Lead Talent Partner - Engineering

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. ABOUT THE TEAM Talent Acquisition at Preply is a high-performing, ambitious team deeply embedded in the business. We’re intentional about raising the bar: we iterate, use data, test new ideas, and learn together so we can hire the people who will help Preply keep powering progress. We’re technology-driven, data-informed, and focused on hiring against business priorities and outcomes. Just as importantly, we’re team-first: collaborative, supportive, low-ego, and committed to building something meaningful together. Building a legendary company should be fun. ABOUT THIS ROLE As Preply continues to scale, Engineering remains at the core of our product, growth, and future. We’re expanding technical hiring across complex domains and global tech hubs - and we’re looking for a Lead Talent Acquisition Partner, Engineering to help us build a hiring engine that can match that ambition. This is a hands-on player-coach role. You’ll personally own complex engineering searches, while also guiding a small team of TA Partners through dotted-line leadership. You’ll stay close to the craft, but your impact will go beyond individual roles: you’ll help turn workforce plans into clear hiring priorities, translate those priorities into smart hiring strategies, and build the processes that allow us to hire exceptional talent with speed, quality, and focus. You’ll partner closely with TA Leadership, Engineering Directors, VPs, and our CTO to understand what the business needs, where the biggest hiring bets are, and how we should sequence work across domains and hubs. You’ll own the full hiring rhythm: planning, sourcing strategy, pipeline health, calibration, weekly progress tracking, issue-spotting, and continuous improvement. It’s a great fit for someone who loves being an excellent IC, but also wants to grow as a people leader. You’ll lead through expertise, influence, and example - raising the bar for how we hire, how we use data, how we partner with Engineering, and how we keep improving the machine as we scale. WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING - Own the Engineering hiring engine end to end: understand workforce plans, clarify hiring priorities, translate them into hiring strategies, and make sure the team is set up to deliver against business needs. - Drive hiring outcomes across technical domains and hubs: take accountability for progress, quality, and delivery across Engineering hiring in our main hubs Barcelona, London and Kyiv, while personally owning complex and high-impact searches. - Build and optimise hiring processes: identify what slows us down, where quality drops, or where ownership is unclear - then improve the process so we can hire top talent in the most effective way. - Track progress through data: run a strong weekly hiring rhythm, using funnel data, pipeline quality, pass-through rates, time in stage, sourcing performance, and stakeholder feedback to understand what’s working and what needs to change. - Flag risks early and solve them fast: spot blockers before they become bigger issues, bring clear recommendations, and work with TA, Engineering, and cross-func