Scaling Product, Tech and Design Teams Across UK Media
The Challenge
DMGT’s digital products were evolving fast and the business needed help hiring across several specialist areas at once. Product, design, engineering, tech leadership, transformation. The challenge wasn’t just volume. Each hire had to be someone who could thrive in a fast-paced product environment, manage senior stakeholders, and slot into the culture without dropping the pace. And in a hiring market this competitive, the people they wanted weren’t sitting on job boards.
The Fix
We got in early with hiring managers and leadership across the business to understand the team structures, the product strategy, the tech environment, and the kind of people likely to do well there. Less transactional supplier, more proper hiring partner. From there we ran a steady drumbeat of work: market benchmarking, structured shortlists, engaging passive talent who weren’t actively looking, and prepping candidates properly so nothing got lost in translation. The scope ran the full gamut, from individual senior hires to broader team builds across product management, product design, software engineering, technology leadership, and digital transformation.
The Result
Multiple hires placed across product, tech, design, and digital leadership. Bottlenecks cleared, key teams strengthened, and a recruitment process that actually flowed. What started as one set of briefs has turned into a long-running partnership across several parts of the business.
DMGT’s digital products were evolving fast and the business needed help hiring across several specialist areas at once. Product, design, engineering, tech leadership, transformation. The challenge wasn’t just volume. Each hire had to be someone who could thrive in a fast-paced product environment, manage senior stakeholders, and slot into the culture without dropping the pace. And in a hiring market this competitive, the people they wanted weren’t sitting on job boards.
The Fix
We got in early with hiring managers and leadership across the business to understand the team structures, the product strategy, the tech environment, and the kind of people likely to do well there. Less transactional supplier, more proper hiring partner. From there we ran a steady drumbeat of work: market benchmarking, structured shortlists, engaging passive talent who weren’t actively looking, and prepping candidates properly so nothing got lost in translation. The scope ran the full gamut, from individual senior hires to broader team builds across product management, product design, software engineering, technology leadership, and digital transformation.
The Result
Multiple hires placed across product, tech, design, and digital leadership. Bottlenecks cleared, key teams strengthened, and a recruitment process that actually flowed. What started as one set of briefs has turned into a long-running partnership across several parts of the business.
