How Hop In Technologies Saved $2,000 in Labour Using Lighthouse

When your Head of Product becomes your recruiter

Hop In Technologies is a mobility and workforce analytics company — 30-50 people, growing steadily, 4-8 hires per year. When they posted a Software Developer role, 869 resumes came in. With no HR department and no recruiter on retainer, the job of screening fell to their Head of Product. A highly paid product leader — the person responsible for driving the company's product strategy, roadmap, and growth — was spending hours reading CVs instead of building the product.

It was the most expensive screening process imaginable. Not just in dollars — though at a Head of Product's hourly rate, manually screening hundreds of resumes cost over $2,000 in labour for a single role — but in what wasn't getting done. Every hour spent screening was an hour not spent on the product. Hop In didn't want to hire a talent acquisition specialist or pay recruiter fees. They wanted their Head of Product back.

Scorecards that think like leadership

Lighthouse worked with Hop In to build highly targeted scorecards that reflected exactly what they were looking for — the unique requirements, the specific experience, the culture indicators that mattered. Once configured, Lighthouse screened every applicant against those criteria automatically. The best candidates surfaced to leadership immediately. No one had to read a resume unless it was already scored and ranked.

You don't need an HR department to hire well — you just need the right system so your best people stay focused on what they do best. Hop In Technologies saved over $2,000 in labour on a single developer hire using Lighthouse. But the real win was bigger than the dollars: their Head of Product got back to building the product. That's the part no line item can capture.