Senior Recruiter - Contract

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

Job summary

A leading video game studio in the United Kingdom is seeking a skilled Senior Recruiter to manage the end-to-end recruitment process on a 12-month fixed-term contract. The role involves working closely with studio teams to deliver hiring plans for exciting projects, including Forza Horizon and Fable. Ideal candidates will have experience in the video games industry, strong communication skills, and a passion for recruitment and gaming. The position operates on a hybrid model, requiring at least 3 days in the studio each week.

Qualifications

• Experience working in-house or agency within the video games industry.
• Proven ability to support managers in hiring decisions.
• Knowledge of tools to target candidates in Game Development.

Responsibilities

• Manage the full recruiting lifecycle across a variety of roles.
• Act as a Talent Advisor to support the recruitment process.
• Drive an effective interview process and gather candidate feedback.
• Plan and prioritise workload while coordinating with team members.
• Support recruitment projects and university hiring as needed.
• Engage with job boards and create job adverts.
• Partner with HR to improve recruitment activities.
• Represent the company at industry events and career fairs.
• Champion hiring strategies for under-represented groups.

Skills

Recruitment experience within the video games industry

Exceptional communicator and capable TA coach

Familiarity with industry job boards

High attention to detail

Effective communication skills

Passion for recruitment and video games

Job description

Playground Games is looking for a skilled and experienced video games industry Senior Recruiter to cover maternity leave on a 12 month fixed term contract basis.

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 taking briefings through to making offers and closing roles. You will support to deliver 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 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 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, 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. 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. t 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 [e-mail].