STAGE built a 7+ engineer team ahead of Series B
STAGE was profitable and growing after its Series A, and needed an engineering team that could carry it to Series B. We reshaped the org chart, sent first profiles in 48 hours, and used our compensation data to make the offers competitive.
- Entertainment
- Series A to B
- 10-to-100 Scaling
- ML
- Android
- Full Stack
A team to design, not seats to fill
- Org design for scale
- ML, Android and full stack
- Senior and leadership hires
- ESOP benchmarking
- 10 to 100 growth
STAGE was not filling vacancies. They were preparing for a growth phase their existing engineering structure could not carry, and wanted the structure itself reworked before anyone was hired.
The hiring spanned ML, Android and full stack, and had to move quickly. A standard recruitment process would have filled the roles STAGE already had, not the ones the next stage needed.
First profiles in 48 hours, first hire in 2 days
We structured STAGE's engineering org, sourced against that structure, and used our compensation data so the offers held up against what the market was paying.
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Roles defined before sourcing
We worked with STAGE on the org chart, setting out roles, responsibilities and compensation for the 10x growth they were planning rather than the team they had.
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Screened on 50+ data points
STAGE's CTO Shashank kept meeting candidates with 10 to 15 years of experience and no real depth or leadership record. We track 50+ data points per candidate, and screened for senior engineers with proven team-leading experience and portfolios behind it.
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Offers backed by market data
Our compensation data supported a 10-15x increase in STAGE's ESOP packages, which is what made their offers competitive for the engineers they wanted to keep.
I've never seen anybody share such great tech profiles, nothing else comes close.
Shashank Vaishnav
Co-founder and CTO, STAGE
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Abhishek Tiwari
Senior Software Engineer
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Shailesh Kumar
Software Engineer
Seven engineers in, leadership roles filled
Abhishek Tiwari joined as a senior software engineer and Shailesh Kumar as a software engineer, part of a team that grew past 7 with every leadership role filled.
The first hire closed 2 days after the brief, and the ESOP work meant STAGE could hold on to the people it hired. That leaves STAGE with an engineering team built for the growth ahead rather than the stage it just left.