What Modern Hire does

Modern Hire is a US-based provider of an AI-powered hiring platform that combines skills validation, intelligent interviewing, and talent engagement tooling into an end-to-end solution for enterprise customers. The platform is built around science-backed assessments grounded in industrial-organizational psychology, including Virtual Job Tryouts, game-based assessments, technical coding evaluations, and language proficiency tests, layered with AI-driven interviewing (AI Interviewer, AI Hiring Agent) and analytics (Interview Insights). It supports 40+ languages and exposes modality coverage across video, audio, and text.

The product is sold as an enterprise SaaS subscription with quote-based annual contracts, primarily through a consultative direct sales motion ("Request Demo" / "Book a Demo") supplemented by self-guided product tours and channel distribution through ATS integration partnerships with Workday, SAP, Oracle, and Smart Recruiters. Target customers span high-volume hourly hiring, professional hiring, campus recruiting, technical hiring, and internal mobility, with named enterprise wins across retail (Walmart, Burlington, TJX), manufacturing/industrial (Delta, General Mills, Schneider), consumer goods (Nestle, Keurig Dr Pepper, BP), financial services (Pacific Life), healthcare (CHOP), and utilities (Jemena/Zinfra).

Modern Hire was acquired by HireVue in May 2023; it no longer operates as an independent entity and its products are now integrated into HireVue's portfolio. The combined platform holds FedRAMP Moderate authorization, marketed as the only FedRAMP-authorized hiring solution, opening the US public sector as an addressable vertical. Pre-acquisition, Modern Hire had been PE-backed by Riverside Company (October 2017) and had itself acquired Sonru.com in July 2020 to add asynchronous video interviewing capability.

Name

Modern Hire

Legal name

Modern Hire

Website

https://modernhire.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Acquired

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Modern Hire provides an AI-powered enterprise hiring platform combining skills validation assessments, AI-driven interviewing, and talent engagement tools; it was acquired by HireVue in May 2023 and now operates as a subsidiary serving large organizations across industries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Hiring / Talent Acquisition Software

NAICS

Employment Services (5613)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Talent Acquisition (Recruiting) & Applicant Tracking (ATS) (BPACAPAD)

Keywords

• AI hiring platform
• Video interviewing software
• Skills assessment solutions
• Talent acquisition software
• Recruitment automation

Headquarters

HQ city

Cleveland

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Enterprise Hiring Platform Subscription: Subscription-based SaaS model providing access to the full AI-powered hiring platform including assessments, video interviewing, and workflow automation. Pricing appears quote-based for enterprise contracts.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Modern Hire provides an enterprise AI-powered hiring platform that combines skills validation assessments, on-demand and live video interviewing, and automated workflow tools to help large organizations screen, interview, and select candidates at scale. The platform serves hourly, professional, technical, campus, and internal mobility hiring across industries including retail, financial services, public sector, healthcare, and manufacturing, and includes a FedRAMP-authorized environment for government hiring.

Product overview

Modern Hire was acquired by HireVue in May 2023 and operates as part of HireVue's end-to-end AI-powered hiring platform. The unified platform consists of three core pillars: Skills Validation (Assessment Software, Assessment Builder, Virtual Job Tryout, Game-Based Assessments, Technical Assessments, Language Proficiency Tests), Intelligent Interviewing (AI Hiring Agent, AI Interviewer, Video Interviewing, Interview Insights), and Talent Engagement (Match and Apply, Workflow Automation, Interview Scheduling). The platform supports hiring across multiple use cases including Campus, Professional, Hourly, Technical, and Internal Mobility hiring, serving industries such as Financial Services, Public Sector, Hospitality, Retail, Industrial Manufacturing, Healthcare, Tech and Telecom, and RPO Staffing.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• AI Hiring Agent AI-powered autonomous agent that handles hiring tasks and candidate interactions without requiring human intervention, automating portions of the hiring workflow.
• AI Interviewer Conversational AI that conducts structured interviews with candidates, asking questions and evaluating responses automatically across video, audio, and text modalities.
• Video Interviewing On-demand and live video interviewing platform supporting asynchronous and synchronous candidate interviews, with scheduling automation and ATS integration.
• Interview Insights Analytics and AI-driven insights derived from interview data to help enterprise hiring teams make more consistent, evidence-based hiring decisions.
• Assessment Software AI-powered assessment platform for validating candidate skills and predicting job performance, grounded in industrial-organizational psychology and data science.
• Match and Apply Talent engagement tool that matches candidates to suitable roles and facilitates application submission to streamline top-of-funnel candidate engagement.
• Interview Scheduling Software Workflow automation software that schedules interviews, syncs with calendars, and eliminates manual coordination across hiring teams.

