Ninja Marketing Solution runs permanent direct-hire searches for in-house marketing teams, marketing agencies and creative departments across the United States. Stealth sourcing of the passive market, precision filtering against your stack, and speed to a vetted shortlist.
Most agencies treat a marketing brief like a job-board copy-paste. We treat it like a campaign brief - read carefully, segmented against the candidate's actual portfolio, and filtered before introduction.
The strongest marketers rarely apply through a job board. We work peer-employer alumni, agency-network referrals and creative-community channels. Targeted, named, individualised outreach. Public posting only when you specifically ask.
Portfolio review by a consultant who can read the work, references on past creative leads, ad-platform certification verification (Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn), and metrics-attribution sanity checks. Every shortlist scored in writing.
One named consultant runs the search end to end - no researcher hand-offs, no triage queue. Most marketing roles close in two weeks from brief to offer. We move fast because we work focused.
Outside this list, ask. The strike-team model travels across the marketing-and-creative discipline set.
Marketing coordinators, marketing assistants and event coordinators across B2B SaaS, consumer brands, agencies and professional services.
Content marketers, copywriters, blog and SEO content writers, technical writers and content strategists. Portfolio reviewed by a working writer.
Paid search managers, paid social specialists, programmatic buyers and performance marketers. Google Ads, Meta Ads and LinkedIn Ads certified.
Brand managers, associate brand managers and brand strategists for consumer brands and B2B challenger brands. Brand-architecture experience matched.
Social media managers, content creators, community managers and social-strategy leads. Platform-specific experience matched (TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn).
Senior designers, art directors, brand designers, UX/UI designers and motion designers. Portfolio review by a working creative consultant.
Technical SEOs, content-led SEO managers, site-migration specialists and SEO directors. Search Console, Ahrefs and SEMrush proficiency verified.
Marketing ops managers, marketing technologists and revenue ops leads. HubSpot, Marketo, Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Pardot expertise.
Email marketing managers, lifecycle marketers and CRM strategists. Klaviyo, Iterable, Braze, HubSpot and Salesforce Marketing Cloud experienced.
Heads of marketing, marketing directors, VPs of marketing and CMOs. Direct-hire searches for in-house marketing leadership at brands and agencies.
Every search runs the same four-move sequence. Each move has a fixed deliverable and a published timeline.
One call to lock the role, the comp band, the team shape, the working model and the must-have tooling/platform certifications. We come prepared.
Targeted, named outreach to passive-market candidates. Peer-employer alumni, agency-network referrals and creative-community channels. We approach individually.
Portfolio review by a consultant who can read the work, references on past creative leads, ad-platform certification verification, and metrics-attribution sanity checks.
Offer coordination, counter-offer management, start-date logistics, onboarding handoff and a 90-day replacement guarantee from the start date.
Marketing hiring has a specific failure mode. The role gets posted publicly, the inbox fills up, the screening filters keyword-match on tools rather than judgement, and the shortlist that lands on the hiring manager's desk is full of people who can list HubSpot but cannot run a campaign. Ninja flips the order. We do not post the role publicly unless you specifically ask. We work the passive market, we vet against actual portfolios, and we hand you three to five candidates who can do the work.
The result is a strike-team model. Stealth sourcing, precision vetting, speed of close. Most marketing roles close in two weeks from brief to offer. The reason is not that we cut corners; the reason is that we run focused. One named consultant per search, no researcher behind the curtain, no triage queue.
Heads of marketing, VPs of marketing, CMOs, marketing agency owners and creative department leads at US brands and agencies. Companies that need marketers who can ship campaigns in week one, not month three.
Pure executive search above CMO, freelance gig placement, and pure technology recruitment. The Ninja desk is built for direct-hire searches across marketing, creative and growth roles - which is what we run, every time.