Lever is designed for anyone who's ever rolled their eyes when using their company's ATS, whether they are recruiters, sourcers, recruiting coordinators, hiring managers, interviewers or executives. Founded in 2012, Lever set out to bring a far higher degree of usability to a neglected category of software.

Customers range from small companies using recruiting software for the first time, to enterprises with thousands of employees. Our sweet spot is companies up to around 15,000 employees. We got our start in the tech sector, but today span a wide range of industries, with customers ranging from Cirque du Soleil and Hot Topic to KPMG New Zealand and the Toronto International Film Festival. We serve customers headquartered in 40 countries around the world, with a concentration in the US and Canada, Europe, and Australia/ New Zealand.

One of the major advantages of using Lever is that it's designed with all the users in mind - recruiters, hiring managers, interviewers and more. Users tend to describe Lever as easy-to-use, straightforward, and intuitive. As a result, you'll find it easier to roll out across your organization than typical enterprise software.

1) Our recruiting vision. From the beginning, we understood that recruiting today is NOT just about applicants - it's also about passive candidates, whose process is different to that of active applicants. As a result, companies need the technology to source and nurture potential candidates as well as to manage active applicants and all those who make it into the formal process. We are the only ATS that was built with both passive candidates and active applicants in mind from the very start.

2) Our product philosophy. We build powerful products that incorporate automation, intelligence and design in order to help teams collaborate and be as effective as possible at hiring.

-- We leverage automation to help our customers be super-productive. Recruiters don't get into recruiting for the love of the administrative tasks, so we've done our best to automate those away via features like Easy Book (natively built automated interview scheduling), two-way email sync and calendar sync.

-- We leverage intelligence to help our customers confidently and quickly understand how they're doing, improve their processes and accelerate hiring. Our data is structured in a way that helps us deliver the cleanest, most actionable reporting and analytics in the industry.

-- We leverage design to drive maximum adoption of Lever across the organization. The result is higher degrees of buy-in and collaboration in one of your company's most critical activities.

Our culture has also been a huge factor in helping us build great relationships with our customers. We are founded on design thinking (meaning we listen a lot and seek to understand the 'why' behind feedback and feature requests), and we are passionate about building a diverse, inclusive organization. Today our team has 50:50 gender balance and is 40% non-white.