500 candidates to 5.
A job ad gets you 500 CVs to sift through.Brief us instead: we headhunt, call and screen, then hand you a shortlist of 5 you'd want to hire, within 5 working days.
Where we've placed hires
Try us free.
Send us a role or a job spec and we'll send 3 anonymised profiles from people we've already interviewed. No terms, no obligation.
Brief us. We headhunt.
Like what you see? Agree terms, give us 30 minutes on the role, and we headhunt the people who never see your job ad, starting from the 250 specialists we know.
5 candidates in 5 working days.
Screened, assessed and shortlisted, each with a written recruiter summary. Not 500 CVs to sift.
Interview and hire.
Your process, your call. We book every interview, run feedback calls and rejections, and negotiate the offer through to acceptance. You meet them, decide, and sort the contract.
One flat fee.
£12,000 per permanent hire, not a percentage of salary. Contractors on a flat monthly fee.
Case study
22 hires without the fuss.
Forge Master · We Are Warriors
No job ads. No 500-CV inbox.
Over 3.5 years we've made 22 hires for Lessmore, the studio behind Forge Master and We Are Warriors. 16 of them are still there a year on, and every one followed the same process: we qualify the role, speak to the talent in our directory and then the wider market, and deliver a batch of 5 candidates we believe in.
We then manage the interviews, scheduling, feedback, rejections, and the offer negotiation through to acceptance.
Every hire was made within a month, most in under 3 weeks, and some in as little as 6 days when the need was urgent.
“One of the best recruiters I've had the pleasure of working with. Andre is fast, efficient and focuses on the things that matter!”
Samer Al Dafai · Co-Founder, Lessmore
We handled
- Headhunting and first calls
- A written summary for every candidate
- Booking and scheduling every interview
- Feedback calls after each round
- Rejections, handled properly
- Offer negotiation through to acceptance
Lessmore did
- Review
- Interview
- Decide and that's it.
What studios say
Hiring teams who've done it this way.
“André has successfully sourced many candidates for different teams in our company. He's proven to take care of all requests reliably, whilst always treating his clients with respect and interest in understanding their products and specific employment needs. We can recommend working with André on a broad variety of roles for any studio.”
“Andre was our go-to recruiter at Skunkworks and sourced some incredible talent for our growing company. This guy seems to have The Midas Touch when it comes to identifying potential hires, but in reality, Andre understood our business and our needs extremely well and was able to execute to close some of the best hires I've made in my career. I'm sure that's just a normal Tuesday for him.”
The difference
Post a job ad, or brief us.
applicants from a job ad
- Most of them a no
- The best people never see it
- Weeks of sifting and first calls
- Or an agency at 20–30% of salary
candidates from a MakersForge brief
- Every one worth a call
- We approach the people who aren't looking
- Hours of your time, not weeks
- One flat fee: £12,000 per hire
The MakersForge Talent Directory
How we hit 5 working days.
Every person in our Talent Directory has spent 30 to 90 minutes on the phone with us, and most have a written recruiter summary we've already put in front of a hiring team. UA and growth, art, game design, Unity, product and data, across mobile games and apps.
So when you brief us, we're not starting from a blank page. We start with people we already know, and headhunt beyond them for the right fit.
Browse the Talent DirectoryWhat we cover
Who we hire for.
Growth & UA
- UA managers
- Growth managers
- Monetisation managers
- Performance leads
- ASO managers
Art & creative
- Game artists
- Marketing artists
- Motion designers
- Creative producers
Product & design
- Product managers
- Game designers
- Product designers
- UI/UX designers
Engineering
- iOS & Android engineers
- Unity engineers
- Backend engineers
Data
- Data analysts
- Analytics engineers
- Data scientists
Leadership
- Heads of Growth
- Heads of Engineering
- Fractional heads
Try us first
See 3 candidates before you sign anything.
Send us the role or a job spec and we'll send 3 anonymised profiles from people we've already interviewed, free. Like what you see? Agree terms and we run the full search on top: 5 more candidates in 5 working days.
Rather talk first? Book a 15-minute call
Questions studios usually ask.
If yours isn't here, drop us a line. We don't mind a long email.
Because you don't need 50, you need the right one. We do the screening and assessment up front, so every one of the 5 is someone you'd genuinely consider, each with a written summary of why.
Tell us why and we go again, sharper for it, at no extra cost. Our fee is tied to the placement, not the process, so you only ever pay when you hire.
Yes. Send us the role or a job spec and we'll send 3 anonymised profiles, free, with no obligation to interview. If you'd like to meet anyone, we agree terms and run the full search: 5 candidates in 5 working days.
A flat £12,000 per permanent hire, not 20–30% of salary. Contractors are a flat monthly fee per person, and you pay their rate directly with no markup. You only pay when someone is hired.
The whole team at mobile games and consumer app companies: UA and growth, art and creative, game design, Unity and mobile engineering, product and data. Permanent or contract.
Your shortlist of 5 lands within 5 working days of the brief, so a Wednesday brief means candidates by the following Wednesday. From there you run your own interview process; we handle the scheduling and the follow-ups so it keeps moving.