Hired · A talent marketplace for tech jobs

Finding a job is hard. Hiring for one is too. We tried to make both a little less painful.

  • Head of Design
  • 2018–2020
  • Team of 8
Hired Practice: a library of coding challenges with your progress alongsideA timed coding challenge in the Hired editor, with the problem and examples beside the code

Hired turned the job search around: companies applied to candidates, with salary up front. I led design and research across product and marketing, with a team of designers and researchers.

The opportunity

Both sides of hiring run on weak signals. A résumé says little about what someone can do, and a job post says little about what the job is. Everyone wastes time guessing.

The problems worth solving

  • Showing what someone can actually do. Coding challenges let candidates prove their skills instead of listing them.
  • Giving recruiters a better signal. Tools to find best-fit candidates fast, without wading through everyone.
  • Growing beyond the match. We grew the marketplace with new products for employers: coding challenges, data and reporting on hiring, and tools for enterprise teams.

Raising the bar

I set up a research-driven way of working across product and marketing, so decisions started with what candidates and recruiters actually did. My team also tuned and codified the Hired brand, then took it bigger: more awareness, and executed across every surface.

Outcome

25%Of Hired’s revenue came from the new products we launched, in their first year
Filters that help recruiters find the right people, not just more people.
Filters that help recruiters find the right people, not just more people.
Candidates show what they can do, and see what a role actually offers. Candidates show what they can do, and see what a role actually offers.
Candidates show what they can do, and see what a role actually offers.
A tuned identity, taken bigger across every channel. A tuned identity, taken bigger across every channel. A tuned identity, taken bigger across every channel.
A tuned identity, taken bigger across every channel.
One design language, codified so it could grow without drifting. One design language, codified so it could grow without drifting. One design language, codified so it could grow without drifting. One design language, codified so it could grow without drifting.
One design language, codified so it could grow without drifting.
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