Seven Years. 17 Hires. One Future MD.
We worked with Reboot over a seven-year period, supporting the agency through multiple stages of its growth and helping it hire across everything from specialist delivery positions through to some of the most important leadership roles in the business.
Over that time, we made 15 hires across SEO, Paid Media and Growth, alongside two particularly important senior appointments: Director of Growth and Director of Operations.
Both became long-term members of the leadership team.
And within just a year, the Director of Operations we placed had been promoted to Managing Director, effectively taking responsibility for running the entire agency.
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The Client
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Reboot is an independent digital marketing agency specialising in Search, Digital PR and Paid Media.
Our relationship with the agency developed over seven years, meaning we were able to support the business as its hiring requirements evolved.
That included finding specialist practitioners across SEO and Paid Media, commercial Growth hires and, eventually, senior leaders capable of taking significant responsibility for the direction and operation of the agency.
As the business grew, the hires became increasingly strategic.
Two searches in particular would ultimately help shape Reboot’s senior leadership team: Director of Growth and Director of Operations.
The Challenge
Senior agency hires are rarely straightforward.
For Reboot, these weren’t roles where somebody could simply arrive with the right title on their CV.
The Director of Growth needed the commercial experience to take ownership of growth and ultimately head up the agency’s internal commercial function.
The Director of Operations needed a different skillset entirely: someone capable of bringing structure and leadership to the operational side of the agency, working across teams and taking increasing responsibility for how the business itself was run.
Both required people with proven agency experience, strong leadership credentials and the ability to operate credibly as part of a senior leadership team.
And because we were supporting Reboot across a much longer period, the challenge went beyond two leadership appointments.
Across seven years, we needed to repeatedly understand where the business was heading and find the right people at different levels across SEO, Paid Media and Growth to support that journey.
How We Got to Work
This is the market we work in every day. We’ve spent years building a network of senior agency people with proven records across growth, operations, Search and wider agency leadership.
Importantly, many of those relationships exist long before somebody starts actively applying for jobs.
When strong SLT-level agency people begin considering their next move, they often come directly to us because they know the market we specialise in and the agencies we work with.
That gives us access to people who aren’t necessarily applying for roles or appearing in conventional candidate searches.
For Reboot, we were able to continually tap into that network over the course of the relationship, whether they needed a specialist practitioner or somebody capable of joining and ultimately helping lead the business.
The Result
Across our seven-year relationship with Reboot, we successfully made 17 hires across the business, including 15 people across SEO, Paid Media and Growth, plus the two senior leadership appointments.
The Director of Growth we placed went on to head up Reboot’s internal commercial function and has now been with the agency for nearly five years.
The Director of Operations had an even bigger trajectory.
Within approximately one year of joining, they were promoted to Managing Director, taking responsibility for effectively running the entire business.
They too have now been with Reboot for nearly five years.
For us, that’s the strongest measure of whether a senior hire genuinely worked.
Two leadership hires who became fundamental to the business. One progressing to Managing Director within a year. Nearly five years later, both are still there.
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Results That Speak For Themselves
A selection of successful hires and long-term partnerships across the digital marketing industry.
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From the UK to the Gold Coast
Edge Marketing is an Australian marketing agency on the Gold Coast.
Co-founder Rohan Dwyer was looking for a Head of SEO who could take ownership of the agency’s SEO department, shape its SEO proposition and drive the service line forward.
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Putting a Leader Behind Mediavision’s Growth
Mediavision is an established independent digital agency, working with ambitious brands across Search and digital performance.
Having built a successful agency and strong client base over more than a decade, the business was ready to put greater senior ownership around growth.
Until this point, responsibility for winning new business and growing the agency had been shared across the senior team. The next stage required someone who could take proper ownership of it.
This wasn’t simply about hiring a salesperson.
Mediavision wanted someone who could work across the entire agency, bringing together sales, new business, marketing, positioning and brand visibility into a coherent growth strategy.
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Finding an SEO Who Speaks Sneaker
The Sole Supplier is one of the UK’s leading footwear and streetwear platforms, helping sneaker fans discover the latest releases, news and trends from some of the biggest brands in the world.
The business has grown significantly, building a highly engaged audience alongside a team with a genuine passion for the space.
That culture was particularly important to them.
This isn’t a business where people simply happen to work in footwear and streetwear. The team genuinely lives and breathes the product outside of work, and preserving that as the company grows is a major priority.
SEO was already an important acquisition channel and The Sole Supplier had an external agency supporting its activity. The next step was to bring somebody senior enough in-house to take proper ownership of the channel.
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Five Years. One Trusted Partner.
Founded in 1810, Heal’s is one of Britain’s most iconic furniture and interior design brands. For the past five years, we’ve partnered with Head of eCommerce Mark Hammond, supporting the growth of his digital team through specialist hires across eCommerce, performance marketing and design.
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Taking the Weight Off the Founder
Tacomi is a specialist Search agency with deep expertise across SEO, technical SEO and the evolving AEO landscape.
We had already been working with founder Chad Conlon and the team when they approached us about one of the most important hires they were about to make to date.
The agency was already operating at a very high technical level, but Chad remained heavily involved in the day-to-day. The next stage of growth required someone senior enough to take genuine ownership from him, without compromising the quality of work that had helped Tacomi build its reputation.
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From First Hires to Future Leaders
NOVOS is a specialist eCommerce Search agency, helping ambitious retailers and challenger brands drive organic growth through SEO, Digital PR, content and wider Search.
Its eCommerce focus is fundamental to the business – it’s not a generalist agency with an eCommerce offering. Years of specialisation have created a highly knowledgeable team capable of solving increasingly complex Search challenges across platforms, markets and categories.
That makes NOVOS an exciting place for ambitious Search marketers – and a challenging place to recruit for. But that’s what I do.
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