Modernizing Recruitment
Humanizing Talent
Revitalizing Organizations
PEONY Talent is a boutique talent recruitment and advisory firm servicing the media, advertising, and adtech industries. PEONY’s mission is to modernize recruitment, humanize talent, and revitalize organizations through expert search and assessment process anchored in design thinking, human values, and cross-functional competencies.
Proudly independent and privately owned, PEONY provides an un-biased high-touch approach to talent recruitment for innovators. All talent searches and advisory work are highly confidential, for both candidates and clients. We do not advertise the roles or push resumes around.
We are:
Graceful Truth-tellers
Creative Investigators
Passionate Experts
Unbiased Advisors
Lifelong Students
MEDIA COVERAGE
The Drum:
"Exceptional Women Out West" Featuring Mandana Mellano
Ad Age:
Creative Burnout - Strategies by Mandana Mellano
3% Conference:
Advertising, Romanticizing the Past vs. The Future By Mandana Mellano
Daily Ad Brief:
"Digital Champions" Featuring Mandana Mellano of PEONY Talent
Others:
USC, 30-Min CMO, Voyage LA, Advertising Week B2B Forum, & Double Zebra
Mandana Mellano
FOUNDER | PRESIDENT
A modern creative marketer, Mandana has held leadership positions at some of the most iconic agencies in the world: Ogilvy, Fallon, Group M, and Kastner & Partners. She has built and led PEONY Talent to become the partner of choice for famous ad agencies, global adtech companies, and bold brands.
Judging awards, winning awards, building teams, re-structuring teams, and helping brands of all sizes grow, Mandana believes that recruiting and retaining the right talent is the only differentiator between the winning companies and, well,… the non-winning companies. She is inspired by a human-centered approach to defining roles and employing a more rigorous assessment of competencies that shape modern marketing. Mandana and her team of experts are dedicated to help her clients gain a competitive edge through unmatched expertise and connections to best-in-class talent.
A sought-after speaker, Mandana has spoken at the 3% Conference, The One Club for Creativity, OWN IT Summit, VMA Media, Digiday, Media Post, and several other events and podcasts.
You can learn more about Mandana on LinkedIn or drop her a line below.
Services
We work with a limited selection of clients at a time in order to dedicate the right amount of effort to each search. This means that we probably say “No” more than we say “Yes.” But it also means that we strive for excellence in what we take on and are focused on finding you the right candidate vs. a candidate.
Talent Recruitment
Specializing in Media, Advertising, Marketing, Technology and Entertainment, we gain a deep understanding of your business values and objectives in order to define and design the right candidate strategies to help you win.
Because the companies with the best people win.
Organizational Advisory
We help you to strategize on what type of talent your organization needs in order to achieve its vision. Whether assessing existing framework or helping you design a new one, our ultimate goal is to drive organizational growth and positive performance via an unbiased expert perspective.
Because your success depends on how well your people are organized behind your goals and what you need to get them there.
