Contract Senior Recruiter

Contract Senior Recruiter, Digital Media (Commercial & Editorial)

About the Daily Mail

DailyMail is one of the world’s largest and most influential news publishers, reaching over a billion people globally each month. Known for its agenda-setting exclusives, breaking news, and highly engaging digital storytelling, DailyMail operates a fast-paced, 24/7 newsroom delivering content across web, app, and social platforms.

Our U.S. business remains a key driver of that growth, with teams spanning editorial, commercial, audience, and operations functions across a rapidly evolving media landscape. This role will play an important part in supporting and scaling the talent behind that continued expansion.

Position Summary

Are you client-focused, self-motivated, and able to establish strong working relationships across all levels of an organization? We are seeking a dynamic Contract Senior Recruiter to lead full life-cycle recruitment across both Editorial and Commercial teams within a fast-paced digital media environment.

This recruiter will serve as a strategic talent acquisition partner supporting hiring across Editorial, Sales, Ad Operations, Audience Development, Creative, and additional corporate business functions. The ideal candidate is a recruiting generalist with strong digital media and newsroom experience who can develop and execute effective talent acquisition strategies while managing multiple searches in a high-growth, deadline-driven organization.

This engagement is anticipated to last approximately 3-6 months, with the potential for extension based on business needs.

What You’ll Do

• Lead full-cycle recruitment across Editorial and Commercial organizations, including intake meetings, sourcing, interviewing, offer negotiation, and onboarding coordination


• Strategically recruit for roles across:




• Editorial & Content


• Sales & Brand Partnerships


• Audience Development


• Revenue Operations & Ad Operations


• Corporate Business functions




• Leverage multi-channel sourcing strategies to develop diverse pipelines of candidates through networking, referrals, job postings, LinkedIn Recruiter, social media, and direct outreach


• Collaborate closely with hiring managers, leadership teams, and HR partners to understand hiring needs, align on recruiting strategies, and manage expectations throughout the hiring process


• Create and execute effective, scalable recruiting processes that ensure a positive and seamless candidate experience


• Partner with interview teams and hiring leaders on recruiting best practices, interview calibration, talent assessment, and pipeline development


• Develop timely and cost-effective staffing strategies to attract highly qualified and diverse talent


• Act as a brand ambassador, effectively representing the organization and creating excitement among prospective candidates


• Serve as a trusted advisor and career coach to candidates throughout the recruitment process


• Maintain accurate candidate tracking, reporting, and recruiting activity within the ATS


• Provide market insights related to talent trends, compensation benchmarks, and hiring competitiveness within digital media and publishing

 Qualifications

• 4-6+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience within digital media, publishing, newsroom or related industries


• Proven experience recruiting across both Editorial and Commercial functions


• Deep experience supporting Editorial organizations and recruiting for newsroom, content, publishing, editorial operations, and creative talent within digital media or publishing environments


• Strong understanding of digital media business models, newsroom structures, and content organizations


• Experience recruiting for Editorial, Sales, Ad Operations, Revenue Operations, Creative, and related Corporate functions


• Background recruiting within publishing or news media environments


• Experience balancing both creative/editorial and corporate hiring


• Experience developing and promoting employer branding initiatives, including partnering with stakeholders to articulate the employee value proposition (EVP), supporting talent marketing strategies, and enhancing the candidate experience to attract and engage top talent.


• Demonstrated understanding of talent branding principles and the ability to effectively represent an organization's culture, values, and mission throughout the recruitment process.


• Proven ability to serve as a brand ambassador, leveraging employer branding and talent attraction strategies to build diverse, high-quality candidate pipelines.


• Demonstrated success recruiting top-tier talent using diverse and creative sourcing methods


• Experience operating in high-volume, fast-paced recruiting environments


• High level of initiative and autonomy with the ability to work independently in a contract capacity


• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to build trusted relationships across all levels of the organization


• Excellent communication, interpersonal, sourcing, and interviewing skills


• Collaborative team player with strong organizational and project management capabilities


• Experience using ATS platforms and recruiting technologies including LinkedIn Recruiter and Greenhouse

 Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting national or global media organizations


• Familiarity with compensation trends and competitive talent landscapes within digital media

Engagement Details

• Contract engagement (3-6 months)


• Hourly rate: $70-$100 per hour, commensurate with experience


• Flexible, remote work environment with occasional in-office presence required for meetings with hiring managers, stakeholder collaboration, and other business needs as necessary.


• Opportunity for extension based on business needs

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is equal parts recruiter, talent strategist, and relationship builder, someone who understands the pace, complexity, and evolving landscape of digital media organizations. This individual can seamlessly partner with both business-side and editorial stakeholders while driving an efficient, high-quality recruiting process from start to finish.

Our Commitment

We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (which includes color, nationality and ethnic or national origins), religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.