We are a mobile game company, based in both Helsinki and Berlin, creating world-class entertainment by building a portfolio of hit games. Since our launch in 2020, our first chart-topping game Merge Mansion has been entertaining over 60 million players worldwide, and we have grown into a team of over 280.
Our mission is to entertain hundreds of millions of people for decades, with our games, and also through our creative marketing, community, and beyond – while having fun with it.
We’re ordinary people crafting extraordinary games with passion and ambition. Our culture of trust, psychological safety and wellbeing empowers us to aim high, take ownership, and shape the future of mobile games together.
We’re looking for an experienced Talent Acquisition Partner to help us build the teams that enable our mission to entertain hundreds of millions of people for decades. In this role, you’ll lead end-to-end recruitment across our game, tech, and central teams, enabling well-informed hiring decisions and delivering an outstanding candidate experience.
You’ll join a collaborative Talent Acquisition team that aims high and values quality in everything we do. We believe in ownership and accountability, and we support each other and are always ready to share, challenge, and learn. Beyond running recruitment processes, you’ll build strong partnerships with hiring managers, leadership, and our People & Culture team to create clarity and alignment. You’ll also help evolve our recruitment practices to keep them scalable, consistent, and aligned with our long-term ambitions.
Curious about our crafts and how we collaborate together to create world-class entertainment? Find out more here https://metacoregames.com/our-crafts
Responsibilities
- Act as a strategic Talent Acquisition Partner for defined teams or business areas, working closely with hiring managers, People Partners, and business leads
- Lead end to end recruitment processes, from role definition and sourcing to interviews, offer negotiations, and relocation process
- Clarify hiring priorities, role scope, and expectations with leaders, ensuring strong alignment from the start while balancing ambition with realistic market expectations
- Proactively source top talent while managing multiple pipelines simultaneously
- Lead first interviews and coordinate structured interview processes, ensuring clarity and a positive experience for both candidates and hiring teams
- Ensure a seamless and engaging candidate experience throughout the recruitment process
- Coach and challenge hiring managers by providing guidance and training that strengthens hiring capabilities and improves recruitment decision making
- Continuously improve recruitment practices by using insights, feedback, and data to refine our hiring processes
Requirements
- Solid experience in talent acquisition, owning end to end recruitment processes, ideally across technical, creative, data and/or product roles, with strong sourcing, interviewing and offer negotiation skills
- Experience partnering closely with senior stakeholders or business leaders
- Familiarity with data-informed recruitment and using insights to guide hiring decisions and improve processes
- Experience developing recruitment processes or leading improvement initiatives
- Excellent project management skills with the ability to manage multiple parallel recruitment processes while driving internal development projects
- Strong expertise in LinkedIn Recruiter
- Excellent communication skills: Fluent in English, with the ability to communicate clearly across diverse audiences
- Resilient and adaptable: Able to create structure in changing environments and navigate ambiguity while maintaining focus, quality, and ownership
- A collaborative team player who values shared success and actively contributes to collective goals
- Growth-oriented and committed to continuous development, taking initiative while actively improving both personally and recruitment practices
In addition to these, it would be nice but not mandatory for you to have some of these as well:
- Experience working in tech scale ups and understanding the challenges and dynamics of a rapidly growing environment
- Background in both in-house and agency recruitment to bring perspective from different stakeholder environments and variation of different roles and crafts
- Curiosity about how AI and other tools can support and improve Talent Acquisition practices
What We Offer
- Workplace where we aim high, without taking ourselves too seriously
- Autonomy and accountability with support to foster professional development
- Great opportunities to grow with the company
- Work-life balance and strong emphasis on wellbeing
- Approachable leaders with low ego
- A diverse and inclusive environment where you can be yourself
- Flexible hybrid workplace where people enjoy working at the office
Basics
- Location: Helsinki, Finland or Berlin, Germany
- Relocation: Relocating to Finland or Germany expected, full support provided
- Work model: Mix of office and remote work
- Working language: English
Our equal opportunity statement
To entertain hundreds of millions of people for decades, we need diverse teams that understand our diverse audiences. The key to unleash our creativity is a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture of trust where Metacoreans from all walks of life can be themselves. We celebrate our differences and believe they are the strength that drives us forward.
We are committed to offering equal opportunities for all, regardless of background, age, race, color, ethnicity, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation, family status, education, socioeconomic status or any other characteristic. We build and maintain a workplace and industry free of harassment and discrimination.
We also aspire to have DE&I as a fundamental part of our game design process to enable us to create even better and more inclusive games, communities and entertainment.
If you require any support or have specific needs during the application process, please don't hesitate to let us know. We look forward to hearing from you!
Our culture
Our culture is based on trust, psychological safety and wellbeing. At Metacore, autonomy and accountability go firmly hand in hand, and we cultivate a diverse and inclusive workplace where you can be yourself.
We are collaborative and humble, and think “we” before “me”. We enable focus through transparency and ownership. We aim high, and aspire to be nothing less than the best game company in the world to work for.
To create even better games, communities and entertainment, we welcome talent with diverse experiences, who are passionate about their roles and bold in their ambition.
We have collectively defined our culture and values, and we uphold them together, every day.
Read more about our culture: https://metacoregames.com/culture
