Jobs for Humanity

What Jobs for Humanity does

Jobs for Humanity is a US-based private for-profit employment platform founded in 2023 by Roy Baladi and headquartered in New York with a registered corporate address in Miami, Florida. The company operates a dual-sided marketplace that connects inclusive employers with job seekers from underrepresented communities, including refugees, returning citizens, neurodivergent individuals, LGBTQIA+ people, people with disabilities, single parents, veterans, baby boomers, and ethnic minorities. Its core product is the Jobs for Humanity Board, a job board and candidate-matching platform that reports 3,783 live jobs and 1,211,943 candidate profiles. The platform is built on SmartRecruiters' recruitment technology, with proprietary resume parsing and an AI-driven matching layer that reviews the candidate pool, extracts job objectives, skills, and key results, and ranks candidates for employer review.

The product surface extends beyond the job board into DE&I training programs (covering inclusive hiring for LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent, blind/low vision, refugee, and returning citizen cohorts), a set of specialized talent portals (Jobs for Black Leaders, LGBTQIA+, Refugees, Returning Citizens, Single Moms, Blind/Low Vision, Neurodivergent), and the Blink DEI Plugin for embedding inclusive practices into employer workflows. Distribution combines a self-serve 21-day employer trial with channel partnerships (WorkLLama integration reaching 250,000+ job seekers, SmartRecruiters licensing) and event-led GTM via The Point Conference. The company monetizes through subscription-based premium employer services, job posting fees, and suggested-donation conference tickets.

Jobs for Humanity is founder-led by Roy Baladi (former Head of Marketplace at PerkSpot and SmartRecruiters, co-founder of Jobs for Lebanon), operates with 11-50 employees, and has raised a single disclosed $600,000 round in January 2025 from BDev Ventures and IM Fndng. Revenue is not publicly disclosed. Named enterprise customers include Booking.com, Macmillan Learning, Macmillan Publishers, Virgin Hotels, YUPRO Placement, Cartier, Sodexo, Damana, TELUS International, FP7, DocuSign, Fitch, Merck, Novartis, Sucafina, KeHe, and Engender Health, spanning travel, publishing, insurance, pharma, luxury goods, food service, and technology verticals.

Name

Jobs for Humanity

Legal name

Jobs For Humanity Inc.

Website

https://jobsforhumanity.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Jobs for Humanity is a US-based dual-sided employment marketplace, founded in 2023, that connects inclusive employers with job seekers from underrepresented communities (refugees, neurodivergent, LGBTQIA+, returning citizens, people with disabilities) via an AI-augmented job board built on SmartRecruiters and complemented by DE&I training.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Diversity Recruiting / Inclusive Job Board

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311), Employment Services (5613), Employment Placement Agencies and Executive Search Services (56131), Vocational Rehabilitation Services (6243), Vocational Rehabilitation Services (624310)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361), Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Workforce Development & Inclusive Employment (Job Training, Placement) (BPAGALAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Job Placement, Matching & Career Navigation Services (EDAAAOAL), Employment & Job Readiness Support Services (BPAGAEAJ), Integration & Inclusion Services (Housing, Education, Employment) (BPADAHAI), Workplace & Career Integration for Immigrants (Credentialing, Job Readiness) (EDAAADAE)

Keywords

• Diversity recruitment platform
• Inclusive hiring marketplace
• DE&I training services
• AI candidate matching
• Underrepresented talent job board

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Premium Employer Services: Subscription-based premium services for employers including unlimited job postings and full candidate profile access during 21-day trial period. Premium services subject to additional terms beyond standard agreement.
2. Job Posting Fees: Employers pay fees for job postings on the platform to access underrepresented talent pools.
3. Conference Tickets: $40 suggested donation for event attendance at The Point conference covering costs with free invite when purchasing a ticket.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Jobs for Humanity operates a dual-sided employment marketplace that connects inclusive employers with job seekers from underrepresented communities, including refugees, returning citizens, neurodivergent individuals, LGBTQIA+, veterans, people with disabilities, single parents, baby boomers, and ethnic minorities. The platform provides AI-powered candidate matching across 1.2 million+ profiles, DE&I training programs for employers, specialized community talent portals, and integrates with WorkLLama and SmartRecruiters to source and distribute roles to diverse talent pools.

Product overview

Jobs for Humanity operates as a dual-sided employment marketplace built on SmartRecruiters' recruitment infrastructure, connecting inclusive employers with underrepresented talent. The core offering is the Jobs for Humanity Board job board, supplemented by DE&I Training Programs, a series of Specialized Talent Portals for specific communities (Black Leaders, LGBTQIA+, Refugees, Returning Citizens, Single Moms, Blind/Low Vision, Neurodivergent), and the Blink DEI Plugin. Training modules like the LGBTQIA+ Training Module provide employer education alongside the platform services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Jobs for Humanity Board An employment job board connecting inclusive employers with diverse talent from underrepresented communities including refugees, veterans, neurodivergent individuals, people with disabilities, LGBTQIA+, single parents, returning citizens, and ethnic minorities. The platform aggregates live job postings and candidate profiles, powered by AI-driven candidate matching.
• DE&I Training Programs Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training services for employers to learn inclusive hiring practices. Training covers underrepresented groups including neurodivergent, LGBTQIA+, refugees, blind/low vision, and returning citizens, with modules on inclusive interviews, onboarding, and reasonable accommodations.
• Specialized Talent Portals Dedicated job boards for specific underrepresented communities: Jobs for Black Leaders, Jobs for LGBTQIA+, Jobs for Refugees, Jobs for Returning Citizens, Jobs for Single Moms, Jobs for the Blind and Low Vision, and Jobs for the Neurodivergent.
• Blink DEI Plugin A DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) plugin designed to transform employer hiring processes by incorporating inclusive practices into existing recruitment workflows.
• LGBTQIA+ Training Module A specific employer training course covering LGBTQIA+ inclusion, including terminology, challenges faced, inclusive interview processes, reasonable accommodations, and onboarding best practices.

