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We attract, ignite and connect the best marketers, designers and digital marketing people to the best brands and teams across New Zealand.
The Tonic Lab
Approach
We LOVE connecting AMAZING marketers, designers and digital MARKETING people to THE BEST brands, leaders & teams!

At Tonic Lab, we’re experts in Marketing, Digital and Design recruitment. We’re NZ owned and operated - our HQ is based in Wellington but we work on roles across the country. We pride ourselves on providing an exceptional customer experience to both our clients and our candidates.

The Tonic Exclusive
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The Non-Exclusive
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Contractors & Freelancers
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The Tonic Exclusive

Working withTonic Lab exclusively means we’re your one and only recruitment partner for a period of time. You’ll become a top priority for us to support and work collaboratively with. What’s included?

All of the non-exclusive functions:

  • A dedicated recruiter as your main point of contact at all times.
  • Job Ads posted to Tonic Lab Website & Social Channels.
  • Head hunting via LinkedIn and Referrals.
  • CV Screening of all applicants.
  • Tonic Lab first round interview to ensure only quality is referred to the client.
  • A shortlist of relevant candidates including a summary of why they’re a good match, their full CV and their salary expectations.
  • Support with organizing and scheduling interviews.
  • Feedback from candidates shared with you after each round, to ensure you are well prepared to secure your preferred candidates.
  • Support with offer negotiation and helping you to get a signed offer.
  • 2x reference checks.
  • Post placement check ins for yourself and the candidate.

Plus:

  • Job description and ad feedback and advice to ensure you attract and intrigue the highest calibre of talent.
  • Best practise interview guidance to ensure you get the most out of your short time in interviews.
  • A Tonic Lab consultant to join one interview with your team to help give another perspective on the candidates.
  • Technical skills assessment support to help test the candidates ability in a pressure cooker environment.
  • Employer branding review and recommendations to ensure you’re positioning your company as great place, that top talent wants to work at.
  • Job ads posted to Seek.
The Non-Exclusive

Working with us non-exclusively, means we’ll work alongside other recruiters and submit candidates as we identify well suited matches for your role.

What's included?

  • A dedicated recruiter as your main point of contact at all times.
  • Job Ads posted to Tonic Lab Website & Social Channels.
  • Head hunting via LinkedIn and Referrals.
  • CV Screening of all applicants.
  • Tonic Lab first round interview to ensure only quality is referred to the client.
  • A shortlist of relevant candidates including a summary of why they’re a good match, their full CV and their salary expectations.
  • Support with organizing and scheduling interviews.
  • Feedback from candidates shared with you after each round, to ensure you are well prepared to secure your preferred candidates.
  • Support with offer negotiation and helping you to get a signed offer.
  • 2x reference checks.
  • Post placement check ins for yourself and the candidate.

Clients will not pay any fees unless one of the candidates introduced by Tonic Lab is placed into a role. Contact us for more information.

Contractors & Freelancers

We also offer contractors and freelancers across Marketing, Communications, Digital and Design.

What's included?

  • Access to our high calibre network of marketing, digital and design contractors.
  • A dedicated recruiter as your main point of contact at all times.
  • Fast turn around of immediately available contractors to help you fill expertise gaps quickly.
  • Short list of pre-screened candidates sent through with CVs and hourly rates.
  • Support with organizing and scheduling interviews.
  • Easy monthly invoicing.
Contractors & Freelancers

We also offer contractors and freelancers across Marketing, Communications, Digital and Design.

What's included?

  • Access to our high calibre network of marketing, digital and design contractors.
  • A dedicated recruiter as your main point of contact at all times.
  • Fast turn around of immediately available contractors to help you fill expertise gaps quickly.
  • Short list of pre-screened candidates sent through with CVs and hourly rates.
  • Support with organizing and scheduling interviews.
  • Easy monthly invoicing.
The tonic Exclusive

Working with Tonic Lab exclusively means we’re your one and only recruitment partner for a period of time. You’ll become a top priority for us to support and work collaboratively with. What’s included?

