What You'll Do
Talent Acquisition Strategy & Candidate Experience You will be the passionate voice and primary connector for art-K’s growing network, driving the full recruitment journey with authentic curiosity and warmth.
Listening deeply to candidate motivations and partnering closely with studio managers, you will spend time on-site to truly understand local hiring needs.
Your open communication style and active approach - even running trial sessions yourself - will ensure candidates feel valued while building strong relationships across our 60+ locations.
Recruitment Analytics, Market Intelligence & Optimisation Driven by an inquisitive and analytical mindset, you will continually explore regional hiring trends and talent metrics to refine our attraction strategies.
You will bring a curious, proactive approach to solving recruitment challenges, translating market insights and performance data into clear, persuasive recommendations for senior leadership.
Aiming to optimise our hiring pipelines, streamline our processes, and directly shape art-K’s ongoing expansion.
What Support You’d Have
Our HR & Recruitment team works closely together to ensure we attract, nurture, and retain the best team members as art-K grows.
You'll Thrive in This Role If...
You are genuinely eager to ask questions, uncover candidate motivations, and spend time in studios listening to Branch managers' hiring needs.
You combine warm, authentic relationship-building with a practical focus on hiring numbers and market trends to support your decisions.
You love taking full accountability for hiring strategies, proactively solving bottlenecks, and even running studio trial sessions to spot top talent.
Working Hours: Monday to Friday: 9am–5pm
Why Join art-K?
Join art-K, a growing private art education service where over 8,500 students attend skill based art classes every week.
As the Talent Acquisition Lead, you will play a strategic role in driving art-K’s ongoing expansion.
You will take full ownership of the talent acquisition lifecycle designing innovative attraction strategies, conducting high-level assessments, and partnering directly with Directors and Branch Managers to build exceptional teams.
As a medium-sized, family owned brand, we deeply value every team member.
Benefits
Vitality private health insurance (post-probation), 24/7 BUPA mental health support and wellness care via HEKA.
Enhanced sick pay, maternity/paternity pay and annual leave loyalty scheme.
3x salary Death in Service insurance.
NEST pension contributions and Blue Light Card discounts.
Company-funded external training after 2 years.
Opportunity to launch an art-K Franchise with zero upfront fees after 5 years.