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SQUAD

SQUAD is a staff augmentation partner focused on helping game studios and related creative-technology companies build and scale high-performing teams with speed, flexibility, and cost efficiency. Rather than operating as a traditional recruitment agency, SQUAD embeds vetted specialists directly into a clients workflow and manages the operational burden behind the scenes, including payroll, administration, and compliance, consolidated into a simple monthly invoice. With deep roots in the video game industry and a bench of English-fluent professionals across the U.S. and Latin America, SQUAD delivers time zone alignment, cultural fit, and measurable savings while maintaining creative control and production velocity for clients. Engagements begin with a consultative discovery to clarify goals, team culture, and skill gaps; SQUAD then sources, screens, shortlists, and coordinates interviews, followed by a streamlined onboarding process that integrates talent with minimal disruption. The model supports both augmenting existing teams and assembling new, purpose-built squads, spanning roles such as concept art, UI/UX, motion design, 3D and VFX, creative production, software development, and key operational functions like bookkeeping. Clients benefit from the ability to scale up or down without the overhead of full-time hiring, office space, or HR administrationeach specialist is backed by SQUADs broader network for day-one support and sustained performance. Case studies highlight outcomes such as accelerated creative output for mobile game user acquisition, improved engagement through data-informed iteration, and building high-performance game development teams from the ground up to meet milestones efficiently. With hubs in Los Angeles and Buenos Aires and partnerships across creative, e-commerce, and PR ecosystems, SQUAD combines talent access with robust back-office infrastructure so studios can focus on shipping great work while SQUAD handles the rest.

Contract StaffingPayrolling/EORTemporary StaffingGamingPerforming Arts (Music, Theatre)Visual ArtsTelecomDigital MarketingContent Creation

HQLos Angeles, United States

Forward Progress Staffing

Forward Progress Staffing is a boutique recruiting and staffing firm that connects employers with highly skilled white-collar talent across technology, user experience, product design, and digital creative disciplines. Visible through its jobs hub and candidate-focused content, the firm supports a wide range of hiring needs spanning full-time, freelance/contract, temporary, and part-time roles, with recurring demand for profiles such as UX/UI designers, web designers, front-end developers, API engineers, and art directors. The organizations approach is consultative and candidate-centric, as reflected in thought leadership shared by its founder and CEO, Eric Kinsey, which emphasizes practical career guidance and professional development. For clients, Forward Progress Staffing focuses on speed, fit, and quality, leveraging a streamlined process that prioritizes clear role definition, targeted sourcing, and rigorous evaluation to present shortlists aligned to technical requirements and creative standards. For candidates, the firm offers guidance on positioning, portfolio and resume readiness, and interview preparation, helping professionals navigate a wide variety of opportunities across digital product, marketing, and engineering environments. While the site highlights design and development categories, Forward Progress Staffings assignments span both emerging and established digital organizations that require flexible staffing solutions to meet project timelines, scale new initiatives, or backfill critical roles. Its small, specialized team structure enables direct engagement and accountability, giving both clients and candidates responsive communication and transparent expectations throughout the process. Whether a company needs to stand up a project team quickly, secure a specialized contractor, or hire a permanent contributor to drive long-term product and brand outcomes, Forward Progress Staffing provides a focused, technology-and-creative-led recruiting capability designed to bring the right people to the right opportunities efficiently and reliably.

Permanent RecruitmentTemporary StaffingContract StaffingSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData SciencePublic RelationsAdvertisingJournalism

