Highflyers on screen 01 · The full site
The Highflyers website, from the clouds to the ground
Live site, full scroll 02 · The challenge
Recruitment sites sell urgency. Founders want certainty.
Most recruitment websites push speed and job boards, and leave out what a founder cares about: what actually happens between the first briefing and a signed offer. The brief was to make Highflyers’ website as structured and transparent as its search process.
Hero above the clouds 03 · Strategy
Lower the anxiety. Make the next step obvious.
A wrong executive hire is expensive for a growing company. So the site doesn’t create urgency. It shows real executives next to the companies that hired them, puts outcomes first, and puts every step of the process on the homepage.
Brand ideaClarity at every step
Vision and clients 04 · Art direction
A site that descends from searching to landing
One journey through the sky. It opens above the clouds, where a search begins, moves across open horizon as the process becomes clear, and lands on solid ground at the contact form. Interface elements are frosted glass over the landscape, so information always floats in the same calm world.
Global impact orbit 05 · Process
The process, with timings, on the homepage
Four steps, each with a real duration, as glass cards that stack on scroll. A founder can see what week one looks like before they get on a call.
- 01Kick-off briefing1 day
- 02Job scorecard and candidate presentation1–3 days
- 03Regular updates2–5 weeks
- 04Finalising the role1–5 weeks
Process 06 · Proof
Outcomes up front, then the founders who got them
85+Executives placed at global companies
35 daysAverage time-to-fill
Results 
Clarity at every step Showing the dashboard before the first call
On most sites a live reporting dashboard would be one bullet point. We gave it its own scene: glass panels rising out of the landscape, one for each thing a founder wants to see during a search.
Reporting dashboard “If recruiting were an Olympic sport, Highflyers would already have several gold medals.”
Laurent Martinot, CEO & Founder, sunrise “We were able to fill several of our most critical key positions with top-tier talent.”
Benedict Kurz, CEO & Co-Founder, Knowunity 
Founder testimonials 
Closing scene 
Get in touch 07 · Deliverables
What we delivered
Strategy
Positioning, page narrative, content hierarchy
Website
Information architecture, visual design, responsive layouts, contact flow
Art direction
Sky-to-ground scene system, glass UI language, imagery direction
Interaction
Executive carousel, stacking process cards, scroll-led transitions
Shortcuts
- WWork
- CContact
- TLight or dark
- 8Random featured project
- ?This sheet
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