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Hybrid in Barcelona·Full-time·Added 2 days ago (last checked 11 Nov)
Our summary
- Work mode
- Hybrid, Barcelona
- Contract
- Full-time
- Relocation
- A relocation package
- English
- Required
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Benefits
- Private health insurance, gym access






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Skills
Requirements
What we're looking for
7+ years of hiring experience, including meaningful time as an in-house senior recruiter (or equivalent) hiring G&A and Commercial talent in a fast-paced, international, product-led tech environment.
Strong recruiting craft: you run strategic searches end to end, with a track record on genuinely difficult, niche, or senior roles, not just high-volume mid-level hiring. You care deeply about candidate experience.
Active sourcing ability: you don't wait for inbound. You know how to build and run a sourcing strategy for senior, specialised business talent across global markets.
Real stakeholder gravitas and outstanding communication skills: you partner confidently with senior leaders and can show where you've pushed back on requirements or the bar, not just executed on what was asked.
High bar, high standards: you've worked somewhere with a genuinely selective hiring process and know what strong hiring looks like.
Data fluency: you track and interpret your own recruiting metrics, and use them to explain decisions, diagnose problems, and influence leaders.
AI fluency: you actively use AI to work smarter (e.g., sourcing, outreach, prep, analysis, process automation) and keep experimenting, while knowing where human judgment must stay in the loop.
A track record of wider impact: you've contributed beyond your own roles through calibration, interview training, process improvement, or mentoring.
A growth mindset: you're comfortable with ambiguity, curious, and energized by solving complex hiring challenges.
A team-first, low-ego approach: generous with knowledge and motivated by raising the bar for the whole function, not just closing your own roles.
You're fluent in English and ready to work from Barcelona, London, or Kyiv, or open to relocating to join us in Barcelona.
Pay & benefits
What you'll get
An open, collaborative, dynamic and diverse culture;
A generous monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com, Learning & Development budget and time off for your self-development;
A competitive financial package with equity, leave allowance and health insurance;
Not in Barcelona? We offer an attractive relocation package to join us in our Preply Barcelona Hub
Access to free mental health support platforms;
Access to Gympass-partnered wellness and gym centers throughout Spain to promote and support well-being and physical health;
The opportunity to unlock the potential of learners and tutors through language learning and teaching in 180 countries (and counting!).
The role
We power people's progress.
At Preply, we're all about creating life-changing learning experiences. We help people discover the magic of the perfect tutor, craft a personalised learning journey, and stay motivated to keep growing. Our approach is human-led, tech-enabled - and it's creating real impact.
We've just reached unicorn status with a $150M Series D, accelerating our vision to transform education through human-led, AI-enhanced learning. Today, 100,000+ tutors teach 90+ languages to learners in 180 countries - and we're only getting started. As a category-defining company, we're shaping what the future of learning looks like at global scale.
Every Preply lesson sparks change, fuels ambition, and drives progress that matters. Joining Preply means helping define the future of education at global scale, and building something that truly matters for millions of people, every day.
We're looking for a Talent Acquisition Partner to join our Business TA team. This is an individual contributor role for someone who is already excellent at the craft: someone who can run a search end to end, push back credibly on senior business stakeholders, and bring data and process thinking to hiring rather than just executing against a brief. You'll hire exceptional talent across our commercial and business functions, including Finance, Strategy, People, Marketing, Brand & Sales, and work closely with senior leaders and Hiring Managers. You'll also partner with the TA Lead for Non-Tech to help shape how the function calibrates, sources, and improves over time.
What you'll do
Own complex and hard-to-fill roles across GTM, Brand, Finance, Marketing, People, and other business-critical functions, partnering closely with senior leaders.
Act as a strategic talent advisor: build credible relationships with leaders and guide them on talent strategy, hiring best practices, and market insights.
Develop and execute creative sourcing strategies to attract top-tier talent across global markets, using AI and new tools to work smarter.
Bring data into every decision: track your funnel health, conversion, and time-in-stage, and use it to diagnose what's working and flag what isn't.
Champion structured, evidence-based hiring: help refine scorecards, support calibration sessions, and act as a reference point for what "good" looks like, driving consistency and quality across interviews and decisions.
