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title: 'Creative Recruiter at Nen Creative'
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# Creative Recruiter at Nen Creative

- **Company:** Nen Creative
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nen-creative/7898647b-e7e2-4ef5-b0ee-8faeb4d64d55

## Job description

Location Must be based in the United States.

## About Nen Creative

Nen Creative partners with tech startups to launch bold ideas into the world, creating the brands and stories that fuel their growth. Since 2022, we've partnered with some of the world's top founders and institutions, including Amazon, Andreessen Horowitz, Cursor, Mercor, Listen Labs, Tech Week, Cartesia, and many more. We're growing quickly and looking for ambitious people who want to help build the company alongside us.

## About the Role

Nen Creative is looking for a Creative Recruiter to help us identify, source, and screen top talent — with a clear priority on creative roles across video production, motion, design, and creative operations. This role is ideal for someone with strong taste who understands creative work deeply and knows how to identify high-potential talent beyond just resumes. You'll work closely with our leadership and production team to help scale the company by building a stronger hiring pipeline across a range of disciplines — creative first, but ultimately everything from production to operations to client leadership.

## What You'll Do

- Source and identify creative talent across production, animations, cinematography, editing, design, and other creative roles
- Review portfolios, reels, resumes, and past work to help identify strong candidates
- Conduct initial outreach, screenings, and introductory interviews
- Help organize and improve our hiring process, candidate pipeline, and recruiting systems
- Work closely with leadership to understand hiring needs, skill gaps, and role requirements
- Coordinate interviews, feedback, and candidate communication
- Help proactively build relationships with high-quality creative talent before hiring needs become urgent
- Assist with writing and refining job postings and recruiting materials
- Support both freelance/contract and full-time hiring efforts

## What We're Looking For

- Strong understanding of creative industries, including video production, motion design, branding, or digital design
- Strong creative judgment and ability to evaluate portfolios and reels
- Comfortable speaking with creative talent and assessing fit beyond technical skill alone
- Experience recruiting for creative, agency, startup, or production environments preferred
- Self-directed and able to operate independently
- Strong proficiency in utilizing tools & AI to improve workflows
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving, evolving environment
- Strong attention to detail and follow-through

## Why Join Us

- Work directly with the partners on ambitious, high-impact projects across some of the most interesting companies in tech
- Own hiring end-to-end, with real influence over who joins and how the team grows
- Help shape the brands, narratives, and stories of the next generation of tech companies
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k), PTO, and company holidays

## About Nen Creative

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: A design studio that partners with early-stage tech companies to build brands, products, and stories through strategy, design, and video.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Jason Zhu (Co-Founder, Partner) and Michael Zhu (Managing Partner, Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Design services (brand identity, product design, video production) for technology startups
- **Target customers**: B2B – early-stage startups, venture capital firms, and tech companies
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “We build brands, products, and stories that move bold ideas forward.” (About page)

## Products & Services
For each major offering:
- **Brand Identity & Strategy**: Logo design, brand guidelines, deck design, collateral, iconography, art direction, illustration.
- **Website Design & Development**: Full web design and development (likely using Webflow), interactive prototypes, design systems.
- **Product (UI/UX) Design**: User research, UX architecture, interface design, interactive prototyping for digital products.
- **Video Production**: Launch videos, testimonial videos, scripted content, product videos, animation, motion design, cinematography.
- **Pitch Deck Design**: Specialized decks for fundraising, built to help startups tell their story to investors.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Total headcount of 16 employees (as of mid-2024) with 68.8% year-over-year growth (+11 people)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Clients include Pear VC, Andreessen Horowitz, LA-Tech Week, Wildr, Mantis VC (from LinkedIn)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 32 active job postings (monthly job postings up +88.2%, quarterly up +113.3%)
  - LinkedIn followers: 3,724 (+162.1% year-over-year)
  - Monthly website traffic: 6,381 visits (+64.0% monthly growth)
  - Expanding presence: New York City headquarters with job postings in San Francisco and Jersey City

## Competitive Advantages
- **Full-service capability**: Offers brand, product, and video under one roof – a rare combination for a small studio.
- **Startup empathy**: Founders and team have backgrounds in building and scaling products, so they understand the pace and constraints of early-stage companies.
- **Speed and precision**: Described as “disciplined, fast, and precise” – moving like a startup while crafting like a studio.
- **Strong client roster**: Already working with top-tier VC firms and high-growth startups, signaling trust and quality.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scaling the team across multiple disciplines (design, motion, production, account management, strategy) to meet growing demand from tech clients.
- **Direction for growth**: Likely expanding into new geographies (San Francisco, Jersey City) and deepening capabilities in video and motion design.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Creative, startup-like environment that values discipline and craft. The studio’s name is inspired by *Hunter × Hunter*, reflecting a focus on mastery and energy. The team is young and growing fast.
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Many roles are listed as “In-Office or Remote” – offering flexibility. The company has offices in New York City, San Francisco, and Jersey City (Built In listings).
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**: 
  - Opportunity to work on high-impact projects for top VC-backed startups.  
  - Roles span design, motion, production, strategy, and operations – variety of creative paths.  
  - Active hiring with 32 open positions, indicating strong growth and career advancement opportunities.

## Sources
1. [nencreative.com (Homepage)](https://www.nencreative.com/)
2. [nencreative.com/about](https://www.nencreative.com/about)
3. [LinkedIn - Nen Creative](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nencreative)
4. [Built In - Nen Creative Jobs](https://builtin.com/company/nen-creative/jobs)

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