About us
Helping studios build teams and processes
- from hiring to systemic solutions that actually work.
- from hiring to systemic solutions that actually work.
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First Projects and the Birth of HR Consulting
Talent Ark didn't start as a startup with an idea to build a recruitment agency. The company grew out of years of hands-on experience working inside the game industry.
Before 2023, the future Talent Ark team was developing the HR function at one of the largest gaming companies, helping build teams for internal projects and scale the business. Each of our consultants has their own professional path in the industry, having worked at leading game companies including MY.GAMES, Playgendary, Playkot, Nexters, Playrix, and others.
Before 2023, the future Talent Ark team was developing the HR function at one of the largest gaming companies, helping build teams for internal projects and scale the business. Each of our consultants has their own professional path in the industry, having worked at leading game companies including MY.GAMES, Playgendary, Playkot, Nexters, Playrix, and others.
Working inside studios, we kept running into the same challenges again and again: fast-growing teams, shifting market conditions, the need to adapt quickly to new realities, complex international hiring, employee relocation, and the need to build mature HR processes. That hands-on experience - including the ability to find solutions in complex, constantly changing conditions - became the foundation of the product we'd go on to build.
2023
From an In-House HR Team to a Consulting Company
In 2023, game studios began reaching out to our team more and more often, asking for help with recruiting specialists and solving complex HR challenges. That's how the idea came about: take the expertise we'd built up and make it available beyond a single company, to the whole industry.
Talent Ark's first clients included both young game studios at the stage of building their first products and raising investment, and companies that came through recommendations from our personal network. Studio leaders we'd worked with before already knew our approach, our level of responsibility, and the team's expertise - so they reached out to us again as they moved into their new projects and companies.
Talent Ark's first clients included both young game studios at the stage of building their first products and raising investment, and companies that came through recommendations from our personal network. Studio leaders we'd worked with before already knew our approach, our level of responsibility, and the team's expertise - so they reached out to us again as they moved into their new projects and companies.
It was this combination of trust from the professional community and demand from fast-growing game studios that shaped our core areas of work: recruiting specialists for the game industry, building and developing HR processes, training and developing employees and managers, supporting international relocation, visa support, help obtaining residence permits, and HR consulting.
2024
Complex Large-Scale Projects
2024 marked a stage of qualitative growth for our team and our shift toward more comprehensive HR consulting.
We successfully completed a number of complex searches for executives and key experts in the game industry, including building a first studio of 35 people from scratch, as well as delivering several large-scale international employee relocation projects.
We successfully completed a number of complex searches for executives and key experts in the game industry, including building a first studio of 35 people from scratch, as well as delivering several large-scale international employee relocation projects.
At the same time, we started organizing large-scale events for the game industry in Cyprus, bringing together the professional community and market players.
2025
The Birth of Talent Ark
In 2025, our team got its own name: Talent Ark.
For us, this was more than just branding — it marked a transition to a new stage of growth. We built out our internal processes, systematized the expertise we'd accumulated, and formed a full-fledged lineup of HR products for game studios and publishers.
For us, this was more than just branding — it marked a transition to a new stage of growth. We built out our internal processes, systematized the expertise we'd accumulated, and formed a full-fledged lineup of HR products for game studios and publishers.
The name Talent Ark reflects our philosophy. We're creating a space where it's easier for talent to find strong teams, and easier for studios to find the people who can shape the future of their game projects.
Today
Talent Ark Today
Today, Talent Ark is an international HR consulting company specializing in the game industry.
We work with game studios and publishers around the world, helping them build teams, scale their businesses, and solve the most complex HR challenges — from sourcing individual experts to building entire departments.
Talent Ark's projects involve more than 15 consultants and industry experts, each with hands-on experience working inside game companies and a deep understanding of the industry's specifics.
We work with game studios and publishers around the world, helping them build teams, scale their businesses, and solve the most complex HR challenges — from sourcing individual experts to building entire departments.
Talent Ark's projects involve more than 15 consultants and industry experts, each with hands-on experience working inside game companies and a deep understanding of the industry's specifics.
100+
mid-to-senior positions filled every year
46 days
average time to fill expert-level positions
65 days
average time to fill top-level positions
30+
executives our partners hire together with us every year
200+
visa and residence permit cases every year
94%
visa and residence permit approval rate
40+
corporate events
21 roles
covered in our annual game dev salary survey
How we work
1
Dive into
context
context
We get into the details of the task, team, and business, identifying real goals - not just the formal request.
2
Give you
an honest picture
an honest picture
Based on the market and practice: what's actually possible, where the constraints are, and what options exist.
3
Build
a tailored solution
a tailored solution
We combine approaches: recruitment, sourcing, processes, analytics. We don't offer anything extra - only what's truly needed.
4
Work
transparently
transparently
You always know what's happening and at what stage we are. No "black box," no surprises.
5
Deliver
results
results
The focus isn't on process, but on outcome: a filled role, a working process, or a solved problem.
