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How do I train my senior leaders to interview without bias?
Katie Burke
Part 1: When should I hire a COO?
Amy Villeneuve
How do I attract an experienced operator to my startup?
Yvonne Hao
Part 2: How do I hire senior leadership team members?
TJ Parker
What questions should I ask when hiring a CFO?
Yvonne Hao
How do you recruit and hire the best talent?
Jessica Nam Kim
How do I avoid bias in my interview process?
Andrea Garvey
What is the value of hiring in cohorts?
Andrea Garvey
Why should I create a repeatable hiring process early on?
Andrea Garvey
How do I create a scalable hiring process?
Andrea Garvey
How can I continue to build a diverse team as my company scales?
Katie Burke
How do I hire for a role I'm not familiar with?
Chad Laurans
How should I think about building and scaling my team?
David Cancel
What questions should I ask in an interview for senior leadership team members?
David Cancel
How do hiring processes change over time?
Basel Fakhoury
When should I hire a people team?
Katie Burke
Should DEI factor into my hiring decisions?
Katie Burke
When should I hire a CFO?
Yvonne Hao
Part 1: How do I hire for culture fit?
Gail Goodman
Part 2: How do I hire for culture fit?
Corey Thomas
If I have to hire over someone, how do I manage that conversation?
Russ Wilcox
Part 1: How do I hire senior leadership team members?
Corey Thomas
Guides
View all GuidesHow to: Choose the Right VP of Engineering
No matter whether you’re just starting to build a business, growing a company, leading a major corporation, or anything in between, technical leadership will be one of the most important decisions and hires you make.
How to Find a Co-Founder or Early Startup Team Member
Looking to find your co-founder or hire your early team?
How To: Hire Your Leadership Team
When it comes to hiring, the are high — your company will succeed or fail by the team you build around you.
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SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters’ Talent Acquisition Suite includes an applicant tracking system, full functionality for recruitment marketing, and collaborative hiring.
Greenhouse
Greenhouse
Greenhouse's applicant tracking system and recruiting software is designed to help make the hiring workflow easier.
BambooHR
BambooHR
BambooHR makes it easy to collect, maintain, and analyze your people data, improve the way you hire talent, onboard new employees, manage compensation, and develop your company culture.
Gusto
Gusto
Gusto is a great payroll tool that makes it easy to onboard and pay your employees.
TriNet
TriNet
TriNet provides industry-tailored HR solutions to small and midsize businesses with exceptional human resources services. See the Offers section for an exclusive offer for Pillar portfolio companies.
Namely
Namely
Namely offers an HR, payroll, benefits, and talent management platform.
Shoobx
Shoobx
Shoobx is a legal operating system for your company, providing the foundation for your growth. They give you a single place to take care of everything from executing your fundraise, to granting equity, to getting board approvals, to hiring employees. The Shoobx platform has over 50 workflows that handle common legal actions with standard documents and legal collaboration. They save valuable time for busy founders like you so that you can focus on what matters: growing your business. Founder's Guide companies receive 20% off their 1st year of Shoobx subscription fees. Learn more here
Levels.fyi
Levels.fyi
Levels.fyi lets you compare career levels & compensation packages across different companies.
WayUp
WayUp
WayUp helps your company attract the most qualified and diverse entry-level talent, 100% virtually. The platform targets recent graduates and professionals with 0 - 5 years of experience, and offers a high-tech, high-touch approach.
RippleMatch
RippleMatch
RippleMatch's intelligent, comprehensive platform helps employers build diverse teams and hire the right entry-level candidates virtually.
Cover Wallet
Cover Wallet
Highly recommended by one of our portfolio companies, Cover Wallet let's you manage all of your insurance policies in one place (eg. Workers' comp).
CloserIQ
CloserIQ
CloserIQ is a sales focused contingency recruiting firm. The team's recruiters vet, pitch, and prepare candidates so the companies they work with can focus on selection. Several Pillar portfolio companies have worked with the firm.
Vettery
Vettery
Vettery is a platform and technology to support the recruitment of sales candidates. Candidates post their backgrounds for clients to review, and companies are able to access candidates through the platform. Vettery comes recommended to us from a trusted VC recruiter in our network.
Planted
Planted
Planted is a recruiting firm dedicated to sourcing for entry-level sales roles (BDR/ISR). The firm works hard to partner with their clients and work directly with candidates to promote specific jobs. Planted comes recommended to us from a trusted VC recruiter in our network.Vendors
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WayUp
WayUp
WayUp is a virtual recruiting platform with qualified, diverse early-career candidates. This platform offers Diversity sourcing, D&I Analytics, D&I employer branding, and Unbiased Screening. WayUp has over 6M candidates, and 71% are underrepresented minorities. By using WayUp you will get more diverse candidates, measure your progress in your D&I hiring goals and amplify your employer brand.
Handshake
Handshake
Handshake is an online “all-in-one early talent recruiting platform” connecting employers with 9M+ students and alumni across more than 1400 educational institutions. Handshake has the largest, most diverse, and active early talent network in the U.S. with 5M women candidates, 1.2M Black candidates, and 1.2M Latinx candidates. By offering internships through Handshake, you will build strong connections with many universities and have the possibility of meeting a diverse group of candidates both in-person with on-campus interviews or through virtual events.
Northeastern Co-Op Program
Contact: Kelly Harrington
Northeastern Co-Op Program
Contact: Kelly Harrington
The Cooperative Education Program at Northeastern University (also known as “co-op”) is an educational model that provides students with opportunities to alternate periods of academic study and periods of full-time employment related to their academic majors and interests. By alternating semesters of academic study with periods of full-time work, students are able to transform work across academic and professional contexts. Co-op provides students the opportunity to explore or refine potential career paths, make valuable industry connections, broaden perspectives, and acquire the skills and knowledge needed to succeed —all while learning and growing outside the comfort zone of the classroom.
