Joshin’s First Technical Hire

How humanpredictions helped Joshin’s founder, Issa, make her first crucial tech hire.

Challenge

Joshin, a two-way marketplace for special needs caregivers & their families, built their MVP with a singular contractor who happened to reside in Denmark. After raising their pre-seed round, Issa was ready to make the jump and begin building her in-house tech team. She had two options:

1. Spend her valuable time as a founder trying to recruit a technical leader, something she had never done before.
2. Pay a premium to a staffing agency (somewhere between 15-30% of a first year salary).

Outcome

The humanpredictions team worked closely with Issa to create custom searches within the platform to surface candidates who were not only technically qualified, but were also personally interested in the Joshin company mission. The humanpredictions team then provided effective email copy based on what they had seen work well with other founders, and helped Issa customize it to match her own voice.

The result was Issa making her first senior level technical hire within 6-weeks of partnering with humanpredictions, while completely avoiding tens of thousands of dollars in agency fees. Issa and Joshin have since returned to work with humanpredictions on subsequent hires.

humanpredictions’ aggregates hundreds of data points on technical talent from 40+ unique tech communities. By continuously updating this information, we not only possess the cleanest database, but can also predict when tech talent is most likely to change jobs based on public signals & tenure data.

We were founded, and now run, by industry experts in technical recruiting.

“I can’t imagine having hired our most crucial role, Head of Tech, without humanpredictions. Not only did Matt and the team go above and beyond to support our search, but the quality of candidates that surfaced were outstanding. The user interface and process was seamless. I have referred humanpredictions to other startup founders who are ready to make technical hires. – Issa Danielsen, Co-founder/CEO, Joshin