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# Technical Recruiters - 1099/Retained (Copy) at Midwestern Interactive Growth Team

- **Company:** Midwestern Interactive Growth Team
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** contract
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/midwestern-interactive/am9icG9zdDpFNbiGmWQsegnTudorkRxF

## About Midwestern Interactive Growth Team

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Midwestern Interactive is a talent partner that provides embedded teams, scoped projects, and recruiting services for tech companies building in the AI era.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped/Corporate Round funding)
- **Headquarters**: Joplin, Missouri, United States
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Matt Johnson (CEO/Owner)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Software Development, Talent & Staffing, Technology Consulting
- Target customers: Growing tech companies (from Fortune 500 to early-stage startups) that need to move fast without building everything in-house
- Mission or purpose statement: "We complete work with purpose and precision. We lead with humility, drive, and wisdom. We take care of what is entrusted to us, including time, budget, relationships, and trust."

## Products & Services
- **Embedded Teams**: Top-tier talent that integrates seamlessly with a client's team, providing specialized expertise that scales with the vision while maintaining flexibility as priorities shift.
- **Scoped Projects**: Time-defined project teams with clear objectives and predictable costs, covering Discovery, MVPs, technical validation, brand development, and more.
- **Recruiting Services**: Full-cycle talent acquisition for direct placement, contract-to-hire, or embedded recruiters, finding hidden talent aligned with technical needs and company culture.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: 80 employees (+11.0% YoY); 120+ clients served; 250K+ hours delivered annually; products have raised over $450M
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Gloo (lead investor in 2025 Corporate Round)
- **Growth Signals**: 38.3% LinkedIn follower growth (yearly); expanding headcount with 12 new hires in the last year; multiple office locations across the US and Brazil

## Competitive Advantages
- **Three-in-one model**: Unlike traditional staffing agencies focused solely on headcount, Midwestern offers embedded teams, scoped projects, and recruiting under one US contract, providing flexibility that rigid staffing models cannot match.
- **US-led, global reach**: Globally sourced talent configured to a client's region, timezone, and budget, with all management under a single US contract.
- **13+ years of experience** with a track record of serving 120+ clients from Fortune 500 to early-stage startups.
- **Senior leadership depth**: CTO, VP of Scoped, Director of Engineering, Design Director, and other experienced leaders ensure high-quality delivery.

## Strategic Focus
- Current priorities include scaling the embedded teams model for AI-era work, expanding into new markets (notably Brazil), and deepening partnerships with growth-stage tech companies.
- Emphasis on "flexible talent, global reach" — enabling clients to scale up or down easily without overcommitting.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values-driven environment emphasizing clear communication, reliable follow-through, and commitment to quality. The team operates with humility, drive, and wisdom.
- **Work model**: Hybrid/remote-friendly with offices in Joplin (HQ), Springfield, and Dayton, plus a distributed workforce in Brazil.
- **Notable perks**: Opportunity to work on impactful products that have raised over $450M; exposure to a wide range of clients from startups to Fortune 500; clear career progression paths.
- **Engineering culture**: 39% of staff are in technical roles (47 people), with strong seniority distribution (26% specialist, 16% other management, 12% manager, 9% senior). Team members come from diverse backgrounds including DevMountain, Jack Henry, Leggett & Platt, and Gloo.
- **Growth opportunities**: 11% yearly headcount growth indicates a scaling organization with upward mobility for high performers.

## Sources
1. [Midwestern.com - Homepage](https://midwestern.com/)
2. [Midwestern.com - About Page](https://midwestern.com/about)
3. [Midwestern Interactive Career Page](https://careers.midwesterninteractive.com/apply)
4. [LinkedIn - Midwestern Interactive](https://linkedin.com/company/buildmidwestern)
5. [Built In - Midwestern Interactive Jobs](https://builtin.com/company/midwestern-interactive-llc/jobs)

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