Hatch is more than a job board. It's where emerging professionals go to discover high-impact roles with Sydney's fastest-growing tech companies. Candidates and employers love it because they can go beyond the resume and get matched with people who share the same values and working style.

When I joined, we were working to reposition the product from a basic applicant tracking system to a two-sided talent marketplace. But we faced a critical challenge: while employers were signing up and posting roles, many quickly reverted to their usual hiring tools, leading to poor retention. Our hypothesis was that by better supporting the full end-to-end hiring journey, we could deliver stronger outcomes for employers and drive higher engagement from candidates.

As the only product designer in the team, I worked closely with founders on key initiatives; Increasing activation rates for first-time users, adding personalisation across discovery surfaces, redesigning candidate profiles and application flows, and building collaborative tools to help employers review and hire candidates with more confidence.

In late 2023 (after I moved on), Hatch was able to close an oversubscribed seed round to fuel their next phase of growth.