2024
Year founded · Miami, FL
MissionHires didn't start in a deck. It started with three operators trying — and failing — to hire the people they needed at companies they ran themselves. Papa. SmartHop. Visa. Millicom. Telefónica. Same story everywhere: too slow, too expensive, too much of the work falling back on the hiring manager.
We thought somebody else would fix it. Nobody did. So we did.
Alfredo · CEO
Mariana · COO
Miguel · CTOBefore MissionHires, we were the customer. We sat on the other side of the table — heads of ops, heads of strategy, heads of engineering — watching recruiting cycles drag on, budgets balloon, and great candidates fall through the cracks. These are the moments that made us start.
"We were scaling a thousand caregivers a month and the agency pipeline gave us résumés, not people. Half the work was redoing what we'd paid them to do."
"I'd ship a feature in a week and wait six to staff it. The bottleneck wasn't talent in the world — it was the system in between us and them."
"Every search took six months and three vendors. By the time a great candidate finally surfaced, half of them had already signed somewhere else."
We weren't going to fix this from inside the old playbook. Recruiting needed an AI-native rebuild — one that gives every recruiter the leverage of an entire team, and turns weeks of keyboard work into minutes.
Three operators with one shared frustration — and the engineering, strategy, and growth chops to do something about it.
Serial entrepreneur with 15+ years in tech and healthcare. Co-founded and led operations at Papa, the billion-dollar eldertech company that scaled to thousands of caregivers across the U.S. Lived the talent-acquisition problem from inside a hypergrowth ops org.
Serial entrepreneur with 20+ years in real-time systems, apps, and cloud — with deep expertise in applied machine learning and AI. Co-Founder & CTO of SmartHop, where he built the systems that moved freight for thousands of independent trucking fleets.
Strategy leader with 15+ years in customer experience and digital transformation at Visa, Millicom, and Telefónica. Built the playbooks for scaling CX teams across 14 markets, and knows firsthand how hard it is to find people who actually believe in the mission.
Two-thirds of a recruiter's week disappears into sourcing lists, copy-paste outreach, and phone screens — work AI can do in minutes. The interesting work — the relationships, the calibration, the close — gets squeezed last. We're flipping that ratio.
To give every recruiter the leverage of an AI team — so a single desk can source, screen, and place 10× the candidates without losing the human touch that makes great hires happen.
We encourage out-of-the-box thinking and foster a culture of welcoming and exploring new ideas — even the inconvenient ones.
We measure ourselves in placements made, hours given back to recruiters, and great candidates who finally got a fair shot.
We're committed to continuous development and progress — for the employers we serve, the candidates we place, and our own team.
We enthusiastically support candidates and companies in achieving their goals, and we're committed to improving the recruiting process — every week.
A team of operators, engineers, and AI researchers building the recruiting layer we wish we'd had at our last companies.
If you're a hiring leader who's lived this story too — or a recruiter ready to run 10× the desk — we'd love to talk. Book a 20-minute working session with the founding team.