ZenHub

ZenHub is the leading productivity management and collaboration platform for empowering agile teams and organizations to scale and get more done.

Total Hires

36

Avg. Embedded Cost Per Hire

$13,055

Estimated Contingent Cost Per Hire

$32,024

Avg. Savings Per Hire

$18,968

Total Estimated Savings

$682,875

Tyler Gaffney

CEO

They have been integral to making a significant amount of hires, scaling up and down with our needs.

It's been great partnering with the Invenio team. They have been integral to making a significant amount of hires for us. I appreciate their ability to deeply embed with our team and drive high quality talent and recruitment processes internally and with candidates. As a long term returning partner, I also value their ability to scale up and down with our needs quickly. We've been able to come back for volume hiring and one-off hires, engaging Invenio at the right scale, timing, and speed whenever we needed.

How Zenhub Scaled Hiring Across the Organization - Without Building a Large Internal Recruiting Team

Overview

Zenhub helps software teams plan, build, and ship better products inside GitHub. Originally incubated within Axiom Zen, the company evolved into one of the leading productivity management platforms for agile engineering organizations before raising a $10M Series A to accelerate growth.

Over a multi-year partnership, Invenio embedded directly into Zenhub's team to support hiring across the organization - making 36 hires across more than 20 unique roles while saving an estimated $682K compared to traditional contingent recruiting models.

At a Glance

Partnership Length

2+ Years

Total Hires

36

Roles Supported

20+

Estimated Savings vs Contingency

$682K

Functions Supported

  1. Engineering
  2. Product
  3. GTM
  4. Design
  5. Customer Success
  6. Support

The Challenge

Hiring pattern

Zenhub's hiring needs didn't follow a traditional recruiting pattern. The company experienced periods of aggressive hiring followed by quieter operating cycles - often hiring across multiple departments simultaneously, with varying levels of urgency and specialization.

What leadership needed

  • Scale recruiting support up or down quickly
  • Operate independently without constant oversight
  • Integrate directly into internal workflows
  • Handle hiring across both technical and non-technical functions
  • Maintain a strong candidate experience throughout the process

The gap

Traditional contingency agencies weren't designed for that level of flexibility or operational integration. Zenhub needed a recruiting function that could behave more like internal infrastructure than an external vendor.

Why Zenhub Chose an Embedded Recruiting Partner

The approach

Rather than building a large in-house recruiting team to accommodate fluctuating hiring demand, Zenhub partnered with Invenio to create flexible recruiting capacity that could expand and contract alongside the business.

Embedded into

  • Slack, Lever, Notion, and Email
  • Hiring manager processes
  • Leadership calibration loops

The goal

Create a recruiting partnership Zenhub could activate whenever growth accelerated — without needing to restart onboarding, recalibration, or process alignment each time hiring ramped back up.

Recruiting Support Across the Organization

Advisory support

  • Compensation benchmarking
  • Hiring market insights and leveling guidance
  • Geographic talent mapping
  • Offer negotiation and candidate closing
  • Candidate experience and process optimization

How it felt internally

Because the recruiting function operated directly inside Zenhub's environment, hiring managers experienced a seamless extension of the internal team - rather than a traditional external agency relationship. When hiring slowed, Invenio scaled back. When growth accelerated again, the team ramped quickly without rebuilding context or restarting processes.

The Outcomes

Flexible recruiting infrastructure

The partnership supported hiring across technical, product, design, GTM, and customer-facing teams during multiple growth cycles - while maintaining hiring quality and operational efficiency.

2014

51-100

Project Management SaaS

$14.7M

BDC, Yaletown, Ripple Ventures, Inovia Capital, BMO Capital Partners

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