Aquent

Aquent is a creative staffing company that places talent in marketing, creative and design roles. It says it has more than 40 years of experience. It offers temporary staffing, contract to hire, permanent recruitment and an employer of record service, and it uses proprietary recruitment technology, including Milton, an AI portfolio search engine for creative hiring.

The roles it fills are grouped into creative, digital accessibility, experience design, gaming, marketing, tech, and content and writing. Examples include creative directors, UX researchers, front-end developers, social media managers and copywriters. Clients it names include Google, NASA, Sanofi, Atlassian and Canadian Tire. It says over 400 of its talent have been placed in 15 Google divisions, and it has filled roles for Sanofi in the U.S. and France.

Aquent is led by founder and CEO John H. Chuang, with Steve Kapner and Mia Wenjen named as co-founders. It belongs to a group of brands that also includes Skill, Aquent Studios, Aquent Scout and Aquent RoboHead.