About this Talent Partner role at Scopely
Scopely is seeking a Talent Partner to attract, engage, and hire exceptional talent across Engineering, Data, AI/ML, Marketing and Technical Product functions. We are looking for a strategic talent partner who understands the evolving technology landscape, builds trusted relationships with leaders, and is passionate about helping scale high-performing teams through world-class hiring practices.
What You Will Do
- Own and manage the full lifecycle recruiting process for technical roles across the organization, from intake through offer acceptance.
- Partner closely with Engineering, Product, Data, AI/ML, and Technology leaders to understand current and future talent needs and develop effective hiring strategies.
- Source and engage top technical talent through proactive market mapping, networking, referrals, and direct sourcing techniques.
- Build and maintain high-quality passive candidate pipelines for critical and hard-to-fill technical roles.
- Serve as a strategic advisor to hiring managers by providing talent market insights, competitive intelligence, and recommendations on hiring strategies.
- Develop and execute creative sourcing approaches to identify and attract top engineering and technical talent.
- Evaluate candidate backgrounds, technical experience, and career trajectories against role requirements and team needs.
- Ensure an exceptional candidate experience through consistent communication, transparency, and effective process management.
- Partner with interview teams to drive calibration, alignment on hiring criteria, and high-quality assessment practices.
- Manage offer development, negotiation, and closing activities while partnering with Compensation, HR, and business leaders.
- Leverage data and recruiting metrics to identify opportunities, improve hiring outcomes, and optimize recruiting processes.
- Stay current on industry trends, emerging technologies, AI-enabled recruiting practices, and evolving technical talent markets.
What We're Looking For
- 4+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, preferably within gaming, technology, software, AI/ML, or high-growth environments.
- Demonstrated success recruiting for Engineering, Data Science, IT/Security, Technical Product, or related technical functions.
- Strong passive candidate sourcing capabilities and experience building talent pipelines for highly competitive technical markets.
- Ability to assess technical talent and understand software development processes, engineering disciplines, and technical career paths.
- Experience partnering with senior leaders and hiring managers to develop hiring strategies and influence talent decisions.
- Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills with the ability to establish credibility across all levels of the organization.
- Excellent interviewing, candidate assessment, and closing skills.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple searches simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
- Data-driven mindset with the ability to leverage recruiting metrics and market insights to drive decisions.
- Experience working within an in-house Talent Acquisition team preferred.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
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Familiarity with modern AI development methodologies and AI-enabled workflows.
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Experience using advanced sourcing tools, talent intelligence platforms, and AI-assisted recruiting technologies.
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About Scopely
Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most beloved and enduring experiences, including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time “MONOPOLY GO!” and “Pokémon GO,” along with “Stumble Guys,” “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “WWE Champions,” the Scrabble® franchise, “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” and many others. Across mobile, web, PC, and console, Scopely creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates one of the most diversified and award-winning portfolios in the games industry — bringing hundreds of millions of players together through a shared love of play.
Founded in 2011, Scopely is powered by its exceptional team — including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe, a distinctive tenet-driven culture, and its proprietary technology platform, Playgami. Together, these strengths have fueled Scopely’s position as the #1 mobile games company in the U.S. and #2 globally, generating more than $10 billion in lifetime revenue. Whether building global sensations like “MONOPOLY GO!” from the ground up, or expanding through strategic acquisitions, including the FoxNext, GSN, and Niantic games businesses — Scopely consistently delivers experiences players love today and return to for years to come.
Recognized multiple times as one of the "100 Most Influential Companies in the World" by TIME magazine and one of Fast Company's "World's Most Innovative Companies" and “Best Workplaces for Innovators,” Scopely believes that video games can be a force for good — creating meaningful connections, vibrant communities, and making life better through play.
Scopely has global operations and partners across four continents in more than a dozen countries worldwide. For more information, visit: https://www.scopely.com/.
Notice to Candidates: Scopely will never request payment or financial information during the application or hiring process. Please apply only through our official website and verify that all Talent Partner communications come from an email address ending in @scopely.com.
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Employment at Scopely is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications. Scopely does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
