Job Board Fire

What Job Board Fire does

Job Board Fire is a white-label, multi-tenant SaaS platform founded in 2018 in Sacramento that enables organizations to launch, operate, and monetize branded job boards. The product combines a customizable CMS-style job board with a built-in applicant tracking system, talent network, Google for Jobs integration, social sign-on (LinkedIn, Google, Slack, Facebook), Stripe-powered e-commerce (job posts, packs, subscriptions, enhanced company profiles), and Zapier/API extensibility. It supports 100+ locales and languages and ships with SEO best practices so that customer job inventory compounds into organic traffic.

The platform is sold through three tiers — Essential at $250/month, plus tailored Business and Enterprise plans with multi-year contracts, SSO, dedicated infrastructure, and SLA — and is distributed through both a demo-led sales motion and self-serve sign-up. Customers are organized into five use-case verticals: Publishers, Communities, B2B SaaS, Associations, and Niche Job Boards. Notable logos include Girlboss (2M monthly visitors), GreenBiz, Product Marketing Alliance (30,000 members), The Gist, and analytics firm 8020; the company also operates the Job Board Academy, a free educational resource with 3,000+ subscribers used to drive top-of-funnel demand.

Job Board Fire generates SaaS subscription revenue from job board operators and additionally takes a transaction cut from payments processed through Stripe on customer job boards. The company has shipped multiple product updates through 2024, including draft-job saving with abandoned checkout recovery, bulk messaging and reusable templates inside the ATS, guest applications, and an improved job posting flow, signaling continued product investment to lift employer conversion and monetization depth.

Name

Job Board Fire

Website

https://jobboardfire.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Job Board Fire is a white-label SaaS platform that enables publishers, online communities, B2B SaaS firms, professional associations, and entrepreneurs to launch and monetize branded niche job boards. The platform combines a built-in ATS, Stripe-powered e-commerce, SEO/Google for Jobs integration, and social sign-on in a single no-code offering.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Job Board Software

NAICS

Employment Services (5613), Employment Placement Agencies and Executive Search Services (56131)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Onboarding & Offboarding (BPACAPAE)

Keywords

• Job board software
• White-label recruitment
• Applicant tracking system
• Job marketplace platform
• Niche job boards

Headquarters

HQ city

Sacramento

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscription Plans: Job Board Fire sells tiered subscription plans (Essential, Business, Enterprise) to job board operators. The Essential plan starts at $250/month. Subscriptions provide access to the platform, hosting, and core features. This is the primary recurring revenue stream.
2. Job Post Sales: Job board operators can sell individual job postings to employers through a conversion-rate-optimized checkout flow integrated into sign-up and job post creation. Operators set their own pricing.
3. Job Post Packs / Credits: Operators can sell job post packages that assign job post credits to be used in the future, providing flexibility and encouraging larger upfront purchases.
4. Subscription Plans for Employers: Operators can convert any recruiting product into a subscription with a click, generating recurring revenue from employers who pay regularly to post jobs or access features.
5. Featured / Enhanced Company Profiles: Operators can charge companies for rich, enhanced company profiles to boost employer branding. Also available: featured company profiles on the home page for increased visibility.
6. Talent Network Access: Operators can charge recruiters for access to the talent network, enabling them to view and connect with candidate profiles.
7. Custom Products & Services: Operators can offer custom products and services (e.g., email blasts, social media posts, recruiting services, career/certification content) tailored to their market, creating upsell and cross-sell revenue opportunities.
8. Stripe Payment Processing: Credit card payments processed through Stripe. Invoicing available alongside credit cards. Job Board Fire takes a transaction cut as part of the platform's payment infrastructure.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Job Board Fire is a white-label SaaS platform that enables organizations to launch, grow, and monetize branded job boards without coding. The all-in-one platform combines a job board content management system, an applicant tracking system (ATS), talent networking, monetization infrastructure (Stripe payments, invoicing, subscriptions), and marketing automation in a single solution. Customers include publishers, digital communities, B2B SaaS companies, professional associations, and niche job board entrepreneurs.

