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HiringCafe

AI-driven direct-job listings with tracking

Founding Head of Marketing

Full-Time
$130k - $300k/yr+ Equity
Expert
Cupertino, CA, USA
In PersonMinimum commitment of 50 hours per week at the Cupertino office.
Growth & MarketingMarketing Generalist & Management

About the job

Requirements
  • Continuously follow social media virality.
  • Demonstrate grit and hustle, move quickly, and thrive in a high-intensity startup environment.
  • Understand how software is built and communicate effectively with engineers when designing user-generated content strategies.
  • Have a deep consumer mindset and an intuitive understanding of consumer behavior.
  • Identify bottlenecks, test hypotheses, and execute autonomously without waiting for a roadmap.
  • Be passionate about growth, metrics, user psychology, and scaling platforms to millions of users.
Responsibilities
  • Work hand-in-hand with the founders and engineering team to pioneer growth avenues.
  • Handle day-to-day execution while building the company's marketing efforts.

About the company

HiringCafe is a job search engine that collects legitimate job postings directly from company career pages, aiming to reduce noise from traditional job boards. It uses AI to crawl thousands of company websites several times a day, ensuring listings are current and links go straight to the employer’s application portal. The platform offers granular filters (role, location, company size, experience level) and salary information when available, plus an Application Tracker to save roles and manage searches. Revenue comes from employers via promoted listings and an optional Talent Network that connects companies with interested candidates. Unlike generic boards, HiringCafe focuses on ghost listings and fake posts, providing direct-to-employer, scam-free job discovery. The goal is to help job seekers find relevant, legitimate opportunities efficiently while giving employers a straightforward channel to reach candidates.

Company Size

1-10

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$6.8M

Headquarters

San Jose, California

Founded

2022

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What believers are saying

  • September 2026 funding: Spark Capital led $6.8 million pre-seed, accelerating growth.
  • HiringCafe claims 2 million monthly users and millions of live jobs in 2026.
  • Free Application Tracker and resume-matching AI reduce friction for job seekers.

What critics are saying

  • Indeed and ZipRecruiter launched ChatGPT job search apps in 2026.
  • HiringCafe depends on scraping employer pages; blocking or rate limits break coverage.
  • If employers keep preferred channels inside incumbents, HiringCafe becomes a thin commodity layer.

What makes HiringCafe unique

  • HiringCafe indexes company career pages directly, cutting recruiter spam and duplicates.
  • Ali Mir and Hamed Nilforoshan pair Meta, DoorDash, Rippling, and Stanford credibility.
  • Its 2026 AI Talent Agent searches millions of jobs from a live index.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Parental Leave
  • Relocation Assistance
  • Company Equity

Company News

FinSMEs
Sep 28th, 2026
HiringCafe raises $6.8M pre-seed for AI job discovery platform scraping hidden company listings

HiringCafe, a San Francisco-based agentic job discovery platform, has raised $6.8 million in pre-seed funding. Spark Capital led the round, with participation from Nonfiction Capital, Silicon Gardens, and angel investors from ZipRecruiter and Indeed. The company, led by Hamed Nilforoshan and Ali Mir, provides an AI-powered job search platform that uses proprietary scraping technology to index millions of positions directly from company career pages. The platform allows users to upload a CV, after which AI instantly parses their experience and skills to recommend matched positions. The system filters out ghost listings, ensuring candidates only review legitimate, actively hiring roles. HiringCafe is also launching its AI Talent Agent feature, enabling users to create AI agents to search across millions of jobs on their behalf.

Business Insider
Aug 26th, 2024
An ex-Meta engineer and Stanford Ph.D. student built a bot in a bid to take on big job sites and put the power in the hands of job seekers

Ali Mir and Hamed Nilforoshan have launched HiringCafe to challenge other job sites, which they say focus more on the employer than the job seeker.