Industry: AI-powered legal tech
Positions filled: 8
Seniority: Senior / Architect
Average time to hire: 25 days
First interview: in 2 days
“Usually, recruitment is like a magic hat. You feed it with the job requirements and never know when to expect the outcome. Here, it was different in a good way – transparent and predictable.” – Egan Royal, Vice President of Engineering at DISCO.
DISCO provides a cloud-native, artificial intelligence-powered legal solution that simplifies discovery, legal document review, legal hold, and case management for enterprises, law firms, legal services providers, and governments.
The company has partnered with Sunvery to scale its team with remote software engineers to meet the recruitment needs of its rapidly growing business. The cooperation allowed DISCO to considerably reduce the time to hire while getting senior-level software engineers at lower costs.
Recruitment challenge: High competition for top tech talents in the US market
After receiving the next round of funding, DISCO needed engineers to keep enhancing its products. Since the company offers an advanced tech solution in the legal industry, they have demanding requirements for the qualifications of their new hires, especially in terms of their experience and seniority level.
Understandably, candidates of such caliber are scarce and highly demanded in the US market.
Why Sunvery: Fast and transparent global recruitment
Initially, DISCO was looking for five software engineers in the US, which was cumbersome and inefficient due to the high competition for candidates between Tech Giants and smaller businesses. This prompted the company to partner with Sunvery, a global recruitment and staffing agency with a 300,000 talent pool that helps clients select the best hiring location based on their needs and ensures successful hiring in the shortest possible time.
Recruitment services enabled DISCO to focus on more critical business tasks and solve some other challenges:
- Cost Optimization: Find senior-level back-end, front-end, and data engineers in the location that would best match the price-quality ratio of the company
- Recruitment Speed: Reduce time to hire to meet the rapidly growing demand for engineers for multiple projects
- Quality of Hire: Reach out to skilled engineers who are willing to take on a new job and have the relevant experience for high offer acceptance rates
- Long-Term Investment: Grow the team internally by engaging remote software engineers instead of outsourcing to keep the expertise inside the company, cut expenses, and simplify management.
“Having our recruitment needs covered, we could concentrate more on developing our platform.” – said Jesse Cravens, SVP of Engineering at DISCO.
Sunvery started by identifying the project needs and consulting DISCO on the best approach to ensure top talents for their project, given the specific budget, deadlines, and required professional qualifications. Considering the talent availability and cost ratio, Eastern Europe was the optimal choice.
Another reason DISCO decided to go with Sunvery as a recruitment partner was the thorough filtering process. Thanks to recruiters’ careful selection and initial soft skills, motivation, and talent match prescreening, Sunvery supplied only relevant candidates. Besides, working with an agency cuts costs in the long run since you pay fixed fees and discuss rates directly with software engineers, giving you more control over expenses.
Approach: How Sunvery found engineers for DISCO with a 25-day average time to hire
“Their ability to find great talent is very effective. We ended up hiring more developers than originally planned.” Ariel Zarate-Carmona, Chief of Staff at DISCO
Sunvery’s success recipe is time-tested and transparent. The agency scheduled sync-up calls with DISCO’s tech team to clarify the profile of their ideal candidates. This allowed the recruitment team to reach the right specialists and considerably optimize the hiring process. As a result, the first interview with the client happened as soon as 2 days after the project start.
Throughout recruitment, DISCO received weekly updates on the number of people in the pipeline, reasons for refusal, and suggestions for landing the candidates they wanted. The well-planned process and consulting by Sunvery allowed the client to get 8 senior-level candidates instead of the initially planned 5 due to lower rates in Eastern Europe. While in 2023, the average time to hire across all industries was 44 days, with 33 for the tech jobs, Sunvery helped DISCO fill their vacancies with the average time to hire of just 25 days.
“Great quality of candidates, predictable pipeline, always available pre-vetted candidates waiting to schedule a tech interview. Fast, clear, and consistent communication, proactive attitude throughout the process.” – said Craig McKinney, Lead Technical Recruiter at DISCO.
Outcome
- Access to top global talent to hire top candidates at lower rates
- Properly set recruitment pipeline for future hires
- 8 senior level engineers joined the client’s team
- 25-day average time to hire vs the industry-wide 33-day standard
- 2 days to get the first candidate