Bring the Preply story to life for senior business talent, leveraging your business acumen and storytelling skills.
Raise the bar beyond your own roles: support process improvements, interview training, or employer branding initiatives that benefit the whole team, not just your own pipeline.
Our Principles
Care to change the world - We are passionate about our work and care deeply about its impact to be life changing.
We do it for learners - For both Preply and tutors, learners are why we do what we do. Every day we focus on empowering tutors to deliver an exceptional learning experience.
Keep perfecting - To create an outstanding customer experience, we focus on simplicity, smoothness, and enjoyment, continually perfecting it as every detail matters.
Now is the time - In a fast-paced world, it matters how quickly we act. Now is the time to make great things happen.
Disciplined execution - What makes us disciplined is the excellence in our execution. We set clear goals, focus on what matters, and utilize our resources efficiently.
Dive deep - We leverage business acumen and curiosity to investigate disparities between numbers and stories, unlocking meaningful insights to guide our decisions.
Growth mindset - We proactively seek growth opportunities and believe today's best performance becomes tomorrow's starting point. We humbly embrace feedback and learn from setbacks.
Raise the bar - We raise our performance standards continuously, alongside each new hire and promotion. We build diverse and high-performing teams that can make a real difference.
Challenge, disagree and commit - We value open and candid communication, even when we don't fully agree. We speak our minds, challenge when necessary, and fully commit to decisions once made.
One Preply - We prioritize collaboration, inclusion, and the success of our team over personal ambitions. Together, we support and celebrate each other's progress.
Hiring process
Chat with Talent Acquisition
With Talent Acquisition team
Share your experience, what drives you and why Preply, why now.
Preliminary tech test
Not every role
For tech and product roles, a short test before the hiring team interviews.
Interviews with the hiring team
With hiring team
A series of interviews with potential colleagues going deep into your experience and hard skills.
Final task
A case study, peer programming session or deeper technical discussion to show how you think through problems.
Culture Champion interview
With a Culture Champion
Meet one of Preply's Culture Champions to check principles fit.
- Talent Acquisition briefs you on what the final task involves and how to succeed.
About Preply
Preply is a global online learning platform that connects students with private tutors for personalized language lessons and academic tutoring. Founded in 2012, the company has grown into a major EdTech player, operating a marketplace that spans over 180 countries and offers instruction in dozens of languages, with a significant focus on English learning. The platform leverages technology to match learners with tutors based on their goals, schedule, and budget, and has become a prominent destination for both learners seeking flexible education and tutors seeking income.
Preply's Spanish headquarters is located in Barcelona, a key hub for its European operations and a significant part of its global expansion. The company's workforce is highly international, with a strong emphasis on engineering, data science, and product roles, making it an attractive option for international professionals looking to relocate to Spain. The Barcelona office operates as a central tech and product hub, and the company's culture is described as dynamic, data-driven, and remote-friendly, with a strong focus on AI and machine learning applications in education.
- Industry
- EdTech
- Founded
- 2012
- Employees
- 500–1,000
- Headquarters
- Brookline, USA
- In Spain
- Barcelona
Good to know if you are moving
- Preply's workforce is highly international, with employees from over 50 countries, making it a common destination for expats.
- The company offers fully remote and hybrid work options, which can facilitate a relocation to Spain.
- Barcelona is a major tech hub in Europe, and Preply's office there is central to its product and engineering teams.
- The company's official working language is English, easing the transition for international professionals.
- Preply has a strong focus on AI and data science, offering roles for senior engineers and data scientists in its Barcelona hub.
In their own words
About the company & team
Meet the team!
Talent Acquisition at Preply is a high-performing, ambitious team that's deeply embedded in the business. We are obsessed with raising the bar - constantly iterating, innovating, and learning together to be best-in-class. We're technology driven, data-informed, and we think critically about our business and map, engage and prioritize according to customer and business outcomes. But we also care deeply about collaboration, thinking team-first, and supporting each other along the way. Building an iconic company should be fun 🙂.
Additional information
Preply.com is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people of diverse backgrounds can thrive. We believe that the presence of different opinions and viewpoints is a key ingredient for our success as a multicultural Ed-Tech company. That means that Preply will consider all applications for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age or veteran status.
Location
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