Talent Acquisition Partner - Tech & Product
Hybrid in Barcelona·Full-time·Added 2 days ago
Overview
Job details
Full-time hours
Per the ad.
Hybrid
Office and home days — the ad has the split.
Requirements
Have the right to work in Spain
Preply doesn't mention sponsorship in the ad.
Work in English
English is required, per the ad.
Be near Barcelona for hybrid days
No relocation package mentioned.
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.
Meet the team!
What you'll do
We're now looking for a Talent Acquisition Partner - Tech & Product, to join our TA team. You'll play a critical role in hiring exceptional talent across our product, design, tech and engineering functions. You'll bring deep recruiting expertise, a strategic mindset, and a love for building effective, scalable processes. This role is about more than filling roles; it's about helping shape the future of Preply's go-to-market and business organization.
Lead and own end-to-end hiring for Product, Design, and related Tech roles, partnering closely with our Product and Design leaders.
Act as a talent advisor to hiring managers: guide stakeholders on hiring strategy, what good candidates look like in the market, and how to make faster, better-informed decisions.
Develop and execute creative sourcing strategies to attract top-tier talent, using tools like LinkedIn Recruiter and adapting your approach as roles or markets shift.
Champion structured, evidence-based hiring practices: apply scorecards rigorously, contribute to calibration, and drive consistency and quality across your interview processes and decisions.
Bring the Preply story to life, leveraging your understanding of the product and business to make a compelling, credible case for the role and the company.
Use data to drive better decisions: track your own funnel metrics - conversion, time-in-stage, source of hire - and use them to diagnose where quality is dropping and adjust your approach, not just to report status.
Spot and help fix process gaps: notice where a process, handoff, or step isn't working, and bring a clear, actionable suggestion for how to improve it.
Stay flexible across Tech & Product: support Engineering hiring when priorities require it, and bring enough technical understanding to have credible conversations with Engineering stakeholders when needed.
Collaborate with Employer Branding: work with the Employer Branding team to support visibility and attraction efforts for Product, Design, and Tech roles.
About this role
We're looking for a Talent Acquisition Partner to join our Tech & Product TA team. You'll play a critical role in hiring exceptional talent across Product and Design, alongside supporting Tech hiring more broadly. You'll bring strong recruiting expertise, a strategic mindset, and a genuine care for building effective, high-quality hiring processes. This role is about more than filling roles; it's about helping shape how we hire for Tech & Product as we scale.
You'll partner closely with the leaders of these functions, acting as a credible advisor on talent strategy and hiring quality, not just an executor of requirements. You'll stay flexible enough to pick up other Tech & Product roles as priorities shift, and you'll be expected to bring real independence and judgement to how you run your own pipelines.
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.
Requirements
What we're looking for
7+ years of recruiting experience, with meaningful exposure to Product and/or Design hiring alongside Tech.
Proven experience hiring Tech, Product, and Design talent in a fast-paced, product-led tech environment, with solid exposure to Tech hiring more broadly.
Strong in-house recruiting experience: you know what great looks like when it comes to process, systems, and stakeholder engagement.
Strong TA craft: you care deeply about candidate experience, know how to run a genuine search rather than just manage a requisition, and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions or push for a higher bar.
A love for data and insights: you know how to use metrics to explain your decisions, influence hiring managers, and catch problems early.
Solid understanding of Product and Design craft, and how hiring needs and profiles shift as these functions scale.
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills: you can influence with confidence and care, and partner effectively with Product, Design, and Tech leaders.
A growth mindset: comfortable with ambiguity, curious, and energised by solving hiring challenges rather than just working through a pipeline.
A team-first, low-ego approach: collaborative, generous with knowledge, and motivated by raising the bar for Tech & Product hiring, not just closing your own roles.
Fluency in English and readiness to work from Barcelona.
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
- Website
- preply.com
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
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
Preply · Barcelona
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