How Abundance made a founding hardware hire in 15 days with Jooba
“Jooba was super easy to use and delivered results instantly. The team went above and beyond to ensure we were successful. It felt like we had an in-house recruiter.”
The challenge
Abundance needed a founding hardware engineer, and the profile was narrow. Not just any engineer: someone who had actually built physical products and shipped production firmware on embedded devices, with real robotics chops and startup instincts, early in their career but already operating at a high level. That person isn't sitting in an inbound applicant pool, and as a fast-moving team, Tejes didn't have time to go find them himself.
The approach
Jooba started with an intake call to align on the profile, then ran top-of-funnel from there. Jooba identified candidates, reached out, and surfaced the interested ones directly into a shared Slack channel, so the only thing Tejes had to do was approve intros and talk to great people. Despite how specific the profile was, a pipeline of 15 interested, qualified candidates came together quickly, and the engineer Abundance would go on to hire was contacted just two days after the search went live.
“Jooba was super easy to use and delivered results instantly. The team went above and beyond to ensure we were successful. It felt like we had an in-house recruiter.”
The results
- Founding hire made: Founding Hardware Engineer, filled 15 days after outreach began
- Fast contact of the hire: the eventual hire was contacted 2 days after the search went live
- Pipeline: 15 interested, qualified candidates for a narrow, specialized profile
- Effort from Abundance: approve intros in Slack and take first calls, nothing else
Why it worked
The role was specific and the timeline was tight, which is exactly where a high-signal outbound engine beats waiting on inbound. Jooba handled identifying and contacting candidates end to end, so a founding-level hire that could have taken months closed in a little over two weeks with almost no lift from the team. Abundance and Jooba are continuing to work together on openings across the org.
“Not having to leave Slack and juggle a bunch of tools made the whole experience seamless. It makes recruiting feel like Claude Fable on Ultracode.”
About Jooba
Jooba is reimagining recruiting services from the ground up. By combining proprietary AI tooling with experienced talent engineers, Jooba serves as an embedded recruiting partner running top-of-funnel for high-growth technology companies. Backed by a16z Speedrun, Genius Ventures, Scribble Ventures, Founders Future, and operators from OpenAI, ServiceTitan, and more.
