Our partner is looking for a HR Manager based in Spain. This role is responsible for building a strong, well-supported team within a fast-moving and collaborative remote environment. You will own the full employee lifecycle, from workforce planning and recruitment through onboarding, development, employee relations, and offboarding.

You will combine hands‐on HR expertise with a strong understanding of technology and games industry talent. Lead full-cycle recruitment across the organization, partnering with hiring managers from role definition and sourcing through interviews, offers, negotiations, and hiring. Build and continuously improve structured hiring processes, including clear role requirements, consistent interview stages, technical assessments, scorecards, ATS workflows, candidate experience, and recruiting metrics.

Coach managers on interviewing, decision-making, HR policies, and people-management practices. Benchmark compensation and design competitive offers that align with market conditions, budgets, internal consistency, and candidate expectations. Manage HR operations including employment contracts, payroll processes and forecasts, leave and vacation management, benefits, employee records, and offboarding.

Handle employee terminations professionally and fairly, ensuring appropriate documentation, legal compliance, clear communication, and respectful treatment. Serve as a trusted and approachable HR partner for employees, providing a neutral channel for conflicts, frustrations, and personal workplace concerns. Partner with leadership and the wider HR team on engagement, well‐being, inclusion, psychological safety, and workplace culture initiatives.

Contribute to remote-team rituals, events, and initiatives that strengthen connection, collaboration, and a positive employee experience. Identify opportunities to use AI and technology to streamline HR workflows, improve processes, and support more efficient ways of working. 7+ years of HR experience, including experience within medium‐to‐large technology organizations.



Strong full‐cycle recruitment experience across technical and creative positions, ideally within the technology or games industry.

Hands‐on experience with salary benchmarking, compensation planning, offer design, and negotiation. Broad HR experience beyond recruitment, including onboarding, employee relations, HR operations, and employee lifecycle management.

Experience managing active candidate pipelines and maintaining strong candidate engagement throughout the recruitment process.

Experience partnering closely with senior leadership to shape company culture, values, employee engagement, and workplace climate. Autonomous, organized, proactive, and comfortable taking ownership of HR improvements and prioritizing competing needs.

Fluent

English with strong written and verbal communication skills. Comfortable using AI tools regularly and interested in applying them to improve HR workflows and processes.

Experience with Atlassian tools, including Jira and Confluence, with the ability to understand Jira reports and project information. Familiarity with Slack and experience contributing to effective communication practices in distributed teams. Genuine interest in games and players, with an understanding of the importance of hiring people who connect with that environment.

Experience working in fully remote, multi‐country teams is a plus. Training or certification in coaching, mediation, or conflict resolution is a plus.

Experience with HR analytics, including engagement surveys, attrition, and absence tracking, is beneficial. Personal interest in games, particularly multiplayer or competitive shooters, is welcome. Fully remote working environment across Europe.

Close collaboration with senior leadership on culture, people strategy, and workplace improvements. Opportunity to shape HR processes and employee experience within a growing, cross‐disciplinary environment. Opportunity to introduce modern HR practices and AI‐powered workflow improvements.

Opportunity to contribute to a player‐focused games environment and its evolving team culture.

📌 HR Manager - Standalone (Permanent) (Madrid)
🏢 Lever
📍 Madrid