Lead Talent Acquisition Partner - Tech in London

As Preply continues to scale, engineering remains at the core of our product and our growth. We are on a unique journey of expanding technical hiring across multiple, complex domains and global tech hubs. To help shape this next chapter in a truly exceptional way, we are hiring a Lead Talent Acquisition Partner – Tech to continually raise the bar for how we build our engineering organisation.

This role is designed for someone operating at the highest level of recruiting excellence. You will not only own and deliver on complex engineering searches yourself, but also take end-to-end ownership of how we scale technical hiring. That means continuously improving our hiring processes, building a scalable and high-quality engineering hiring system, effectively leveraging data and insights, and partnering closely on workforce planning.

As a trusted advisor to senior leaders, you will work alongside TA leadership and a strong team of experienced TA Partners across Engineering - leading through expertise, influence, and example to raise the bar for hiring quality as we grow.

What you will be doing:

• Own and drive engineering hiring end-to-end, taking accountability for scaling outcomes across technical domains and hubs, while personally delivering on complex and high-impact roles.
• Act as a strategic talent partner to TA Leadership and senior leaders in the business, helping to shape long-term talent strategy, align on hiring plans, role prioritization, and long-term capability building.
• Act as a craft lead within the TA team, mentoring and coaching other TA Partners (including dotted-line management where needed), sharing best practices, and elevating recruiting standards, data literacy, and business understanding across the team.
• Partner closely with other TA Partners working on engineering roles, providing alignment, direction, and support to ensure effective collaboration and scalable execution.
• Contribute to TA, People, and Organizational wide initiatives and improvements, to refine processes, tools, and ways to innovate, leading by influence and hands-on contribution.
• Champion structured, bias-aware, evidence-based hiring, acting as a role model for high-quality, consistent interview processes and sound decision-making, particularly for senior hires.
• Coach and influence stakeholders, helping them become stronger hiring managers and interviewers; confidently challenging assumptions to ensure long-term hiring quality.
• Bring strong market, competitive, and industry insights into hiring discussions, proactively sharing trends and data to influence decisions across the business.

What you will need to succeed:

• Significant experience hiring hard-to-fill and complex technical talent in a fast-paced, product-led tech environment.
• Proven ability to support and deliver engineering hiring at scale, including improving and scaling processes, coordinating across stakeholders or locations, and contributing to large-scale hiring or growth initiatives.
• Strong in-house recruiting background, with demonstrated success operating as a trusted advisor to senior and executive stakeholders.
• Expert-level recruiting craft: you run strategic searches end-to-end, deeply care about candidate experience, and consistently deliver strong outcomes on complex roles.
• Experience leading, mentoring and coaching TA Partners, either through a direct management role or strong mentorship capability.
• Data fluency and with ability to drive decisions through data, create measurable outcomes, and raise TA effectiveness.
• 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, or openness to relocating to join us in Barcelona.