About the company
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. We’ve just reached unicorn status with a $150M Series D, accelerating our vision to transform education through human-led, AI-enhanced learning.
Responsibilities
- Own complex, hard-to-fill Engineering searches end to end: manage full-cycle recruitment for our most senior and niche roles.
- Partner with senior Engineering stakeholders: build credible relationships with Engineering Directors, VPs, and Hiring Managers.
- Source actively and creatively: build and execute targeted sourcing strategies for passive, senior technical talent, using tools like LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, and Stack Overflow.
- Bring data into every decision: track your own funnel health, conversion, and time-in-stage, and use that data to diagnose what's working and flag what isn't.
- Contribute to calibration and hiring bar consistency: help refine scorecards, participate in and support calibration sessions.
- Raise the bar beyond your own roles: support process improvements, interview training, or employer branding initiatives.
- Coach and share knowledge: act as an informal sounding board for less experienced TA Partners.
- Deliver a strong candidate experience: represent Preply well to a highly selective, in-demand talent pool.
Requirements
- Several years of experience recruiting for Engineering roles at scale, with a track record on genuinely difficult, niche, or senior searches.
- Experience partnering with senior engineering leaders, and evidence you've pushed back on requirements or bar when needed.
- A track record of wider impact: you've contributed to something beyond your own roles - calibration, interview training, process improvement, mentoring.
- You don't wait for inbound; you know how to build and run a sourcing strategy for senior, specialised technical talent.
- Comfortable tracking and interpreting your own recruiting metrics.
- You've worked somewhere with a genuinely selective hiring process and understand what strong technical hiring looks like.
- 7+ years of recruiting experience.