Client Success Stories
Discover how we've helped leading companies across industries build exceptional teams and achieve their growth objectives through strategic talent acquisition
Joy: Building a Diverse, Remote Team in 2022
Joy is a modern wedding planning platform based in San Francisco and globally distributed. Our partnership helped them build a diverse, high-performing engineering team during a critical growth phase.
Challenge
Joy needed to scale their engineering team rapidly while maintaining their commitment to diversity and inclusion. They required talented professionals who could work remotely and contribute to their global platform.
Solution
We partnered with Joy in February 2022, shortly before they raised $60M USD in November of that same year. Our focus was on identifying diverse talent that aligned with their inclusive hiring initiatives.
Key Results
Breadwallet (BRD): Building a Fast-Paced Global Team
Breadwallet is a globally distributed cryptocurrency wallet provider headquartered in Switzerland. Our strategic hiring support helped position them for successful growth and eventual acquisition.
Challenge
In early 2018, Breadwallet was preparing for its Series A and B funding rounds. To support this growth, they needed to onboard exceptional talent in key roles, including a Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and a VP of Product.
Solution
We partnered with Breadwallet to fill these critical positions. Our successful recruitment of seven key members, including their CMO and VP of Product, contributed to their successful acquisition by Coinbase in 2021.
Key Results
SERMO: Smart Leadership and Team Growth
SERMO is a private social media network for physicians, open to licensed physicians in 150 countries. This smart, budget-friendly approach led to SERMO's successful comeback, showing the importance of strategic hiring and wise location choices.
Challenge
SERMO faced a tough time, needing a leadership shake-up and a cost-effective way to grow its engineering team. Their plan was simple - hire experienced leaders to support CEO Peter Kirk in New York City, and create a new R&D team in Toronto.
Solution
In one year, we hired new VPs for Engineering, Product, Marketing, and Sales, plus Directors for Design/UX, Engagement, and IT. We also added 11 varied Software Engineers in Toronto, cutting the cost-per-hire by 32%.
Key Results
Gojek: International Executive Hires and Talent Acquisition
Gojek, the first Decacorn in Indonesia, serves as the operating system for Southeast Asia, powering emerging market economies through its superapp. This strategic talent acquisition contributed to Gojek's ongoing growth and solidified its position as a dominant force in the Southeast Asian market.
Challenge
Gojek, Indonesia's leading Decacorn and the driving force behind the Southeast Asian market, entrusted us with the crucial task of recruiting key international executives for their Jakarta headquarters.
Solution
Our team successfully recruited the Chief Data Officer and Chief Product Officer for Gojek, securing top talent for their leadership positions. Additionally, we bolstered their team with skilled Software Engineers and Product Managers.
Key Results
Uniswap: Smart Contract Engineer for Crypto Exchange
Uniswap is the largest decentralized exchange and the fourth-largest cryptocurrency exchange overall by daily trading volume created by Hayden Adams. Our recruitment helped them secure world-class blockchain talent to maintain their market-leading position.
Challenge
To find a Smart Contract Engineer who could continue to elevate the reputation and credibility of their brand, and make significant improvements to its protocol.
Solution
We were able to find one of the top-rated smart contract engineers and auditors in the industry from OpenZeppelin who has since been contributing to improve the already high industry standard of smart contract development at Uniswap.
Key Results
Polymath Network: Finding Professionals That Build Exceptional Products
Polymath Network is an institutional-grade open-source blockchain built specifically for regulated assets and one of the first to focus on Security Tokens. Our successful placement helped enhance their platform's user experience and drive growth.
Challenge
The challenge was to help them find a Product Designer who could improve the look, feel, and experience of their platform. Driving more users, engagement, and growth of the platform.
Solution
We found a Designer who came from ConsenSys and already had deep experience working in Blockchain projects professionally and personally. He was not only the right technical fit, he was a great cultural fit.
