Weekday (YC W21) reposted this
Few months back, our recruiting team at Unbox Robotics decided to double down on outbound and rethink how we hire senior tech and leadership talent. That’s where Weekday AI (YC W21) came in. From giving us access to a massive, high-intent talent pool to running targeted, multichannel outbound with correct contact details. What I love most is that, it hasn’t just improved speed to hire — it has simplified our entire workflow so we can focus on evaluating great people instead of juggling multiple tools. Huge shoutout to the Weekday team Chetan Dalal, Amit Singh and Nikita Gupta for being a true partner in helping us close some of our most critical roles, and excited to continue building the next phase of Unbox with their support. If you’re scaling engineering/product/design teams and are tired of low-quality inbound or poor response rates, I’d strongly recommend giving Weekday a shot. #hiring #startups #deeptech #AI #UnboxRobotics #Weekday #recruiting #talentacquisition
A deeptech startup that just raised a $28M Series B is using Weekday to hire 2 out of 3 key senior leadership roles. Quick context: Redstart Labs (Infoedge) and ICICI Venture backed Unbox Robotics is a Pune based AI-powered warehouse automation company. They have already deployed more than 500 robots and are aiming to cross 3,000 units in the next 2 years. After having used Naukri and LinkedIn for years, the 4-person recruiting team at Unbox now prefers Weekday for most of their 50+ annual hires. Before switching to us, they were using a bunch of different tools and providers to stitch together different workflows to make a single hire. Coupled with poor reply rates and their non negotiable bar for core engineering talent in their niche, they were losing both time and $$. When I sat down with Murtuza, who's one of their senior talent acquisition partners, he said Weekday literally does it all now: 1/ Access and search the database with millions of candidate profiles 2/ Narrow down to a really tight list (ranked by intent) 3/ Get their correct contact info (both email and WhatsApp) 4/ Send targeted outbound drip campaigns And consistently get over 50% reply rates and close critical open roles. We've not only saved them thousands of dollars and upped their efficiency but also helped reimagine how effortless both sourcing and closing could be. "If you stop existing tomorrow, I'd badly miss at least 70% of the use cases your platform offers" → from someone with 15+ years in recruiting. Would love to continue working closely with the Unbox Robotics team and help them hire dozens of solid tech talent in the next couple of months. If you too are hiring for 10+ critical engineering/product/design roles this year and struggling with low quality inbound/poor response rates, let's talk.