Quantifiable outcome

• Hundreds of employees trained at Booking.com through DE&I programs
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers17 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core, major, flagship and notable.

• WorkLLamacoreTechnology or Integration · 1 August 2023Strategic partnership enabling AI-driven talent marketing, relationship management, and direct sourcing. Roles are automatically dispatched to Jobs for Humanity's 250,000+ talent network through WorkLLama's platform, providing global enterprises with automated access to diverse talent pools aligned with DE&I goals.
• SmartRecruiterscoreTechnology or IntegrationLicenses SmartRecruiters' recruitment product for job board functionality, applicant tracking, and candidate management. User data processing governed by SmartRecruiters' privacy policies.
• Fable PathwaysmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership to widen reach of high-quality free accessible courses made by people with disabilities for people with disabilities. Fable provides training on Visual Studio Code navigation for blind developers (taught by Kelly Ford, Microsoft Senior Program Manager) and management skills from hearing-impaired perspective.
• HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerReferral partnership for refugee employment services. HIAS provides matching grant program offering employment skills training, documentation assistance, family reunification, rent support, food banks, childcare vouchers, and community integration support to refugees, asylees, and trafficking victims.
• California Department of RehabilitationmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-organizers of The Point Conference (600-person diversity event, February 28, 2023, San Francisco). Partnership aimed at connecting recruiting leaders with community organizations and underrepresented job seekers for networking, mentorship, and DE&I training.
• Booking.comflagshipGTM or Marketing PartnerFlagship customer partnership where Jobs for Humanity's DE&I programs have trained hundreds of Booking.com employees. Described as long-term partnership for diversity hiring initiatives.
• Checkr FoundationnotableGTM or Marketing PartnerPartner for The Point Conference. Ken Oliver, Executive Director of Checkr Foundation, spoke at the event about second chance employment after 20 years of incarceration.
• The Octopus MovementnotableStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with global community of non-linear thinkers founded by Perry Knoppert. Focus on creating safe spaces and tackling meaningful challenges including inclusion at work.
• Mandela MedianotableStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-development partner for Second Chance eBook Series advocating for social justice and second chance employment. Led by Khalil Osiris, Senior Advisor at Mandela Media.
• DMA UnitednotableStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-development partner for Second Chance eBook Series. Sam Sohali, Founder/Executive Creative Director, describes it as a movement dedicated to amplifying voices of those given a second chance.
• Truth & Reconciliation Conversations (TRC)notableStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-development partner for Second Chance eBook Series founded by Khalil Osiris. Initiative shares inspiring second chance stories of justice-impacted individuals.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Jopwell: Jopwell is a career advancement platform connecting Black, Latinx, and Native American professionals with employers committed to diversity hiring. It is a direct peer to Jobs for Humanity because it operates a two-sided marketplace with the same employer/candidate segments, with similar event-driven and partnership-led GTM.
• Inclusively: Inclusively is an inclusive hiring platform that matches employers with candidates from underrepresented groups including people with disabilities, veterans, and LGBTQIA+. It competes head-to-head with Jobs for Humanity in the same enterprise DE&I buyer segment with overlapping product features (matching + employer training).
• 70millionjobs: 70millionjobs is a job platform dedicated to employing the formerly incarcerated, with a focus on 'second chance' employment. It is a direct peer because Jobs for Humanity explicitly serves returning citizens as a flagship talent community, including co-marketing with the Checkr Foundation on this theme.
• DiversityJobs: DiversityJobs is a niche job board aggregating diversity-focused opportunities across multiple underrepresented groups, with employer pay-for-posting economics. It is a direct competitor in the same job-board-meets-DE-I segment, though with a more limited training and matching layer than JFH.

Emerging players

• HBCU Connect: HBCU Connect is a job and networking platform focused on students and alumni of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. It overlaps with JFH's 'Jobs for Black Leaders' specialized portal and the broader ethnic-minority sourcing mission.
• Fairygodboss: Fairygodboss is a career community for women offering company reviews, salary data, and job listings. It is a partial peer because it targets an underrepresented talent segment with a content-plus-jobs model, though it competes more on community/employer branding than AI matching.

Broad incumbents

• Eightfold AI: Eightfold AI is a well-funded talent intelligence platform using AI for matching, skills inference, and DE&I analytics. It is a broad incumbent in the same AI-driven inclusive hiring category but sells enterprise-wide talent suites rather than focusing on the underrepresented-candidate niche that defines JFH.
• SmartRecruiters: SmartRecruiters is the underlying ATS and job board platform that Jobs for Humanity licenses, but is also a peer because it offers employer-facing recruitment products and could choose to build competing DE&I sourcing features directly into its core product.
• LinkedIn (Talent Solutions): LinkedIn Talent Solutions is the dominant incumbent in enterprise recruiting, with diversity filters, talent insights, and a global candidate base. It is a broad peer because the same enterprise DE&I buyers JFH targets already have LinkedIn contracts, and LinkedIn's reach dwarfs JFH's candidate pool.

Others

• WorkLLama: WorkLLama is a strategic channel partner whose AI-driven talent marketing platform dispatches JFH roles to 250,000+ candidates. It is adjacent ecosystem rather than direct competition, but the partnership creates overlap in the talent community management feature set.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/JobsHumanity
• Facebookfacebook.com/jobsforhumanity
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/jobs-for-humanity
• Instagraminstagram.com/jobsforhumanity

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors2 records

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M&A

Investments

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