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Scoutible

AI-driven game-based candidate assessment and matching

Vice President of Engineering / Chief Technology Officer

Full-Time
No salary listed
Expert
San Francisco, CA, USA
In Person
Engineering ManagementEngineering Leadership

About the job

Requirements
  • Expert knowledge of modern web technologies and frameworks.
  • Experience building backend infrastructure and/or data pipelines.
  • Experience growing engineering teams that ship software products.
  • Experience managing and scaling engineering teams.
  • Full-stack web development experience.
  • Technical hiring experience.
  • Ability to define scalable, monitored, and reliable SaaS architectures, including evaluating third-party service providers.
  • Ability to communicate technical issues to nontechnical audiences such as investors and customers.
  • Commitment to technical best practices.
Responsibilities
  • Own and execute the company’s technical roadmap.
  • Validate and manage the technical roadmap for the company’s products.
  • Determine the post-MVP technical strategy, including continuing to iterate on the current Python stack or starting a new greenfield codebase.
  • Lead development of the enterprise SaaS web platform.
  • Refine and execute the software development process.
  • Enhance coordination between the web, game, and data science technical teams.
  • Communicate the technical vision to clients and investors.
  • Balance hands-on coding with engineering team management.
  • Align the team’s technical vision and milestones as the company grows.
Desired Qualifications
  • Interest in data science, machine learning, and/or big data.
  • Experience scaling up small engineering teams.

About the company

Scoutible uses artificial intelligence and gaming to improve hiring. It provides a game-based platform that measures players’ cognitive strengths and personality traits, turning game data into evidence of job fit. Employers subscribe to access Scoutible’s platform and use the insights to screen and match candidates to roles more accurately than traditional methods. The platform operates on a B2B subscription model, with potential performance-based pricing. Scoutible differentiates itself by turning hiring into a data-driven, gamified assessment that aims to reduce bias and surface genuine fit, helping organizations find candidates who align with job requirements and company culture. The company’s goal is to democratize hiring by giving employers better signals for candidate success and improving job satisfaction and productivity through better role alignment.

Company Size

1-10

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$6.5M

Headquarters

Miami, Florida

Founded

2015

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What believers are saying

  • Scoutible’s August 2026 website shows active product updates and live sales pages.
  • The company keeps selling free employer accounts and success-fee hiring, lowering buyer friction.
  • Hero Mode’s 24/7 AI coaching opens a second revenue stream beyond HR tech.

What critics are saying

  • No funding followed the 2017 $5 million seed, starving scale against Eightfold and LinkedIn.
  • Scoutible’s 2026 pivot from hiring to coaching dilutes brand and confuses buyers.
  • If employers stop trusting game-based assessments, Scoutible loses its core product and revenue path.

What makes Scoutible unique

  • Scoutible blends Harvard-built game assessment with AI coaching and hiring workflows in 2026.
  • Its 20-minute gameplay captures cognitive traits, then matches candidates to roles.
  • Scoutible still runs strengths-first hiring pages while adding Hero Mode productivity coaching.

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