A leading recruitment and executive search agency specialising in product management, product design & UX, digital marketing, eCommerce and commercial leadership recruitment across the UK and internationally.
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Intelligent People is a specialist recruitment agency and executive search firm with over 24 years’ experience helping businesses hire exceptional leadership talent.
We place experienced and executive level product management, UX / UI & product design, marketing, digital marketing, product marketing, eCommerce, and commercial leadership candidates within scale-up and enterprise B2B and B2C brands, in the UK and internationally.
Our services include retained executive search, permanent recruitment and contract/interim placements helping ambitious companies build high-performing teams at every stage of growth.
Helping ambitious brands build exceptional teams
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.
Our retained executive search consultants help businesses recruit high-impact product, marketing, eCommerce and commercial leaders in as secure exceptional executive talent in as little as three weeks.
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.
Businesses that trust us
Happy employers returning to us within a year
Stars from Google reviews
Quality candidates on our database
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.
EXCELLENT Based on 99 reviews Posted on Google Siobhan Kane9. September, 2025.Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. I worked with Marnie Torrance on a role she was recruiting. Throughout the process, she was very supportive and informative. Would highly recommend.Posted on Google Edward Jou20. May, 2025.Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Marnie has been helpful from the start of the application journey with detailed guidance. Definitely recommend.Posted on Google Abhijeet Patil22. April, 2025.Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Thankyou so much Intelligent people for guiding me throughout the recruitment process. Thanks alot Ayesha!Posted on Google Cydnie Smith3. April, 2025.Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Ayesha was excellent! She was extremely communicative, followed up with me and made me feel very confident and assured throughout the job search process. She was a great advocate even for things like pay and benefits. I definitely recommend Intelligent People for anyone looking and would recommend Ayesha again and again!Posted on Google Carmen Muntean9. February, 2025.Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. I had an excellent experience with Intelligent People. Marnie was everything you could wish from in a recruiter: helpful, supportive, dedicated, always keeping me updated about developments...10/10Posted on Google Vinod Pillai7. February, 2025.Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. These folks know what they are doing. I had the please of working with Doug. He is a stellar example of being the glue in the middle. He kept everything together till the very end and in general a great guy to talk to. Give him a bell :)Posted on Google Cyprian Brytan6. February, 2025.Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Recently it was the first time I got a job offer through an agency. Doug who was helping me in the process was incredibly helpful in the process. He was very professional and you can see his wealth of product market experience and understanding of job requirements. It was a very smooth process, well communicated, too. Would definitely recommend hitting up Intelligent People if you’re looking for a job!Posted on Google Charlotte Xiaou Wu5. February, 2025.Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Really great working with Marnie during a recent application process, she checked in with me and provided helpful feedback throughout. Would be lovely if all job hunt experiences were like this.