Hiring partner for founders
We hire the
people who last.
We hire for founders of agencies and consumer brands. We look for people who can do the job today and will still be right for it when the job changes.
15% fee · Six-month guarantee · No retainer
Live searches
11 roles open · Updated 4 October 2026
Who we’re hiring for, today.
Each company here has a search open with us right now.
“When Adam texts me, I get excited and want to respond immediately. That’s how it feels to work with him.”
Timoté ChanutFounder & CEO · Young With SolutionsAlphageek
TwinklingTree
Mail Waves
Young With Solutions
The terms
If your hire doesn’t last,
that’s on us.
We can’t oversell. We can’t rush. We have to understand you and the candidate, or we eat the cost.
- The fee
- 15%
- 15% of your hire’s first-year salary, invoiced once they’ve signed.
- The guarantee
- 6months
- If a permanent hire leaves, or you have to let them go, inside six months, we run the search again at no fee.
- Up front
- £0
- Nothing. No retainer.
The work
What you actually get.
Six things, from the brief to the signed contract. Right now that takes five to six weeks.
We learn the business first
A sixty-minute call with you and whoever the hire reports to. Where the business is going, what this person has to get done, and how you’ll know it’s working.
The role, mapped
Who it reports to, how it’s measured and what it pays, written up as a brief you sign off. Then a page for the role, in your brand.
A short list, with our notes
Each name comes with our notes: why they’re moving, how they measure up against the role, and what we’d test if we were you. Our doubts are in there too.
Every CV, reworked
We review each CV with the candidate and rework it, so the experience that matters to you is easy to find.
A short task, when the role calls for one
For some roles, finalists get a task built from the real job, with no single right answer. You see what they made and how they went about it.
The offer, and the contract
We prepare both sides and carry the offer through to a signature. If it helps, we’ll review your existing contracts with you first.
“Puck is a team that genuinely cares throughout the whole process. That shines through in the calibre of people brought forward, the hands-on support at every stage, and ultimately the outputs, which have been brilliant.”
Art LindopCo-founder · AlphageekThe Operators
Someone in the room who has already done the job.
Senior leaders who run their own practices. When you’re hiring for a job you’ve never done and one of them has, they join your search: they sit in on an interview, or help set a task.
It doesn’t cost you extra.
Dave MorrisseyFractional Growth Partner · SCEALPaid social and ecommerce growthSpent six years at Meta, and later led TikTok’s retail and ecommerce team.
Millie PearsonFractional COO · Pearson ConsultancyRetail and ecommerce operationsLed Karen Millen’s first omnichannel rollout.
Joey de WitFractional CFO · AgenCFOFinance: pricing, forecasting and cashFounded AgenCFO, a finance practice for agencies and ecommerce brands, after corporate finance at Standard Chartered.
Ed CoxStrategy Partner · GBC PartnersBrand strategy and positioningLed teams at Ogilvy and VCCP, and has advised the founders of Vitality, Lapland UK and 47 Skin.
Ross AllsopFractional CGO · Pion333rsEcommerce growth for premium brandsHeld senior in-house ecommerce roles at premium brands including ThruDark, and now leads growth work through his own firm.
Stokely HowardCo-founder and Creative Director · Trendy GrandadVideo, YouTube and social contentCo-founded Trendy Grandad, a video agency.
Twenty minutes with Adam.
I’ve hired more than 100 people, half of them into my own agencies. Tell me about the business and the hire you’re thinking about. I’ll tell you how we’d run the search and what it would cost. If we’re not the right people for it, I’ll say so.
Adam CallowCo-founder · PuckIf you’re not ready to brief a role yet
PS, Adam
The founders who get this right start a year before it’s urgent. That’s the whole idea.