Case Study: a small gaming studio fills 5 roles in 3 months with IQTalent

Independent Gaming Company - Customer Case Study

Independent Gaming Company is an independent mobile gaming studio founded in 2015 that needed help scaling hiring beyond word-of-mouth referrals and contract recruiters. As the team grew, recruiting became too labor intensive, and it struggled to fill key roles like Producer, Artist, Story Editor, Senior Product Manager, and Senior Unity Engineer, leading it to seek support from IQTalent for candidate research, sourcing, and recruiting.

IQTalent provided an on-demand recruiting model that augmented the studio’s two-person internal recruiting team, starting with 40 hours per week and quickly building pipelines for hard-to-fill roles. The first Artist role was filled in under a month, and over a three-month engagement IQTalent filled five roles with an average time-to-fill of 30–45 days and a cost-per-hire of $7,056, more than 50% less than a traditional contingency recruiter.