Hire startup talent

10x faster

We find breakout engineers, designers, and operators for your company. 
Startup quality and speed -- guaranteed.

Unlike traditional recruiters, we get it.

Candor is built for founders, by founders.
We’ve started and scaled startups ourselves — we know finding exceptional talent takes endless hours you don’t have.

Sourcing at 10x speed

We deliver vetted candidates in days, not weeks, so you can get back to building as soon as possible.

Only the best

Stop sifting through irrelevant resumes. We screen for startup-ready grit, only sending you top performers.

3-month guarantee

We’ve felt the weight of hiring the wrong person. If your new hire isn’t a fit, we’ll find a replacement, up to 3 months post-hire.

Close your open roles in 4 steps

Step 1

Kickoff

Share your open roles and culture. We’ll refine the job requirements to find talent who truly fit your vision.

Step 2

Sourcing

Within days, we source and send pre-vetted candidates who match your exact needs. Carefully screened for technical skills and culture-fit.

Step 3

Review

Browse rich candidate profiles on our platform, including detailed screening notes from our team. Move forward with top matches.

Step 4

Hire

Interview and make an offer with confidence, backed by our 3-month guarantee.

Step 1

Kickoff

Share your open roles and culture. We’ll refine the job requirements to find talent who truly fit your vision.

Step 2

Sourcing

Within days, we source and send pre-vetted candidates who match your exact needs. Carefully screened for technical skills and culture-fit.

Step 3

Review

Browse rich candidate profiles on our platform, including detailed screening notes from our team. Move forward with top matches.

Step 4

Hire

Interview and make an offer with confidence, backed by our 3-month guarantee.

Step 1

Kickoff

Share your open roles and culture. We’ll refine the job requirements to find talent who truly fit your vision.

Step 2

Sourcing

Within days, we source and send pre-vetted candidates who match your exact needs. Carefully screened for technical skills and culture-fit.

Step 3

Review

Browse rich candidate profiles on our platform, including detailed screening notes from our team. Move forward with top matches.

Step 4

Hire

Interview and make an offer with confidence, backed by our 3-month guarantee.

Step 1

Kickoff

Share your open roles and culture. We’ll refine the job requirements to find talent who truly fit your vision.

Step 2

Sourcing

Within days, we source and send pre-vetted candidates who match your exact needs. Carefully screened for technical skills and culture-fit.

Step 3

Review

Browse rich candidate profiles on our platform, including detailed screening notes from our team. Move forward with top matches.

Step 4

Hire

Interview and make an offer with confidence, backed by our 3-month guarantee.

Get started

Close your open roles in 4 steps

Step 1

Kickoff

Share your open roles and culture. We’ll refine the job requirements to find talent who truly fit your vision.
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Step 2

Sourcing

Within days, we source and send pre-vetted candidates who match your exact needs. Carefully screened for technical skills and culture-fit.
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Step 3

Review

Browse rich candidate profiles on our platform, including detailed screening notes from our team. Move forward with top matches.

Step 4

Hire

Interview and make an offer with confidence, backed by our 3-month guarantee.
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Get started

Trusted by venture-backed teams who don't settle on talent

“Candor is like an extension of our own team. They consistently source extremely high quality candidates and communicate what we do to candidates as though they are in-house. Any company is lucky to work with them."

Austin Diamond
CEO at Universal

"The candidates from Candor have been great and I wouldn’t have been able to find this caliber of talent on my own. They’ve allowed us to focus our time on closing sales and pushing the business forward, without sacrificing on building our team."

Jordan Shamir
CEO at Yofi

“Working with Candor made our hiring process easy and took the most time intensive stuff about recruiting off my plate. We ended up closing a senior engineer two weeks after I drafted the JD. It moved way faster than if I was owning the process and Iʼm super stoked about the hires we made."

John Donner
Co-Founder & CTO at Park

"Working with recruiters can often be difficult as an early-stage founder. So few really understand the unique needs of a startup and require too much handholding. Working with Kelsey (Candor’s founder) has been extremely refreshing - she’s in my same boat and get’s it. She gets her work done efficiently and has a unique ability to turn very vague requirements into a gameplan."

Alex Seutin
Founder of Drillbit

Frequently asked questions about hiring

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How do you assess candidate fit?

We vet candidates for two things: relevant role experience and startup culture fit. Startup culture fit includes experience in roles that are autonomous, fast moving, and ambiguous.

How much does it cost to hire with Candor?

We charge a placement fee for our services that's paid upon a candidate accepting an offer with your company.

What happens if the hire doesn’t work out?

We guarantee your hire for 3 months after the candidate's start date. If they resign or are let go for cause, we will provide one free replacement search.

Can you help with salary benchmarking and market insights?

Yes! Happy to provide salary benchmarks for your roles and any local nuance you need when hiring in a new market.

Where do you find candidates?

We source candidates through both targeted outreach and our own database.

What roles can I hire for?

Candor can help you hire fullstack engineers, frontend/backend engineers, product managers, product designers, sales, marketers, finance, operations, chief of staff, growth generalists, and more.

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Hire startup talent

10x faster

Sourcing at 10x speed

Only the best

3-month guarantee

Trusted by startups backed by the best

Close your open roles in 4 steps

Close your open roles in 4 steps