HQLos Angeles, United States

Forager Talent

Forager Talent is a specialist recruitment partner that helps companies of all sizes attract and retain highperforming, diverse teams that drive longterm success. With a focus on the creator economy, technology (SaaS), ad agencies, gaming, and entertainment/media, the firm blends deep industry familiarity with a modern, serviceled approach to hiring. Its Executive/Retained Search offering supports strategic and confidential leadership and niche appointments through a structured retained model, with fees staged across two to three installments and a deposit applied toward the final placement fee. For ongoing and crossfunctional hiring, Forager Talents Recruiting On Demand (ROD) solution embeds as a native extension of the clients team on a flat, predictable pricing structure, taking full ownership of the relationship with hiring managers, strengthening recruitment frameworks, and ensuring streamlined communication from intake to offer. For tailored needs, its Bespoke service designs custom recruitment solutions that address specific challenges when one size does not fit all, combining elements of embedded support, retained search, and advisory to maximize outcomes. The firm is trusted by an array of innovative brands across tech, media, and consumer landscapes, including Ring, Hulu, HBO Max, Wealthfront, SymphonyAI, GoodRx, AppFolio, BCG, 72andSunny, Tinuiti, Jellysmack, Vidmob, Gamefam, Candle Media, Haus Labs, and others, reflecting its track record in highgrowth, contentdriven, and productcentric environments. Whether building crossfunctional teams or executing discreet leadership searches, Forager Talent emphasizes a seamless candidate and client experience, predictable commercial models, and close alignment with stakeholder goals. By operating as an integrated partner and tailoring its engagement model to each need, the firm helps organizations stay ahead in todays competitive workforce and accelerate hiring without sacrificing quality or candidate experience.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentRPOSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceBroadcastingPublishingOnline Media

HQLos Angeles, United States

Releady

Releady is a diverse, women-owned talent solutions and project services firm dedicated to building genuine connections and transparent partnerships that drive measurable outcomes for clients and candidates alike. With decades of combined agency and corporate experience, the team delivers flexible staffing and recruitment across permanent, contract, and contract-to-hire needs, complemented by executive search for critical leadership roles and project engagements that scale to optimize teams, processes, and delivery. Releady’s expertise spans technology, engineering, data, digital, marketing, creative, and product functions, enabling organizations to tap specialized talent that aligns with both skill requirements and culture. The firm augments its seasoned recruiters with advanced AI-driven sourcing to surface top-fit professionals efficiently, and it extends reach through LATAM nearshore solutions that provide bilingual talent with time zone alignment and seamless communication. Quality and care are embedded throughout the process, from comprehensive evaluation methods—video interviews, portfolio reviews, skills assessments, reference checks, and subject-matter expert screenings—to talent community support that emphasizes smooth onboarding, prompt compensation, access to strong benefits, and ongoing development. Releady’s commitment to DEI&B is both principled and pragmatic, helping clients identify qualified diverse candidates and implement fair, unbiased hiring practices that improve organizational performance. Clients value the firm’s consultative approach, budget awareness, and satisfaction guarantee, reflecting confidence in its people and processes. Whether the need is a single specialist, a full project team, or an executive who will shape the future, Releady brings innovative strategies, personal engagement, and a relentless focus on outcomes to every engagement—delivering a modern recruiting experience that is straightforward, collaborative, and built to scale.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtContract StaffingSOW/ProjectsSoftware DevelopmentData ScienceDigital MarketingTechnology & DigitalMarketing & CreativeEngineering

HQSeattle, United States

fishRecruit Inc.

fishRecruit Inc. is a Canadian recruitment and executive search firm that partners with employers to identify, attract, and hire top performers across key industries and functions. Built by industry insiders, its team of headhunters has firsthand experience in the sectors they serve, enabling nuanced conversations with hiring leaders and candidates and a sharp eye for fit. The firms approach is deliberately headhunter-first: rather than posting and waiting, fishRecruit runs targeted, direct recruiting campaigns powered by deep professional networks, referrals, and proprietary databases to surface high-caliber, often passive talent. Acting as collaborative partners and employer ambassadors, they invest time to understand each clients culture, business objectives, and role design, then craft compelling narratives to engage candidates and represent the brand authentically in the market. Their sector expertise spans consumer packaged goods, retail, healthcare, business-to-business, and agency environments, while their functional breadth includes marketing, sales, digital, human resources, operations, and finance. Consultants combine market intelligence with rigorous assessment, looking beyond the CV to evaluate experience, emotional intelligence, and team fit, and they are known for a transparent, tenacious, and resilient process that persists until the right match is secured. For candidates, fishRecruit provides access to current roles and a streamlined path to join their talent database, supporting professionals as they navigate career-defining opportunities. For employers, the result is a faster, smarter hiring process that delivers measurable impactstrengthening leadership benches, elevating functional capability, and building world-class teams. With searches frequently spanning major Canadian hubs and an emphasis on long-term outcomes, fishRecruit focuses on placements that drive sustained business value long after the hire is made.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentRPOFashion & ApparelFood & BeverageConsumer ElectronicsDigital MarketingContent CreationPublic Relations

