Lead Talent Partner – Engineering

Role Overview

• Own the Engineering hiring engine end to end: understand workforce plans, clarify hiring priorities, translate them into hiring strategies, and make sure the team is set up to deliver against business needs.
• 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 complex and high-impact searches.
• Build and optimise 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.
• 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 TA and hiring teams.
• Act as a player-coach within the TA team: provide dotted-line guidance to a small team of TA Partners, support prioritisation, coach on search strategy and stakeholder management, and help unblock execution.
• 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.
• Strong in-house recruiting experience.
• Experience turning workforce plans into hiring strategies.
• A track record of improving hiring systems at scale.
• Experience leading calibration and quality.
• A strong IC mindset with a genuine interest in growing as a people leader.
• Strong influence and communication skills.
• A team-first, low-ego approach.
• Fluency in English and readiness to work from Barcelona, London, or Kyiv, or openness to relocating to join us in Barcelona.

Benefits

• An open, collaborative, dynamic and diverse culture;
• A generous monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com, Learning & Development budget and time off for your self-development;
• A competitive financial package with equity, leave allowance and health insurance;
• Not in Barcelona? We offer an attractive relocation package to join us in our Preply Barcelona Hub;
• Access to free mental health support platforms;
• Access to Gympass-partnered wellness and gym centers throughout Spain to promote and support well-being and physical health;
• The opportunity to shape the lives of learners and tutors through language learning and teaching in 175 countries (and counting!).