We place people you'll want to keep.
Specialist recruitment for technology, marketing, sales and operations teams across the North West. We headhunt the passive market — not job-board CVs — and we stand behind every placement we make.
Four sectors. One specialist team.
We've deliberately stayed narrow. Every consultant on the floor has worked in their sector — not just recruited for it.
Technology
Software engineers, DevOps, data, product, and architecture roles across permanent and contract.
Digital Marketing
Performance, SEO, paid media, brand and content leadership for in-house teams and agencies.
Sales
BDRs through to Commercial Directors. SaaS, professional services and B2B specialists.
Operations
COOs, heads of ops, project managers and the supporting cast that keeps growing businesses running.
From brief to signed offer — usually in four weeks.
Brief
We sit down with the hiring manager, not just HR. Understand the role, the team, the actual ceiling.
Search
Headhunt the passive market. 70% of our placements weren't actively looking when we called them.
Shortlist
Three to five candidates inside two weeks. Each one already de-risked on salary, notice and motivation.
Hire
We stay in the loop through offer, counter-offer and onboarding. 92% are still in seat at 12 months.
Eleven years of doing it properly.
Not the kind of recruiter you screen calls from.
"We needed a Head of Engineering with a very specific stack and we were six months in with two other agencies. Bright Talent shortlisted four people in ten days. Hired one of them. Still here two years on."
"Honest is the word. They told us our salary band was a bit light before they spent a fortnight chasing the wrong people. Fixed it, found the candidate, done."
"We've used them for three commercial hires now. They actually understand sales — they don't just send CVs that match keywords. Refreshing."
Founded in Manchester, 2014. Still independent.
Bright Talent is a specialist recruitment agency for tech, marketing, sales and operations roles. We were founded in 2014 by people who'd spent years working inside the businesses they now recruit for — and got tired of watching those businesses get sold the wrong people.
Today we're a team of consultants who each own a sector. No call-centre floors, no "send-twenty-CVs-and-hope" approach. Sixty per cent of our work is retained search, which means we're paid to find the right person — not the first one who applies.
Got a role to fill? Let's talk.
Tell us about the role, the team, the timeline. We'll come back with an honest view on the market — and whether we're the right agency for it.