Talent Acquisition Lead, art-K

Salary: £35,000 - 45,000 per annum (depending on experience)

Location:

In-person role with regular travel to art-K studios.

Possible base locations include:

• Beckenham

• Greenwich

• Central Office

Contract: Full Time

Start Date: end of September – beginning of October

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 skillbased 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, familyowned brand, we deeply value every team member.

Benefits

• 24/7 access to mental health support through BUPA.

• Wellbeing benefits platform through Heka.

• Blue Light Card benefits.

• Vitality health insurance (following probation).

• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay (following one year of continuous service).

• Additional annual leave linked to length of service, starting after one year.

• 28 days annual leave.

• Company-funded external training after two years of service.

• Death in Service insurance (3x annual salary).

• NEST pension scheme.

How to Apply

Please submit your CV.

No cover letter needed. Instead, we'd love to hear a little more about you through three short questions:

• Who did you enjoy working with?

• Who did you look up to in your last job and why?

• What are you passionate about?

art-K is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All appointments are subject to safer recruitment checks.