Talent Acquisition Partner - Business
Preply · Barcelona, Catalonia · London, England · Kyiv, Kyiv City
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.
We’ve just reached unicorn status with a $150M Series D, accelerating our vision to transform education through human-led, AI-enhanced learning. Today, 100,000+ tutors teach 90+ languages to learners in 180 countries - and we’re only getting started. As a category-defining company, we’re shaping what the future of learning looks like at global scale.
Every Preply lesson sparks change, fuels ambition, and drives progress that matters. Joining Preply means helping define the future of education at global scale, and building something that truly matters for millions of people, every day.
MEET THE TEAM!
Talent Acquisition at Preply is a high-performing, ambitious team that’s deeply embedded in the business. We are obsessed with raising the bar - constantly iterating, innovating, and learning together to be best-in-class. We’re technology driven, data-informed, and we think critically about our business and map, engage and prioritize according to customer and business outcomes. But we also care deeply about collaboration, thinking team-first, and supporting each other along the way. Building an iconic company should be fun 🙂.
We’re looking for a Talent Acquisition Partner to join our Business TA team. This is an individual contributor role for someone who is already excellent at the craft: someone who can run a search end to end, push back credibly on senior business stakeholders, and bring data and process thinking to hiring rather than just executing against a brief. You’ll hire exceptional talent across our commercial and business functions, including Finance, Strategy, People, Marketing, Brand & Sales, and work closely with senior leaders and Hiring Managers. You’ll also partner with the TA Lead for Non-Tech to help shape how the function calibrates, sources, and improves over time.
WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:
- Own complex and hard-to-fill roles across GTM, Brand, Finance, Marketing, People, and other business-critical functions, partnering closely with senior leaders.
- Act as a strategic talent advisor: build credible relationships with leaders and guide them on talent strategy, hiring best practices, and market insights.
- Develop and execute creative sourcing strategies to attract top-tier talent across global markets, using AI and new tools to work smarter.
- Bring data into every decision: track your funnel health, conversion, and time-in-stage, and use it to diagnose what’s working and flag what isn’t.
- Champion structured, evidence-based hiring: help refine scorecards, support calibration sessions, and act as a reference point for what “good” looks like, driving consistency and quality across interviews and decisions.
- Bring the Preply story to life for senior business talent, leveraging your business acumen and storytelling skills.
- Raise the bar beyond your own roles: support process improvements, interview training, or employer branding initiatives that benefit the whole team, not just your own pipeline.
WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED:
- 7+ years of hiring experience, including meaningful time as an in-house senior recruiter (or equivalent) hiring G&A and Commercial talent in a fast-paced, international, product-led tech environment.
- Strong recruiting craft: you run strategic searches end to end, with a track record on genuinely difficult, niche, or senior roles, not just high-volume mid-level hiring. You care deeply about candidate experience.
- Active sourcing ability: you don’t wait for inbound. You know how to build and run a sourcing strategy for senior, specialised business talent across global markets.
- Real stakeholder gravitas and outstanding communication skills: you partner confidently with senior leaders and can show where you’ve pushed back on requirements or the bar, not just executed on what was asked.
- High bar, high standards: you’ve worked somewhere with a genuinely selective hiring process and know what strong hiring looks like.
- Data fluency: you track and interpret your own recruiting metrics, and use them to explain decisions, diagnose problems, and influence leaders.
- AI fluency: you actively use AI to work smarter (e.g., sourcing, outreach, prep, analysis, process automation) and keep experimenting, while knowing where human judgment must stay in the loop.
- A track record of wider impact: you’ve contributed beyond your own roles through calibration, interview training, process improvement, or mentoring.
- A growth mindset: you’re comfortable with ambiguity, curious, and energized by solving complex hiring challenges.
- A team-first, low-ego approach: generous with knowledge and motivated by raising the bar for the whole function, not just closing your own roles.
- You’re fluent in English and ready to work from Barcelona, London, or Kyiv, or open to relocating to join us in Barcelona.
WHY YOU’LL LOVE IT AT PREPLY
- An open, collaborative, dynamic and diverse culture;
- A generous monthly allowance for lessons on http://preply.com/Preply.com http://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 unlock the potential of learners and tutors through language learning and teaching in 180 countries (and counting!).
OUR PRINCIPLES
- Care to change the world - We are passionate about our work and care deeply about its impact to be life changing.
- We do it for learners - For both Preply and tutors, learners are why we do what we do. Every day we focus on empowering tutors to deliver an exceptional learning experience.
- Keep perfecting - To create an outstanding customer experience, we focus on simplicity, smoothness, and enjoyment, continually perfecting it as every detail matters.
- Now is the time - In a fast-paced world, it matters how quickly we act. Now is the time to make great things happen.
- Disciplined execution - What makes us disciplined is the excellence in our execution. We set clear goals, focus on what matters, and utilize our resources efficiently.
- Dive deep - We leverage business acumen and curiosity to investigate disparities between numbers and stories, unlocking meaningful insights to guide our decisions.
- Growth mindset - We proactively seek growth opportunities and believe today's best performance becomes tomorrow's starting point. We humbly embrace feedback and learn from setbacks.
- Raise the bar - We raise our performance standards continuously, alongside each new hire and promotion. We build diverse and high-performing teams that can make a real difference.
- Challenge, disagree and commit - We value open and candid communication, even when we don’t fully agree. We speak our minds, challenge when necessary, and fully commit to decisions once made.
- One Preply - We prioritize collaboration, inclusion, and the success of our team over personal ambitions. Together, we support and celebrate each other's progress.
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION
Preply.com http://Preply.com is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people of diverse backgrounds can thrive. We believe that the presence of different opinions and viewpoints is a key ingredient for our success as a multicultural Ed-Tech company. That means that Preply will consider all applications for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age or veteran status.