Product overview

Job Board Fire is an all-in-one job board software platform designed to help publishers, communities, associations, and entrepreneurs launch and manage job boards. The core Platform product provides customizable appearance, job search, applications, ATS, employer branding, and marketing features. Vertical-specific solutions (Publishers, Communities, B2B SaaS, Associations, Niche Job Boards) are built on this platform with tailored features for each use case. The platform is offered across three pricing tiers (Essential at $250/month, Business with tailored pricing, and Enterprise) with increasing features including the Applicant Tracking System, Talent Network, and various monetization tools. Additional resources include the Job Board Academy educational platform and Changelog for tracking updates.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Job Board Fire Platform

Quantifiable outcome

• 3.2% of niche job board visitors subscribe for job alerts on average; including a 'Subscribe' link in navigation doubles this rate.
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

AI capability2 records

Feature13 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and supporting.

• ZapiercoreTechnology or IntegrationJob Board Fire integrates with Zapier, connecting the job board platform to thousands of apps and enabling customers to automate workflows and sync data across their tech stack without coding.
• StripecoreTechnology or IntegrationStripe is the payment processing provider for Job Board Fire's e-commerce infrastructure, enabling secure credit card payments, invoicing, and subscription billing across customer job boards.
• LinkedInsupportingTechnology or IntegrationLinkedIn is offered as a social sign-on option, allowing job seekers and employers to sign into job boards using their LinkedIn credentials. Job seekers can also import their LinkedIn profile to create a professional profile on the job board in one click.
• Google (Sign-In)supportingTechnology or IntegrationGoogle is offered as a social sign-on option, allowing users to authenticate using their Google accounts across customer job boards.
• SlacksupportingTechnology or IntegrationSlack is offered as a social sign-on option, allowing users to authenticate using their Slack credentials on job boards built with Job Board Fire.
• FacebooksupportingTechnology or IntegrationFacebook is offered as a social sign-on option, allowing users to authenticate using their Facebook accounts on customer job boards.
• Google for JobscoreTechnology or IntegrationJob Board Fire provides automatic integration with Google for Jobs, which displays job listings from customer job boards directly in Google Search results, driving organic traffic and visibility for job board operators.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Jobvite: Established talent acquisition suite spanning ATS, CRM, and onboarding — overlapping with JBF on the ATS and onboarding layers and competing for the same mid-market and enterprise talent leader budgets.
• Greenhouse: Enterprise-grade hiring platform and ATS with integrations across the recruiting stack. Competes with JBF indirectly for talent acquisition budgets and increasingly bundles candidate-sourcing tools that overlap with JBF's higher-end plans.
• Workable: Broader incumbent in the recruitment/ATS space, with sourcing, applicant tracking, and AI screening. While not a white-label job board platform, it overlaps with JBF's ATS module and competes for the same mid-market hiring buyer.

Emerging players

• Breezy HR: SMB-friendly recruitment and ATS platform with modern UX and built-in job posting distribution. Competes for the same small and mid-sized employers who might otherwise have used a Job Board Fire customer's hosted job board.
• Recruitee: Collaborative hiring and ATS platform with branded career sites and multiposting — a partial overlap in the 'branded career site + job distribution' proposition for community-driven and SMB employers served by JBF customers.

Direct peers

• Madgex: Provider of job board software and digital media platforms for media companies and professional associations. Highly comparable to JBF's publisher and association segments, with similar monetization infrastructure and white-label delivery.
• JobBoard.io (Web Scribble): Job board SaaS platform offering hosted job boards with built-in ATS, payment processing, and SEO features for associations, publishers, and niche operators — a near-direct competitor serving the same customer segments as Job Board Fire.
• JobBoardHQ: Hosted job board platform aimed at small publishers and niche operators with built-in payments and employer tools — competing for the same entrepreneur and SMB niche job board segment that Job Board Fire targets.
• SmartJobBoard: Long-standing white-label job board software platform that lets organizations launch their own job boards with monetization, ATS, and integrations. Job Board Fire explicitly compares itself against SmartJobBoard, indicating it is a core head-to-head competitor in the same product category and buyer profile.

Others

• Hivebrite: Community engagement and membership platform with job board and career-center modules for associations and alumni networks. Closely adjacent to JBF's 'Associations' and 'Communities' use cases and could extend into direct competition.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/JobBoardFire

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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