Jake Huber
I Build Playbooks & Systems to Help Early-Stage Startups Scale (Specialty: Launching & Scaling Marketplaces)
Scaling Veho: How We Grew Their Team 4X in 6mos
Client: Veho
10 hrs/week
Project summary
Veho (shipveho.com) is an end-to-end parcel delivery carrier for e-commerce companies. It is powered by next-generation technology and last-mile crowdsourcing. Veho was founded in 2016, is backed by Techstars, and has raised $4.2M to date.
From January 2021 to July 2021, we advised the CEO and executive team on hiring, people ops strategy and employer brand, and helped Veho grow 4X from 70 to 285 employees and increase candidate inbound by 500% in 6 months.
Remote
My role
Advisor / Fractional Head of PeopleStakeholders
CEO & Executive TeamResponsibilities
Hiring, Recruiting, Refreshing Employer Brand, Increasing Inbound Candidate VolumeDuration
6 monthsSkills
recruiting
branding
content creation
The results
- Employee Growth: 70 employees in Jan to roughly 285 in July (+307% or 4.1X increase)
- Inbound Candidate Growth: 1,416/wk in Jan to 8,424/wk in July (+495% or 6.0X increase)
How we achieved those results:
- Helped build People team and hire VP of People Ops
- Provided recruiting/interview support from our recruiters
- Refreshed employer pages: LinkedIn, Glassdoor, etc.
- Published 8 employer brand blog posts
- Applied for and won Top 50 Seed Co’s Award