Steve Bartel — Founder

I started my journey as an early engineer at Dropbox, where I quickly started leading several engineering teams. My top priority was always recruiting, so that's where I spent most of my time—sourcing, owning the end-to-end process for hundreds of candidates, M&A, launching our referrals program, designing and giving tech talks, campus recruiting, etc. Back then, we were at the start of a paradigm shift in recruiting: companies were going out and looking for top talent rather than waiting for talent to come to them, much like how sales teams don't just wait around for customers to find them. I experienced the power of this new approach first-hand as Dropbox scaled from 25 → 1500 employees over the next few years. But with this new strategy came a new need: a unified source of truth. Recruiting teams didn’t have a way to track and manage all the work that happens before candidates apply, which quickly became the most important part of the hiring funnel (up to 80% of recruiting now happens prior to a candidate applying for a role!). That’s why we started Gem. Gem is the leading all-in-one recruiting platform powered by AI: ATS, CRM, Sourcing, Analytics, Interview Scheduling, Talent Marketing and events, and a career Site. We enable talent acquisition teams to find, engage, and hire top talent. With nearly 100 integrations, Gem works alongside LinkedIn and other places that you source, your email/texting/calendar, and your ATS (or use Gem ATS out of the box!). It’s been just over seven years, and we’re excited to work with thousands of incredible customers, including Cisco, Google, OpenAI, Pinterest, Airbnb, ScaleAI, Stripe, Snap, Lyft, Square, Twilio, Coinbase, and more. We’re also fortunate to have the support of amazing investors—YC, Accel, Greylock, ICONIQ, Meritech, and Sapphire. To start for free (or request a demo), go here: → gem.com PS: If you’re a founder who’s hiring for their startup, check out my guide on that: → startuphiring101.com

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on recruiting technology and talent acquisition strategies.

Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Experience: 15 yrs 10 mos