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Game Studios

We shape Game Studios

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Let’s shape the future of your studio

Your studio grows through the people you bring in.

The developers, designers and leaders you hire shape how your team collaborates, how production evolves and ultimately the quality of the games you create.

StrideQuest partners with indie and mid-size studios to help you make those decisions with confidence. We snipe for the best fit, recruiting the best of class and offering 2 vetted candidates with 48 hours. Saving you valuable time and energy. 

Game industry only

Hiring in the games industry is different. Roles are specialised, the best candidates are rarely actively looking, and cultural fit inside a production team matters as much as technical skills.

StrideQuest works closely with studio founders, hiring managers and leadership teams to understand the context behind every role. Instead of simply sending candidates, we help studios navigate the talent market, validate hiring expectations and connect with the right people.

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Better teams build better games

For growing studios

Whether you are hiring your first senior developer or building out an entire production team, the right recruitment approach makes the difference.

StrideQuest supports studios at different stages of growth: From early indie teams preparing their first major hires to Mid-size studios building leadership and specialised production roles.

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48-hour market scan

Within 2 days, we map the relevant talent landscape for your role. Including candidate availability and realistic salary expectations. 

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2 talents in 5 workdays

We go for both speed and quality. Within five working days you meet the first carefully vetted candidates who match the role and studio context.

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Games-native

We operate inside the games industry, not around it. Our network is built through years of working with developers, designers and studio leaders across the globe.

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Transparent process

Studios gain clear insight into outreach, candidate feedback and market response throughout the search. Helping teams make better hiring decisions, faster.

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Real-time insight in your recruitment project

Our client portal lets you see introduced candidates, schedule interviews and have all relevant documents in one place!

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Our services

Find your gamemode

From permanent employees to temporary workers: we help you find the right person for your game studio.
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Retained Search

Our primary model for critical hires. Through retained search, we deliver qualified candidates for your studio.

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Executive Search

We help you identify senior leaders who bring the right experience and vision.

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Inhouse Services

We take ownership of everything talent acquisition-related.

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Contingent Search

Risk-free hiring when speed matters. Connecting you with talents in our global network.

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Temporary Staffing

Instantly access to niche skills for specific game development phases.

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Ready to scale your team?

Let’s explore how we can accelerate your studio's growth and unlock the best-fit talent you need.

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Frequently asked questions

We are a video game industry specialist recruiter. We specialise in providing fast, flexible, and founder-friendly hiring solutions specifically for indie and mid-size game studios.
We help teams protect their culture and stay lean by providing recruitment services that enable them to build a quality core team and the flexibility to scale up and down quickly through our curated pool of specialist contractors.
Our retained search service includes current data-driven insights on salary ranges, competitor talent, and candidate motivations.
All our retained clients have access to their own portal. The portal shows all recruitment projects we are working on, and within a project, you have access to all profiles we are reaching out to, why we think they are a good fit, all interview reports and feedback from candidates. It gives tangible data that we can use to adjust strategy in case of a difficult-to-fill position
Yes, our temporary and contractor recruitment service is designed for agility, allowing you to scale up or down based on project milestones or peak periods.
Our inhouse can cover different things. For a studio with no or limited recruitment power, we can take full ownership of everything talent acquisition-related or click on to their team of recruiters to provide extra manpower.

Other recruiting projects we regularly do are salary benchmarking, ATS research and implementations, optimise candidate journeys, to name a few.
Yes, we offer reduced fees across several of our service models. 
It offers priority focus where your role becomes a top priority with dedicated resources and proactive engagement of "hidden" passive talent. Additionally, you will get 24/7 access to your client portal, in which you see all preselected candidates that are in process, including access to all interview reports, feedback and recommendations.
For Contingent Search, we submit two profiles within 5 working days. For Contractor roles, initial profiles are submitted within 3 working days.
As part of our Inhouse Services, we help position your organisation as an "employer of choice" to attract top talent. For our external services, we are very much aware that we are indirectly also representing your studio when reaching out and when we are in our communication with candidates. 
We work with indie and midsize studios and publishers from all over the world.