Case Study: Nmbrs achieves scalable, manager-free recruiting with Recruitee

Hiring at Nmbrs Recruiting with no managers

Nmbrs is a Dutch HR and payroll SaaS company (about 100 people across three countries) that’s product‑driven—roughly 70% of the team are developers—and has grown 30–40% annually. Their challenge was hiring at scale inside a fully flat, no‑managers structure: there are no traditional hiring managers to open requisitions or make final calls, so they needed a way to source technical talent, preserve culture (responsibility, growth mindset, authenticity), and make consistent hiring decisions without hierarchical shortcuts.

Their solution combines collaborative hiring teams for every vacancy (an HR lead, chapter specialists and a senior peer), chapter‑led technical assessments, a full‑time HR marketer to build employer brand, personal coaches, recruitment training, and Recruitee to operationalize the process. The result is stronger employer branding (especially in Portugal), a higher caliber of hires (now able to choose between “good” and “better”), scalable developer recruitment, and measurable improvements in hire quality that feed back into their product.

Nmbrs

Mariel Dommering

Chief People Officer