HQToronto, Canada

The Pulse

The Pulse is a San Diego-based, full-service multimedia video marketing company that specializes in producing interview-style stories that bring local brands, events, and personalities to life. Positioned as San Diegos only interview-style video marketing company, it blends entertainment and business storytelling to create engaging, buzzworthy content distributed across the web, social media, television, radio, and partner networks. Hosted by Cindy Matalucci, The Pulse delivers on-camera experiences that feel like real conversations rather than scripted segments, capturing authentic testimonials, behind-the-scenes access, and product or service demonstrations that resonate with target audiences. The company covers high-profile events and pop culture momentsranging from Sundance Film Festival to San Diego Comic-Conalongside exclusive celebrity interviews with names like Keanu Reeves and Nick Cannon, while also championing local businesses through recurring formats such as The Pulse TV, Live With Cindy, The Cindy Chronicles, and Wine Wednesdays. Its editorial footprint spans Entertainment, Lifestyle, Events, Professional features, and Product Reviews, reflecting a broad content strategy that includes restaurants and bars, boutiques, beauty and wellness, travel, music, and more. The Pulse airs on Yurview every Thursday at 4pm (Channel 4 in San Diego and Santa Barbara, Channel 118 in Orange County and Palos Verdes, and Channel 27 in Palm Springs, Palm Desert, and Yuma), extending visibility well beyond digital channels. With over a hundred episodes published and an active YouTube audience, the team offers bookable video packages, on-location shoots, and event coverage designed to amplify brand reach, attract customers, and convert attention into measurable marketing outcomes. Through strategic partnerships and sponsor collaborations, regular Instagram Lives, and a steady cadence of episodic content, The Pulse helps companies tell their story with style, connect with communities, and create sustained momentum across multiple platforms.

SOW/ProjectsPayrolling/EORContract StaffingDigital MarketingContent CreationPublic RelationsMuseums & GalleriesFilm & Television ProductionSports Management

HQSan Diego, United States

G&R Connex

G&R Connex is a staffing and recruiting partner focused on making connections between the worlds best brands and their audiences by bringing together the right people, processes, and program discipline. Built around three complementary capabilitiesTalent Acquisition and Management, Program Management and Execution, and Account Servicesthe firm helps marketing, communications, and brand organizations secure the talent they need while orchestrating the delivery of initiatives that depend on that talent. Its Talent Acquisition and Management offering spans full-cycle sourcing, selection, onboarding, and performance oversight for white-collar roles, enabling clients to fill critical positions through permanent placements or embedded recruitment solutions that extend in-house capability. Through Program Management and Execution, G&R Connex translates objectives into structured plans, timelines, and deliverables, coordinating teams and resources to ensure campaigns and projects land on time, on budget, and on brand. Account Services provides a high-touch client experience, aligning stakeholders, monitoring outcomes, and adapting to changing priorities so engagements remain aligned with strategy and measurable results. Whether supporting a discrete hiring campaign, standing up an outsourced talent function, or driving a statement-of-work initiative, G&R Connex emphasizes transparency, rigor, and candidate care, recognizing that every interaction reflects the clients brand. The company leverages data-informed workflows and continuous feedback to fine-tune pipelines, elevate candidate quality, and sustain momentum across complex, multi-workstream programs. With a collaborative mindset and a practical approach to scale, it serves as an extension of client teams, ready to flex from advisory to hands-on delivery as needs evolve. Clients engage G&R Connex to reduce time-to-hire, improve talent fit, and execute programs with confidence, knowing that a single partner is accountable for both the people and the plan that connect brands to their audiences.

Permanent RecruitmentRPOSOW/ProjectsDigital MarketingContent CreationPublic RelationsBroadcastingPublishingOnline Media

