What Vagas.com does

Vagas.com, operating under the legal entity Vagas Tecnologia, is Brazil's largest online recruitment and career platform, founded in 1999 by Mário Kaphan and Sidney Monreal Martin at the CONARH HR conference. The company runs a two-sided marketplace: a free consumer-facing platform (vagas.com.br) serving individual job seekers with resume hosting, AI-powered job recommendations, and the Mapa de Carreiras career-mapping service, paired with a paid enterprise platform (Vagas For Business) providing ATS functionality, AI-driven candidate matching, and recruitment workflow management to 2,000+ corporate clients. Scale signals include 32+ million registered professionals, 22+ million CVs, 300,000+ active job openings, 20 million annual applications, and 480 million annual pageviews.

The company's product portfolio is anchored by three proprietary AI capabilities: Match IA+H (hybrid AI + human-tuned matching engine), Vaga Inteligente (rapid shortlisting feature that reaches finalists in under 72 hours for 50%+ of vacancies, positioned as the start of the 'post-ATS world'), and VC_CV (a 2025-launched generative AI resume mentor accepting text, audio, photo, and file inputs). The platform also offers VaaS (Vagas as a Service) for external ATS integration and supports 7,000+ tracked job titles. The company has been a pioneer in Brazilian HR technology since launching what was likely the country's first ATS (Humana-RH) in 1996, going fully online in 2002, and developing its first AI in 2014.

The business model is freemium for candidates and subscription-based for employers, with quote-based enterprise pricing and an annual billing cadence for Vagas For Business plans. GTM is dual-track: product-led growth and self-serve for job seekers, paired with direct enterprise sales (demonstration requests, field engagement) for corporate clients. The company operates a horizontally-organized management model adopted in 2010 after engagement with Gary Hamel and Philip Kotler, and has grown organically with no disclosed funding rounds, external investors, or parent company. Geographic scope is currently Brazil-only, with 101-250 employees and headquarters in São Paulo.

Name

Vagas.com

Legal name

Vagas Tecnologia

Website

https://vagas.com.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Brazil's largest online recruitment platform since 1999, serving 32+ million registered professionals with AI-powered job matching through a freemium consumer site and a subscription-based enterprise ATS used by 2,000+ corporate clients.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Recruitment Platform

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Retail & Consumer Services Direct Hire (BPACAFAM)

akta.pro secondary industry

Administrative, Clerical & Office Support Direct Hire (BPACAFAF)

Keywords

• Online recruitment platform
• Applicant tracking system
• AI candidate matching
• Job board platform
• Talent acquisition software

Headquarters

HQ city

São Paulo

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Vagas For Business Subscription: Companies pay subscription fees to access the Vagas For Business platform for AI-powered recruitment, job posting, candidate matching, and ATS capabilities. The service is 100% free for job seekers, with companies bearing the technology costs.
2. Job Posting and Visibility: Companies pay for posting job vacancies and enhanced visibility of their postings to reach the platform's 32+ million registered professionals and high traffic volumes.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Vagas.com operates Brazil's largest online recruitment marketplace, consisting of a free candidate-facing job board (Vagas.com.br) with 32+ million registered professionals and a paid enterprise ATS (Vagas For Business) used by 2,000+ companies. The platform powers recruitment end-to-end with proprietary hybrid AI matching (IA+H), rapid shortlisting (Vaga Inteligente), and an AI resume-building assistant (VC_CV). The service is free for job seekers and monetized through employer subscriptions.

