Jack & Jill

Every quarter, our team retreats to the countryside. We align context and strategy, bond as a team and define the goals of our next 3-6 month phase. A lot of momentum coming out of this one, thanks to this small but incredible team 🚀

Jill is your recruiting agent. Like any great hire, she excels when she knows how you prefer to work. How involved do you want to be in reviewing her work? How often do you want updates? The best recruiters adapt to your style. Jill does too. Let Jill know: How often to check in - daily or weekly? How selective to be - tight shortlist or broader reach? How to present candidates - quick scan or deeper context? Who on the team should be in the loop? Who gets intro emails to candidates? Free for all existing and new customers. Only pay Jill if she successfully hires.

How do you build an AI-native team? Jill + Ashby are partnering to find out. Next Tuesday we're bringing together talent leaders and founders in London to dig into what building and hiring teams looks like in AI-first environments On the panel: → Don Fogarty, Head of Talent at Attio → Sabrina Castiglione, COO / CFO at Omnea → Matthew Wilson, Co-Founder & CEO at Jack & Jill Real case studies from hiring leaders at some of London’s fastest growing companies. Techspace 8.30 AM Tuesday 14th April, accepted registrations only. Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/dyD5upp9 Any questions for the panel? Let us know in the comments!

Jill now works with Ashby Request an intro with Jill. Candidate appears in Ashby. As you take actions with Jill, like shortlisting a candidate or requesting an intro, changes push straight to Ashby. Automatically, at the right pipeline stage, with their CV attached & source attributed correctly No copy-paste. No data entry. No duplicates. The setup takes less than a minute For recruiting teams running Ashby: your Jill pipeline data stays accurate without anyone having to maintain it manually Jill is now part of your Ashby workflow, not a disconnected tool Included for all customers, for free. Head to Integrations → Ashby in your Jack & Jill account to connect. Link in the comments. We’re also co-hosting with Ashby a networking event for hiring managers on the 14th April, on how to hire AI native teams. Details in the comments to register!

Nobody has built a 10x better version of finding work. Airbnb made finding somewhere to stay 10x better. Uber made getting a cab 10x better. Deliveroo made ordering food 10x better. We've spent a decade optimising things that take up an hour of our week. Nobody has done this for the thing most of us spend 40+ hours a week doing. The infrastructure between people and the right jobs has been broken for decades. Job boards built for volume, not fit. The best opportunities circulating in private networks while others apply to ghost listings. We're building two agents to fix this. Jack helps 130,000 people understand what fulfils them, finds unmissable opportunities and makes direct introductions to hiring teams. Jill helps 1,000 companies brief a role and start interviewing incredibly qualified talent in hours not weeks. Connect them, and for the first time, a system that works for both sides. If this excites you, come join us. We are hiring for engineers, designers, GTM operators and a head of growth. 12 months in. $20M raised. Link in comments to apply.

One year ago, Matthew Wilson and Saaras Mehan decided to build a company together. In 1 year: 130,000 candidates have worked with Jack to take the next step in their career. 1,000 companies have worked with Jill to hire brilliant people. $20M raised, lead by Creandum. 22x growth since they invested. 16 person team, 10 of whom are ex-founders. It really feels like the most talent dense team in Europe. But this is just the beginning. Thank you to everyone who's been part of this journey. So much more to come.

Couple highlights from this week at Jack & Jill. Ainhoa published a career guide for finding a job in 2026. Already requested by 300 people. Access via link in comments. Bruno Arya hosted a founders dinner with StackOne in SF. a16z and Y Combinator founders around the table. Sophia led a room with 70 women in SF through how to use AI in a job search. AI Snack Club. We hosted a rooftop birthday party with our investors, to celebrate hitting 1 year! Empanadas and the first signs of spring. Thank you to everyone who's been part of the first 12 months. So much more to come… We're hiring engineers, designers, and GTM operators. More info at jackandjill.ai/careers

I lied when I said I would help 5 people find a job. Two weeks ago, I publicly announced I was going to mentor 5 people who've recently been laid off. But even as I was writing the post, I knew I would stretch myself thin to help more than 5. We received 154 submissions, all from talented people the labour market has failed. Franky Athill, Sophia Arora, and Sam Coope are each helping a candidate. I’m helping 7. That's 10 people we're working with. And this is what struck me most. Every single person I’ve spoken to was crystal-clear about where their bottleneck was, and there was huge overlap: → Converting screening interviews → Turning cold applications into callbacks → Identifying relevant contacts at a company and reaching out → Wasting hours on their CV in hopes it will make it through an unyielding ATS The same struggles kept coming up. Struggles I myself faced as someone who didn’t fit neatly into a box. Which got me thinking. Could I turn what I was telling them one-on-one into something useful for the 144 I couldn't work with directly? So I spent the weekend writing everything I wish I'd known when I was job hunting, and sent it to all 144. They asked me to share it more widely, so here I am. If you'd like access to the guide, comment 'JACK' and I'll follow up with a link. 📣 Update: https://lnkd.in/eWURT6Vc. You can find it here. I'm sure there's more we can add. Let me know what's missing - let's help thousands of others. Looking for a job shouldn't feel so isolating.