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HR Manager
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote
Experience
Senior · 5+ years
Job description
A senior HR generalist role at Prism Studio covering full-cycle recruitment, compensation and market intelligence, HR operations, employee relations and culture/engagement partnership with leadership. The role is for an autonomous HR partner supporting a growing, remote-first game development studio.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote
- Languages
- English – fluent
What you'll do
- Own full-cycle recruitment across the studio, from workforce planning and role scoping through sourcing, interviewing, offer negotiation and hiring.
- Partner closely with the CEO, department leads and hiring managers to anticipate future talent needs and identify capability gaps before they begin affecting production.
- Recruit across technical, creative and operational disciplines, with a strong understanding of how to engage experienced professionals within the games and technology industries.
- Translate business and production requirements into clear, compelling job descriptions that accurately communicate the role, expectations and Prism's culture.
- Build and maintain strong candidate pipelines for current and future hiring needs, ensuring candidates receive clear communication and timely feedback throughout the process.
- Design structured and consistent hiring processes, including interview stages, technical or creative assessments, evaluation criteria and scorecards.
- Lead offer development and negotiations, balancing candidate expectations, internal consistency, market conditions and company budgets.
- Continuously improve our ATS, recruitment workflows, candidate experience and hiring metrics.
- Maintain a strong understanding of compensation trends across the games and technology sectors, particularly within European markets.
- Conduct salary benchmarking and provide informed recommendations when defining compensation ranges for new and existing roles.
- Develop competitive and sustainable offers that balance market expectations, internal equity and Prism's financial objectives.
- Support leadership with workforce cost planning, payroll forecasting and people-related budgeting.
- Own the employee lifecycle from onboarding through development, retention and off-boarding.
- Build an onboarding experience that gives new hires the tools, access, context and relationships they need to integrate quickly and contribute effectively.
- Manage core HR operations including employment contracts, employee records, payroll coordination, benefits, leave and absence management, HR systems and documentation.
- Maintain accurate, organised and compliant HR records and processes across the studio.
- Continuously review HR workflows and identify opportunities to simplify, automate or improve how we work.
- Act as a trusted and approachable HR partner for employees and managers across the studio.
- Provide a neutral and confidential point of contact for workplace concerns, interpersonal challenges and difficult conversations.
- Identify potential issues early and work with the people involved to reach practical, constructive solutions before problems escalate.
- Support managers in handling performance concerns, feedback, conflict and other people-related situations confidently and consistently.
- Recognise unhealthy team dynamics and help individuals and managers move toward accountability, direct communication and effective problem-solving.
- Manage disciplinary matters and terminations professionally, fairly and in accordance with applicable employment law and company policy, ensuring documentation and communication are handled appropriately.
- Monitor indicators such as engagement, absence, workload and turnover to identify potential retention or employee-experience concerns early.
- Work closely with the CEO and leadership team to continue shaping Prism's culture, values and ways of working as the studio grows.
What we're looking for
- 5+ years of progressive HR experience, ideally including experience within a medium-to-large technology, gaming or similarly fast-paced organisation.
- Knowledge of Maltese employment law and/or experience employing and hiring people across multiple EU jurisdictions.
- Strong full-cycle recruitment experience across technical and/or creative roles within the technology or gaming industries.
- Proven experience designing and running structured hiring processes that balance speed with rigorous candidate assessment.
- Strong experience managing candidate pipelines and proactively sourcing hard-to-find talent.
- Hands-on experience with salary benchmarking, compensation planning, offer development and negotiation.
- Broad HR experience beyond recruitment, including areas such as onboarding, employee relations, HR operations, performance management and off-boarding.
- Comfortable handling sensitive employee matters, workplace conflict and difficult conversations with professionalism, neutrality and sound judgement.
- Strong understanding of team dynamics and the ability to identify people-related risks before they escalate.
- Experience partnering directly with senior leadership on culture, organisational development and improvements to the working environment.
- Comfortable taking ownership of HR initiatives from identifying a problem through to designing and implementing the solution.
- Highly organised, autonomous and able to prioritise effectively within a fast-moving environment.
- Approachable and trustworthy, with strong judgement around confidentiality, escalation and sensitive information.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with fluency in English.
- Confident working with the Atlassian ecosystem, particularly Jira and Confluence, including the ability to understand Jira projects, workflows and reporting.
- Experienced working within a Slack-based communication culture and comfortable establishing or reinforcing clear communication protocols in a remote environment.
- Comfortable using AI tools as part of your day-to-day work and curious about how automation and emerging technology can improve HR workflows, recruitment and internal processes.
- Genuine interest in games, game development and the people who build them, with an understanding that passion for the player experience starts with the team behind it.
Nice to have
- Experience working within a fully remote, multinational organisation.
- Previous experience working directly within a game development studio.
- Training or certification in coaching, mediation, conflict resolution or a related discipline.
- Experience using HR analytics to understand areas such as engagement, retention, attrition, absence and workforce trends.
- Experience building or scaling HR processes within a growing organisation.
- An active interest in gaming, particularly multiplayer, competitive or shooter titles.
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About Prism Studio
A game development studio that works as one unit with one common goal, collaborating in an open, friendly way as a global team built on talent and communication.
Mission
To build a cross-disciplinary team where everyone is self-managing, wherever they are in the world.
Key facts
- Game development
- Remote-first, distributed global team
- Self-managing, cross-disciplinary team structure
What they value
- Open, friendly collaboration
- Talent and communication