About Preply
We power people's progress. At Preply, we're all about creating life-changing learning experiences. We help people discover the magic of the perfect tutor, craft a personalised learning journey, and stay motivated to keep growing. Our approach is human-led, tech-enabled - and it's creating real impact.
Responsibilities
•Own the Engineering hiring engine end to end: understand and collaborate on workforce plans, clarify hiring priorities, translate them into hiring strategies, and make sure the team is set up to deliver against business needs.
•Directly manage a team of TA Partners: full ownership of their performance, development, clear direction and priorities, coaching on search strategy and stakeholder management, and unblocking execution where needed.
•Drive hiring outcomes across technical domains and hubs: take accountability for progress, quality, and delivery across Engineering hiring in our main hubs Barcelona, London and Kyiv, while personally owning a couple of complex and high-impact searches.
•Build and optimize hiring processes: identify what slows us down, where quality drops, or where ownership is unclear - then improve the process so we can hire top talent in the most effective way.
•Track progress through data: run a strong weekly hiring rhythm, using funnel data, pipeline quality, pass-through rates, time in stage, sourcing performance, and stakeholder feedback to understand what's working and what needs to change.
•Lead calibration at scale: align a large and growing group of engineering interviewers and hiring managers on a consistent hiring bar, using structured calibration sessions, clear documentation, and ongoing reinforcement.
•Flag risks early and solve them fast: spot blockers before they become bigger issues, bring clear recommendations, and work with TA, Engineering, and cross-functional partners to keep hiring moving.
•Lead top-of-funnel strategy for Engineering: shape sourcing, talent mapping, talent intelligence, and employer branding in partnership with Marketing and Employer Brand. Build consistent, high-quality pipelines for priority roles.
•Raise the hiring bar: define ideal candidate profiles, sharpen scorecards, lead calibration, and improve consistency in how we evaluate candidates across a large and growing group of engineering interviewers and hiring teams.
•Elevate TA craft across the team: raise standards for candidate experience, sourcing quality, stakeholder management, data literacy, and business understanding.
Requirements
•Expert-level engineering recruiting craft. You run complex technical searches end to end, care deeply about candidate experience, consistently deliver strong outcomes on hard-to-fill roles - and coach your team to reach the same level of excellence.
•Strong in-house recruiting experience. You've partnered closely with Engineering Directors, VPs, CTOs, or similarly senior technical stakeholders and earned their trust.
•Experience turning workforce plans into hiring strategies. You take business priorities and headcount plans and translate them into clear, sequenced, actionable hiring plans with strong process and execution discipline: operating rhythms, weekly tracking, early risk flags, multiple tracks moving in parallel.
•A track record of improving hiring systems at scale. You've raised pipeline quality, pass-through rates, sourcing performance, or hiring predictability across teams or locations, including through AI and technology.
•Experience leading calibration and quality across a large interviewer group. You've defined hiring bars and helped hiring teams make better, more consistent decisions.
•Proven people management experience in a high-growth, fast scaling environment.
•A strong manager who stays close to the craft. You take pride in excellent recruiting work and want to remain hands-on.
•Strong influence and communication skills. You create clarity, challenge thoughtfully, and build trust with senior stakeholders and peers.
•A team-first, low-ego approach. Collaborative, generous with knowledge, and motivated by raising the bar for Engineering hiring and the TA function overall.
•Fluency in English and readiness to work from Barcelona, London, or Kyiv.
Conditions
No conditions stated in the posting.
