How Gridwise grew their Finance and Engineering teams with Jooba
“What kept us coming back was the quality and consistency. After the first search, Jooba understood our business and hiring bar, so adding new roles was easy. We could move fast without having to onboard a new recruiter or re-explain what great looked like every time.”
The challenge
Gridwise needed a high-quality pipeline and didn't have the time to build one. Ryan and Brian were heads-down running the company, and sourcing senior talent internally meant pulling focus off the product. They didn't want to onboard a new agency or re-explain their bar every time a role opened.
The approach
After a quick intake call with a Talent Engineer, Jooba activated directly in Slack. No extra software, no dashboard, just targeted outreach and interested candidates surfacing into a shared channel. As confidence in the process grew, what began as a single search expanded into five roles across both orgs, spanning finance, product, and engineering, each added one at a time as the need emerged. Every new search spun up against a Talent Engineer already calibrated on the company and the bar, so ramp time compounded away with every role.
For the VP of Finance search, the eventual hire was contacted within 6 hours of going live. The targeted approach let the Talent Engineer cut the noise and go straight to the highest-signal candidates, closing a 15-year strategic finance leader focused on scaling venture-backed SaaS companies. On the engineering side, Brian needed a senior engineer with deep data experience for the analytics and B2B side of the product. Within two weeks he was introduced to the fit: an expert in data platform architecture and modernization, who accepted.
“What kept us coming back was the quality and consistency. After the first search, Jooba understood our business and hiring bar, so adding new roles was easy. We could move fast without having to onboard a new recruiter or re-explain what great looked like every time.”
The results
- Hires made: 4 (VP of Finance, Senior Software Engineer (Data), two Senior Backend Engineers)
- Fastest contact of a hired candidate: 6hrs after the search went live
- Time to hire, Senior Software Engineer: intro'd within 2 weeks, closed in under 2 months
Why it worked
The Gridwise team never had to manage the process, configure new tools, or onboard a new agency each time a role opened. Jooba was already there, already calibrated, and ready to spin up the next search in Slack. The embedded model compounds: every role makes the next one faster and more accurate.
“Jooba has become one of our most reliable solutions for hiring engineers. The quality of candidates received through Jooba exceeds traditional job boards and syndications, as Jooba directly reaches the candidates we want based on our own selection criteria and qualifications. Combine the higher quality leads with Jooba’s convenient Slack-native workflow, and the result is less time sifting through noise and more time interviewing qualified candidates.”
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.
