Talent Acquisition Partner - Tech & Product
Preply · Barcelona, Catalonia · 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 now looking for a Talent Acquisition Partner - Tech & Product, to join our TA team. You’ll play a critical role in hiring exceptional talent across our product, design, tech and engineering functions. You’ll bring deep recruiting expertise, a strategic mindset, and a love for building effective, scalable processes. This role is about more than filling roles; it’s about helping shape the future of Preply’s go-to-market and business organization.
ABOUT THIS ROLE
We're looking for a Talent Acquisition Partner to join our Tech & Product TA team. You'll play a critical role in hiring exceptional talent across Product and Design, alongside supporting Tech hiring more broadly. You'll bring strong recruiting expertise, a strategic mindset, and a genuine care for building effective, high-quality hiring processes. This role is about more than filling roles; it's about helping shape how we hire for Tech & Product as we scale.
You'll partner closely with the leaders of these functions, acting as a credible advisor on talent strategy and hiring quality, not just an executor of requirements. You'll stay flexible enough to pick up other Tech & Product roles as priorities shift, and you'll be expected to bring real independence and judgement to how you run your own pipelines.
WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:
- Lead and own end-to-end hiring for Product, Design, and related Tech roles, partnering closely with our Product and Design leaders.
- Act as a talent advisor to hiring managers: guide stakeholders on hiring strategy, what good candidates look like in the market, and how to make faster, better-informed decisions.
- Develop and execute creative sourcing strategies to attract top-tier talent, using tools like LinkedIn Recruiter and adapting your approach as roles or markets shift.
- Champion structured, evidence-based hiring practices: apply scorecards rigorously, contribute to calibration, and drive consistency and quality across your interview processes and decisions.
- Bring the Preply story to life, leveraging your understanding of the product and business to make a compelling, credible case for the role and the company.
- Use data to drive better decisions: track your own funnel metrics - conversion, time-in-stage, source of hire - and use them to diagnose where quality is dropping and adjust your approach, not just to report status.
- Spot and help fix process gaps: notice where a process, handoff, or step isn't working, and bring a clear, actionable suggestion for how to improve it.
- Stay flexible across Tech & Product: support Engineering hiring when priorities require it, and bring enough technical understanding to have credible conversations with Engineering stakeholders when needed.
- Collaborate with Employer Branding: work with the Employer Branding team to support visibility and attraction efforts for Product, Design, and Tech roles.
WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED:
- 7+ years of recruiting experience, with meaningful exposure to Product and/or Design hiring alongside Tech.
- Proven experience hiring Tech, Product, and Design talent in a fast-paced, product-led tech environment, with solid exposure to Tech hiring more broadly.
- Strong in-house recruiting experience: you know what great looks like when it comes to process, systems, and stakeholder engagement.
- Strong TA craft: you care deeply about candidate experience, know how to run a genuine search rather than just manage a requisition, and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions or push for a higher bar.
- A love for data and insights: you know how to use metrics to explain your decisions, influence hiring managers, and catch problems early.
- Solid understanding of Product and Design craft, and how hiring needs and profiles shift as these functions scale.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills: you can influence with confidence and care, and partner effectively with Product, Design, and Tech leaders.
- A growth mindset: comfortable with ambiguity, curious, and energised by solving hiring challenges rather than just working through a pipeline.
- A team-first, low-ego approach: collaborative, generous with knowledge, and motivated by raising the bar for Tech & Product hiring, not just closing your own roles.
- Fluency in English and readiness to work from Barcelona.
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.