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# Demo Job at Gem for Startups

- **Company:** Gem for Startups
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-07-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/gem-smb/am9icG9zdDpfwlqcLI1j0GmjAKKEJUfJ

## Job description

## Role Details

Location: San Francisco, CA. This role is based out of our San Francisco HQ and is not eligible for full-time remote work. Compensation: The annual salary range for this position is $150,000–$260,000 based on level in addition to equity & benefits.

The range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum compensation. Factors including location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience will determine compensation.

## About Gem

Gem is the only AI-first all-in-one recruiting platform. Over 1000 industry leaders including Anthropic, Reddit, Figma, Zillow, Robinhood, and Doordash trust Gem to fuel their growth and recognize Gem as one of the highest-satisfaction products on G2 with a 4.8/5.0 rating. The company has raised $148M from renown investors including Accel, Greylock, ICONIQ, Sapphire, and Meritech.

Just as we strive to help our customers find great talent, we also invest in our own people and culture. We are proud of the culture we’ve built and have recently been recognized as:

- [Forbes America's Best Startup Employers 2024](https://www.forbes.com/lists/americas-best-startup-employers/?sh=427beca82ad7)
- [Great Place to Work Certified, 2024](https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/7024105)
- [Fortune Best Workplaces for Millennials, 2023](https://www.greatplacetowork.com/best-workplaces/Millennials/2023?category=small-and-medium)

The Team and Role

- Gem engineers work closely with product managers and designers to influence product direction, company roadmap, and business outcomes.
- We stay close to customers by joining customer calls, and reading customer feedback.
- We enjoy shipping features, moving fast, and being scrappy.
- We are receptive to feedback and continuously work on improving both our product and our craft.
- We work out of our San Francisco office.
- [Read more about our company values](https://www.gem.com/company).

## What You’ll Do Day-to-Day

- Own product features end-to-end alongside your product manager, engineering manager and designer.
- Work primarily with Typescript, React, Python, GraphQL, Node, PostgreSQL.
- Collaborate with engineers on your team and across Gem on code reviews, data model, architecture, and product decisions.
- Stay close to our customers.
- Embody our company values of ownership, velocity, customer centricity, diversity and transparency.
- Influence decisions and have direct impact on business outcomes.

## About You

- You have industry experience as a software engineer, building user-facing products.
- You move with velocity and invest in improving your craft.
- You are good at driving solutions by communicating and working cross-functionally.
- You are energized by collaborating in-office with your peers.

Benefits:

- Highly competitive salary & equity
- 10-year window to exercise your stock options
- Supportive Flexible Time Off program
- 16 paid holidays, including regular company-wide wellness days
- Best-in-class medical, dental & vision insurance
- $1,200 annual stipend for learning and development opportunities
- 16 weeks of Paid Parental Leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
- New Parent Perks totaling $1,500 and flexibility upon return to work

Gem is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate our inclusive work environment and encourage folks of all backgrounds and perspectives to apply. At Gem, we’re committed to having an inclusive and transparent environment where every voice is heard and acknowledged. We embrace our differences, and know that our diverse team is a strength that drives our success.

Gem is committed to developing a barrier-free recruitment process and work environment. If you require any accommodation, please email us at accommodations@gem.com and we’ll work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

Gem’s Candidate Privacy Notice By clicking “Submit Application”, you acknowledge and agree that you have read and understand [Gem’s Candidate Privacy Statement](https://www.gem.com/compliance/candidate-privacy-statement), including the information provided on how Gem processes your personal data and your related rights as set forth therein.

## About Gem for Startups

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Gem provides an AI-first all-in-one recruiting platform that helps talent acquisition teams find, engage, and hire candidates faster, replacing multiple point tools with a single system.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, $148M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Steve Bartel (CEO and Co-Founder) – other co-founder not publicly listed.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Recruiting software / talent acquisition technology
- **Target customers**: B2B – talent acquisition teams at startups, mid-market companies, and enterprises (e.g., Zillow, DoorDash, Asana)
- **Mission or purpose**: Make recruiting better for everyone so companies can build great teams and job-seekers can find life-changing opportunities.