HQFarmington Hills, United States

Nouveau Recruiting

Nouveau Recruiting is a boutique recruiting firm that specializes in full-cycle, end-to-end talent acquisition, with a core focus on direct hire search and flexible, embedded recruitment partnerships. Founded and led by Stephanie, an experienced recruiter with 8+ years in both in-house and agency environments, the firm partners with early-stage startups, venture studios, and Fortune 100 organizations to design and execute tailored hiring strategies across technical, engineering, and go-to-market roles. Engagements are offered on a per-project fee or retainer basis, and can include setting up or optimizing applicant tracking systems to improve visibility, efficiency, and candidate experience. Nouveau Recruiting manages the entire process from role scoping and job description creation to targeted sourcing, structured screening, interview coordination, stakeholder alignment, and offer management, operating as an external but seamlessly in-house extension of the clients team. The firm has supported complex and hard-to-fill searches for companies such as LinkedIn, Google, Snap, Aegis Ventures, Asia Pacific Land, and Domuso, and is consistently recognized for speed, accuracy, transparent communication, and a human-centered approach. Whether a client is making its first strategic hire or scaling multiple teams, Nouveau Recruiting brings market insight, calibrated pipelines, and clear reporting to keep searches on track and decisions data-informed. The practice spans direct hire as well as contract and contract-to-hire placements, enabling organizations to blend permanent and contingent talent according to evolving needs. Candidates value the timely feedback and thoughtful preparation provided throughout the process, while hiring leaders benefit from a consultative partner who can stand up recruiting operations, augment internal talent teams, or own discrete searches from kickoff to close. The result is a nimble, results-driven recruiting solution designed to consistently connect exceptional people with growing businesses.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingRPOSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceIndustrial AutomationDigital MarketingContent Creation

HQLos Angeles, United States

PANDO Global

PANDO Global is a global creative community solution that brings together world-class image makers and producers to deliver fast, transparent, and high-quality photo and video production for brands and agencies. Operating with a creatives, globally sourced, locally available mindset, the company assembles localized, COVID safety and waiverprepared teams to meet clients needs at any stage, from initial concept through final deliverables. Whether a client arrives with a fully formed brief or none at all, PANDO engages immediately, crafts the right mix of talent, and manages end-to-end production with full expense transparency. Its tiered project pricing provides clear options calibrated to typical campaign scopes, including e-commerce and social media (30 images from $15,000 per shoot day), medium print and social (15 images from $40,000 per shoot day), and premium video, print, and social (12 images from $120,000 per shoot day), with final pricing dependent on inclusions and exclusions. PANDO is built for speed, scale, and localization, enabling brands to capture assets efficiently while staying on-budget and on-brief across markets. The company highlights work for notable brands such as THREE and Bluemercury and recommends Lenspire, a full-service production app, to streamline collaboration for every role on set. With its streamlined intake and ready, set, shoot approach, PANDO eliminates friction, compresses timelines, and ensures teams, logistics, and creative execution align seamlessly. Based at 307 Seventh Avenue, #1607, New York, NY 10001, and accessible via its website and social channels, PANDO provides a dependable, modern path to commercial content creationglobally coordinated, locally delivered, and consistently production-ready.

SOW/ProjectsContract StaffingTemporary StaffingDigital MarketingContent CreationPublic RelationsOnline MediaFashion & ApparelFood & Beverage

HQNew York, United States

Ampersand

Ampersand is a premium, boutique recruitment agency in Australia with a clear mission to unite great minds by placing the right person in the right role. Operating from hubs in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Newcastle, the firm delivers a blended portfolio of services spanning executive search, permanent hiring and contract recruitment, complemented by managed services focused on consulting and Statement of Work delivery. Ampersand’s specialist practice areas include C‑Suite and senior leadership, Business Support & Administrative, Marketing, PR & Corporate Affairs, Business Development, Digital & CRM, Human Resources, Risk & Compliance, Security, Data, Analytics & AI, Technology & ERP, and Projects, Change & Transformation, with a dedicated capability for Local, State and Federal government recruitment. The team applies a rigorous, human‑centred process that removes unconscious bias, deeply understands client context, and thoroughly vets every candidate to ensure cultural alignment and performance fit. For candidates, Ampersand provides one‑on‑one career guidance, transparent market intelligence and pre‑ and post‑placement support, while contractors benefit from a dedicated Contractor Hub experience. For employers, solutions range from discreet leadership appointments to scalable permanent and contract campaigns and outcome‑based project delivery under SOW. The firm’s market insights and salary guides across marketing, digital and communications, as well as professional services, reflect a data‑driven advisory approach that helps clients stay competitive and candidates make informed career decisions. Ampersand is trusted by leaders and teams across technology, marketing and communications, and the public sector, with testimonials referencing partnerships with organisations such as Macquarie Group, Allianz, Allens and the Uniting Church. Whether building a new division, securing critical leadership, or delivering projects at pace, Ampersand aligns great minds with great work to create lasting impact for clients and candidates alike.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceContent CreationPublic RelationsAdvertising

HQSydney, Australia

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