Industry: Education
Company Stage: 215M in funding
Founding Date: 2000
Investors: A.Capital Ventures, Emerson Collective
Roles Hired: Senior Data Manager, Senior Data Manager (Data Modeling), Senior Data Engineer, Data Governance Manager, Senior Data Engineer, Python Engineer, Senior Frontend Engineer, Senior Analytics Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer
Locations: New York and remote
Headcount: 1,000+
Founded in 2000, Amplify is a premier K-12 curriculum and assessment company serving over 7 million students and ranking among the nation's largest educational software providers.
Although the company is based in Brooklyn, they embrace a flexible workforce and hire talented individuals remotely across the US. A number of these employees are former educators, which means Amplify's core products are crafted with expertise and insight from seasoned teaching professionals.
The need for Amplify’s products boomed during the pandemic, which meant they needed to hire additional employees to keep up with demand. However, many of the roles they needed to fill were highly-technical and specialized. For example, many candidates needed to know things like:
Amplify is also a very mission-driven company, so they wanted to hire individuals with a passion for higher education. Recruiting from Scratch knew that they needed to source and interview individuals with at least an interest in ed-tech who could grow into invaluable team members over time.
One of the first steps taken by Recruiting from Scratch was to streamline communication and implement feedback loops on existing Amplify channels like Slack. Our team quickly set up a process for the internal teams to review candidate scorecards/resumes and provide interview feedback on interviews, allowing us to swiftly notify candidates of their status and help top candidates schedule their next interviews.
Our team also leveraged our extensive recruiting experience to assist Amplify in filling their niche and technical positions. The data division at Amplify, in particular, faced an urgent need to onboard specialists in data governance and modeling. Collaborating closely with their Head of Data, we worked together on the requirements for these role, provided tailored recommendations on candidates to target, and identified companies with robust data departments as sources of recruitment.
In 2.5 years, Recruiting from Scratch hired 12 roles for Amplify, with titles like:
The majority of the candidates we hired in 2022 and 2023 are still in their current roles at Amplify, which for some is a tenure close to a year and a half.
Finally, hires made by our team are now building their own teams at Amplify, and partnering with Recruiting from Scratch to make these additional hires. We’re excited to see what new teams our former hires build, and what innovations they develop next.
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