Talent Manager

1 Month ago • All levels • Human Resource

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Talent Manager at Double Eleven, you will lead and shape the future of talent across UK and Kuala Lumpur teams. Responsibilities include setting strategic priorities for the Talent Team, managing recruitment efforts, embedding hiring and internal movement frameworks, shaping talent development strategies, overseeing talent progression and internal mobility, using data-driven insights to inform decisions, collaborating on employer branding, and championing diversity, equity, and inclusion. The role requires strategic thinking, expertise in talent frameworks and processes, strong leadership skills, and excellent communication abilities.
Must have:
  • Strategic thinking and innovation
  • Recruitment, talent development expertise
  • Data-driven decision making
  • Strong leadership and communication
  • Experience managing high-performing teams
Perks:
  • Flexible working hours
  • Hybrid working option
  • 28 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays
  • Birthday leave and moving house leave
  • Potential for annual performance bonus
  • Additional leave for milestones
  • State-of-the-art studio facilities
  • Free breakfast, drinks, fruit
  • Employee referral bonus
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Free game codes & merchandise
  • Family-friendly leave
  • Christmas Saving Scheme
  • Free parking
  • Vitality Private Healthcare
  • Mental health support via Plumm
  • Personalised development plan
  • Access to accredited Academy
  • In-studio wellbeing programmes
  • Team events and activities

Job Details

Description

We’re looking for a Talent Manager to join our award winning team in Middlesbrough (UK), home to the beautiful North Yorkshire coastline and countryside.

As a Talent Manager at Double Eleven, you’ll lead and shape the future of talent in a global, fast-paced and collaborative gaming company. Unlike similar roles elsewhere, you’ll have the opportunity to work across borders, making a meaningful impact on both our UK and Kuala Lumpur teams, while driving innovative approaches to hiring and internal talent development and mobility.

You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping our global workforce, leading innovative recruitment, talent development and internal mobility strategies across both our UK and Kuala Lumpur teams.

As a global gaming company, we've enabled millions to conquer Minecraft Dungeons, battle in Rust Console Edition and create new adventures in Fallout 76. Recently, we collaborated with Rockstar Games to bring Red Dead Redemption to the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 as well as partnered with Obsidian Entertainment on Grounded: Fully Yoked Edition for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 and 5.

Double Eleven is a place where our people come first. Our 400-person team proudly represents over 30 nationalities.

We strive to avoid crunch, we offer flexible working hours to allow you to truly enjoy work/life balance whilst making great games and any overtime is always planned, optional and paid.

Our interview process for this position is likely to consist of the following two selection stages (subject to change):

Stage one: A skills-based written assessment followed by a competency-based interview

Stage two: A skills-based task followed by a follow up interview

If you’d like to understand more about this - or anything else related to this opportunity - please do reach out to Jo (Talent Manager) at jobs@double11.com

What you’ll be doing

  • Lead the Talent Team to set strategic priorities and ensure alignment with business goals, focusing workforce planning, succession planning and talent pipeline development
  • Manage recruitment efforts across the UK and KL, partnering with senior leaders to forecast and fulfill talent needs at all levels, from early careers to senior leadership roles
  • Embed and evolve our hiring and internal movement frameworks, ensuring alignment with our ‘Head, Heart, Suitcase’ principles for making strong, quality decisions about talent
  • Shape and implement talent development, analysing the makeup of our teams and identifying growth opportunities to ensure we have the right skills at the right time
  • Manage and oversee talent progression including how we approach promotions and succession planning
  • Oversee internal talent mobility, fostering opportunities for employees to grow and develop within the organisation while ensuring a seamless internal movement process
  • Use data-driven insights to inform decisions on recruitment and talent development, continuously improving practices to meet evolving business needs
  • Collaborate on enhancing our Employer Brand and Employee Value Proposition, ensuring we attract top talent while maintaining our reputation as an employer of choice
  • Act as a champion for diversity, equity, and inclusion, integrating these principles into all aspects of recruitment, development, and internal movement processes
  • Represent Double Eleven at industry events, networking opportunities, and community initiatives to strengthen our presence and build connections that support future talent pipelines

What we’re looking for

  • A strategic thinker with a proven ability to innovate and adapt talent strategies to meet evolving business needs. Expertise in developing frameworks and processes for recruitment, talent development and internal mobility
  • Experience using data-driven insights to identify skills gaps, forecast talent needs and build a robust talent pipelines both internally and externally
  • A people-first leader who values relationships, collaboration and communication. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to engage and inspire confidence in candidates, team members and senior stakeholders alike. A passion for fostering a culture of growth, learning and inclusivity
  • Experience managing and developing high-performing teams, leveraging strong leadership skills to inspire and guide the Talent Team. Awareness of industry trends, best practices and networks to support external recruitment and internal talent initiatives

Qualifications

All relevant qualifications considered

What to expect

Some of our benefits include:

Working life at Double Eleven

  • Start your day any time between 8:00am and 10:00am
  • 35 working hours per week with a 1 hour lunch break (with the opportunity to flex down to 30 minutes or up to 2 hours)
  • Opportunity to apply for hybrid working (up to 2 days working from home per week)
  • 28 days annual leave (20 days annual leave + 8 days bank holiday)
  • 1 day leave for your birthday and 1 day leave if you’re moving house
  • Up to 10 days discretionary annual leave during our end of year break
  • Potential for annual performance bonus
  • 5 additional days annual leave for 5 years service and a further 5 days annual leave for your 10 years service milestone
  • A brand new, state-of-the-art studio facilities that includes a market hall serving nutritious, subsidised meals, round-the-clock gym access, an auditorium and more
  • Free breakfast options, juice, hot drinks and fruit
  • Employee referral bonus (up to £2000!)
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Free game codes, game swag and merchandise
  • Family-friendly leave available
  • Christmas Saving Scheme
  • Free parking
  • Best-in-class tools and workflows so you can focus on creativity

Professional development and wellbeing

  • Vitality Private Healthcare, discounts and rewards for you, your spouse and children (upon the successful completion of your 6 month probationary period)
  • Access to mental health and wellbeing support via Plumm (includes 4 free video therapy sessions per month for both the employee and up to 3 family members aged 18+), unlimited text therapy, courses, meditations
  • A personalised development plan with dedicated support from our Learning team
  • Access to an accredited Academy providing professional qualifications (and access to 500 UK discounts and offers via TOTUM when registered as a student)
  • A dedicated Workplace Experience team responsible for work environments, workplace and quality of employee life services to help foster collaboration, creativity and innovation
  • In-studio wellbeing programmes and People team support

Team life

  • Free activities via our Bus Tours programme (where on occasion, partners and children are welcome to join you)
  • Many team events to celebrate team and game milestones
  • Sponsored team activities including football, basketball, book club, movie club and more
  • Opportunity to contribute to our internal Employee Diversity and Equality Network

Ways to reach us

If you have a general query or if you need support with your application and/or an alternative way to apply, please do not hesitate to contact our Talent team at jobs@double11.com

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About The Company

Double Eleven is one of the top three independent games publishers and developers headquartered in the UK. Trusted with some of the world’s biggest IPs, currently collaborating on Minecraft Dungeons with Mojang Studios, Prison Architect with Paradox Interactive, and Fallout 76 with Bethesda Game Studios, as well as working on other unannounced projects.

As a developer, our relationships with other developers are paramount as we understand the hard work required in the industry. ‘Port +ing’ became our bread and butter and is what pays the bills and allows us to take really good care of our team and their families. That’s why Double Eleven was started, to be able to make great games and still spend time with our families, challenging some of the conventional wisdom of how a development studio and publisher should run.

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