.
What a typical engagement looks like
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Week 1
A focused kickoff to align on role scope, success criteria, and what “right fit” means for your team. We share an initial shortlist within 1 week to pressure-test direction, refine expectations, and confirm we’re aligned before scaling the search.
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Weeks 2-4
Sourcing, portfolio review, skills assessment, and structured screening run in parallel. Market mapping, interviewer calibration, and offer guidance. Interviews are concentrated in this window so your team can move decisively.
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Weeks 4-6
Final interviews, decision-making, references, and offer negotiations through acceptance.
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Post-hire
Includes five flexible coaching hours, usable during or after the engagement, as well as a free replacement during the guarantee period.
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Meet the Team
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Meg Rye
Founder & CEO
Meg is the founder of Good Maven with two decades of experience coaching and recruiting. Formerly Meta’s first international product and design recruiter, she’s reviewed thousands of portfolios and led hiring for teams across levels and disciplines. She brings a recruiter’s lens to career narrative, resume, LinkedIn, and job map so materials get found, understood, and invited into real interview conversations. -
Kelly Norris
Design Recruiter
Kelly is a product and design recruiter with over a decade of experience hiring for teams at Meta and Microsoft, including WhatsApp, Instagram, Xbox, and Reality Labs. She’s known for her sharp assessment skills, cross-functional recruiting depth, and people-first approach to building high-impact teams. At Good Maven, she focuses on sourcing exceptional talent and strengthening recruiting efficiency. -
Tyra Alexander
Design Recruiter
Tyra is a design recruitment and DEI programs lead with deep experience hiring for WhatsApp, Revolut, Sanity, n8n, Wayflyer and more. She’s known for spotting exceptional UX and product design talent, strengthening hiring processes, and building teams that are both high-performing and inclusive. At Good Maven, she leads creative sourcing, candidate experience, and DEI-driven hiring strategy.
Beyond the hire:
Coaching that builds lasting teams
For organizations investing in long-term design excellence, we provide custom coaching for both managers and individual contributors.
Every retained search includes 5 hours of design coaching. This can be used where it creates the most value for your team, including:
Leadership development and new manager growth
Interview readiness and ongoing skill building
Structured onboarding and early performance calibration
Team development that strengthens retention and velocity
We also offer team coaching, whether you’re looking to elevate your team’s design craft, support executive leaders in growing their influence, or navigate organisational design and change.
Let’s talk about your hiring needs
Roles we hire for
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A 3D Animator/Modeler creates and animates three-dimensional characters, objects, and environments for use in films, video games, and other digital media.
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An Animator creates dynamic, realistic, and engaging motion for characters, objects, and environments, bringing them to life through techniques like keyframe animation or motion capture, ensuring fluid movement and enhancing the player's immersive experience
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Someone who designs virtual experiences for users. These might be games, interactive experiences, movies or digital marketing products. AR stands for Augmented Reality, where digital information is combined with the real world. VR stands for Virtual Reality, where all of what the user experiences is digitally created.
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An Art Producer in tech manages the creation and delivery of visual assets, coordinating between artists, designers, and developers to ensure high-quality content aligns with project goals and timelines.
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A Brand/Communications Designer creates visual and strategic design elements to communicate a brand's identity, values, and messaging consistently across various platforms and media.
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A Content Designer crafts clear, user-focused content for digital interfaces, ensuring information is accessible, engaging, and aligned with user needs and business goals.
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A Creative Director leads and oversees the creative vision and direction of a project, brand, or organization, guiding the design, messaging, and overall creative strategy to ensure consistency and alignment with business objectives.
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A Creative Technologist blends creativity with technical expertise to develop innovative digital experiences, products, and solutions, often exploring new technologies to push the boundaries of design and interaction.
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A Design Director leads the vision, strategy, and execution of user-centric design across digital products, guiding teams to create cohesive, impactful, and innovative user experiences that align with business objectives.
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A Design Manager oversees and supports a team of designers, translating the design director's vision into actionable projects, ensuring high-quality execution, and fostering collaboration to deliver user-centered solutions that meet business goals.
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A Design Program Manager ensures the smooth execution of design initiatives by optimizing workflows, coordinating stakeholders, and aligning site-specific, product, or program-focused efforts with broader company goals.
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Working from concept art and real-world references, environment artists create and lay out digital 3D environments that form the world of a film or video game.
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A Game Designer conceptualizes, develops, and creates the mechanics, rules, storylines, and overall gameplay experience of video games.
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A Graphic Designer creates visual content using typography, images, and layout techniques to communicate messages and concepts effectively across various media platforms.
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The Head of Design in tech oversees the strategic direction and execution of design across an organization, with responsibilities that can vary based on company size, often overlapping with roles like design director or VP of design, to ensure cohesive, user-focused, and innovative product experiences.
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An Illustrator produces original visual artwork to enhance or complement written content and communicate ideas across various media.
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Industrial Designers are good at translating technical hardware into visually appealing consumer goods. They may do this by drafting creative ideas or creating prototypes or other visual models of a manufactured product.
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A Product Designer creates digital products like websites, apps, or software by focusing on product strategy, interaction design, and visual design, aligning business goals and user needs with technical constraints to deliver seamless and effective experiences.
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A Product Manager oversees the development and lifecycle of a product, guiding its strategy, design, and execution to meet customer needs and business objectives.
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Riggers create digital skeletons for computer-generated characters. A character rigger designs the skeletal frameworks of animated characters.
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A technical artist uses their knowledge of programming and art to integrate an artist's or animator's visual content into a video game.
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A UX designer creates user-centered designs by researching, prototyping, and testing to ensure digital products are intuitive, accessible, and provide a seamless user experience.
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A User Experience Researcher studies and analyzes user behaviors, needs, and experiences to inform and improve the design and functionality of products or services.
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A Visual/UI Designer is a professional who creates the look and feel of digital interfaces, focusing on aesthetics, layout, and visual elements to ensure an engaging and user-friendly experience.
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VFX artists create photoreal, digitally-generated imagery. The role requires the seamless integration of these effects into live action in feature films.
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We hire for VP roles in design and product for US-based companies.
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A Web Designer is a professional who creates and designs the visual layout, user interface, and overall aesthetic of websites, ensuring they are both functional and visually appealing.