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From Offshore to Domestic — How Upstart 13 Revitalized PropTech’s Talent Acquisition Workflows
PropTech's founder and CEO is renowned for his commitment to innovation and unconventional approach to technology development. He partnered with Upstart 13 to solve PropTech's talent offshoring challenges and fill domestic vacancies in the organization. The resulting changes have contributed to the company’s ongoing growth.
The Story
PropTech is an enterprise-grade, white-label customer engagement platform designed for lenders. The platform offers real-time marketing capabilities, CRM integrations, and data warehouse functionality.
The CEO is known as the godfather of technology in Austin, TX. He has been building successful tech companies since the mid-1990s and has unwavering standards when it comes to choosing partner organizations.
PropTech's digital architecture is incredibly complex, which means the organization has a demand for skilled and multifaceted team members. Prior to partnering with Upstart 13, PropTech was primed to take the next leap in its growth journey. Achieving those growth goals required an injection of both domestic and off-shore talent.
The Business Challenge
The CEO and his team tried outsourcing some of its technical software development work to an offshore team in India. However, the partnership wasn’t meeting PropTech’s needs, and the CEO was looking for an alternative.
PropTech’s leadership was up for trying to outsource one more time. They realized the cost-saving and efficiency benefits that offshoring provided, but they needed to ensure their next attempt was a success. To achieve this, they partnered with Upstart 13.
Our Solution
Upstart 13 was familiar with the client’s previous offshoring challenges and wanted to ensure that our services aligned with their unique needs. Our team met with PropTech's lead engineer in order to gain a comprehensive understanding of what they were searching for from a talent and support perspective. Ultimately, Upstart13 stepped in to provide the following services:
The partnership was an overwhelming success. PropTech valued our ability to spin up or scale down teams as necessary. They also extended full-time employment opportunities to several of the most impactful contractors.
Moving forward, PropTech is continuing to lean on Upstart 13 and our hiring expertise to meet their ever-changing DevOps needs.
Why PropTech Chose Upstart 13
PropTech’s leadership had previous interactions with the Upstart 13 team and was familiar with our values, work ethic, and results-driven approach to serving clients.
As such, the CEO and his team believed that our organization was uniquely suited to overcoming PropTech’s outsourcing challenges and facilitating their continued growth through strategic hiring.
From day one, the CEO put his trust in our process and personnel. PropTech presented us with some incredibly tough challenges to solve and gave us the latitude necessary to attack them.
About Upstart 13
Upstart 13 provides a wide range of services, including development operations, consulting, talent acquisition and management, and analytics. Our organization uses personalized support and a data-driven methodology to deliver impactful results for our clients.
When businesses want to achieve more and modernize their technology suite, Upstart 13 is the ideal partner to get the job done.
Heath
Arc-One