Quantifiable outcome

• 95% completion rate for Virtual Job Tryouts (Walmart)
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments10 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability8 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.

• HireVueflagshipOthers · 1 May 2023In May 2023, HireVue acquired Modern Hire to enhance its AI-driven hiring platform capabilities. Modern Hire's predictive hiring analytics and automated recruitment platform were integrated into HireVue's existing product suite.
• WorkdaycoreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration partnership enabling seamless connectivity between HireVue's hiring platform and Workday Recruiting. Allows mutual customers to maintain workflow continuity and data synchronization between systems.
• SAPcoreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration with SAP SuccessFactors enabling organizations using SAP for HCM to leverage HireVue's AI-powered hiring capabilities within their existing HR technology ecosystem.
• OraclecoreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration with Oracle HCM Cloud providing Oracle customers access to HireVue's assessment, video interviewing, and AI hiring solutions.
• Smart RecruiterscoreTechnology or IntegrationStrategic partnership and integration with Smart Recruiters, an enterprise recruiting platform, enabling joint customers to streamline hiring workflows.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• HireVue: HireVue is the parent company that acquired Modern Hire in May 2023; it offers AI-driven video interviewing, assessments, and workflow automation directly overlapping Modern Hire's product suite. As the closest functional overlap, it is the most comparable peer.
• iCIMS: iCIMS is a leading enterprise talent acquisition platform offering ATS, candidate engagement, and CRM capabilities. It competes with Modern Hire for large-enterprise HR tech budgets and serves many of the same high-volume hourly and professional hiring use cases.
• Eightfold AI: Eightfold AI provides an AI-powered talent intelligence platform covering recruiting, internal mobility, and skills matching. It directly competes in AI-driven skills validation and enterprise talent acquisition — Modern Hire's core use cases.
• Phenom: Phenom is an enterprise talent experience platform combining career sites, CRM, ATS, and AI interviewing/matching. It competes head-on with Modern Hire across high-volume hiring, campus recruiting, and internal mobility segments.
• Greenhouse: Greenhouse is a leading ATS and recruiting optimization platform for mid-market and enterprise. It serves similar buyer personas (TA leaders) and increasingly competes with Modern Hire on structured hiring and AI-powered interview intelligence.
• Harver (formerly Pymetrics): Harver offers pre-hire assessment, video interviewing, and AI-driven matching solutions for high-volume hiring. It directly competes with Modern Hire's Virtual Job Tryouts and game-based assessment products, especially in retail and hourly segments.
• Smart Recruiters: Smart Recruiters is an enterprise ATS with growing AI assessment and interview capabilities. As one of Modern Hire's named integration partners and an emerging ATS incumbent, it is both a channel partner and direct competitor.

Broad incumbents

• Workday Recruiting: Workday's HCM suite includes Workday Recruiting, augmented by AI features (Workday Illuminate). As one of Modern Hire's largest integration partners and a broader incumbent, Workday both enables and threatens Modern Hire's market position.
• SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting: SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting is part of SAP's broader HCM suite used by large enterprises. Like Workday, it is both an integration partner and a broad incumbent building native AI features that could displace Modern Hire's overlay.
• LinkedIn Talent Solutions: LinkedIn Talent Solutions offers sourcing, recruiting, and learning products backed by the world's largest professional network. It is a broad incumbent that competes for enterprise TA spend and increasingly incorporates AI assessment and interview features.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ModernHire

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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

M&A1 record

Investments

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

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