About Orbital Witness
Orbital Witness is on a mission to make property transactions radically more transparent, creating a world where anyone can understand property, in an instant.
Faced with an exciting opportunity to transform the way the legal and real estate industries work, Orbital Witness successfully raised a £7.5M Series A funding round in May 2023.
🏢 PropTech
📍 London
👥 60+ employees
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Orbital Witness were struggling to engage top tech talent in a notoriously competitive market, but needed to nearly double its headcount with only a single-person talent team in-house.
Other hiring tools weren’t successfully getting their employer brand across to the right candidates, something that’s particularly essential for a mission-driven startup. With Welcome to the Jungle, they were able to find top candidates efficiently while building the employer brand to stand out in the competitive hiring market.
They hit ambitious hiring targets while also ranking in the top 10% of most loved companies on Welcome to the Jungle over the last 12 months.
Last year, the company’s single-person talent team grew the business from 35 to 60 people, with a third of hires coming from Welcome to the Jungle. A number of these were hard-to-fill roles, including a Tech Lead, Multiple Product Engineers and an AI Product Manager.
Hiring was not just limited to the technical side of the business, Orbital Witness was also able to build out its Commercial function (expanding the Customer Success team, hiring Account Executives, and multiple BDRs).
When sourcing candidates, the filters also meant they could search for specific skills and take a more targeted approach than on other platforms.
This targeted approach had great results, with a candidate response rate of 47% and approximately 1 out of 5 interviewed sourced candidates later being offered a position. It also meant they could move at speed to find and progress the right talent, with an engineering role being accepted in less than a month of the first message being sent.
“We're very focused on what’s important when hiring and the talent & skills that we're looking for. So being able to use those sourcing filters and be quite specific is really useful.”
Conrad Swift, TA Manager at Orbital Witness
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Welcome to the Jungle not only connected Orbital Witness to relevant candidates, it strengthened the employer brand. Working with a dedicated Customer Success Manager, they leaned into expert insights to make sure the company vision was clear and emphasised to candidates.
On top of this, the company took a candidate-first approach when hiring. This involved posting all salaries publicly on job descriptions, responding to every application within 2 weeks, and featuring multiple employee endorsements on their profile.
Combined, this meant Orbital Witness achieved “Welcome to the Jungle Certification”, an accomplishment that is visible to candidates on their jobs. It’s evident the company stood out, ranking in the top 10% of most loved companies on Welcome to the Jungle.
We’re looking forward to helping them continue to hire talent as they continue to grow the team.
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