Head Of Recruitment

Playground Games is looking for a Head of Recruitment to join our team on a permanent 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. This is a fantastic opportunity to work with an established, talented, and collaborative Recruitment team at one of the industry’s most exciting first-party game development studios.   

About the role: 

As our Head of Recruitment, you will manage our Recruitment team while working closely with the Director of HR & Recruitment to create the highest quality candidate experience while maintaining hiring at pace.  

You'll be responsible for delivering leadership to our team of experienced Recruiters, managing Recruitment projects while also being a talent advisor to hiring managers and leaders across a range of disciplines throughout Game Development, Central Support Teams and Executive Leadership positions. 

This is a permanent role based at our state-of-the-art facilities in Royal Leamington Spa. We have a hybrid work model in place with a minimum of 3 days a week in studio. Relocation assistance is available if required.   

What you’ll do: 

• Our ideal candidate will already be in a Lead or Manager role in the Gaming or Games adjacent industry – familiar with roles and talent across the global industry and able to share clear examples of your experience in the following areas: - 
• Leading, developing and coaching a team of high performing Recruiters, providing a structured and well organised recruitment process.  
• Act as a talent partner with the Studio leadership teams and their hiring managers to support / assess their hiring needs and deliver against their growth plans. 
• Create opportunities to hire high quality candidates at pace while providing a world class candidate experience - navigating challenges and problem solving ahead of time. 
• Build recruitment strategies for the Recruitment team alongside key measurements which recognise success for the team.  
• Responsible for driving continuous improvements to our Recruitment processes and practices. Regularly tracking and reporting on KPIs whilst improving processes based on data insights and feedback received. 
• Own delivery of Recruitment projects with support from the team (eg: ATS updates, candidate experience reviews, website and career page ownership, delivery of recruitment training, University hiring and internships, hiring event management, relocation and visa management etc).

What you’ll bring: 

• Recruitment team manager experience within the video games industry, either in-house or agency.  
• Able to share an extensive range of candidate sourcing / headhunting methods 
• Support efforts to develop university partnerships and build early career processes to hire high quality interns and graduates.  
• Represent Playground Games at video game industry events, experienced and comfortable with public speaking at industry and education events.  
• Able to authentically champion hiring strategies and processes that open diverse pipelines of talent for the studio teams.  
• Ability to partner with external recruitment agencies, own the PSL and develop new relationships with internal and external talent partners.   
• 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. It 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