Project Onramp
Contact: Lila Neel
Project Onramp
Contact: Lila Neel
Project Onramp is a paid summer internship program focused on giving talented four-year college students from under-resourced backgrounds their “onramp” to the biotech industry. Project Onramp is looking for paid internships in hard science and in business disciplines, including marketing, communications, HR and administration. Offering Project Onramp internships is an investment in your industry’s future: you are giving talented students without access a way to learn about careers in the life sciences. Financial support from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center can subsidize each intern’s salary up to $8,160 per summer, for companies of fewer than 100 employees.
Supporting Strategies
Supporting Strategies
Supporting Strategies provides full HR, benefits, accounting and payroll support to scaling companies. We work with Janean Sullivan at the company. Pillar's Sarah Hodges has worked with Supporting Strategies across several startups.
Pave
Pave
Pave integrates with your HR systems to build compensation benchmarks. Pave is compatible with 25+ HRIS and Cap Table systems. Pave is API-powered; it takes ~3-5 minutes to integrate your systems. Upon completion, you’ll receive free access to Pave’s real-time market data to inform salary and equity grants when making job offers or advancing folks within your company. Pave recently announced Benchmarking for Crypto compensation.
Sapers & Wallack / Hilb Group
Contact: Aviva Sapers
Sapers & Wallack / Hilb Group
Contact: Aviva Sapers
Sapers & Wallack/Hilb Group NE provides trusted benefits, retirement, insurance and investment advice to help you ensure the financial well-being of your business or family. Pillar works with the firm for our own insurance needs.
Radford
Radford
Radford surveys deliver rewards insights and compensation data from executives to developers to scientists to sales professionals.
Advanced HR
Advanced HR
Advanced HR offers compensation data, planning and management software.
12Twenty
12Twenty
12Twenty drives meaningful engagement with employers for career advisers and students at the university level.
10x Management
Contact: Sam Zeisler
10x Management
Contact: Sam Zeisler
10x has taken the model of talent representation from the entertainment and sports world and applied it to the tech world - 10x represents and manages high-level, pre-vetted freelance and contract engineers, developers, designers, and other technical experts. Startups can enjoy a hassle-free contracting process at no additional cost other than the standard rate of the person they work with.
Riviera Partners
Contact: Sam Wholley
Riviera Partners
Contact: Sam Wholley
From day one, Riviera Partners has helped the most transformative companies in tech (from early stage to public, bootstrapped to venture- and private equity-backed) flourish in a continually evolving technology marketplace. This is done through the successful recruitment of Product Development - Engineering, Product Management, Design, Data Science, Infrastructure, etc. - executives and engineers. With offices across the US, Riviera is in all major tech hubs.
VentureFizz
Contact: Keith Cline
VentureFizz
Contact: Keith Cline
VentureFizz is the leading employment branding and recruitment platform focused on the tech industry. We work with companies at all stages of development and help out with hiring across all functional areas.
Gray Scalable
Gray Scalable
Gray Scalable's team of recruiting and HR professionals help companies grow and evolve their people practices to match the standards of the world’s leading tech companies. From pre-Series A to post-IPO companies, they help build teams and develop customized programs that engage your people and advance your culture. Pillar portfolio companies have worked with Charlie Gray at the company.
Beyond the Workplace
Beyond the Workplace
Beyond HR provides end-to-end HR consulting services with a focus on employment practices and strategy, employee relations, and employee communications. If you're a Pillar portfolio company, view our Pillar VC Offers section for a special introductory offer or view the company's portfolio of services. We work with Wendy Silver at the company.
Global EIR Program
Global EIR Program
The Global EIR Program (GEIR) is a pioneering solution for entrepreneurs struggling with the uncertainty and limitations of the U.S. visa system. Immigrant entrepreneurs are hired part-time by the university – procuring their expertise to contribute to the entrepreneurial community while at the same time obtaining an H1B visa (exempt from the annual quota due to special dispensation for non-profits) to allow them to remain in the community to build their startup.
Big Cloud Recruiting
Contact: Kit Feber
Big Cloud Recruiting
Contact: Kit Feber
Big Cloud is a recruiting platform for Data Scientists, Engineers, or Architects. The company works with clients ranging from dynamic AI start-up’s, to the world’s biggest organizations. Several Pillar portfolio companies have worked with the firm.
Reveneer
Contact: Greg Casale
Reveneer
Contact: Greg Casale
Reveneer designs, builds & manages high-velocity inside sales operations. If you don’t have the time or expertise to build your own inside sales operation, Reveneer will do it for you. The company's all-in-one services encompass the entire operation to deliver sales results that are predictable and repeatable over time. Several Pillar portfolio companies have worked with Greg Casale at the company.
Talent House
Talent House
Talent House is a boutique agency that primarily focuses on contingent searches (and some retained) with an emphasis on sales and marketing (including customer success) roles. The firm comes highly recommended to us by a VC recruiter from our network.
Betts Recruiting
Betts Recruiting
Betts Recruiting is strong in Sales, Marketing and other Go-to-Market roles. The firm's leadership team focuses on strategic management-level roles. The firm comes recommended to us by a trusted VC recruiter. Reach out to Allison.
RJR
RJR
RJR solely focuses on sales opportunities; the recruiters on the firm's team come from a sales background themselves, and were highly recommended to Pillar by a VC recruiter with whom we frequently work.
SLT Talent Acquisition Consulting
SLT Talent Acquisition Consulting
Susanne Talbot from SLT Talent Acquisition Consulting is an experienced recruiter with a background in executive search and technical recruiting. She is a wonderful person to collaborate with, and several Pillar portfolio companies have engaged with Susanne with great success.