All of the non-exclusive functions listed below plus:

  • Job description and ad feedback and advice to ensure you attract and intrigue the highest calibre of talent.
  • Best practise interview guidance to ensure you get the most out of your short time in interviews.
  • A Tonic Lab consultant to join one interview with your team to help give another perspective on the candidates.
  • Technical skills assessment support to help test the candidates ability in a pressure cooker environment.
  • Employer branding review and recommendations to ensure you’re positioning your company as great place, that top talent wants to work at.
  • Job ads posted to Seek.
The tonic Exclusive

Working with Tonic Lab exclusively means we’re your one and only recruitment partner for a period of time. You’ll become a top priority for us to support and work collaboratively with. What’s included?

All of the non-exclusive functions listed below plus:

  • Job description and ad feedback and advice to ensure you attract and intrigue the highest calibre of talent.
  • Best practise interview guidance to ensure you get the most out of your short time in interviews.
  • A Tonic Lab consultant to join one interview with your team to help give another perspective on the candidates.
  • Technical skills assessment support to help test the candidates ability in a pressure cooker environment.
  • Employer branding review and recommendations to ensure you’re positioning your company as great place, that top talent wants to work at.
  • Job ads posted to Seek.
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Tonic Lab was recommended to us by several people to help us hire a marketing lead. I had great confidence in Lisa from the very beginning based on the questions she asked in order to understand the role, which were insightful and really helped me identify things I had not thought about. Lisa showed great technical knowledge, was direct and proactive throughout and everything was done in a professional and personable way. My team especially enjoyed dealing with Lisa throughout the process. I would happily recommend them to anyone looking for marketing recruitment support.

Nick Churchouse, GM People & Practice, Creative HQ
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"Tonic Lab reached out to us here at Hatch and were great with communications making the process efficient and easy. We have worked with recruiters that have missed the mark but Tonic Lab was great at delivering on the understanding of the technical marketing skills for the role. There was nothing Tonic Lab could have done better and I would recommend anyone looking for assistance with marketing to work with Tonic Lab."

Steph Clark, Head of Marketing, Hatch Invest
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“I would absolutely recommend Tonic Lab. The team are incredibly prepared with their diverse skill set and wide network – they saw an opportunity and proactively approached me with a proposed plan which was appreciated. The team are personable and were great throughout the entire candidate process and had the right touch – kept in contact, however didn’t over communicate. Working with Tonic Lab was great for us and I would definitely work with them again.”

Jessica Wallace, Marketing Communications Manager, The Co-Operative Bank
Tonic Lab Network
The people in our network have expertise at all levels across the following areas:
Chief Marketing Officers
Marketing Directors
Marketing Managers
Marketing Executives
Brand Managers
Marketing Graduates
Campaign Managers
Digital Marketers
SEO Specialists
Paid Search Specialists
Social Media Managers
Email Marketing Specialists
Digital Strategists
E-Commerce Managers
Graphic Designers
Content Creators
Creative Managers
UX & UI Designers
Web Designers
Photographers & Videographers
Communication Managers
Copywriters
Stakeholder Engagement Leads
Internal Communication Managers
PR Specialists & Managers
Change Specialists
Creative Directors
Client Service Managers
Business Directors
Strategic Directors
Producers
Project Managers
Why Our
Clients
Love Us
We provide the best experience for both clients and candidates:
We’re a brand founded by marketers

We started Tonic Lab based on our frustrations at battling to find the best people for our teams. As marketers, in the past we had a hard time finding great people and we wanted to help solve this by providing a genuine brand that actually has technical knowledge to connect people.

We are truly specialiSed in Marketing, Digital & Design

We truly understand the roles we recruit for – we’ve either worked in them ourselves or have hired them in the past for our own teams. We know the difference between a digital marketer who’s great at managing an agency versus one that knows how to get results on the tools!

We help NEW ZEALAND companies to grow

We genuinely care about helping not only connect great people to great brands and teams but to help companies figure our their roadmaps and who they actually need.

We take a proactive approach

we’re constantly growing our talent network through headhunting, growing our social channels, networking and referrals from our other candidates. Lots of our best candidates aren’t actively looking for roles, but want us to shoulder tap them when exciting opportunities come up.

