Principal Talent Partner (Engineering & Platform)

Founded in 2012, Playson is a leading iGaming supplier recognized worldwide. We provide our customers with a high-end micro-service-based platform as a service that aims to process billions of financial transactions per day.

We’re hiring a Technical Talent Scout who hunts exceptional engineers - not someone who waits for applicants to appear.

This isn’t traditional recruiting. You’ll be embedded with engineering leadership, deeply understand what we’re building, and run proactive search strategies to attract senior technical talent in a competitive market.

Our Talent Stack: Ashby ATS, LinkedIn Recruiter, AI-tools, HiBob HRM, GSuite tools, Miro.

What you’ll own:

• Proactive sourcing of top-tier engineers (senior/lead/principal) through targeted search, networking, communities, and creative outreach.

• Pipeline-building before urgency: map markets, identify talent clusters, and build relationships long before a role becomes critical.

• Deep role immersion: learn our systems, architecture, and technical challenges well enough to speak credibly with strong engineers.

• Storytelling that wins: sell impact, complexity, and craft – not “open positions.”

• End-to-end candidate journey: outreach → engagement → alignment → offer close, with a high bar for candidate experience.

• Hiring partnership: drive calibration with hiring managers, keep processes fast, and raise signal quality in screening.

• Market intelligence: compensation trends, competitor mapping, messaging experiments, channel ROI.
  

What “great” looks like:

• Consistent flow of qualified passive candidates for priority roles.

• Strong conversion rates: reply → screen → onsite → offer → acceptance.

• Faster hiring without sacrificing quality (time-to-fill + hiring manager confidence).

• High offer acceptance and strong candidate feedback.

• Trusted partner to engineering leaders – your input improves role definitions and interview signal.

You’ll love this role if you:

• Get energy from convincing strong engineers to explore something they weren’t looking for,

• Enjoy closing hard hires through persistence + sharp positioning,

• Prefer responsibility and speed over layers of process,

• want to materially shape a top-tier engineering org.

What we expect from you:

• Proven track record sourcing/hiring senior engineers in competitive markets.

• Hands-on experience sourcing through GitHub, Stack Overflow, technical blogs, newsletters, and open-source communities.

• Strong understanding of engineering contexts (backend/platform/SRE/data/etc.). You don’t need to code, but you think in systems and ask the right questions.

• Persuasion + closing skills: objection handling, negotiation support, and crisp positioning.

• High ownership: you run work independently, follow through, and keep stakeholders aligned.

• Experimental mindset: you test channels, messages, and tactics – and use data to double down on what works.

• High bar, low ego: direct, respectful, and focused on outcomes.

• Fluent in English.
  

What you get

• Real autonomy in how you source and operate – measured by outcomes, not activity.

• Direct access to engineering decision-makers and fast feedback loops.

• Freedom and support to try unconventional approaches: communities, referrals, targeted campaigns, events.

• Tools/budget to do the job properly (ATS/CRM + sourcing stack) and the authority to iterate.

• Work from anywhere from the EU, with opportunities to participate in world-class iGaming and Tech exhibitions (KubeCon, AWS days, etc.)

• Competitive Salary fixed in EUR with transparent quarterly bonus system.

• Remote or hybrid work model in hub locations and flexible schedule.

• Full medical insurance for you and a plus one.

• Unlimited paid vacation and sick leave.

Ready to Make an Impact? If you want ownership of the market search and the freedom to win, let’s talk.

We can’t wait to welcome you to Playson 🚀