Preset’s Story: Hiring 4 Employees in 5 Months on Wellfound

Industry: Data Analytics / Business Intelligence

Company size: 50-100

Preset is an open-source analytics platform that enables companies to explore and visualize their data to make smarter and faster business decisions. It was founded in 2019 by CEO and founder Max Beauchemin, the original creator of Apache Superset (the popular open-source project underpinning Preset today). Since then, they've unlocked valuable insights for the high-growth B2B and B2C startups within their customer base.

Preset's hiring challenge and why Wellfound worked for them

As a startup, Preset was eager to take their product from the research and development phase to built, designed, and market-ready. With this in mind, the company had a variety of technical and non-technical roles that needed to be filled (e.g., software engineers, product designers, user researchers, and sales leads). With numerous open roles across the company, Preset turned to various sourcing platforms, but struggled to find responsive candidates who were ready to join a startup.

It wasn’t until adding Wellfound's Curated product that Preset began to find more highly qualified and startup-ready candidates. As part of Preset’s Curated subscription, the company was assigned a dedicated account manager who worked closely with their Recruiting Team to understand their hiring needs and provide weekly lists of personalized, interview-ready candidates.

“Wellfound is more helpful than other sourcing tools because it’s easy to use and the candidates are warmer, active, and more responsive. The platform specializes in talent who want to work at startups and are motivated to make that jump.” —Ray Putrus, Senior Recruiter

With Wellfound, Preset began to connect with the right candidates who were eager to join their team - ultimately leading to an impressive 4 hires in 5 months across various disciplines.

How a Curated match led to the best porfolio presentations the CEO had ever witnessed

One of those impressive hires is Preset’s Lead Designer. Preset was leveraging Wellfound to source a senior designer to eventually lead their team of junior designers. With Curated, they matched with a candidate who had previous startup experience and the exact skill sets they were looking for.

The candidate received raving reviews throughout the interview process - including a nod to having the best presentation the CEO had ever witnessed - and was quickly hired. They excelled in the role and earned a promotion just three months into their position. Later, the same employee helped hire and onboard two additional candidates via Curated again.

“With Wellfound, you get people who want to come to startups and make an impact…and that’s exactly what this candidate did.” —Ray Putrus, Senior Recruiter

Preset’s Curated success metrics

Curated user since: 2020

Number of Curated candidates hired: 8

Key roles hired: Product Designer, Product Manager, UX Researcher, Software Engineer, Front End Engineer

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