jobsintown.de

What jobsintown.de does

jobsintown.de is a German online job portal founded in 1999, headquartered in Karben, Germany, and operated as a private GmbH. The platform operates as a self-serve, product-led job board connecting employers across German-speaking markets with job seekers, supported by a network of regional and industry-specific domain properties that provide extensive SEO-driven traffic coverage. The company employs 51-100 people and is led by Managing Director Stefan Kraft.

The platform's core product is a transactional job-posting marketplace complemented by a searchable CV database, employer company-profile (Unternehmensprofil) pages, employer video and webcast services, and advertising placements. Technical integrations include Adobe Analytics, econda, Google Analytics, Matomo, and Facebook Lead Ads for candidate acquisition. The platform is GDPR-compliant. The company has been progressively broadening its product surface — launching mobile-optimized access and company-profile pages in 2014, and a redesigned platform with expanded integrations in 2022.

Monetization is diversified across four streams: paid job postings, CV-database access sold to employers and recruiters, display and native advertising, and value-added services such as video production (via partnership with mediaintown). Go-to-market is self-serve with no enterprise sales motion apparent, targeting a long tail of SMB and mid-market employers across diverse industries including manufacturing, education, automotive, electronics, recruitment, packaging, software/IT, facility management, and plastics. Multiple customers have been on the platform continuously since 2004, indicating strong retention within the SMB segment. No external funding rounds, acquisitions, or disclosed revenue are present in the available data.

Name

jobsintown.de

Legal name

jobsintown.de GmbH

Website

https://jobsintown.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

jobsintown.de is a German self-serve online job portal founded in 1999, connecting SMB employers across German-speaking markets with job seekers via job postings, CV-database access, and a network of regional and industry-specific domains.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Job Board

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311), Employment Services (5613)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Career Services & Job Placement Platforms (Jobs, Recruiting, Employer Networks) (EDAFAMAM)

akta.pro secondary industry

Job Placement, Matching & Career Navigation Services (EDAAAOAL)

Keywords

• Online job board
• Job search platform
• Candidate database
• Recruitment advertising
• Job posting services

Headquarters

HQ city

Karben

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Job Posting Services: Fees charged to employers for creating and publishing job listings on the platform. Standard pricing based on job publisher usage or managed posting services.
2. CV Database Access: Licensed access to the candidate CV database for recruiters and employers. Individual user licenses with access codes.
3. Premium Advertising & Sponsorship: Additional services including prominent placements (Job of the Week, Company of the Week), banner advertisements, logo links, and sponsorship products.
4. Company Video Production: Production and publication of company videos as a value-added recruitment marketing service.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

jobsintown.de is a German online job board (Stellenbörse) that connects employers and recruiters with job seekers. The platform offers paid job listings, access to a CV/resume database, company profiles and company videos, and additional services such as job ad layout/text creation, confidential job ads, and Facebook Lead Ads.

Product overview

jobsintown.de is a German online job board (Stellenbörse) operated by jobsintown.de GmbH, offering a platform connecting employers with job seekers. The core product consists of job listings (Stellenanzeigen) and a resume database (Lebenslaufdatenbank). The platform operates on a modular architecture with self-service tools (jobpublisher) and professional services for ad creation. Additional offerings include company profile pages (Unternehmensprofile) for employer branding, company video production (Firmenvideos) via media partner mediaintown, confidential job postings (Chiffre-Anzeigen), Facebook Lead Ads campaigns, franchise job ad channels, and a career network partner program extending reach across regional and industry-specific job boards. The service targets both employers seeking recruitment solutions and job seekers searching for employment opportunities across German regions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Job Listings (Stellenanzeigen)

Named customers9 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration17 records

Feature3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Xing: Germany-focused professional network with integrated job postings, recruiter tools, and CV database. Comparable target market (German employers and professionals) and overlapping recruitment advertising product.
• StepStone: One of Germany's leading online job boards, offering job postings, CV database access, and employer branding tools. Directly comparable business model and target customer base as jobsintown.de, with materially larger scale.
• Indeed Germany: Global job search engine with dominant share in the German market. Competes head-to-head on job postings, candidate sourcing, and employer self-serve tools, but with significantly broader candidate supply.
• Monster (Germany): Established global job board with a dedicated German portal, offering job postings, resume search, and employer branding. Closely comparable product mix and SMB/mid-market employer target.
• Jobware: German job board specializing in professionals and academics, with CV database access and partner network distribution. Comparable mid-market positioning and product set.
• Stellenanzeigen.de: German online job board focused on regional and SME recruitment, with self-service posting and partner network reach. Highly comparable SMB target segment and self-serve GTM motion.
• Kimeta: German job board aggregator and listing platform, aggregating postings from multiple sources. Comparable listing-based business model and SMB employer target in the German market.

Broad incumbents

• LinkedIn: Global professional network with substantial German user base and premium recruitment solutions (LinkedIn Recruiter, Job Slots). Competes for the same employer recruitment marketing spend across all of jobsintown.de's verticals.
• Jobbörse der Bundesagentur für Arbeit: Germany's official government-run job portal operated by the Federal Employment Agency. Free-to-employer job listings create a structural pricing headwind for commercial job boards in Germany.

Regional players

• meinestadt.de: German regional city portal with integrated job board covering local employment markets. Comparable regional SEO strategy and SMB employer focus, though anchored in a broader local-services portal.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/jobsintownde
• Facebookfacebook.com/jobsintown
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/jobsintown-de-gmbh

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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