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Playground Games; Kenilworth; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading video game studio is looking for a Senior Recruiter to manage the end-to-end recruitment process. This full-time role involves supporting various Game teams and requires experience in the video game industry. Key responsibilities include managing interviews, advising hiring managers, and driving recruitment projects. The company promotes a hybrid working model and values diversity and inclusion, striving for a supportive work environment for all employees.

Qualifications

• Experience in-house or agency within the video games industry, focusing on Engineering or Design/Production.
• Proven ability to provide TA coaching to managers for effective hiring.
• Understanding of job boards targeting Game Development candidates.

Responsibilities

• Manage the full recruiting lifecycle across various open roles.
• Act as a Talent Advisor to hiring managers during recruitment.
• Drive a world-class interview process and provide relevant feedback.
• Coordinate interviews effectively with hiring managers and candidates.
• Own Recruitment projects and contribute to university hiring.
• Engage on job boards and social networks, create job adverts.
• Work with HR to enhance innovative recruitment activities.
• Represent the company at industry events and career fairs.
• Champion hiring strategies to identify top talent from diverse backgrounds.

Skills

Recruitment experience within the video games industry

Exceptional communication skills

Familiarity with industry job boards and tools

High attention to detail

Passion for recruitment and video games

Job description

As Senior Recruiter at Playground Games, you will join a busy team owning the end‑to‑end recruitment process from taking briefings through to making offers and closing roles. You will support delivering the company's hiring plans by working across the studio teams supporting central groups and two exciting Game teams, who 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 worldclass candidates.
• Act as a Talent Advisor to work closely with hiring managers, department leaders and GMs 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 worldclass 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 underrepresented groups.

Qualifications

• 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.

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. 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, and we believe that diversity and inclusion fuels creativity. We 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. 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.