Product overview

Vagas.com operates a dual-platform model consisting of Vagas.com.br (a free career platform for job seekers) and Vagas For Business (a paid enterprise ATS). Both platforms are powered by proprietary AI capabilities: IA+H for hybrid AI candidate-job matching, Vaga Inteligente for rapid shortlisting, and VC_CV for AI-assisted resume creation. The Mapa de Carreiras service provides free career mapping. The platform serves over 32 million registered professionals, 300,000 annual open vacancies, and more than 2,000 paying enterprise clients including major brands such as Mercado Livre, BRF, BYD, Unilever, and EY.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• VcCV (Você Se Vê): AI-powered resume builder and career mentor that helps candidates create and improve their résumés through conversation using text, audio, files, or images.
• Vaga Inteligente
• IA+H
• Vagas e-partner

Products and services

• Vagas.com.br The flagship free career platform for job seekers in Brazil, providing resume registration, job search, vacancy applications, AI-powered job recommendations, and access to the Mapa de Carreiras service. Hosts 32+ million registered professionals, processes 20 million annual applications, and records 300,000+ open vacancies.
• Vagas For Business The enterprise recruitment and selection (ATS) platform for companies that supports end-to-end hiring workflows. Used by 2,000+ companies with AI-powered candidate matching (IA+H), Vaga Inteligente shortlisting, diversity and inclusion tools, and the VaaS integration for automatic job publishing from external HR systems.
• VC_CV (Você se Vê) A free AI-powered résumé creation and coaching tool for job seekers. The AI mentor (V.) converses with the candidate via text, audio, file, or image; organizes professional information; automatically formats the résumé; and suggests improvements, with the user approving each step before finalization.
• Mapa de Carreiras A free career mapping service that visualizes professional trajectories from anonymized resume data. It covers over 7,000 job titles with salary information, common career-path connections between roles, and direct links to open vacancies matching each career path.

Quantifiable outcome

• 20 million job applications processed annually
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers18 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability7 records

Feature4 records

Scale indicators12 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Catho: Catho is one of Brazil's oldest and largest online recruitment platforms, owned by SEEK. It directly competes with Vagas.com for employer recruitment budgets and candidate traffic in the same horizontal SMB-to-enterprise segment.
• InfoJobs: InfoJobs operates a Brazilian job board (under Adevinta/Schibsted ownership) covering similar SMB and mid-market recruitment use cases as Vagas.com.br. It directly competes for candidate applications and employer job-posting spend.

Emerging players

• Gupy: Gupy is a Brazilian recruitment-tech platform offering an ATS and AI matching tools to employers. It overlaps with Vagas For Business on the enterprise side and is among the most aggressive emerging competitors in Brazil's HR tech space.
• Solides: Solides provides a Brazilian ATS and recruitment management platform with proprietary behavioral assessments. It targets the same employer buyer as Vagas For Business with an overlapping product set including AI matching and candidate pipeline management.
• Kenoby: Kenoby is a Brazilian recruitment automation and ATS platform targeting mid-market and enterprise employers. It overlaps with Vagas For Business on applicant tracking, candidate matching, and process automation.

Broad incumbents

• LinkedIn: LinkedIn (Microsoft) operates the dominant global professional network with deep Brazil presence and a recruiting solutions business that competes for enterprise talent acquisition budgets. Its broader platform reach and talent graph are a structural incumbent threat to any national job platform.
• Indeed: Indeed is the world's largest job board with significant Brazilian operations. While not exclusively focused on Brazil, it competes with Vagas.com.br for both candidate traffic and employer job-posting spend at the SMB and mid-market tier.
• iCIMS: iCIMS is a global enterprise Talent Acquisition platform serving large multinational employers. It competes with Vagas For Business at the upper enterprise tier and is increasingly embedding AI matching features that mirror IA+H functionality.
• Greenhouse: Greenhouse operates a global ATS and recruiting platform serving enterprise and high-growth employers. While not directly focused on Brazil, its expansion of AI sourcing and matching tools positions it as a global incumbent relevant to Vagas.com's enterprise buyer personas.

Regional players

• JobConvoi: JobConvoi is a Brazilian job aggregation and recruitment platform with comparable candidate-side utility. While smaller than Vagas.com, it competes for recruiter dollars and applicant flow in overlapping vertical segments.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/vagas
• YouTubeyoutube.com/c/VAGAScom0
• Facebookfacebook.com/VAGAScom
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/290105
• Instagraminstagram.com/vagascom

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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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