## Products & Services
- **Gem Platform (All-in-One)**: Combines ATS, CRM, sourcing, scheduling, and analytics with AI built into every workflow. Includes:
  - **AI Sourcing Agent**: Searches 800M+ profiles, resurfaces silver medalists, and writes personalized outreach.
  - **Gem ATS**: Manage reqs from job post to offer, pipeline management, offer approvals, and structured hiring workflows.
  - **Candidate CRM**: Tracks every candidate interaction with full outreach history, notes, and stage.
  - **Interview Scheduling**: Automated coordination with booking links and real-time calendar sync.
  - **AI Application Review Agent**: Ranks inbound applicants with match scores and reasoning.
  - **Startup Plan**: Gem for Startups – free for the first six months for companies with under 30 employees, designed to help early-stage teams hire their first 100 people.
- **Integrations**: Bi-directional, real-time sync with Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, and other ATSs.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**:
  - **Annual Revenue**: $13M (estimated, per LinkedIn company data)
  - **Total Funding**: $148.1M over 4 rounds
    - Seed Round (2017): $2.125M (led by Accel)
    - Series A (2019): $9M (led by Accel)
    - Series B (2020): $37M (led by Greylock)
    - Series C (2021): $100M (led by ICONIQ Growth)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: ICONIQ Growth, Accel, Greylock – leading enterprise software investors.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Over 1,200 talent acquisition teams as customers (from [gem.com](https://www.gem.com/company)).
  - Headcount: 158 employees (+18.1% YoY), distributed across 13 countries (US, Bulgaria, India, Iran, Vietnam, etc.).
  - Industry-leading product rating: 4.8/5 on G2 (276 reviews).
  - Employer rating: 4.4/5 on LinkedIn (137 reviews) with strong culture and compensation scores.

## Competitive Advantages
- **All-in-one AI platform**: Replaces ATS, CRM, sourcing, scheduling, and analytics – reducing tech stack complexity and cost by 30–50%.
- **AI-first approach**: AI is embedded in every workflow (sourcing, outreach, applicant review, scheduling), not bolted on.
- **Vendor lock-in through integrations**: Bi-directional sync with popular ATSs makes it sticky for growth teams; later conversion to Gem ATS is seamless.
- **High customer satisfaction**: 4.8/5 G2 rating – “recruiters actually love to use” the platform.
- **Strong investor backing**: Top-tier VCs (ICONIQ Growth, Accel, Greylock) signal long-term commitment and resources.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI product expansion**: Investing in AI agents (sourcing, review) to further automate recruiter workflows.
- **Go-to-market for startups**: Free Startup plan to capture early-stage companies and grow with them (land-and-expand).
- **Platform consolidation**: Encouraging customers to move from third-party ATS to Gem ATS for a unified experience.
- **International growth**: Distributed team (Bulgaria, India) suggests scaling engineering and customer success globally.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasizes builders with high EQ, transparency, velocity, diversity, and ownership. “Ego doesn’t survive long here.” ([gem.com/careers](https://www.gem.com/company/careers))
- **Work environment**: Privately held, well-funded ($148M) with a lean team (158 people) – offering startup autonomy with financial stability.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Not explicitly stated, but offices exist in San Francisco and Sofia, Bulgaria; workforce is distributed across 13 countries, suggesting flexibility.
- **Notable perks**: Free Startup plan for employees’ own hiring? Not specified, but engineering team is hands-on with AI products. Open roles include Senior Software Engineer (AI Products), AI/ML Engineer, Product Manager, Engineering Manager.
- **Interview process**: Described as rigorous and values-aligned – “screen rigorously for alignment to our values and business principles – not just skills.”
- **Impact**: Directly influences how companies hire their best people – “that’s not abstract impact.”

## Sources
1. [gem.com – About Us](https://www.gem.com/company)
2. [gem.com – Careers](https://www.gem.com/company/careers)
3. [gem.com – Solutions for Startups](https://www.gem.com/solutions/startups)
4. [gem.com – Solutions for Growth Companies](https://www.gem.com/solutions/small-and-midsize-companies)
5. [linkedin.com – Gem Company Profile](https://linkedin.com/company/gem-recruiting-software)

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