Rory Colgan

Co-Founder

Berlin, Germany13 yrs 8 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

7 years of design recruitment experience.
Expertise in hiring for creative industries.
Founder of a recruitment company.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a design recruitment expert with a focus on creative industries.

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Skills

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CommunicationMusicHospitality IndustryWritingSocial MediaUX DesignPerm recruitmentRecruiting

About

I'm experienced hiring everything from Service Design & Research, to UX & Product Design, as well as Design Systems Specialists, Marketing Designers, Brand & Web Designers. I have spent 7 years doing this for for a range of clients from startups, to design agencies, to business consultancies & large global corporations. Check out my recommendations to learn more!

Experience

13 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 8 mos

Current Experience

Designjobs.world

Design Recruitment Partner

Jan 2026 – Present · 4 mos · Berlin, Germany

Stealth

Founder

Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Berlin, Germany · Hybrid

Building my own recruitment company.

Redsofa group

2 roles

Senior Product Design Recruiter

Jan 2021 – Sep 2024 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Berlin, Germany

We 🖤 talent.
Recruitment and (lots) more – for all the creative industries.
We’ve evolved to be (lots) more than just a recruitment consultancy. REDSOFA is a place that celebrates, supports, and inspires the creative industries’ finest talent, in every way imaginable.
From headhunting to brand partnerships, content creation to talent mapping – we are here to connect talent with opportunities

Senior Product Design Recruiter Berlin

Jan 2021 – Sep 2024 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Berlin, Germany

Ecom

2 roles

Senior Recruitment Consultant

Promoted

Apr 2018 – Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Established in a garage in Camden (London) in 1999, we were the first pure play digital recruiter in the UK and we’ve come a long way. Our people recruit across the full digital lifecycle, we’re large enough to service a global PLC but small enough to be agile and deliver to start-ups.
The network of our 70 consultants extends across the UK, New York, Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, the people we engage with are those that you want to work with.
We operate a specialist model of recruitment where each consultant goes to conferences, meetups and training for type of people they recruit. This means that our consultants are experts in their community and know how to question and accurately match the right person with a great employer in that space.
In all of our offices you’ll find an Anthony Burrill print “work hard and be nice to people”. They’re words we live by. It’s what we do…
We’re part of the InterQuest Group plc, who are a specialist recruitment business, focused on analytics, security, networks, ecommerce & digital web technologies.

Recruitment Consultant

Apr 2017 – Jan 2021 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Recruiting UX & Product Design in Berlin.

1 primrose st

General Manager

Oct 2012 – Jan 2016 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Manchester, United Kingdom

The venue hosted a broad spectrum of events under my management featuring artists such as
SURGEON, BEN UFO, JANE FITZ, MARSHAL JEFFERSON, MIDLAND, TELEPHONES, PALMS TRAXX, FETT BURGER, JON K, LUKE VIBERT, A GUY CALLED GERALD, BEAUTIFUL SWIMMERS, KRS ONE, WILLOW, + many others.

Catermatch solutions

Temp Chef

Sep 2012 – Apr 2017 · 4 yrs 7 mos · North west

Self-employed

Music Event Organiser and Promoter

Sep 2012 – Jan 2016 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Manchester, United Kingdom

I have organised and promoted music events ranging in size from 100 to 700 attendees, both independently, and as part of a team hosting events with artists such as DUSKY, JAQUES GREENE, TODD EDWARDS, NYTA, DARK SKY, MIKE SKINNER, SLIMZEE, + many others