Most recruiters fill roles. We design marketing teams — then hire them. Over twenty years of international marketing leadership means we know which roles a business actually needs at each stage of growth, and which are quietly over-hired.
Most first marketing hires are too senior, too junior, or simply the wrong role — because the structure was never designed. The salary is committed before the thinking is done.
A generic recruiter optimises for filling the role you described — not for questioning whether it is the right role. You get candidates, not judgement.
Marketing roles are being redefined around AI — AI-Native Marketing Lead, Marketing Operations plus AI. Traditional recruiters do not yet understand these briefs. We wrote them.
One view of the whole picture — pipeline, fit, and judgement in the same room. The structure designed, then the right people in the right seats.
Bizkook Team Building runs in two modes. A Team Architecture Project designs the right marketing structure before you hire; a Search Retainer then recruits the roles. They combine — or run separately.
Design the team before you hire anyone.
A 3-to-5-week engagement.
DeliverablePricing scales: $8,000 (2-3 roles), $15,000 (4-7), $25,000 (8+ or multi-market).
Start with Team ArchitectureThe right hire, sourced, screened, and matched.
A retained search.
What it coversFee structured 33% on engagement, 33% on shortlist, 34% on start. Clients who complete a Team Architecture pay a reduced 15% search fee.
Brief a searchEvery other recruiter is selling a candidate database. Bizkook is selling over twenty years of building, leading, and operating marketing teams across many industries. That experience is what tells you which role to hire first, what it should cost, and which hire you do not need at all.
We design the right marketing and digital team for your stage, your budget, and the outcomes you need — leadership where judgement matters, specialist capability where craft matters, and supporting or AI-augmented roles where leverage matters. Then we recruit the full team, not just the top of it.
Senior where judgement decides outcomes, specialist where craft decides quality, supporting or junior where capacity unlocks the rest. The team mix is matched to where the business is now — and where it is going next.
Teams designed with modern workflows and AI tools in mind, so a sharper, smaller team can outperform a larger conventional one. Less overhead, more output for every salary on the line.
Each hire fits the structure that comes next, so the team grows in steps that compound — not in waves that need to be redone every twelve months.
Every search is retained, every final candidate is reference-checked, and every placement carries a written 90-day replacement guarantee.
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Book a team-building conversation and we will tell you which role to hire first — and whether you need a design engagement before any search at all.
