HR Lead

Accountabilities:

As the HR Lead, you will serve as a trusted, hands-on people partner while building scalable HR and recruitment practices that support business and production needs.

• Own full-cycle recruitment across the studio, from intake and role definition through sourcing, interviews, offer negotiation, and closing.
• Plan hiring proactively with team leads and identify talent gaps before they impact production.
• Build clear role requirements, structured interview processes, technical assessments, scorecards, and consistent decision-making practices.
• Manage candidate pipelines, ATS workflows, recruiting metrics, and the overall candidate experience, ensuring timely communication and feedback.
• Coach managers on interviewing, hiring decisions, HR policies, and people-management practices.
• Benchmark salaries and design competitive, internally consistent offers aligned with market conditions and budget requirements.
• Own onboarding processes to ensure new hires receive the access, context, support, and guidance needed to become productive quickly.
• Manage HR operations including employment contracts, payroll processes and forecasts, leave management, benefits, employee records, and offboarding.
• Handle terminations professionally and fairly, ensuring compliance with applicable employment law and internal policies.
• Act as a neutral and approachable HR partner for conflicts, frustrations, personal challenges, and sensitive employee matters.
• Identify unhealthy team dynamics and encourage ownership, direct communication, and constructive problem-solving.
• Monitor early indicators of attrition and help address engagement and retention risks.
• Partner with the wider HR team on engagement, well-being, inclusion, psychological safety, and team-building initiatives.
• Work closely with senior leadership to strengthen company culture, values, and the overall employee experience.
• Introduce practical tools and processes that improve HR workflows and support a self-managing, remote team.

Requirements

The ideal candidate brings broad HR experience, strong recruitment expertise, and the confidence to operate independently in a dynamic technology environment. You should be comfortable balancing strategic people initiatives with hands-on operational responsibilities and sensitive employee matters.

• 7+ years of HR experience, including experience within medium-to-large technology companies.
• Strong full-cycle recruitment experience across technology or gaming environments, including technical and creative positions.
• Demonstrated ability to run hiring processes that are both efficient and rigorous, using structured interviews and scorecards.
• Hands-on experience with salary benchmarking, offer design, negotiation, and closing candidates.
• Experience across broader HR functions including onboarding, employee relations, HR operations, and employee lifecycle management.
• Confidence handling conflicts and difficult conversations with neutrality, sound judgment, and an understanding of team dynamics.
• Experience managing dynamic candidate pipelines and maintaining strong candidate experiences.
• Experience partnering with senior leadership to build culture and improve the people and work environment.
• Strong autonomy, organization, prioritization, and ownership, with the ability to lead HR improvements proactively.
• Approachable, trustworthy, and capable of recognizing when an issue needs to be escalated.
• Fluent English with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Daily familiarity with AI tools and curiosity about using AI to improve HR workflows and processes.
• Comfortable working with Atlassian tools, including Jira and Confluence, and able to understand Jira projects and reports.
• Experience using Slack as part of a structured communication culture.
• Genuine interest in games and players, with an appreciation for hiring people who share that passion.

Nice to have:

• Experience working within fully remote, multi-country teams.
• Knowledge of Maltese employment law or experience hiring across multiple EU countries.
• Training or certification in coaching, mediation, or conflict resolution.
• Experience with HR analytics, including engagement surveys, attrition, and absence tracking.
• Personal interest in gaming, particularly multiplayer or competitive shooters.

Benefits

• Fully remote work within Europe.
• Opportunity to shape HR practices, company culture, and the employee experience in a growing remote organization.
• Significant ownership and autonomy across recruitment, HR operations, engagement, and people initiatives.
• Close collaboration with senior leadership and cross-disciplinary teams.
• A collaborative, open, and self-managing working environment built around trust and communication.
• Opportunity to contribute to a player-focused game development environment and help build a team passionate about games.
• Exposure to international HR practices across a distributed European workforce.