Mayfair is an all-in-one finance solution designed to help startups operate more efficiently by automating their finances. Led by co-founders Daniel Chan, Kevin Chan, Munish Chopra and Kent Mori, Mayfair enables founders with easier access to financial insights to make smarter, growth-accelerating decisions. Since the company’s launch in April 2021, Paperclip has helped dozens of high-growth startups take control of their bookkeeping, financial reportings, and taxes.
As a burgeoning startup (<50 full time employees), Mayfair is on a mission to expand their team to better serve the needs of their rapidly growing client base. With a hefty goal of building out their engineering team from scratch by Summer 2022, Mayfair turned to Wellfound's Curated product to find the best tech talent ready to move.
Prior to Wellfound, Mayfair tried out various platforms and channels to recruit tech talent, but struggled with gauging candidate intent. It wasn't until using Wellfound that they began finding candidates with more aligned interests and eagerness to work at a startup – which ultimately led them to hiring one of their first full time engineers.
“We tried outbound prospecting and cold emailing to reach potential candidates. We even tried LinkedIn direct messages, but there was not enough intent on the candidate side… with Wellfound we have candidates who have the intent and actually want to work at an early stage startup. They’re more aware of the risks and benefits.”
—Matthew Eley, Chief of Staff
Candidate quality and intent signals are a huge reason Mayfair turns to Wellfound’s Curated over other sourcing platforms. With Curated, Mayfair’s hiring team is able to focus on the human element of their candidates. Their dedicated Wellfound representative sends over a list of fully vetted, hand-selected candidates weekly, identifying which candidates are a best fit and why. This direct line to highly qualified candidates has reduced Mayfair's time spent sourcing to less than one hour a week – freeing up hours of valuable time.
Now, instead of spending the majority of their time sourcing, Mayfair has been able to focus their time on finding candidates who don’t just fit the criteria, but embody the same values. They’ve found that candidates on Wellfound tend to have the unique startup mentality they’re looking for.
“Strong communication skills are really important. Possessing an ownership mentality is really important. We look for candidates who can be founding members and help guide the culture of our teams for years to come. These are traits beyond the resume and I’m able to identify those standout candidates via Wellfound.”
—Matthew Eley, Chief of Staff
“We tried outbound prospecting and cold emailing to reach potential candidates. We even tried LinkedIn direct messages, but there was not enough intent on the candidate side… with Wellfound we have candidates who have the intent and actually want to work at an early stage startup. They’re more aware of the risks and benefits.”
“What we’ve found through Curated is better candidates, faster sourcing, less headache, and overall better results. To sum it up, here at Trace, what we give our customers is time back; what Wellfound did for me as the hiring manager is much the same — it gave me time back. There’s so much noise on the other platforms, we didn’t find that on Wellfound.”
“My sourcer met with me, understood the job, screened every single candidate, and only sent me candidates that were worth considering. I was very picky, so they continued to work with me to refine the search. It was amazing service. Through that process we've got two viable candidates that we could extend offers to. We actually extended on this morning who's going to work out.“
“The quality of candidates we received... has been consistently superior to that from our other external sourcing solutions. We made an average of 4 tech hires every quarter.“
