Intelligent People

A specialist
recruitment agency

We specialise in product management, product design & UX, marketing, eCommerce and commercial leadership recruitment.

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Who are
Intelligent People?

We’re a boutique recruitment agency, with over 20 years’ specialist knowledge of the market. We place experienced and executive level product management, UX / UI & product design, marketing, digital marketing, eCommerce, and commercial leadership candidates within scale-up and enterprise B2B and B2C brands, in the UK and Internationally. We specialise in retained Executive search, permanent contingency recruitment, and contract/interim placements.

Why we’re different

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How we help employers

Our expert consultants and researchers manage recruitment projects from end-to-end. For our corporate and scale-up clients, this means advising on employer branding, candidate profiles, salary benchmarking, search strategy, engagement strategy, candidate assessment, selection process and everything to do with engaging interims.

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Case study:
Marketing recruitment executive

‘Intelligent People did a brilliant executive search, providing a quality list of very engaged candidates to us extremely quickly. The quality of the shortlist we received is testament to the expertise and service offering within Intelligent People.

We couldn’t be happier with Intelligent People as our executive search recruitment partner for this role.‘

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Employer: Cat at Milk & More

Case study: Chief Commercial Officer

‘I would absolutely recommend Intelligent People to other businesses. In fact, I’ve already told several people about them when they needed help with recruiting at various levels. If I ever need assistance with finding B2C executives or other important commercial leadership roles, I will happily turn to their recruitment agency again.’

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Case study: Product Director recruitment

‘I would recommend and use their recruitment service again based on the facts that they put together a shortlist including great calibre Product Director candidates, they understood our business from the get-go, and they were extremely responsive to us. Working at pace is very important to us as a business and I was impressed by Intelligent People’s attitude, even taking out of hours calls in order to keep things moving.‘

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How we help candidates

We pride ourselves on being a different kind of agency, always taking a collaborative and ethical approach to recruitment. Since 2002, we’ve obsessed about the candidate experience and strive to build strong and lasting relationships with everyone we meet. Our brand mission is simple – to connect real talent with high profile brands.

We work hard to secure our candidates placements within roles where they can achieve their full potential. We do that by understating the vision of our candidates and finding a compatible business culture and a role in which they can thrive.

Help for candidates

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Product mentorship scheme

We actively support groups that celebrate the product management world such as Women in Product, and we are genuinely passionate about inspiring and connecting people together in this community.

We have launched a product management mentorship scheme that aims to provide a place where product people of all levels can engage, network, access new resources and learn new skills.

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How to transition from CPO to CEO

To understand this topic, we invited 3 to share insights and experience on how a CPO can prepare themselves for the next step in their career. 

 

Section 1: Broadening the Lens: Expanding focus beyond product to business leadership.

 

Section 2: From Execution to Vision: Defining and driving the company’s long-term strategy.

 

Section 3: Learning & Development: Essential hard skills for a CPO to become CEO. 

How To Transition From Cpo To Ce
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How to hire in 2025

Do you need to hire a Chief Product Officer or Chief Marketing Officer in 2025? We have put together guides to help you hire for these positions including:

– What is a CPO / CMO?

– What are the salary expectations?

– When may a CPO / CMO be useful?

– What interview questions can I use?

– What are the best interview formats to use?

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We support Tree-Nation

As a business, we pledge to support Tree-Nation with their mission to reforest the world, planting trees to fight Climate Change.

For every candidate placement that we make, Intelligent People pledge to plant 20 trees to help:

  • protect biodiversity
  • restore forests
  • create jobs
  • support local communities

By working with us as a recruitment agency, you can build high-performance teams for your business and contribute towards Climate Change, reforestation efforts and building a more sustainable future – all at the same time.

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We're respected
for a reason

Doug Slate

I’ve had a long history with Doug at Intelligent People, we’ve been working together since 2010. The main reason for this long-standing relationship is that I trust Doug to get the results that I need. It’s nice that we get on personally, but ultimately, I go to Doug because he makes the recruitment process work for me. He quickly identifies what I need, understands what skills are needed to fill the gap, and the type of person that is likely to fit into my teams. Read the full case study.

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