What Job.ru does

Job.ru is positioned as the Russian market of online recruitment, operating a two-sided job marketplace that connects employers with job seekers across Russia and the broader CIS region. The platform serves both sides of the labor market: employers post vacancies and search the resume database, while job seekers browse listings, create resumes, and apply to roles. Distribution spans a web platform, native mobile applications on iOS, Android, and Huawei, plus a developer API at dev.hh.ru.

The underlying technology stack centers on recommendation technologies that collect, systematize, and analyze user preference data via cookies and behavioral signals to match candidates to vacancies. The platform supports granular job classification across professional roles and industries (IT, sales, construction, marketing, transportation, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and more), with categorized listings such as remote work, daily-pay roles, and part-time positions. Active engineering investment is visible in mobile-app development, AI-assisted cover letter generation, and an open developer ecosystem.

The business model is B2B-led, monetizing employers through recurring job-posting subscriptions and promotional/advertising products such as featured listings and premium placement. The company is privately held, headquartered in Moscow, and operates under OOO Khedkhunter (LLC HeadHunter), with 51-100 employees per firmographic records. No revenue figures, funding rounds, or institutional investor information are disclosed in the available data.

Name

Job.ru

Legal name

OOO «Khedkhunter» (LLC HeadHunter)

Website

https://job.ru

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Job.ru is the Russian online recruitment marketplace, operating a two-sided platform that connects employers posting job vacancies with job seekers across Russia and the broader CIS region, monetizing primarily through employer subscriptions and promotional advertising.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Moscow

HQ country

Russia

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, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Employer Job Posting Services: Revenue generated from employers who pay to post job vacancies and search resumes on the platform
2. Employer Advertising and Promoted Services: Premium placement, featured job listings, and advertising solutions for employers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Job.ru is the Russian-market online recruitment platform of HeadHunter (hh.ru), an LLC headquartered in Moscow that operates a two-sided job marketplace. Employers pay to publish vacancies and search the resume database across Russia and CIS countries, while job seekers search and apply to those vacancies free of charge through the website, mobile apps and API. The platform aggregates over 2.3 million registered employers and roughly one million active vacancies spanning industries such as IT, sales, construction, transportation, retail, marketing and finance.

Product overview

hh.ru (HeadHunter) is a single unified online job search platform that connects job seekers with employers. The platform offers job posting services for employers and resume posting and job search functionality for applicants. The source data shows Moscow-specific job listings with categorized vacancies across industries including IT, sales, construction, marketing, transportation, and more.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• hh.ru Online Job Search Platform (Job.ru) Unified online job search platform that connects job seekers with employers in Russia and CIS countries. Job seekers can search vacancies, post resumes, receive job alerts and apply to roles across industries; employers can publish vacancies and search the resume database.
• HeadHunter API (Developer Platform) Public developer API for HeadHunter enabling integrations with the job and resume database, used by enterprise partners and third-party developers to build recruitment solutions on top of hh.ru data.
• Employer Job Posting and Resume Search Services Paid services for employers to publish vacancies, access the resume/CV database, run employer branding, and use premium and promoted placements across hh.ru and regional domains.
• Mobile Applications for Job Seekers (iOS, Android, Huawei) Mobile applications delivering the full hh.ru/Job.ru job search, vacancy alerts and resume functionality to job seekers across iOS, Android and Huawei app stores, with QR-code onboarding from the website.

Named customers5 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• Setka (Сетка)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSetka is described as a professional networking social network (соцсеть для нетворкинга) integrated within the HeadHunter ecosystem
• АНО «Сахалин — остров возможностей»minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerHeadHunter and ANO Sakhalin Island of Opportunities launched a joint project about career and life in Sakhalin

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Regional players

• Xing: Xing is a DACH-focused professional network and job platform offering recruiter tools and job listings, comparable to hh.ru in combining professional social features (mirrored by Setka) with employer-paid recruitment services.
• Work.ua: Work.ua is a leading Ukrainian job board with a comparable vertical job-search marketplace model; relevant as a regional peer illustrating the post-Soviet job-board competitive landscape adjacent to hh.ru's CIS markets.
• StepStone: StepStone is a leading European job board operating across DACH and Benelux with multi-country localized platforms, structurally similar to hh.ru's CIS-wide multi-domain footprint and employer-pay revenue model.

Broad incumbents

• Glassdoor: Glassdoor combines job listings with company reviews and salary data, representing a content-and-data-rich extension of the job marketplace model that hh.ru's blog/salary-content features emulate.
• Indeed: Indeed is the global incumbent in online job search with a marketplace model that aggregates vacancies and resume data; it serves as the international benchmark for hh.ru's vertical-search and employer-pay business model.
• LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a global professional network that combines recruiting tools (LinkedIn Recruiter) with candidate search, competing with hh.ru in professional placements; hh.ru's Setka partnership reflects an attempt to mirror LinkedIn-style professional social features.
• ZipRecruiter: ZipRecruiter operates a two-sided job marketplace with AI-driven matching and employer subscription pricing, providing a comparable business model to hh.ru's premium placement and employer job posting streams.

Direct peers

• Rabota.ru: Rabota.ru is a long-established Russian job search portal offering employer vacancy posting and resume database services, directly overlapping with hh.ru's core marketplace functionality and target SMB/enterprise customer base in Russia.
• SuperJob: SuperJob is one of the leading Russian online job boards, directly competing with hh.ru across employer job postings, resume search, and recruitment services in the same Russian-speaking market with a similar two-sided marketplace model.
• Avito (Jobs vertical): Avito's Jobs vertical is a major Russian classifieds-based job listings channel that competes with hh.ru by aggregating vacancies from employers and individual recruiters, particularly in blue-collar and gig segments.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubet.me/hh_ru_official
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/job-ru

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

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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