We're in it for the long haul

We keep in touch post placement – we’re dedicated to building long term relationships with our clients and candidates. We’ll check in with you both a few months after the start date to make sure everything is going smoothly. If things aren’t, we give replacement peace of mind – if in the first 90 days, things don’t quite work out between you and your new hire, we’ll provide a replacement at no extra cost to you.

We offer flex payment terms

We offer flex payment terms – we know that although clients see lots of value in how we help them, paying a one off fee can be a bit of a pain, so if you need to, we offer the option to spread your invoices over a few months to help with cashflow.

We provide the best experience for clients and Candidates

We’re marketers first, so we are genuinely focused on providing a great customer experience for both our clients and our candidates. That means not only connecting great people to great leaders but providing advice and expertise, genuinely caring about the matches we make and doing what we say we will do.

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Testimonials
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"We felt like we were in the hands of experts and Tonic Lab really delivered as our recruitment partner. We had complete trust in the team and their approach. Their communication made sure that we always knew what was going on, without it being intrusive. The process felt very collaborative, we brought our strengths to the table and they brought theirs in terms of technical insights for the role. We felt valued and prioritised, and ultimately we received the outcome that we wanted. I highly recommend Tonic Lab."

Cameron Madgwick, CEO, Gibson Sheat
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“We had a great experience working with Tonic Lab. At the time, we had a lot going on in our business and what really helped is that they fully understood the technical aspects role from the very beginning. They got the right candidate in front of us very early on and our questions were always taken on board and answered with consideration. They had the perfect amount of persistence, actively followed things up, looked after the candidate, and were never pushy. I will definitely work with Tonic Lab again and if anyone is recruiting for a marketing or design role I would definitely recommend working with them”

Kate Kennedy, Head of People
A speech marks icon, in Tonic Lab orange.

"Tonic Lab reached out to us here at Hatch and were great with communications making the process efficient and easy. We have worked with recruiters that have missed the mark but Tonic Lab was great at delivering on the understanding of the technical marketing skills for the role. There was nothing Tonic Lab could have done better and I would recommend anyone looking for assistance with marketing to work with Tonic Lab."

Steph Clark, Head of Marketing, Hatch Invest
A speech marks icon, in Tonic Lab orange.

Tonic Lab was recommended to us by several people to help us hire a marketing lead. I had great confidence in Lisa from the very beginning based on the questions she asked in order to understand the role, which were insightful and really helped me identify things I had not thought about. Lisa showed great technical knowledge, was direct and proactive throughout and everything was done in a professional and personable way. My team especially enjoyed dealing with Lisa throughout the process. I would happily recommend them to anyone looking for marketing recruitment support.

Nick Churchouse, GM People & Practice, Creative HQ
A speech marks icon, in Tonic Lab orange.

Tonic Lab were knowledgeable, personable, and valuable throughout the process of hiring our new Marketing Manager. They assisted with the technical aspects of the role and knew exactly what questions to ask. The arts are very unique compared to other industries and Tonic Lab understood our specific needs. Communication was timely, efficient, and effective. I was very impressed with the response times and I would recommend Tonic Lab to anyone. They have really solid marketing expertise and understood exactly what we needed.

Drew James, Chief Executive, Creative Capital Arts Trust
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“I would absolutely recommend Tonic Lab. The team are incredibly prepared with their diverse skill set and wide network – they saw an opportunity and proactively approached me with a proposed plan which was appreciated. The team are personable and were great throughout the entire candidate process and had the right touch – kept in contact, however didn’t over communicate. Working with Tonic Lab was great for us and I would definitely work with them again.”

Jessica Wallace, Marketing Communications Manager, The Co-Operative Bank
A speech marks icon, in Tonic Lab orange.

"We had a great experience working with Tonic Lab, they really understood the technical expertise of the type of designer we needed and the person we hired through them was perfectly matched and able to hit the ground running. They were outstanding with communication, which made the process really efficient and were always professional and friendly during the process. I’d happily recommend them to anyone looking to find great new people for their team"

Tania Thomas, Brand Channel Manager, Primary ITO
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