Senior Recruiter - Contract in Royal Leamington Spa

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About Us

As a first‑party Xbox Game Studio, we are passionate about making genre‑defining games that are accessible, beautiful, and, most of all, fun.

About The Role

As Senior Recruiter at Playground Games, you will join a busy team owning the end‑to‑end recruitment process from briefings through to offers and closing roles. You will support the company’s hiring plans by working across studio teams, supporting central groups and two exciting game teams that build some of the most exciting titles on Xbox, Forza Horizon and Fable. This is a full‑time role covering maternity leave for 12 months. The role is based at our state‑of‑the‑art studios in Royal Leamington Spa. We operate a hybrid work model, working in the studio at least 3 days per week.

What You’ll Do

• Manage the full recruiting lifecycle across a variety of open roles, helping managers find and hire world‑class candidates.
• Act as a Talent Advisor to work closely with hiring managers, department leaders and GM’s throughout the recruitment process from opening roles, drafting job adverts, sourcing candidates to making offers and handing off to HR for onboarding.
• Drive an effective interview process, gathering all relevant information from candidates, ensuring a world‑class process and providing feedback as needed.
• Plan and prioritise workload, keeping on top of interviews, coordinating effectively with hiring managers and candidates.
• Support and own recruitment projects, and university hiring as needed.
• Be active with job boards, social networks and any platforms for finding quality candidates, help create and post job adverts and like/share studio social media announcements.
• Partner with the HR and recruitment team to improve and implement innovative recruitment activities.
• Attend and represent Playground Games at industry events and career fairs.
• Champion hiring strategies and develop processes that help us identify top talent in under‑represented groups.

What You’ll Bring

• Recruitment experience within the video games industry, either in‑house or agency, ideally specialising in Engineering or Design / Production disciplines.
• Exceptional communicator and capable TA coach, who can evidence supporting managers to make good hiring decisions.
• Familiarity with industry job boards and tools used to target Game Development candidates.
• High attention to detail.
• Effective communication skills.
• A passion for recruitment and video games.

We believe a healthy work‑life balance, continuous learning, and a supportive community are key to creating world‑class games. Playground Games is proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. We believe that diversity and inclusion fuels creativity and are dedicated to creating a safe, comfortable, and welcoming working environment. We strive to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices of our team members. This drives our innovation and connects us closer to our players. We are committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion across age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. At Playground Games we recognise the importance of self‑development, career progression, well‑being and retention of our colleagues. We celebrate difference and welcome everyone to join us and to be themselves at work.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to apply for this position, please contact us on recruitment@playground-games.com.