Bellevue-based recruiting startup SeekOut has hired Claire Fang as the company's first chief product officer.
The hire, announced Tuesday, comes six months after SeekOut raised a $115 million Series C round and pushed its value to more than $1.2 billion, putting the startup in "unicorn" status.
Fang is joining SeekOut from the customer and employee experience company Qualtrics International Inc. (Nasdaq: XM), where she was the chief product officer for Qualtrics' employee experience product line.
"Successful companies invest in data, tools and technology so they can maximize the talent they have and the talent they wish to acquire,” Anoop Gupta, co-founder and CEO of SeekOut, said in a release. “Claire’s extensive background working with (chief human resources officers) and building products that impact the success of employees is highly relevant to SeekOut."
Fang spent more than three years at Qualtrics, according to her LinkedIn page. She also spent about eight years at Microsoft. SeekOut said in a release she built and grew the cloud platform Azure. Fang has also worked at Facebook and McKinsey, according to SeekOut.
SeekOut, launched in 2017, searches public profiles, the open web, published papers and conferences to help clients find job candidates. The company also combs internal and external data to give clients a better understanding of their current employees and even what internal roles they could fill. SeekOut's clients include Merck, Salesforce and Experian.
At the time of the company's Series C round, Gupta told the Business Journal the company wanted to move further into talent development and retention. In a release, SeekOut said Fang will lead teams building both talent acquisition and internal talent tools.
"What SeekOut is trying to solve is to surface the right job opportunities for employees and conversely find the right talents for the skills needed, while doing it at scale for thousands of companies and millions of people,” Fang said in a release. “I feel instantly connected with this team and its culture and am honored to join this stellar team to help it grow and scale.”