Key Results
Exodus: The Right Cultural Fit for Crypto Wallets
Exodus is a multi-asset software wallet that removes the geek requirement and keeps design a priority to make cryptocurrency and digital assets easy for everyone. Our strategic hires helped position them for their successful public offering and continued market growth.
Challenge
Exodus had already established itself as a major player in the market and had been getting prepared to make its first public offering of Class A stock. They wanted to make a push with marketing and continue developing their online communities.
Solution
We helped them successfully hire a talented Social Media Manager who previously worked at Litecoin to run their Twitter Page who helped improve growth in their following and engagement on the platform. We later brought in a Product Marketing Director from ShapeShift to focus on the direction of the product and expansion into other features and offerings.
Key Results
Conduit: Bulk Engineers for Fast Growing Start-ups
Conduit is a company based in Boston that offers a financial API for payments, on ramps, wallets, DeFi. Our engineering talent helped them scale their platform effectively and establish themselves as a prominent player in the DeFi ecosystem.
Challenge
Conduit had begun making significant growth in their platform and customer base and it was time to start scaling. They needed to hire several engineers to help build new features and work on scaling the platform to handle even more increased volume.
Solution
We helped them hire 3 talented engineers who came in and made significant contributions to the growth of the product and Conduit is now continuing to ramp up making a name for themselves in the DeFi space around the world.
Key Results
Senior Management for the Hospitality Industry
A thesis-driven, early growth investor for exceptional entrepreneurs building enterprise software companies in the hospitality sector. Our targeted approach and network leverage helped them find the perfect senior executive match quickly and efficiently.
Challenge
It was a very senior position, VP of Sales, and they tried posting it on LinkedIn but they couldn't find anyone as senior. There was a disconnect between what the owner and what the hiring manager wanted.
Solution
In a single call we understood our client's pain. We did outreach, tapped onto our network, and looked for people with: experience in the hospitality industry, sales, and with senior management experience. We found them amazing candidates, among them one with a particular affinity for the brand and they began their role within 10 days.
Key Results
Telescope Partners: Long Time Partnership with a Venture Capital Firm
Telescope Partners is a thesis-driven, early growth investor for exceptional entrepreneurs building enterprise software companies. Our successful partnership demonstrates the value of quality placements and has expanded to include multiple portfolio companies through referrals.
Challenge
They had no experience hiring abroad and wanted to test the waters with candidates in the same time zone. They wanted a software developer at first.
Solution
They loved and hired the first candidate we sent them. Now, we are hiring 2 more candidates and referred us to two other companies in their portfolio, and we hired for them.
Key Results
The Latest Scoop: Long Time Partnership with a Venture Capital Firm
The Latest Scoop is a lifestyle concept store where buyers travel the world - Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Toronto - to curate a unique mix of products including fashion, furniture, home decor, accessories, footwear, stationary and gifts. Our buying is not based on brands, but instead on what we believe to be beautiful, affordable and desirable.
Challenge
They wanted a senior creative director to be in charge of the vision of the brick and mortar stores. They had tried looking on their own.
Solution
We outreached to several professionals and made two proposals. They ended up hiring one as Sr. Creative Director, and loved the other one so much, they opened a position tailored to them. After that, we continue to hire other roles for them, such as Graphic Designer from Argentina.
Key Results
Katimavik: Making a Candidate Fall in Love with the Organization's Mission
Katimavik is a registered charity that engages Canadian youth through volunteer work. Katimavik provides opportunities for young Canadians to participate in five to six-month periods of community service throughout the country via the National Experience program.
Challenge
They needed to hire an HR officer who was local to Montreal, bilingual, with extensive experience in local laws, but being a non-profit organization, they had limited budget.
Solution
We realized it was a tricky role, because we had several obstacles: low budget and geographic constraints. We approached several qualified candidates, with one sticking out. We talked to her about the mission of the organization and he happily took on the position because of it.
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